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Diversity Training: The Effectiveness Of Gaming In Raising Cultural Awareness Among Students Of Health Professions, Chenit Ong-Flaherty, Dellanira Garcia, David A. Martinez, Wanda J. Borges, Linda Summers

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016: Purpose: The Pew Research Center (2015) estimates that by 2050, one in five Americans will be foreign born and 82% of the nation's population growth from 2005 to 2050 will be among new immigrants and their descendants. Despite these increases, inequities and disparities in healthcare continue to persist, particularly among ethnic minority populations (Center for Disease Control, 2013). Cultural competency has been the emphasis in healthcare for more than a decade. There is, however, a paucity of literature examining the effectiveness of education and training programs given the persisting cultural gaps in our …

Recruitment And Retention In Studying Childhood Obesity In Saudi Arabia, Sama Samer Hammad, Diane C. Berry, Kathleen Knafl

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to examine recruitment and retention issues encountered during a mixed methods study on childhood feeding and growth in Saudi Arabia. The study is to focus on Saudi mothers' perspective on childhood obesity. The presentation addresses culturally-based recruiting challenges and recommends strategies for conducting community-based research in Saudi Arabia. Recruitment of mother's from the school system and/or the community has not been well documented in the Saudi literature.

Methods: Dissemination information about the study: The initial plan was to disseminate flyers to mothers through the school system. …

Primary Health Care Management Of Childhood Atopic Eczema, Kaarina Meintjes

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background 20-30% of the world's population suffers from allergic diseases and places a high burden on health services (Pawankar, Baena-Cagnani, Bousquet, Canonica, Cruz, Kaliner & Lanier, 2008: S4). In a study conducted by The World Allergy Organization Speciality and Training Council it was found that the majority of allergic patients are seen by non-allergy-trained health workers (Warner, Kaliner, Crisci, Del Giacco, Frew, Lui, Maspero, Moon, Nakagawa, Potter, Lanny, Rosenwasser, Singh, Valovirta & Van Cauwenberge, 2006). This situation is also true for South Africa (Potter, Warner, Pawankar, Kaliner, Del Giacco & Rosenwasser, 2009: 150). Primary health care (PHC) is the entrance …

Mentoring Needs Of Novice Clinical Facilitators, Izelle Loots, Gisela H. Van Rensburg

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016: Purpose: The effectiveness of a clinical facilitator lies in how well learning outcomes are achieved in order to fulfil the practical component of a nursing student's studies as required by the SANC through co-ordination and facilitation of learning. Gaberson and Oermann (2010:30) support this by stating that the effectiveness of clinical accompaniment is evident by the extent to which it produces planned learning outcomes. Sayers, DiGiacomo and Davidson (2011:49) acknowledge that a nurse educator's clinical competency is not enough to perform the duties he/she should carry out, and agrees that adult education principles …

Serve The People Model Of Community Health Development Work: Towards A Caring Framework, Erlinda Castro Palaganas

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: Community health development workers (CHDWs) live and work in a society that is characterised by poverty, exploitation and oppression. This presentation aims to describe a model of caring grounded from extensive health work with health professionals, including an ethnographic study among 20 community health nurses (CHNs) in the NortheRNhilippines. It describes how the CHDWs have come face to face with the effects of the continuing struggle of the people for social justice, democracy, national independence, material and cultural progress and peace. Within this context, it is imperative that the health profession identifies …

Nurse Physician Disruptive Behavior: A Chief Nurse In South Africa's Perspective, Sharon Vasuthevan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to replicate the United States study on "Disruptive Behavior between physicians and nurses" and compare the findings to physicians and nurses in South Africa. Because of the effect of disruptive behavior on the work environment and the individual(s) involved, the study was undertaken to raise awareness and offer nurse and physician leaders an opportunity to change the culture of acceptance to one of action and support.

Methods: The study was replicated in hospitals selected by the author, approved and administered using a similar approach to the …

The Simultaneous Experiences Of Being A Nurse Faculty Member And Phd Student, Lolita Ann Mccarthy

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: While the nursing shortage has a global effect, in the U.S. approximately 75,000 qualified applicants were denied admission into basic nursing programs in 2011 due to insufficient nurse faculty. At a time when nursing needs academically prepared nursing faculty to teach the next generation of nurses, nursing faculty with earned doctorates has dwindled. Advanced nursing education develops nurse educators who will prepare future generations of nurses and can conduct research to advance knowledge and care including research performed as part of collaboration with other health care disciplinary experts. The demand for nursing …

