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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 ... -
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. ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Where Have All the STTI/ANF Scholars Gone?
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) and American Nurses Foundation (ANF) began jointly sponsoring a nursing research grant in 1987 with STTI reviewing - even years; ANF odd years. The purpose of this grant is ... -
The Knowledge of Nurses in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and their Attitude towards the Use of Braden Scale
(2012-9-12)Purpose: This descriptive correlational study aimed to investigate the relationship between the knowledge of nurses in pressure ulcer prevention and their attitude towards the use of Braden scale. Methods: Seventy seven ... -
Standardize Predictive Testing: Practices, Policies, and NCLEX-RN Outcomes
(2012-9-12)Purpose: A major indicator of nursing programs' effectiveness is the pass rate on national licensure examinations among first-time candidates. Twenty years of evidence supports use of standardized examinations for ... -
Systematic Literature Review of Pediatric Pain Measures
(2012-9-12)Abstract: Articles on pediatric behavioral scales were reviewed to elucidate usage of pain assessment tools in clinical practice. Methods: A literature search was performed in the MEDLINE, PubMed, Cochrane Library, ... -
The Story of Teen Motherhood Identity: A Narrative Analysis
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe and explore how young women participating in a teen mother and child program incorporate the concept of motherhood into their own identities, including the personal and ... -
Social Network Analysis as a Method for Nursing Research
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Nursing research often relies on data obtained from individuals in an effort to understand human experiences of health and illness. These individual experiences do not occur in isolation; instead, they take place ... -
The Effects of Pre-Operative Orientation on Outcomes for Joint Replacement Surgery Patients
(2012-9-12)The Pre-operative Joint Replacement Orientation class is designed to prepare patients for the complete experience of hip and knee replacement surgery. A collaborative PowerPoint presentation along with hands-on training ... -
Global and Local Strategies to Increase Nursing Educational Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2012-9-12)There is a critical shortage of nurses in the developing world with an average of only 11 nurse per 10,000 population. Efforts to increase the number of nurses are hampered in part because of a lack of facility, material, ... -
Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies of Hong Kong Pre-Registration Nursing Degree Students During Their Clinical Placement
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Appropriate levels of stress can be a motivator for learning. A few studies in Hong Kong and Taiwan demonstrated that various levels of stress were experienced by pre-registration nursing students during their ... -
Description of Taboos Behavior Practice Among Pregnant Women in West Java
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The study was aimed to identify the practice of taboos food and activities among pregnant women of several cities in West Java.The objects this study are pregnant women whose come to prenatal care weekly or monthly ... -
Maternal Child Health Home Visiting in Montana: Effects on LBW and Premature Births and Medicaid Costs
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine birth outcomes, specifically premature and low birth weight births in high risk women and Medicaid costs for infants born to high risk women in Montana, and to determine ... -
Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Rural Women in the Southeast USA
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose is to share patterns of smokeless tobacco in women derived from qualitative research and to underscore the need to assess and discuss the health risks of smokeless tobacco. Target audience is nurses, ... -
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 ... -
"Whatever It Takes:" A Photovoice Exploration of Isolated Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patients
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Protective isolation is a common practice among hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients. Psychological intolerance of protective isolation was identified as a problem leading to discontinuation ...