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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Assistant Manager as a Leader for Community Health Nursing in Pakistan
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: There are few leadership roles in community health nursing in Pakistan. However, leadership is essential if the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be realized. ... -
FitSteps for Life: Improving QOL for Persons with Cancer through a Community-Based Exercise Program
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: Exercise has been demonstrated to have beneficial effects on the lives of persons with cancer. Most studies have been limited to early stage disease or have been conducted over a short ... -
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 ... -
The Establishment of an International Collaboration to Support the Implementation of an Illness Management and Recovery Programme for Consumers with a Severe Mental Illness in the Netherlands
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) In the Netherlands, the concept of recovery in mental health care has taken on new meanings in recent years that emphasize personal empowerment and de-emphasize traditional medical definitions ... -
Towards an Understanding of Pregnancy Weight Gain in African-American Women
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Problem: A large proportion of women gain more weight than is needed during pregnancy. This is a major health issue because excessive gestational weight gain contributes to postpartum weight ... -
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 ... -
Families' Experiences with Palliative Care Services of Children with Cancer in Lebanon
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Background: the impact of childhood cancer on the family has been studied in different cultures and continues to be an object of study and concern. In Lebanon, a country of 4 million people 282 ... -
The Nursing as an Additional Language and Culture Program for Academic Success (NALC)
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: The Nursing as an Additional Language and Culture Program for Academic Success (NALC) is an educational intervention designed to enhance student success in an Accelerated Baccalaureate ... -
Health Promotion and Health Risk Assessment of Professional Truck Drivers in the Southwest
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Health Promotion and Health Risk Assessment of Professional Truck Drivers in the Southwest Purpose: To determine health risks and health promoting behaviors of men who are professional truck ... -
Conflict is not Common in Our Workplace
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose: To describe results of a baseline assessment of conflict in the workplace and present implications for initiating an intervention program. A national survey (Dewitty et al, 2009) indicated ... -
Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among School Children in a Private School, Karachi, Pakistan: A Pilot Study
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is increasing in Pakistan due to unhealthy life style, and lack of awareness. As these diseases have their origin in the early period of life, therefore, ... -
From Controversy to Coherence: Implementing a DNP/PhD Partnership Model to Improve Research and Evidence-Based Practice
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) role was developed in part to partner with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) nurse researchers to ... -
Registered Nurses and Influenza Vaccination: Changing Mindsets and Improving Compliance to Foster Global Health
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommend that all healthcare workers (HCW) receive influenza vaccination annually and consider ... -
Influencing the Culture of Care: The Nursing Role
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Operating as an organization or functional structure, specialty clinics serving patients at the end-of-life are inherent to a culture of care, a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices ... -
HIV-Infected Women and Intimate Partner Violence: CD4 Counts, Opportunistic Infections, Viral Replication, and Adherence to Antiretroviral Medication
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Introduction : The purpose of this study was to document the impact on HIV dissease progression, measured as CD4 counts, number of opportunistic infections, viral replication, and adherence to ...