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Free Radicals And Antioxidant Enzymes In Aged Adults After Regular Elastic Band Exercising, Kuei-Min Chen, Lin Yu Liao, Wei-Sheng Chung

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:

Purpose: Long-term regular exercise has positive health promotion outcomes. On the contrary, brief intense exercise induces the generation of reactive oxygen species and free radicals; thereby, increasing oxidative stress and causing protein and lipid peroxidation. To test the effects of the regular Senior Elastic Band (SEB) exercises on the generation of free radicals and antioxidant enzyme activities in aged adults.

Methods: A prospective experimental design was used. Twenty-five aged adults were recruited from a community care center, southern Taiwan, and were randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group. Twenty-two participants completed …

Senior Care Clinic House Calls, Ron Billano Ordona

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess trends in the number of cases per identified diagnosis of house calls made by the nurse practitioner in a house calls private practice from its inception in the year 2014.

Methods: A simple analysis of cases seen from the period of inception of a nurse practitioner house call practice for a total of nine months in 2014. Data obtained using the electronic health record (EHR) used by the practice. The practice grew from 20 patients at the start of the practice in February 2014 …

Influence Of Work Environment Conditions On The Ability Of Critical Care Nurses To Provide Efficacious Nursing Care In Puerto Rico, Yolanda M. Torres

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 23, 2015:

Purpose: Most recent published statistics of the Puerto Rico's Department of Health (2013) report that there are over 19,735 active registered nurses. No evidence describes the relationship between working conditions and the ability of nurses to deliver safe, quality, and efficient care in Puerto Rico. The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of work environment conditions on the ability of critical care nurses to provide efficacious nursing care. The specific aim is to determine the influence of work empowerment over the efficacy of care provided by critical care nurses. The …

Advancing The Science Through The National Nursing Education Research Network, Linda Flynn

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

The purpose of this session is to describe the aims of the newly created National Nursing Education Research Network, the data collection methods that the Network will use, the benefits of Network membership, and the opportunities that the Network will provide for educators and researchers to access the data and advance the science of nursing education. Session participants will also be engaged in identifying the most crucial research questions facing academic nursing today. Background: The clarion call to transform nursing education, as issued by the IOM's report The Future of Nursing presents immense …

Program Evaluation Of Camp Kudzu: Impact Of Camp Attendance On Hga1c Levels In Adolescents, Mary Katherine T. White

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) treatment regimens are complex and difficult to manage especially in adolescents where non-adherence is higher than any other age group due to desires for peer acceptance, reactions to overprotective parents, adolescents' denial of disease and complications, as well as anxiety and depression. Sub-optimal habits formed in adolescents are difficult to overcome in adulthood. Thirty -thousand children attend diabetes camps in the United States each year, and it is well documented these camps are the ideal setting for continued diabetes education. While the literature demonstrates diabetes camps are …

Mobile Mentoring Application For Use In Nurse Academia And Healthcare Settings, Susan M. Baxley, Mary Lou Bond, Kristina S. Ibitayo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to explore if nurses in academic settings at the undergraduate (Associate degree, diploma, BSN, RNnd BSN) and graduate (Master's, PhD, DNP) levels and in healthcare settings would perceive the concept of a mobile application (APP) as useful in the mentoring relationship.Mentoring makes a difference in people's lives and has a different meaning, depending on the relationship (Baxley, Ibitayo & Bond, 2014). Mentoring in nursing, while not new often has many different definitions. Global mentoring is a 'reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationship between a mentor and a …

Impact Of A Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (Cauti) Education Package On Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude And Indwelling Catheter Management Practices, Monina Gesmundo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

What is the impact of a CAUTI education package on the knowledge, attitude and indwelling catheter management practices of nurses?

The Effects Of Contemporary Behavioural Weight Loss Maintenance Interventions, Jo Gilmartin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of behavioural weight loss interventions in maintaining long term weight loss.

Methods: Systematic review of randomized controlled trails (RCTs). Data sources involved in the study are the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, psycINFO and the Web of Science. The database searches and abstracts were reviewed independently by two authors using the Delphi criteria. Data were abstracted by two reviewers and outcome measures were quantitatively summarised using Revman. Main outcome measure is weight change in kilograms.

Results: This review presents the findings from 13 RCT's of weight loss maintenance from 2001 to 2013 utilising interventions that include …

Transformational Leadership And Staff Nurses' Intent To Stay, Nourah Abdalaziz Alsadaan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:

Purpose: To examine the relationship between transformational leadership and staff nurses' intent to stay.

