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Improving The Quality Of Refugee Health: A Community Speaks, Maria Theresa P. Panizales

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Recent United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) data has shown an increase in the number of refugees worldwide, based on the latest 2013 report the number reached an unprecedented 50 million, by the end of 2014 the number reached to almost 60 million. In fiscal year 2015, the United States (US) State Department reported that US hosted 69,933 refugees. The increasing number of refugees, structural divergence, and a stagnant budget for 20 years makes it difficult to address and close the gap that impact resettlement - more so the health care needs …

Effect Of Education Module On Knowledge Of Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists Regarding Surgical Site Infection, Valerie J. Diaz

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: The Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist is accountable for prophylactic antibiotic administration and maintenance of normothermia during the intraoperative period. CMS is closely monitoring guideline compliance and incidence of SSIs. Moreover CMS is using performance outcomes as a benchmark of quality and patient safety. Guideline compliance at community-based hospitals in South Florida mirrors rates of adherence to evidence-based guidelines seen nationwide (Medicare.gov, n.d.). Bridging the gap between research utilization and nursing practice involves a learning process that draws upon attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (Matthews-Maich, Ploeg, Jack, & Dobbins, 2010). In order to implement …

Trajectories Of Burden For Mexican-American Caregivers, Michael J. Belyea, Bronwynne Evans, David Coon

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Purpose: This study aimed to identify subgroups of Mexican American (MA) caregivers who experienced different trajectories of burden and the psychological and demographic factors associated with them. A cohort of caregivers and care recipients were followed for up to 15 weeks. Growth mixture models were fitted to identify trajectories of caregiver burden measured by the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI).

Methods: Participants included 116 caregivers from an NINR funded multi-site study. Caregivers ranged in age from 19 - 81 years, were 86.2% female, 58.6% were married, 62% had 12 years of education or less; …

Asymptomatic At-Risk Population: Health Fair Screening In Diverse Underserved Population, Shirley D. Evers-Manly, Magda Shaheen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Background: To promote healthy behaviors and provide health screenings to underserved population in Los Angeles (LA), students at Charles R Drew University participate in health fairs. Little is known about cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile of health fairs participants in underserved diverse communities.

Purpose: We explored the CVD risk profile of participants from the underserved communities in Los Angeles who attended a community health fair conducted by the Charles R. Drew University.

Methods: Survey was used to assess reasons of visit, demographics, insurance, smoking, self-perceived health, body mass index, fruit and vegetable consumption …

Medication Administration Safety In Medical And Surgical Units Of The Gauteng Province, Alwiena J. Blignaut, Siedine Knobloch Coetzee, Hester C. Klopper

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016;

Purpose: Andermann et al. (2013:553) and the WHO (2015:1) agreed that research built upon the aim of measuring harm was essential for raising awareness, increasing the knowledge base and setting research priorities for making health-care safer and reducing harm to patients. The results of the systematic review done by Nabhan et al. (2012:129) revealed that medication adverse events were the most prevalent preventable harm affecting patients in health-care while Speroni et al. (2013:19) identified medication administration and transcription errors as the most frequent types of near misses. Kim and Bates (2013:590) confirmed that …

Training Module Development For The Health Promotion Of Older Persons In The Philippines, Pearl Ed G. Cuevas

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: The study aimed to develop a training module for the health promotion of older persons in the Philippines. The training module is intended to guide nurses in creating meaningful, focused and structured activities for the older persons attending adult day care programs in Senior Centers.

Methods: The study used the mixed method design that combined qualitative and quantitative data. The quantitative part is an intervention research involving the demographic profiling, assessment & re-assessment of quality of life using the World Health Organization (WHO)-Quality of Life Tool (QOL) for community dwelling Filipino older …

The Influence Of Professional Self-Efficacy On Recognising And Responding To Child Abuse And Neglect Presentations, Jennifer Anne Fraser, Tara J. Flemington, Anna M. Williams

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: Paediatric Emergency Department (ED) clinicians assess, manage and refer injury and trauma cases using their expert skills and knowledge. Through an international collaboration between Sydney Nursing School at the University of Sydney and Children's Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, we developed the Safe Children Vietnam clinical training program for clinicians working in the ED to improve recognition and response to child injury resulting from child abuse and neglect (CAN). One of the aims of the program was to improve professional self-efficacy associated with CAN recognition and reporting. This paper …

An Analysis Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine (Cam) Use Among Adolescents, Dora L. Clayton-Jones, Lee Za Ong

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to provide researchers and clinicians with an analysis on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among adolescents in the United States. While the outcomes of research studies may provide information on the patterns of CAM use among adults, information on CAM use and the outcomes of such use in racial and ethnic minority adolescent populations is needed. Previous studies have reported how minority adolescents are not as likely to disclose CAM use 1, 5 to include spiritual meditation/prayer 2 and that they are more …

Horizontal Integration Of Interprofessional Competencies Into Healthcare And Non-Healthcare Undergraduate Curricula: The Power Of Partnerships, J. Dwayne Jr. Hooks, Lynn M. Varagona, Mary Beth Maguire, Monica Nandan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Evidence exists that the provision of healthcare services in U.S. hospitals could be enhanced. The Institute of Medicine's (1999) report, 'To Err is Human', identified that preventable healthcare errors resulted in 44,000 to 98,000 patient deaths per year in U.S. hospitals. The Institute of Healthcare Improvement suggest that there are millions of occurrences of harm in hospitals that cause physical and emotional suffering for patients every year. To address this issue, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement developed a program that enrolled hospitals across the country to work on 12 key strategies in an …

Exposure To Secondhand Smoke And The Development Of Childhood Caries: Nhanes 2011-2012, Deborah J. Mattheus

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

According to the World Health Organization more than half of the children world-wide are exposed to tobacco smoke, with the majority of this exposure occurring at home. Recently there is growing evidence linking secondhand smoke to the development of dental caries in the pediatric population. Children with family members who smoke are noted to have more decayed, missing or filled teeth compared to children who have no smokers in the family. Dental caries continue to plague young children with numerous adverse effects including pain, poor growth and development, decreased quality of life as …

Eating Behavior In College-Students: Tfeq R-18 And Qualitative Perceptions Of Cell-Phone Use For Recording Diet, Sara L. Dodd, Joann D. Long, Carol Boswell, Toby Rogers

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: Worldwide, an estimated 600 million adults are obese and 1.9 billion are overweight (World Health Organization, 2014). The etiology of obesity and overweight is complex, reflecting a combination of bio-behavioral, environmental, and social factors. Individual variations in cognition regarding diet may be partially explained by personal tendencies toward visual food cues and the propensity to act on food cues when food is available. While advances in neuroscience are laying the foundation for a cognitive phenotype of obesity and overweight, a small body of evidence suggests a relationship between how individuals think and …

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 …