• Role of Family Dynamic in Mental Well Being 

  Najwani, Sarwat; Farooq, Salima M.

  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] 

  Ricciardi, Richard

  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 

  Tigges, Beth Baldwin

  This opening plenary will focus on the progress of Sigma during the Biennium and implications for the future of the organization using the framework of the 2017-2019 Call to Action: Connect, Collaborate, Catalyze.

• Chlorhexidine Oral Care: From Prevention of Pneumonia to Risk Factor for Mortality 

  Blot, Stijn I.

  Chlorhexidine oral care is often applied in hospitalized patients for maintaining oral health or for the prevention of pneumonia albeit that evidence is not consistent across distinct patient populations. Recent insights ...

• RNPC Training Program: Meeting the Needs of a Changing Healthcare Environment 

  Hurlbut, Jene' M.; Revuelto, Imelda R.

  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 

  Hosoda, Yasuko; Negishi, Mayumi; Doi, Yoshiko; Nagano, Yayoi; Katayama, Yukari; Kitajima, Yoko

  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 

  Heid, Christine L.; Crum, Tracy L.

  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 

  Hartman, Kristie O.

  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 

  Hartman, Ann Michelle; Phillips, Beth Cusatis

  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? 

  Walsh, Catherine; Hall, Nicole

  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 

  Goodin, Jeanine M.; Schwytzer, Deborah J.

  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 

  Galetz, Elizabeth Ann

  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 

  Fujikawa, Maki; Hoshi, Miwako; Tanaka, Chihiro; Nishida, Yuko; Yoshitake, Misako; Yoshino, Takumi

  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 ...

• Implementing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interprofessional Education in College of Health Curriculum 

  Foster, Victoria; Nteff, Grace; Sanner, Susan; Smiley, Lisa; Collins, Elicia; Harrison, Carmen; Jones, Sharon; Eichelberger, Lisa Wright; Duley, Susan; Barnes, Gail; Scott, Michael

  This research project will discuss implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) in a college of health. The concepts explored will be knowledge, skills, attitudes, engagement and ...

• Scaffolding EBP Knowledge and Skills: BSN Through DNP 

  Bloom, Kathaleen C.

  Preparation of students for evidence-based practice is an essential component of professional nursing education. This presentation describes the trajectory of EBP knowledge and skill development beginning at the baccalaureate ...

• Malnutrition in Institutionalized Older People With Swallowing Impairment: The Weancare Modified Texture Foods Program 

  Zanini, Milko; Bagnasco, Annamaria; Catania, Gianluca; Aleo, Giuseppe; Ripamonti, Stefania; Sasso, Loredana

  The preliminary results of the WeanCare program, a personalized texture-modified food program for older people with swallowing impairment have shown a positive impact on the nutritional, biochemical, and functional profile ...

• Identifying Malnourishment in Geriatric Patients With Nutritional Screenings to Improve Surgical Outcomes 

  Steadman, Laura; Peoples, LeAnne Livingston; Winston-Griffin, Cassandra U.

  This project is to determine if geriatric patients identified as malnourished or at risk of malnourishment by pre-operative screening with the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) influence surgical outcomes within 30 days ...

• Implementation of STEADI Toolkit of CDC for Preventing Falls Among Community Dwelling Older Adults 

  Varughese, Jill

  Implementation of the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Death and Injury guidelines of Center for Disease Control to prevent falls and falls related injuries among community dwelling adults under the care of home health services.

• Assessing Effectiveness of a Mentorship Intervention Addressing Perinatal Depression in Rwanda 

  Umuziga, Providence M.

  Perinatal depression is the most prevalent mental disorder during pregnancy and one year postnatal and is associated with risks faced by mothers and their infants. In Rwanda,perinatal depression is high. Our study will ...

• Use to Problem-Based Learning Increase Case Reports the Pass Rate 

  Sun, Wan-Na

  This is the first study in our unit to report the teaching method in ladder system, when the four participates reported a pass rate of 75%, they satisfaction was 100% after the course. This study result can help other unit ...

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