Methods: Published research articles between 2000 and 2014 that examined transformational leadership (behaviours) and staff nurses' intent to stay were selected from 6 electronic databases, including the EMBASE, ERIC, PSYCHINFO, SCOPUS, MEDLINE (OVID) and Academic Search Complete. In consultation with a health librarian, databases were accessed using key words: transformational leadership, retention, nurs*

Results: The higher nurses rated their manager as having transformational leadeeship style, the lower was the unit tuRNer rate. Studies indicated that transformational leadership style was …

An Assemblage Of Technologies For Multidisciplinary Online Health Informatics Education, Juliana J. Brixey

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:

Purpose: The course management system is often viewed as the mainstay for online education. However, online education requires a more comprehensive assemblage of technologies to facilitate active engagement and learning for the online students. The assemblage of technologies can be formed using a combination of social media and commercial applications. Social media applications have the benefit of enduring connections beyond completion of a course or program of study. Furthermore, most social media applications are free of charge. This is a financial benefit to both students and the university. Additionally, most social media applications …

The Influence Of Safety Culture On Satisfaction With Pain Management, Kathleen Abrahamson, Zachary Hass, Kristopher Morgan, Bradley Fulton

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the impact of hospital unit safety culture on patient satisfaction, with particular emphasis on patient satisfaction with pain management.

Factors Related To Pediculosis Capitis In Children At Catholic Elementary School Of Oekabiti, Kupang District, Sakti Oktaria Batubara

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to analyze the factors (age, knowledge of children , personal hygiene, and resident density in the houses) that influence the occurrence of pediculosis capitis in children at Catholic Primary School Oekabiti, Amarasi Subdistrict, Kupang district.

Methods: This is a quantitative research that utilizies analytic correlation with cross-sectional design. 74 respondents were taken as samples through simple random sampling technique with inclusion criteria as follows: grade IV, V, and VI students of Catholic Primary School of Oekabiti and are from low socio-economic background. Informed consent was asked …

Effectiveness Of Non-Pharmacological Interventions On Sleep And Health-Related Quality Of Life Of Patients With Heart Failure, Mariana Alvina Santos, Renata Eloah De Lucena Ferretti-Rebustini, Erika De Souza Guedes, Ana Paula Conceico, Dina De Almeida Lopes Monteiro Da Cruz

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 27, 2015:

Purpose: Investigate the feasibility of an RCT of non-pharmacological interventions on sleep and quality of life of patients with HF and additionally test the effect of sleep hygiene therapy, phototherapy and combination therapy (phototherapy +sleep hygiene) sleep compared with guidance on disease management.

Methods: This was a pilot of a blinded randomized clinical trial in which 32 subjects (women: 59.4%; mean age: 55.4 (SD=10.4) years, NYHA II-III: 90.7%) were randomized to three intervention groups (phototherapy, measures of sleep hygiene and combined therapy) and a control group (guidance on management of the disease and …

Qsen And Magnet: Incorporating System Thinking For Quality Care, Jeanette Merriweather

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Patient care errors with dire consequences have continued to threaten the health and safety of patients and erode trust among the public in our health care systems. Recent studies have confirmed that the number and the percentage of preventable adverse patient events in United States (US) hospitals has been grossly underestimated (Sitterding, 2011). One attempt to improve the safety and quality in the hospital setting has been the pursuit of Magnet status. The Magnet framework for nursing excellence provides insight about essential roles needed to support a culture of patient safety in the hospital setting. It could be argued that …

Compare The Differences Of Nurses' Perceptions Of Risk Factors And Effective Preventability For Injurious Falls Between Taiwan And Usa, Min-Ling Lin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: Fall related injury is one of the most common sources of hospital-acquired injuries worldwide and lots of efforts were made to prevent it. However, nurses' observations are often missing from fall incident reports. It is necessary to explore the risk factors (RF) for injurious falls and effective preventability (EP) from the nurse's perspective in different settings and countries. This study described and compared the nurses' perceptions of RF and their EP for injurious falls between Taiwan and USA.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional survey study. Dr. Tzeng's questionnaire and its Chinese version …

A Study On The Effect Of The Nurse-Led Multidisciplinary Transitional Care Model On Disparities In Younger Vulnerable Chronic Disease Patients, Cara L. Pappas, Judy E. Griffin, Laurie L. Abbott, Amy L. Ai