Incorporating Telehealth In Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Curriculum To Impact Rural And Frontier Population Health, Robin Arends, Sheryl Marckstadt, Nicole Gibson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016: Purpose: The purpose of this project is to increase Family Nurse Practitioner student knowledge on the utilization of telehealth modalities to impact rural and frontier population health. Review of Literature: Patients in rural and frontier settings face challenges when seeking access to health care. Rural and Frontier dwelling patients may travel long distances to seek primary, specialty, and emergent care. Weather, road conditions, time, and money are challenges which impact the ability to seek healthcare at remote locations. Rural and frontier dwelling patients may need to consider travel expenses such as gas, motel …

Determination Of Self-Care Ability Level Of Patients With Open Heart Surgery After Discharge, Simge Coskun, Fatos Korkmaz

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: This descriptive study aimed to determinate the self-care ability level of patients with open-heart surgery after discharge.

Methods: The study of was carried out in university hospital's cardiovascular surgery clinic in Ankara/Turkey between 01.04.2014- 30.07.2014. 97 patients with open-heart surgery volunteered to take part in the study. Data was collected with three forms. The first one was included questions related with socio-demographic characteristic and level of daily living activities of patients, second form was included questions related with problems encountered after discharge and third form was self-care agency scale (min35-max140, high scores …

Nurse Perceptions Of Facilitators For And Barriers To Neonatal Resuscitation In Rural Zimbabwe, Valerie Ann Clary-Muronda

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the facilitators for and barriers to neonatal resuscitation from the contexts of nurses working in a rural clinic in Zimbabwe to identify potential areas for improvement that may be similar across low, moderate and high resource settings, and to identify areas for improvement for potential collaborative global partnership. The rationale underlying this study was the need to develop an understanding of factors that affect neonatal resuscitation from the standpoints of healthcare providers from their specific cultural contexts for the discovery of significant issues …

Global Health Competencies Of Nursing Student In Philippines, Hamzeh Abunab, Jose Reinhard C. Laoingco

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Purpose: (1) to assess the global health competencies of the fourth year nursing students in the school of nursing, St. Louis University, Baguio City Philippines through the using of a self-rated assessment tool, (2) to be able to contribute additional literatures for global health from the findings of the survey and, (3) to provide informal information about a status of global health competencies among the nursing students of the School of Nursing, SLU.

Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study.

Results: Results revealed that (1) the students are moderately competent in the Global Burden of Disease …

Why Do Nursing Students Want To Participate In Education Abroad Programs?, Mikki Meadows-Oliver

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of this study was determine nursing students' motivations for participating in a clinical education abroad program.

Background: international clinical experiences are becoming more prevalent for nursing students. There is a high demand for global health clinical placements among nursing students. Such clinical experiences offer a unique chance for nursing students to develop cultural competence and acquire additional clinical skills in a diverse setting. Typically, nurse educators and nursing programs determine objectives and outcomes for students to achieve while studying abroad. In addition, students often have their own motivating factors for …

Mwende Kabotu: Going With Cultural Humility For International Nursing Student Experiences, Wanda Elizabeth Thuma-Mcdermond

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to present the efficacy of going with cultural humility in international experiences for nursing students. Cultural humility may be one way to decrease disparities by increasing awareness of social justice. Disparities in health care suggest a need for greater social justice in national and international health care systems. Nurses are uniquely involved with disparities since the nursing profession has emphasized social justice not only as a moral value but also as the foundation for social action. Social justice, however, may be difficult to conceptualize, especially for …

The Pervasive Role Of Religion/Spirituality In Pakistani Women's Self-Management Of Recurrent Depression, Nadia Ali Muhammad Ali Charania, Bonnie M. Hagerty

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Background: Understanding self-management of chronic illness including Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has become a prominent effort for researchers and clinicals. Much of the literature on self-management is derived from research focused on Western culture. Less is known about how people self-manage their MDD in other cultures. Hence, a qualitative study was designed to understand how women in Pakistan, a South Asian country, self-manage their recurrent MDD. There is no nation-wide epidemiological research done yet to determine the prevalence of depression among Pakistani women. Nonetheless, based regional research depression among Pakistani women appears to …

Co-Construction Of Consent And Counseling During Provider Initiated Counseling And Testing (Pitc) In Nairobi Kenya, Eunice Wambui Ndirangu, Catrin M. Evans, Kristian Pollock

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: The global policy focus of today's HIV efforts and strategies is to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and provide care, treatment and support. A key component of this strategy is to increase individual HIV status awareness through expansion of HIV testing and counselling (HTC). However, the numbers tested still remain and evidence suggests that there are significant missed opportunities for HIV testing in clinical settings. One key strategy to expand HTC in clinical settings has been to implement a policy of 'provider initiated counselling and testing' (PITC) in which all patients accessing …

Providing Care For Women With Disabilities During The Perinatal Period, Lorraine Byrnes

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose - Women with disabilities account for approximately 12% of the childbearing population and a substantial number intend to have children and experience the role of mother. However there are substantial barriers to achieving this goal for the majority of women with disabilities. Disabilities include physical, intellectual, sensory, and/or developmental. This presentation discusses the impact of disabilities on care during the perinatal period and how midwives and other health care providers can meet this growing and understudied need.

