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HIV Risk Reduction Behaviors in Adolescent Females: The Influence of Mastery and Self-Esteem
(2001-11-10)AIDS is a leading cause of death in adolescent and young adult populations. Heterosexual transmission of HIV is the fastest growing mode of infection among women, and minority populations are affected disproportionately. ... -
Infant Feeding Decision: What New Mothers Have Told Us
(2007-11-04)Objective: To explore the infant feeding decision of new mothers and elicit their perspective regarding breastfeeding. Design: Descriptive exploratory. Setting: Postpartum units at seven birthing hospitals, including two ... -
Promoting Breastfeeding Through the Use of a Unique Skin-to-Skin Intervention at an Urban Hospital
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Improving breastfeeding rates is a healthcare priority. Skin-to-skin care after birth improves maternal and newborn outcomes and is an effective strategy to address the Joint Commission perinatal ... -
Human Trafficking and the Health Care Provider
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) This presentation will address the global and domestic human trafficking. An estimated 20,000 people are trafficked within the U.S. each year, while millions may be trafficked internationally. ... -
International Collaboration: Using Skype to Facilitate Research for a Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Project
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: This presentation describes the process used to complete a research study to implement clinical practice guidelines for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in Nairobi Kenya. The study ... -
A Comparison of Professional Values of Taiwanese and American Nursing Students
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Globalization is a part of our modern life and what happens on one side of the world is known on the other side in a matter of seconds. Nurses move across borders to respond to global events, ... -
Making Key Clinical Assessment Tools Accessible for Global Nursing Practice
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: Taking up a global leadership role by providing hands-on nursing on international medical missions, inspires one to enhance giving and leading to yet another level. It is proposed that ... -
Nursing Students Experiences with Interdisciplinary Service Learning in Belize
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Nursing faculty and students from Western Kentucky University have been participating in an interdisciplinary service learning project in Gales Point, Belize. The purpose of the current study ... -
The Trauma of Being Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS for Zimbabwean Women
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Background: Zimbabwe has among the highest HIV infection rates worldwide, with 1.3 million people, most of them women between 15-49 years living with the disease in 2008. The pandemic has caused ... -
Evidence-Based Practice: An Opportunity to Change the Culture Surrounding Clinical Research?
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) The majority of the general public believes that clinical research is important, but less than 5% of eligible adult patients participate in CT. While the public harbors mistrust towards some ... -
Online Course Development Success: The Samoan Experience
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Background: Registered Nurses in Western Samoa have no access to continuing education once they have completed their initial university education and are employed in the villages of Western ... -
Developing Excitment for Political Activism
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to identify strategies for infusing information related to health care systems and health policy into BSN and MSN curricula. The IOM report specifically ... -
Integrating Information Literacy Across a BSN Curriculum
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Although research regarding effective informatics teaching strategies is sparse, nurse educators are challenged to include informatics into an already burgeoning curriculum. This presentation ... -
Nourishing the Valuing of Leadership Behaviors
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Returning RN students bring a preconceived idea that learning will focus on enhancement of knowledge regarding intensive or medical/surgical nursing, and may not value leadership and management ... -
The Sikh Patient: A Review of the Nursing Literature
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Introduction: Nearly a half million Sikhs currently live in the United States.�Thus, gaining cultural competency on caring for a Sikh when they become patients under our care, is a clear ... -
Nursing Students Abroad: Understanding Global Health through Partnership in Australia
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Problem: Community health experiences do not always facilitate student recognition of responsibility to the community and society at large when their view of the world has not been challenged. ... -
International Service Learning Experience in Ghana: Student and Faculty Global Health Leadership
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the process of initiating and implementing an international service learning experience for nursing students and the outcome of 3 trips ... -
Evolving Nursing Grand Rounds for the 21st Century
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: To efficiently communicate the system level clinical and strategic information to a vast number of nurses in diverse locations, UPMC Center for Nursing Excellence and Innovation (CNEI) ... -
Prevention of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in a Long Term Acute Care Facility
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Background : The overuse of the indwelling urinary catheter is a significant problem in all healthcare settings. Up to five million urinary catheters are placed annually in the United States. ... -
International Nursing Education Partnership for Care of an Aging Population: Simulation and Clinical Judgment Development
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: The aging worldwide population challenges educators to train larger numbers of health care leaders skilled in geriatric care (World Health Organization). Although clinical simulation ...