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: The Transitional Care Model (TCM) incorporates patient-centered interventions through a nurse-led multidisciplinary team to facilitate beneficial health outcomes for vulnerable populations and promote safe and efficient transfers from one health care setting to another. Patient-centered care interventions are based upon one's needs, preferences, and values influencing clinical health decisions and self-management. The success of patient-centered interventions is heavily linked to active engagement. The intervention begins in the hospital, extends to the patients' homes, and ends at the first primary care provider visit after hospital discharge. The TCM was originally intended to provide …

Perceived Health Status Of Elders Treated With Opioids For Persistent Nonmalignant Pain, Leslie E. Simons

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: To explore the relationship between opioid use and perceived health status in older adults aged 65-84 with persistent nonmalignant pain.

Methods: A purposive sample of 31 cognitively intact men and women aged 65-84 years receiving opioid therapy for 6 months to manage persistent nonmalignant pain. Data collection included a semi-structured interview that included an initial assessment of cognition using the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire. All consented participants met the cognitive screening criteria. The remaining interview collected social and demographic data and perceived health status, pain intensity and functionality, measured by the physical and mental component summary scores of …

A Decade Of Parent-Child Sex Communication: A Systematic Review, 2003-2013, Dalmacio Dennis Flores, Julie Barroso

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: Conversations between parents and children about sex can result in the transmission of family expectations, societal values, and role modeling of sexual health risk reduction strategies. Parent-child sex communication's (PCSC) potential to curb negative sexual health outcomes has sustained a multidisciplinary effort to better understand the process and its impact on the development of healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors among adolescents. Studies that include novel theoretical and empirical findings have been published recently and now require critical analysis and synthesis. The purpose of this review is to advance what is known about …

Qualitative Analysis Of Empathic Behavior Process Among Home-Visiting Nurses In Japan, Kyoko Ueno, Kumiko Kotake, Tamaki Kumagai, Mika Abe, Seiko Yamaguchi

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: Ueno and others (2013) treated nurse's support behavior that maintains and promotes patient's peace of mind empathically as a concept of empathic behavior, developed the Empathic behavior Behavior Scale, version 2 (ESB, ver.2), and examined factors that affected nurses' empathic behavior by using this scale. The results showed that the level of home-visit nurses' empathic behavior for patients was higher than nurses in inteRN, surgical, and psychiatric departments. This research, therefore, attempts to clarify the structure and process of home-visit nurses' empathic behavior for patients.

Methods: A modified grounded theory approach (M-GTA) …

Distress And Type 2 Diabetes: An Integrative Review, Joshua T. Minks

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Problem: Half of all Americans are projected to be diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) or prediabetes by 2020; and 2050 projections indicate that 1 in 3 Americans will develop DM. It is imperative to increase attention'on the prevention of DM by identifying factors that contribute to its occurrence. While some evidence suggests that genetic predisposition and environmental factors contribute to the development of type 2 DM (T2DM), the evidence underlying the influence of distress remains inconclusive.

Purpose: The purpose of this integrated review was to identify the state of the science for the …

Assessing Children's Capacity To Consent: An Assessment Guideline, Yolanda Havenga, Sylvia Mahlangu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: Valid consent must be given by a person capable in law to do so, must be informed, unambiguous, comprehensive and voluntary. Being capable to consent in legal terms means that the person has reached the age threshold stipulated in the law and has decisional capacity. Central to obtaining consent from children is the ability of nurses to assess and arrive at a clinical judgement about a child's maturity and mental capacity to give consent. These assessments are a great responsibility that requires not only knowledge of the appropriate legislation but also the …

The Effects Of Professional Autonomy On Employees' Perception Of Its Ethical Climate And Job Satisfaction, Kyoko Shida, Makiko Muya

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:

Background: It is a global understanding to improve nurses' professional autonomy is crucial to provide excellent nursing care. However, it is also clear, that the more professional autonomy grows, the more the conflict to the organizational custom is enlarged. The number of studies pertaining to the relationship between professional autonomy and the organizational climates is quite a few. This study aims to investigate how professional autonomy influences to perception of the ethical climate, as the result, to job satisfaction.

Methods: The candidates were gathered from nurses who working in two hospitals which have …

Electroconvulsive Therapy Compared To Pharmacotherapy In Treatment In The Adult Population With Severe Depression, Brooke Lagow, Shelby Reynolds, Austin Davey

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment that is used for psychological disorders when pharmacological interventions are insufficient in treatment of these disorders. ECT is a very effective treatment that has a success rate between 50-70%, even in patients that have not responded to treatment with medications. ECT works by sending an electric shock to the brain, which induces seizures and corrects and enhances patient mood and behavior. The exact mechanisms of ECT are unknown.