Methods - This evidence-based program was developed from available peer reviewed literature published in healthcare, …

Social Stratification, Health Beliefs And Regular Check-Ups Among Older Adults In China, Hanzhang Xu, Bei Wu, Paulin Straughan, Qiushi Feng, Zhihong Zhen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: Regular check-ups are especially crucial for older adults because of high prevalence of co-occurring health issues including non-communicable diseases and function decline that happened along with the aging process (WHO, 2013). Healthy People 2020 also recommends regular check-ups for preventable and diagnosable medical conditions (Maurer & Smith, 2014). Health beliefs have an impact on the performance of regular check-ups. In particular, deep-rooted Eastern culture belief plays an important role in the formation of health beliefs among Chinese older adults (Lee & Fan, 2014). This culture based health belief contains attitudes such as …

Randomized Controlled Trial Of A Cardiac Rehabilitation Of Thai Patients With Myocardial Infarction, Nisakorn Vibulchai

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: This study examined the effects of a self-efficacy enhancement program for the cardiac rehabilitation [SEPCR] on self-efficacy and functional status of Thai patients who had a myocardial infarction.

Methods: Study design A two-group randomized controlled trial with a pretest/posttest design was used to determine the self-efficacy and functional status of Thai patients who have had an MI. Data were collected and analyzed at baseline (on the second day of admission) and again at four weeks after discharge. The study was designed to capture the maximal effect of the SEPCR on self-efficacy and …

The Sound Mind Warrior Study: Using Sound Technology To Combat Stress In Military Service Members, Melisa A. Gantt

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: Binaural Beat Technology (BBT), also known as Brain Entrainment Technology; is an auditory-neurophysiologic technique which uses auditory tones (often embedded in music, nature sounds or white noise) dichotically via stereo headphones to manipulate brainwave activity. Although this technology is widely marketed to the general public, only a hand full of studies have shown its efficacy. The Sound Mind Warrior Study was a double-blinded, randomized, repeated measure study that assessed the effect of BBT (in the theta brainwave frequency) on the cardiovascular (CV) stress response in a group of military service members with …

Pubertal Communication Between The School Nurses And Adolescent Girls In Nigeria, Omowumi Romoke Salau, Adesola Adenike Ogunfowokan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: School nurses play a significant role in communicating reproductive health information to adolescent girls especially during pubertal period which could help make the period less confusing. The role of school nurses in such capacity in Nigeria has received limited attention hence, the need to investigate how school nurses were able to provide information on pubertal changes in a view to improve the knowledge of adolescent girls on pubertal changes and thus promote their sexual and reproductive health by provision of school health services.

Methods: A descriptive sequential mixed method was adopted for …

Recommended Cultural And Clinical Considerations For Leaders And Educators Working With Muslim Nurses And Students, Amanda F. Hopkins, Wendy C. Kooken, Sana Fatima Shafiuddin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

This presentation will identify workplace and academic practices that may produce feelings of exclusion in Muslim nurses and students. Specific recommendations and strategies promoting inclusion are discussed. In 2012, 37% of the United States (U.S.) populations were individuals from racial or ethnic minorities while only 19% of nurses were from minority backgrounds. Nurse leaders believe it is imperative to increase diversity, both to reflect the cultural diversity in the U.S. and to combat the nursing shortage (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2015). Muslim nurses/students constitute a growing and diverse population in the …

Sustainability Using Positive Deviance/Hearth To Address Childhood Malnutrition In Burundi, Paulette A. Chaponniere

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Children under the age of five in resource-poor countries have a decreased life expectancy. Many causes of morbidity and mortality are exacerbated by malnutrition. To address this need, agencies often import milk and oil to treat malnourished children. This is unsustainable. Leininger's Cultural Care Model invites nurses to clearly identify which local practices need to be preserved or which need to have modification, either through negotiation or re-patterning. Two main interventions were implemented simultaneously in Burundi (East Africa) over a five year period (2007-2012): care groups and positive deviance/hearth (PD/H). Men and women …

