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Debriefing pediatric end-of-life care through personal reflection
(2012-9-12)Scope: Education for nursing professionals is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Institute of Medicine about caring for dying children. Improving education and support for nurses is important so they ... -
Digging for Dinosaurs' Contest: A Novel Strategy to Engage Nurses in Questioning Practice
(2012-9-12)Purpose The "Digging for Dinosaurs" contest and educational sessions are a catalyst intended to engage nurses in questioning their practice in a non-threatening and fun manner. The "Digging for Dinosaurs" contest was ... -
Mentoring New PhD Students into the Professorial Role
(2012-9-12)Traditional PhD programs have as their goal to prepare researchers. While this outcome is paramount for success as a nursing professor; newly graduated PhD nurses without previous teaching experience often embark on tenure ... -
A Global Health Internship for BSN Students
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this project wa to implement a project to advance the global perspective for nursing education and reseearch. Methods: International partnership exchange opportunities were made availabele to ... -
The Road to Success: Integration of EBP Throughout a BSN Nursing Curriculum
(2012-9-12)Professional nurses across the world are called to provide nursing care from an evidence-based practice (EBP) approach. The current health care environment continues to be driven by rising healthcare costs coupled with the ... -
Risky behaviors in teenagers, a global issue: Evaluation of an evidence-based intervention to reduce risky behaviors with implications for practice, education and research
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Teenagers have high rates of risky behavior including drug/alcohol use, smoking, sexual activity which affect health. Risky behaviors are prevalent in the United States, England, Australia, Canada and among Newark ... -
Supporting excellence in long-term care with student EBP projects
(2012-9-12)With any clinical experience, nursing students learning in the long-term care setting pose questions regarding specific practices by the health care provider(s). This curiosity of comparing what they are learning in the ... -
Variations in utilization of clinical preventive services in older adults with near universal health coverage
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between potential access (characteristics of the delivery system and population at risk) and realized access (utilization of clinical preventive services ... -
Meleis' Theory of Transition and Readiness of Older People for Discharge from Hospital to Home
(2012-9-12)Purpose: This paper explores the use of Meleis theory of transitions in research to examine the readiness of older people for discharge from hospital to home and their use of community support. Methods: Concepts of Meleis ... -
Development and evaluation of a senior-tailored elastic band exercise program
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Elastic band exercise is recognized as a safe and effective strategy to improve muscle strength and power and increase the ability of seniors to perform functional tasks. This study aimed to: 1) develop a tailored ... -
Is there a relationship between parenting styles and sibling relationships in families raising a child with a disability?
(2012-9-12)Purpose: This quantitative design examined parenting practices and sibling relationships according to parent gender, sibling gender and type of disability and then determined if parenting practices and sibling relationships ... -
The Interface of Employment, Health, Family Support, and Human Services for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The burden of mental illness on health and productivity in the United States and throughout the world has long been underestimated. Psychiatric illnesses account for over 15% of the burden of disease and disability ... -
Collegiate presence: An innovation in understanding interdisciplinary collaboration
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Interdisciplinary collaboration is a cornerstone of healthcare service delivery across the globe. This presentation reports on an ethnographic study that examined the interdisciplinary relationships between emergency ... -
Demo-socioeconomic, obstetric variables, perceived stress and health-related quality of life among pregnant women in Macao, China
(2012-9-12)Purpose: To identify the relationship of demographic, socioeconomic and obstetric variables and health-related quality of life to perceived stress among Macao Chinese pregnant women. Methods: It was a cross-sectional and ... -
The experiences of Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan who do not undergo pap smear tests
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of Vietnamese immigrant women who have never undergone or do not regularly undergo Pap tests in Taiwan. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted based ... -
Post mortem nursing care efficacy as perceived by licensed funeral directors
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the efficacy of physical post mortem nursing care provided by hospital staff nurses, as perceived by Licensed Funeral Directors. The aim of the study was to gain understanding ... -
A Nurse at Heart: The Journeys and Experiences of Nursing School Deans
(2012-9-12)Purpose: This study's purpose was to understand how nursing school deans' personal characteristics and nursing background influence how they perform their role and manage challenges as dean. The conceptual framework, ... -
Removal of Codeine in Pediatric Oncology: A Qualitative Evaluation of Success and Attitudes
(2012-9-12)Background: Codeine is an opioid analgesic requiring hepatic conversion to morphine via CYP2D6 to provide analgesic effect. CYP2D6 population polymorphisms cause unpredictable conversion to morphine. Multiple reports of ... -
Public health issues on global nursing migration: An integrative literature review
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purposes of the study are: (1) to identify the different factors that cause migration among nurses; (2) to identify major public health issues in global nursing migration and; (3) to develop evidence-based ... -
Caregiving through the eyes of Hispanic caregivers
(2012-9-12)Purpose: To offer a culturally informed conceptual orientation of caregiving as an example of a research product that reflects methodologies that have taken into consideration differences in the meaning of concepts across ...