Browsing Sigma Leadership Events by Title
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Preparing leaders to advance nursing: Project plan
This presentation will highlight the Preparing Leaders to Advance Nursing, a project designed to support the development of emerging nurse leaders from underrepresented minority groups. Project goals and strategies will ... -
Preparing nursing students as leaders for social change
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Tuesday, September 20, 2016: Nurse educators are in a unique position to prepare graduates who can lead the social change required to eliminate structural and social determinants that are barriers to ... -
Preparing students as nurse leaders to ACT with conviction for social justice
(2016-09-16)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: The Social Policy Statement of the American Nurse Association's Code of Ethics with Interpretive Statements (American Nurses Association, 2015) purports that in order to ... -
Preschooler's perceptions of food as a possible factor related to childhood obesity
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014: Problem: Who thinks about hypertension or diabetes in children? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obese children are likely to stay obese into adulthood ... -
Presentation Tips and Tricks: Getting Accepted and Engaging Your Audience
Get the inside scoop on how to improve your presentation abstract, including formatting and choosing a title. Learn to enhance your presentation by utilizing your presentation time effectively. Tips on being a successful ... -
PRO level leadership: People, puRpose, and pOssibilities
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: An innovative, successful leader is one who has a vision, engages others, works toward an identified goal, and achieves higher levels of productivity or outcomes by trying ... -
Proactive nurse driven frailty screening for early palliative care intervention
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Our older population is growing, our estimated population of older adults, 65 years of age and older is projected to be 83.7 million by the year 2050 (Ortman, J., Velkoff, ... -
The process of critical care nursing resilience in workplace adversity
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014: Nurses who practice in critical care settings can face adversity in their workplace. Critical care nurses are at risk for burnout because of workplace adversity, which ... -
Program Development: Virtual is the New Reality
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014: As technologies advance, the ability to interact with constituents virtually has become a high demand. This session will discuss the basic concepts in creating a successful ... -
Program Planning 101
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014: Need ideas for creating an exciting local program? Attend this session to see how your group can evaluate your audience to deliver relevant topics at events. -
Project Change the Curriculum: Addressing the health disparities in education of children with learning disabilities
This study created the Project Change the Curriculum (Project CC), which is an academic curriculum designed to provide the resources to children with learning disabilities from low SES. Our goal to find the ideal curriculum ... -
Promoting student leadership: Implementing a quality improvement and EBP project to address clinical problems
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: This poster presentation will share a quality improvement and evidence-based practice project that senior nursing students completed in a nursing management/leadership ... -
Proper screening and diagnosing of diabetic kidney disease: A quality improvement initiative in primary care setting for the underinsured
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014: Will implementation of a quality improvement process in a primary care clinic for the underinsured improve screening, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetic kidney disease? ... -
Pursuing Pathway to Excellence and approaches to nursing education
To qualify for the Pathway to Excellence© designation, organizations have to meet six quality standards which are ultimately verified by nurses. One organization chose to create a virtual "road trip" for their teaching ... -
Pursuing the trifecta: Chapter best practices for undergraduate recruitment, engagement, and retention
This poster describes dynamic strategies utilized to increase recruitment, engagement, and retention of undergraduate chapter members. Common reasons that undergraduates felt disengaged with membership in our chapter are ... -
Put more than a digital stamp on it: How postcards increased attendance at chapter events
Through the trifecta of communication, membership attendance doubled, and at times even tripled, at chapter events. This is attributed to communication methods the utilized both the digital stamp as well as the US postal ... -
A qualitative description of WIC breastfeeding peer counselor support
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Breastfeeding peer counselor programs have been successful in increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. However, factors contributing to a counselor’s ... -
A qualitative mini-study of young adults who use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)
A focused ethnographic mini-study that explores the beliefs, values, and experiences of young adults who vape. Data were collected through interview with semi-structured question guide. Ten categories were identified and ... -
A qualitative study: Undergraduate students' attitudes and beliefs about marijuana
Marijuana is reported as the most common illicit drug used on college campuses. Through focus group interviews, college students expressed their opinions about the safety, popularity, and legal concerns related to the ... -
Quality enhancement plan: Interprofessional educational program to improve nursing students' self-efficacy in scholarly written communication
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: This presentation describes Nursing and English departments’ interprofessional strategies to create two sequential writing courses for an online RN to BSN nursing ...