Telehealth: Preparing Advanced Practice Nurses (Apns) For Transition Into Clinical Practice, Pamela Willson, Susan K. Lee, Dinorah Martinez-Anderson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Introduction: Telehealth is a successful care modality that matches quality and affordability of care to underserved rural patients, allowing for assessment and education. This has been found to improve patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and access to care. It also allows patients to access providers in the privacy and comfort of their homes or in local clinics in a timely and effective manner that, in turn, empowers patient self-management. Additional benefits are that patients are able to access specialty providers who are outside the rural area. Few Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) programs instruct students …

Collaboration Through Interdisciplinary Education And Its Impact On Future Health Care Practitioners, Lisa-Marie W. Griffiths, Christopher Yi, Petra Clark-Dufner, Bruce Gould

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

With our ever changing and increasingly complex healthcare system, there are indications that health care practice must adapt to provide safe, effective, precise, and cost effective care. This practice must start from the foundation: Interprofessional Practice made applicable through Interprofessional Education (IPE). The University of Connecticut's Urban Services Track (UST) provides the foundation upon which future healthcare professionals are able to provide interprofessional care by instilling collaborative values from a healthcare student's academic infancy. The Urban Service Track is designed to produce a cadre of well qualified health care professionals committed to serving …

Keeping Nursing Faculty Healthy, Cynthia D. Strobach

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: We are currently experiencing a worldwide shortage of nurses. Nurses are at the front line of most health care systems. A shortage of nurses will have a negative impact on the health of citizens across the globe. At a time when we need more nurses than ever, we are experiencing a nursing faculty shortage. Education of new nurses is an issue in both developed and developing countries. It is important, therefore, to keep nursing faculty healthy and teaching for as long as possible. The purpose of the study was to investigate the …

Midwives' Utilization Of Life Saving Skills For Prevention And Management Of Haemorrhage In Nigeria, Chigozie Anastacia Nkwonta

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016: Background: Annually, 36,000 women die in Nigeria as a result of complications of pregnancy and child birth, 70% of these deaths were due to four conditions. Obstetric hemorrhage is the most common cause, of which 99% occurs as primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Predicting who will have primary postpartum haemorrhage based on risk factors is difficult because two-thirds of women who have PPH have no risk factor. Primary postpartum haemorrhage can be prevented and treated by early, aggressive, and coordinated interventions. Life Saving Skill (LSS) are set of actions that helps care giver prevent, …

Enhancing Patient Safety: The Infusion Of Just Culture Behaviors Into The Student Clinical Experience, Barbara R. James, Christine E. Sammer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

The role of nursing faculty is to create a learning environment where students gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to provide safe care to patients. One strategy to enhance safer care is to infuse principles of a just culture into the curriculum of a pre-licensure nursing program. Principles of a just culture include: fostering an atmosphere of trust, encouraging error and near-miss reporting, recognizing that there are clear lines between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, and promoting learning from errors. The American Nurses Association supports just culture initiatives for improvement of patient safety …

Advocacy For Hospital Revitalisation Risk Management Policy, Guinevere Lourens

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Advocacy for hospital revitalisation risk management policy. Building and renovating healthcare facilities is complex and the incorrect planning and implementation thereof can give rise to expensive mistakes ,which impact on patient and nursing staff safety. The voice of nursing is often muffled in hospital infrastructure projects. A doctoral study was undertaken to critically evaluate the implementation of a hospital revitalization project in Paarl, South Africa.The project aimed to modernize and transform the infrastructure and health technology and improve the quality of care and access to public health care. The outcome of the study …

Perils And Pitfalls Using Technology And Collaboration To Demystify The Dreaded Nursing Care Plan, Faith A. Strunk, Stacy M. Crandall

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: The purpose of this nursing education project was to design, implement, and evaluate an innovative teaching strategy to facilitate student learning of the nursing process and critical thinking through the use of technology and collaboration, in the clinical setting. Introduction Historically, students were required to submit 3 independently developed 27+ page clinical paperwork assignments. This paperwork included patient history, review of systems, laboratory values, medications, physical examination, routine nursing documentation, nursing care plan, a patient teaching plan, and references. Students frequently complained that this assignment was both laborious and arduous. Grading of …

Nurse Physician Disruptive Behavior: Building A Culture Of Safety And Quality, Ann Marie T. Brooks

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016 --

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to raise the awareness of disruptive behavior in healthcare using the American College of Physician Executives survey tool to measure the recognition of disruptive behavior by physicians and nurses within a five hospital healthcare system and whether it had changed over a two year period. Because disruptive behavior has serious effects on patient safety and the work environment, it is important that nurses and physicians address this issue in a timely, effective and efficient manner and this study was aimed at providing data to initiate …