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Advancing Nursing and Midwifery Through Innovation and Leadership
()Advancing nursing and midwifery through innovation and leadership is critical to moving our profession forward, as well as increasing our ability to better address global health. This presentation will provide principles, ... -
Of Kangaroos, Koalas, and Platypi
()Australia has a relatively short European history with nursing coming to the colony in the 1800s. Since then the profession has gradually developed and changed in response to the environment within which nursing is practiced. ... -
Developing Change Agents in an Ever-Evolving Healthcare Delivery System
()The changing demands of our complex healthcare environment require the highest level of scientific knowledge and practice expertise to assure quality patient outcomes. This presentation will describe how DNP nurse leaders ... -
Information Literacy: A Prerequisite to Evidence-Based Nursing
(2011-10-17)Purpose: Information literacy is an ambiguous term that many professionals in various fields, including nursing, have attempted to define. It is emphasized as a skill nurses should have yet it has not been conceptualized ... -
Differences in Mastery and Self-Esteem in Culturally Diverse Adolescent Females
(2011-10-17)Purpose: Mastery, a global sense of control over one's life, and self-esteem, the value placed on oneself, are psychological characteristics associated with numerous health-enhancing behaviors. Developing interventions to ... -
Telephone Support for First-Time Breastfeeding Mothers: Building a Foundation for Healthier Tomorrows
(2011-10-17)Objective: To assess the effect of post-discharge telephone breastfeeding support on reducing the risk of early weaning from mother's stated goal. Literature Review- Data Sources: Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group ... -
Effect of Nurses Living Fit? Exercise and Nutrition Intervention on Body Mass Index in Nurses
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Overweight and obesity are increasing at alarming rates worldwide. In the healthcare setting, administrators are searching for evidence-based programs featuring interventions on healthy living to enable weight ... -
Global Health Nursing Research in Guangzhou, China
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Approximately one fifth of the one billion overweight or obese people in the world are Chinese. China was once considered to have one of the leanest populations, but it is fast catching up with the West in terms ... -
Knowledge Acquisition Through Simulation in Nursing Education: A Meta-Analysis
(2012-9-12)Nursing education is the process whereby students are guided, assisted and provided with means which enable them to learn the professional knowledge so that they can apply it to nursing care of people. Simulation is a ... -
A Health Empowerment Theory Approach to Pregnant Adolescents 18 and 19 Years of Age in the Bahamas
(2012-9-12)In The Bahamas between the years 2,000 - 2007, the percentage of mothers under the age of 20 years accounted for 11.3 - 12.7% of all births in the country. Mothers age 15 -19 years accounted for 11.2 - 12.6% of all births. ... -
New Evidence in the Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical Supervision
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Clinical Supervision [CS] is a formally structured arrangement to support staff employed in human service agencies and has an established history in many health care professions, including nursing. It has shown ... -
Participatory Action Research: Relevance and Use for Contemporary Nursing Research
(2012-9-12)Purpose: This paper will demonstrate how, using a collaborative, inclusive research methodology, positive impacts on clinical practice and enhanced client outcomes can be achieved. Methods: A Participatory Action ... -
Nurses' Attitudes to Working with Older People in Acute Care
(2012-9-12)Purpose: There is little evidence that factors influencing attitudes to older persons have been investigated (Moyle 2003). Changes to service delivery models within acute health have meant that there has been an increase ... -
Self-Care While Caring for Others as a Strategy to Improve Reflection and Clarity of Self
(2012-9-12)This 2-hospital system, which includes one of the first fifteen hospitals to achieve and sustain Magnet certification in the USA, began implementation of Relationship Based Care (RBC) three years ago. According to the ... -
The Global Language of Music: The Impact of Organized Music Experiences on Success in Undergraduate Nursing Programs
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Music, the universal language, transcends ethnic, socio-economic, and geographic barriers and has the potential to enhance success of nursing students. Stringent admission criteria exist for nursing programs ... -
Surprise Findings from Tower of Hanoi Research on Executive Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Assess, Intervene, or Both?
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose was to determine feasibility, reliability, and item difficulty of the 22-task Tower of Hanoi (TOH), an executive cognitive function (ECF) puzzle game, in adults > 65 years. Neuroimaging research has ... -
Testing a Model of Clarity of Self, Role, and System as Predictors of Job Satisfaction of Nurses in Jamaica
(2012-9-12)Research in job satisfaction has positioned the organization as the primary entity responsible for improving the work environment. This study tests a model that positions the individual nurse as the primary source to ... -
Knowledge Management Process of Nursing Students in Nursing Administration Practice
(2012-9-12)Purpose: This qualitative study aimed to describe knowledge management process of nursing students. Methods: Sixteen groups of 4th year nursing students were recruited to be participants while they were having nursing ... -
Sensitivity of Radiofrequency Devices for Detection of Retained Surgical Sponges in Morbidly Obese Subjects
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the detection of surgical sponges through the torso of non-morbidly obese and morbidly obese subjects using a radiofrequency mattress. ... -
Adding an Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment of Nursing Staff to the Caring Science Research Trajectory in a Mid-Size Hospital in Wyoming, USA
(2012-9-12)Four hundred nurses in a large community hospital in Casper, Wyoming, USA have been involved in the implementation of a Caring Science program since 2005. This research trajectory of Caring Science that is using a ...