Purpose: The purpose of the literature review was to explore how ECT compares with pharmacotherapy in the severely depressed adult.

Methods: A literature review was …

Chasing Zero. Reducing Hospital Acquired Conditions In The Intensive Care Unit, Kelly Johnson, Cora Mendoza, Kristin Rosenbush, Lorena Rivera

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) are the most commonly reported hospital-acquired condition, and the rates continue to rise. More than 560,000 patients develop CAUTI each year, leading to extended hospital stays, increased health care costs, and patient morbidity and mortality.

Purpose: There was an increased incidence of CAUTI in the intensive care units as noted by Infection Prevention. The goal was to decrease CAUTI rates to below the NDNQI mean (<1.19) by September 2015.

Methods: There are three areas to improve evidence-based clinical care to reduce the rate of CAUTI: (A) prevention of inappropriate short-term catheter use, (B) nurse-driven timely removal of …

Alternative Clinical Experiences To Promote Cultural Competence In Fnp Students, Jeane Richards, Michelle L. Edmonds

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: The integration of culturally competent care into advanced nursing practice is imperative to safe, effective clinical practice and a standard required by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Exposure, via face-to-face encounters, is a key building block to assist nurse practitioner students in the process of becoming culturally competent. Encounters, along with awareness, knowledge, and skill are the proposed components of an alternative clinical rotation for nurse practitioner students in their initial clinical course, NUR 501 Advanced Health Assessment.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of participating in seminars and alternative cultural …

Increasing Physical Activity In Post Liver Transplant Patients, Jennifer Serotta

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: Quality of life (QOL) has been shown to improve dramatically in patients after liver transplant, however, it is still low compared to the general population. Patients oftentimes are severely debilitated and unable to engage in physical activity by the time they undergo transplant, which carries over following transplant. The literature supports that liver transplant patients who engage in physical activity have improved QOL.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase physical activity among postoperative adult liver transplant patients, improve documentation of daily activity, and ultimately influence QOL.

Methods: Thirteen liver transplant patients were recruited within …

Compassion Fatigue- An Investigation Of A Hospital System, Sheryl Gerhardt

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

In today's atmosphere of meeting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) Core Measures for patient care, Joint Commission (JC) standards for hospital accreditation, and the standards of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for Magnet status for excellence in nursing place burden on the bedside nurse. The stress of high acuity patients, high nurse/patient ratios and demands to participate in non-bedside tasks can cause compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue was first described in relation to nurses by Carla Joinson (1992) while doing her own investigation on burnout. She defined it as the "loss of ability to nurture." Whereas burnout can be …

A Statewide Initiative Integrating Quality And Safety Education For Nurses (Qsen) Through Academic/Clinical Partnerships To Improve Health Outcomes €“ The First Year In Review., Theresa M. Chenot, Roberta Christopher

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: This project is based on the innovative Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project which was founded in 2005 at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The overall goal of QSEN is to address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems in which they work. Dr. Chenot and Ms. Christopher are the founding members of the Florida QSEN Center; it is the only approved and endorsed QSEN Center in the State of …

Methods To Evaluate Educational Material To Surgical Patients: Integrative Review Of Literature, Ruth Natalia Teresa Turrini, Bruno Castro Paiva, Cristina Silva Sousa, Vanessa De Brito Poveda

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: Health education has contributed to the prevention and control of diseases in the last 20 years, especially when associated with the costs to health, which can be minimized by using this strategy. It aims to providing knowledge intended to encourage patients to make changes in their behavior and life habits. Among the various scenarios in which the use of educational materials takes place emphasis on the surgical patient who can have their physiological and psychological needs compromised because of the surgery.

Objective: Analyze the methodologies used in studies to assess the effectiveness …

Student Perceptions Of Human Trafficking: It's In Our Community?, Linda Carman Copel

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to determine students' perceptions of human trafficking before and after completing a human trafficking course, and to describe the lived experience of participating in a service learning project.

Methods: A mixed methods study was conducted using a researcher developed human trafficking survey and an open-ended interview question about the experience of participating in a service learning human trafficking course. The population for the study was adult female and male students with majors in the colleges of Nursing, Arts and Sciences, and the Law School. A convenience …