Sigma Theta Tau International (Sigma): Recent submissions
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Hygiene Bundle Compliance: Leveraging Transformational Leadership and Progressive Collaboration to Successfully Improve Outcomes
Good patient hygiene can help mitigate the occurrence of preventable occurrences such as central line associated bloodstream infections or other nosocomial infections. This presentation demonstrates how our organization ... -
Perceptions of Nurse Coaching for Technology Addiction in a Simulated Virtual World Clinic
This study used a virtual world clinic to study individual perceptions about coaching from nurses to manage technology addiction. Participants identified and discussed symptoms based on randomly assigned levels of addiction, ... -
Impact of an Educational Workshop on a Nurse-Led Intervention in Palliative Care: A Longitudinal Analysis
Educational workshop was aimed at educating staff about QoL to improve it. Small group education sessions were scheduled and self-study binders were given 2 weeks before the education workshop to the healthcare professionals; ... -
Exploring the Relationships Between Work Activities, Job Satisfaction, and Intent to Stay in Nurse Practitioners
This study aims to investigate into the relation among nurse practitioners' work pattern, job satisfaction, and their willingness to stay in medical centers in Southern Taiwan.A questionnaire survey was done in five hospitals ... -
Last request
A photograph capturing the pure joy of a hospice patient's last request to enjoy the sunshine. Photography helped this certified hospice nurse through her mother's journey with cancer and subsequent passing. -
Transcience
The attached poster presentation is of a student made visual arts collage and abstract which contains reflections of experience of being a student nurse transitioning to the professional level and the intersections of ... -
Promoting Healthy Outcomes Among a Diverse Urban Population by Engaging Parents and Families
The Recess Exercise Communities for Education in Smart Schools(RECESS)program was designed to improve health outcomes among a culturally diverse population with increased rates of childhood obesity. A family's culture ... -
Connecting in a sea of diversity, equity, and inclusion
The Diversity Inclusive Program Model (LaVergne, 2008) inspired our artistic expression of a hand-made quilt that represents diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within our college community. -
The art of empowerment: The role of photography in trauma, healing, and self-perception
My work with women who have endured trauma is meant to empower them through honest portraiture. I aim to offer a transformative and healing experience that allows women the space to creatively process and express their ... -
Mural of excellence: From trash to treasure
For three and half years in the making, a masterpiece was created using medication cups. The mural displays the brand of the organization centered in the middle as well as a collage of hearts and detail to express teamwork ... -
2020: Year of the Nurse
The World Health Organization recently designated 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Year of the Midwife”, honoring the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. Sigma’s President and CEO will discuss the ways Sigma ... -
Effect of information and communication technology program on anxiety of patients' caregiver during patients' admission in ICU
is quasi-experimental research was study the effects of an information and communication technology program on the anxiety of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients' caregivers during patients' admission in the ... -
Developing a community action summit: A novel graduate practicum experience in rural upstate New York
A graduate practicum and leadership experience is presented, focusing on the collaborative development of a Community Action Summit and educational programming via radio, newspaper, and social media, in response to significant ... -
Generational effects on nursing professionalism and specialty certification
The nursing workforce is composed of three generations, each with their own values and belief systems. this study will provide information that organizations may use in order to enhance certification rates and promote the ... -
We're doing what? Taking report
Nursing assessment begins with report. The current evidence for teaching nursing students how to engage in report will be discussed. Participants will learn how a low-fidelity classroom simulation serves as an active ... -
Development of integrated distance learning baccalaureate-to-doctor of nursing practice (BSN-DNP) curriculum
The purpose of the project was to develop an entry-level educational pathway for a distance learning Baccalaureate-to-Doctor of Nursing Practice (BSN-DNP) pathway at a university, converting the existing nurse practitioner ... -
A critical look at corneal abrasion during non-ocular surgery
This quality improvement project aimed to explore corneal abrasion, a severely painful and preventive complication of anesthetized patients. Effective eye protection during surgery is imperative, yet clinician prevention ... -
Relationship between educational instructors' learning needs in the learning environment design and learning support
The study was to reveal the relationship between educational instructors' learning needs in the learning environment design and learning support for novice nurses and nursing students. A questionnaire survey was conducted ... -
Does unmet need for healthcare services among children with anxiety affect family time burden?
Family members of children with chronic conditions spend considerable time caring for their child. We assessed whether unmet need for recommended healthcare services for anxiety is associated with increased family time ... -
Introducing delirium and sedation assessment tools in one ICU in Botswana
The presentation highlights the a pretest post intervention that introduced delirium and sedation assessment tools in ICU by nurses in order to detect delirium and administer sedatives according to the patient's sedation ...