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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Correlates of Depression in Asian-American Adolescents in New York City
(2012-9-12)Purpose: To conduct an exploratory study of the correlates of depressive symptoms among Asian-American adolescents in New York City. A high rate of depressive symptoms was discovered in both smokers and nonsmokers for a ... -
Play It Again
(2012-9-12)Title: Program Track: (1) Educational Strategies (2) Measurement Outcomes (3) Technologies that Influence Practice Podium Presentation Author: Objectives: Following presentation the learner will be able to: 1. Discuss the ... -
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, ... -
Effects of a Pilot Randomized Trial of a 20-Week Tai Chi Program on Pain and Other Health Outcomes in Elders with Cognitive Impairment and Osteoarthritic Knee
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to test the efficacy of a 20-week Sun-style Tai Chi (TC) program in improving pain and other health outcomes in 55 community-dwelling elders with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and ... -
The?Long-Term Effects of a Suicidal Education Intervention for Family Members of the Suicidal Patients
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal (one year after education) effects of a suicide care education intervention on the suicidal family's caregivers. Methods: A quasi-experimental approach ... -
Adolescent Stress Trajectories in Arab Muslim Immigrant Families
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Despite research findings that indicate that adolescent daily hassles are ubiquitous and relevant to adolescent functioning, little is known about how daily hassles vary over the course of adolescence. Variability ... -
A Critical Reflection of the Launch of the MCHNLA in South Africa
(2012-9-12)The North-West University is the first university outside America where the Maternal-Child Nurse Leadership Academy for is launched in an attempt to reduce mother, child and infant mortality. This honour was received from ... -
Measurement of Recovery for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
(2012-9-12)The concept of recovery may seem unusual for people with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) as over 2/3 are unemployed, and it is estimated that in the U.S., 240,000 are homeless, and 283,000 are incarcerated ... -
Development of Model Using Sociocognitive Variables to Explain Self-Care in Women with Type 2 Diabetes
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Sociocognitive variables of self-efficacy, social support, outcome expectancies, and barriers to self-care were used to examine self-care practices in adult women with Type 2 diabetes. Two instruments to assess ... -
Nursing Education and Redesigned Discharge Process: Effects on Congestive Heart Failure Patient Outcomes
(2012-9-12)In a rural community hospital in northern California, greater than fifty percent of all patients are over the age of 64 years. The readmission rate for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients is greater than the rate for ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
A Retrospective Study of Job Satisfaction of Nurse Residents in Magnet, Magnet Aspiring and Non-Magnet Hospitals
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the outcome variable of job satisfaction, among newly graduated nurse residents in Magnet, Magnet Aspiring, and Non-Magnet Hospital work environments across the US. Methods: ...
