Sigma Biennial Convention: Recent submissions
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Overcoming roadblocks: Experiences of Black faculty with the tenure-track process
Participants attending this session will hear how Black faculty from various universities throughout the United States described their pre-tenure experiences. They will hear how they experienced and overcame various ... -
Fostering clinical judgment and promoting transition into first clincal rotation
This presentation will convey the integration of novel interactive classroom activities in first-semester students to promote critical thinking using the NCSBN clinical judgment model and bridge the gap from the classroom ... -
Antecedents of cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in pediatric population
Cancer and its treatments result in various physical and psychosocial negative effects. Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a very common negative effect experienced by cancer patients. This secondary data analysis research ... -
Global nursing leadership competency framework: Transforming the future of healthcare
While nursing leadership courses proliferate, there is no globally agreed competency framework. A team led by Sigma with funding support from J&J Foundation has created an evidence based global nursing leadership ... -
Virtual exchange in the classroom: Moving from pilot program to a global audience
Innovative teaching strategies to promote student awareness of global health issues can be achieved with nursing students from other countries through virtual exchange. This presentation demonstrates the expansion of a ... -
My journey as an emerging nursing education leader - One scholar's journey through the Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy
To convey leadership growth of the scholar during NFLA. Leading an accelerated BSN faculty team through integrative team teaching implementation illustrated multiple ways the scholar’s leadership skills improved team ... -
Promoting nursing honors education sustainability through best practices
This poster describes leadership strategies employed by a Scholar participating in the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (ENFLA) to address these challenges. The nursing ... -
Role of family dynamic in mental well being
This article is aimed to highlight the role of family in the mental of their loved ones using bio-psycho-social model of mental health. The substantial evidence highlighting the significance of family dynamics in mental ... -
Sigma Presidential Call to Action [Richard Ricciardi, President, 2019-2021]
The ability to experience joy, enthusiasm, and renewed creativity in our practice settings (clinical, education, research or policy) is fundamental to achieving Sigma’s vision of global nursing excellence. Sigma provides ... -
Connecting, Collaborating, Catalyzing: Sigma 2019 and Beyond
To view the video of this presentation, please scroll down to the embedded streamable version below. To view the slides without voiceover, please click on the slide deck file in this record.This opening plenary will focus ... -
Chlorhexidine oral care: From prevention of pneumonia to risk factor for mortality
To view the video of this presentation, please scroll down to the embedded streamable version below. To view the slides without voiceover, please click on the slide deck file in this record. Chlorhexidine oral care is ... -
RNPC training program: Meeting the needs of a changing healthcare environment
The RNPC grant will recruit and train nursing students and RN's to practice to the full scope of their license in community-based primary care teams by providing didactic and clinical application to improve primary care ... -
Effects of educational instructors' support from others and experiential learning on the clinical learning environment
This quantitative study was to reveal the effects of educational instructors' support from others and experiential learning on the clinical learning environment using covariance structure analysis. Results showed that ... -
Advances in Clinical Teaching and Learning: Development of a New Tool
Clinical teaching and learning was re-imagined using a new progressive tool along with instructional strategies, to provide guidance to faculty and students in the development of clinical judgment skills within patient ... -
Central intravenous skills using high-fidelity simulation versus traditional methodologies among undergraduate nursing student
Nurse educators have been faced with a paradigm shift in meeting the needs of a technologically advanced generation. Healthcare demands and high faculty to student ratios require methodologies that facilitate clinical ... -
Integrating mental health nursing in the undergraduate nursing curriculum
This presentation will describe the outcome of an innovative curricular design which integrates mental health contents across the generalist, undergraduate nursing curriculum in place of a free-standing mental health nursing ... -
Are institutions educating baccalaureate students to feel comfortable speaking up for patient safety?
Speaking up is recognized as a duty that nurses have and as a means to improve patient safety yet there are barriers to it being utilized. There is an opportunity to educate nursing students so they are more comfortable ... -
Building practice partnerships: Facilitating role development of novice clinical instructors in dedicated education units
The implementation of the dedicated education unit model for clinical education is an innovative approach to address the nursing faculty shortage and education-practice gap. This quality improvement project leverages ... -
Simulated role-play to improve attitudes and empathy toward older adults in accelerated nursing students
This pre- and post-test intervention study aimed to: 1) examine the effectiveness of two educational modalities, a case study and simulated role-playing scenarios, on improving attitudes and empathy towards older adults; ... -
Effects of simulation on promoting caring ability of Japanese first-year undergraduate nursing students
This study demonstrates a simulation scenario designed for the first year Japanese nursing students to foster caring ability in addition to training basic nursing skills for ensuring a patient`s safety. Evaluation of its ...