Browsing Sigma Biennial Convention by Sigma Chapters "Alpha Kappa at-Large"
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Connecting nursing education across clinical environments
(2017-10-10)Nurse educators can use several strategies to address the perceived versus actual gap between on-campus learning lab and off-campus clinical practice. This presentation will provide Nursing educators with actual strategies ... -
Dashboards and Data: Supporting Strategy through Transparency of Metrics
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The Triple Aim was developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and encompasses three aims in improving healthcare performance: 1) improving the patient ... -
Democratizing data access via web-based portals
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: A collaborative Nursing Education Research Network provides a mechanism for gathering, storing, and using large a large data set on nursing education. Making this data (raw ... -
Dilution of IV push medications: Challenging tradition
Participants will learn of a practice change effort on an adult medical-surgical unit that challenged traditional nursing beliefs around IV push medication administration. Participants will review current evidence that ... -
Engagement of clinical teaching faculty in scholarship of teaching and learning: What really occurred
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Background: Historically, the engagement of Clinical Teaching Track Faculty (CTTF) in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) has not ... -
Establishing partnerships to implement a disaster nursing training program for an international audience
The project objective was to provide broad exposure to disaster topics to an international audience with a goal toward fostering novice nurses participation and leadership in preparedness, response, and recovery efforts ... -
Got projects? An innovative use of technology to approve and track nursing projects
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Supporting a Magnet culture includes mentoring the next generation of nurse scientists. Using a triad approach to monitoring, mentoring, and tracking nursing projects enables ... -
How to excel at evaluating a new graduate nurse residency evidence-based practice program
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is an integral part of nursing and needs to be included in any program that transitions new nurses into practice. New Graduate Nurse Residency ... -
Inducements and discouragements for students transitioning from associate degree to baccalaureate degree in nursing: A national study
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The call to educate more nurses at the baccalaureate level of education has been made (IOM, 2011). Accomplishing this requires innovative access ... -
Innovation in practice: A QSEN framework for redesigning a clinical advancement program for nurses
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The Institute of Medicine recommendations to address quality and safety provided the spark for the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) movement. This spark has also ... -
Innovation in practice: A QSEN framework for redesigning a clinical advancement program for nurses and strategies to grow and sustain a competency assessment model utilizing the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) in the clinical setting
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The Institute of Medicine recommendations to address quality and safety provided the spark for the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) movement. This spark has also ... -
Mental health treatment and media preferences for persons of Mexican heritage
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: Determining culturally based methods of care aligning with patient values and preferences is a focal point in mental health services provision. Unfortunately, few studies ... -
Practices of reflective leaders: Facing challenges and advancing reform
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: This presentation describes the common shared experiences of becoming a nurse faculty leader through facing challenges and advancing reform. These experiences were common for ... -
Preferred Educational Methods of RN's With More Than Ten Years of Inactive Patient Care
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: The Colorado State Board of Nursing rules and regulations provide a policy that states that "if you do not have an active license in another state and all of your licenses ... -
Safety auditing as a nursing accountability measure for hospital fall prevention
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Preventing falls is important to patient safety. Despite 15 years of focused, evidence-based efforts our hospital was not consistently reducing falls to desired benchmarks. ... -
Strategies to Grow and Sustain a Competency Assessment Model Utilizing the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) in the Clinical Setting
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: In the practice setting, a comprehensive measurement of competency assessment is essential in initial orientation and ongoing education of clinical staff. This presentation ... -
Using SMART Technology to Measure Nursing Practice at the Organization, Unit, and Individual Levels
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: When implementing changes in nursing practice, it is important to audit for compliance with the change. Within quality and process improvement methodology, observational ...