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Advance care planning (ACP) training: Your role as a nursing leader
(2017-06-05)
In today's society, people are living longer. Despite aging and health issues, many American adults do not have Advance Directives (ADs). Statistics show that only 18%-36% of the U.S. population has completed an AD (Pecanac, ...
Registered nurses breaking into the political arena: A qualitative study
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:
Purpose: The necessity for nurses to cultivate confidence for becoming an active member of a board or seeking election to goveRNg boards dictates that skills, attitudes and ...
Eating behavior in college-students: TFEQ R-18 and qualitative perceptions of cell-phone use for recording diet
(2016-07-13)
Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:
Purpose: Worldwide, an estimated 600 million adults are obese and 1.9 billion are overweight (World Health Organization, 2014). The etiology of obesity and overweight is ...
Holistic nursing care: Provision of spirituality with patients
(2013-10-22)
Session presented on: Monday, July 22, 2013:
Purpose: Spirituality care for patients is paramount for optimal wellness and health promotion. Nurses believe they are inadequately prepared to provide spiritual care to their ...
Best practices for mentoring novice academia faculty members
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Thursday, July 23, 2015:
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2014), a total of 1,181 full-time nursing faculty vacancies are reported along with 103 additional schools reporting ...
Spirituality in nursing education: Are we teaching our students to provide spiritual care?
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:
Nurses are mandated by accreditation organizations such as Joint Commission to address spiritual aspects of the patients. This makes it paramount to insure that holistic ...
Effects of recording food intake using cell phone camera pictures on calorie intake and food choice in college students
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:
Purpose: Recording food intake may contribute to weight loss by promoting changes in eating behavior. The current spread of mobile phone embedded cameras offers new opportunities ...
Diet, encoded memory, visual cues, obesity, and neuroimaging: The role of affective response in eating behavior
(2014-11-17)
Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:
Purpose: According to the World Health Organization, 35.8 million people are obese world-wide. The obesogenic factors contributing to this global problem are thought to reflect ...
Where the rubber meets the road: Realistic and practical evidence-based practice
(2013-10-22)
Session presented on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013:
Access to care, workforce shortages, consumer demands, and faculty issues are themes demanding a focus on measures directed toward positive outcomes for the delivery of quality ...
Strategies associated with OSCE simulation, anxiety, and clinical competency in a family nurse practitioner program
(2018-03-29)
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations are widely used in Advanced Practice Registered Nursing Graduate Programs and are recognized as a reliable and valuable method in student evaluation. This form of evaluation is ...