Browsing Sigma International Nursing Research Congress by Sigma Chapters "Alpha"
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Addressing the national opioid crisis by developing and implementing undergraduate nursing curricula
The Opioid Epidemic, an undergraduate nursing course to assist students in the entry into the healthcare system with an overview of substance use disorder. A review of the history of the crisis, screening, assessment, ... -
Adolescent Motivation for Physical Activity: A Concept Analysis
Motivation keeps adolescents progressing towards achievement of an outcome, such as attainment of regular and adequate physical activity (PA). For adolescents to develop a habit of engaging in PA research is needed to ... -
Application of interprofessional simulation-based clinical examination in extended nursing experimental teaching practice
(2017-06-19)Purpose: To explore the feasibility of inter-professional simulation-based clinical examination for nursing students in China. This study attempts to apply the simulation technology of evaluation on expanding ... -
Assets and Issues of Navajos and Providers: Connecting Similarities With Aboriginal and Other Indigenous People
(2018-06-29)Working and living on the Navajo Nation and observing limited healthcare available exposes deficits that call for correction. The challenge is to expand knowledge of isolated groups of Native Americans, Aborigines, and all ... -
The association between self-reported cognitive abilities and commonly reported symptoms in long-term breast cancer survivors
The target audience of this presentation is nurses who care for breast cancer patients and survivors and want better understanding of the relationship between self-reported cognitive abilities (language, visuo-perceptual, ... -
Barriers to treating hypertension and preventing potential risk for cardiovascular disease among Haitians
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016: Purpose: Hypertension (HTN) is the greatest cause of morbidity in Haiti, where it is an identified cause of heart failure for 45% of patients, and primarily associated with more ... -
Breast Cancer Survivors' Perceptions of Partners' Intervention Needs
(2018-06-06)Breast cancer survivors and their partners report similar levels of fear of recurrence; however, partners are rarely the subject of intervention. Survivors' perceptions for partners' interests and barriers in a survivorship ... -
BSN student attitudes towards teamwork using TeamSTEPPS 2.0 vs. a conventional method
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and Friday, July 22, 2016: Preparing nursing students to provide safe patient care in a collaborative team environment requires teamwork strategies and training. Exposure to ... -
Building high performing interprofessional collaborative practice teams for enhancing population health and care transitions
(2018-06-18)This presentation discusses evidence-based strategies for building high performing interprofessional collaborative practice teams within an academic-practice partnership to enhance health outcomes and care transitions in ... -
A case-oriented, cross-country comparison of three high-income countries' health systems and healthcare accessibility
(2017-07-19)Purpose: Located on different continents, the United Kingdom (UK), Israel and the United States (US) are high income countries differing in size, population size, and type of health care systems; yet, their general ... -
Choosing wisely: Advancing health through nursing
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: The U.S. health care system is the most costly in the world, accounting for 17% of the gross domestic product with estimates that percentage will grow to nearly 20% by 2020. At ... -
The clinical education learning environment: Student nurse perceptions comparing the traditional clinical environment and the simulation environment toward meeting clinical learning outcomes
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Monday, July 27, 2015: Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is for the attendee to differentiate which clinical learning outcomes are better met in the traditional and simulated clinical learning ... -
Clinical pharmacogenetics from a nursing perspective: Personalizing drug therapy
Precision medicine is the approach to patient care that is focused on finding the most appropriate medication based on the interplay between genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors to improve patient outcomes. With ... -
Combining literature review, qualitative descriptive analysis, and computerized lexical analysis to investigate HRQoL in schizophrenia
(2017-07-12)People with schizophrenia experience hallucinations, emotional withdrawal, and cognitive impairment as well as a variety of comorbidities that lessen their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) (Barnes et al., 2012; WHO, ... -
Computer-tailored interventions to increase cancer screening: Building a program of research
(2017-07-27)The presenter will share her extensive program of research that is focused on developing and testing computer-tailored interventions that are designed to increase cancer screening. Her research has primarily centered on ... -
Cultural stressors described by Latina young women living in a tumultuous sociopolitical climate
(2018-07-03)This poster describes the results of a qualitative study exploring the common stressors experienced by contemporary Latina young women living in the United States during a tumultuous sociopolitical climate. -
Culturally based stressors and depressive symptoms for Latino/a adolescents
(2017-06-20)Purpose: U.S. Latino/a adolescents suffer from significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms than Caucasian and African-American adolescents. In 2016, 35% of US Latino/a adolescents reported feeling so sad or hopeless ... -
A description of work processes used by clinical nurse specialists (CNS) to improve patient outcomes
(2017-07-26)This study identified processes used by CNs working in different settings to improve clinical outcomes. Findings demonstrated that CNS practice is situational and contextual; processes used to gain trust, solve problems, ... -
Desired and received support for racial and ethnic minority nursing faculty
Diverse faculty attract students from underrepresented minority groups and play an important role in promoting diversity. The purpose of this study is to examine the desired and received support for racial/ethnic minority ... -
Developing transition of care competency around youth with special healthcare needs for nursing students
Participants will be able to identify the need to educate graduate nursing students on the Health Care transition (HCT) of Youth with Special Health Care Needs (YSHCN), apply the evidence-based guidelines for HCT, and ...