Digital Commons Network^™

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 …

Evaluation Of Syndromic Algorithms For Managing Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Pregnant Women In Kenya, Jillian C. Pintye, Alison Drake, Jennifer Unger, Daniel Matemo, John Kinuthia, R. Scott Mcclelland, Grace John-Stewart

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: Women with Trichomonas vaginalis (TV), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) during pregnancy have increased risk for adverse obstetric outcomes. Laboratory testing for these sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is often unavailable in resource-limited settings, and pregnant women are managed using syndromic algorithms developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). These algorithms begin with a patient's report of relevant symptoms which triggers a subsequent clinical assessment of signs to inform recommended treatment that will broadly cover likely STIs. We evaluated the diagnostic validity of WHO syndromic algorithms for TV, GC and CT …

Common Perinatal Mental Disorders In Rwanda: A Challenge For Nursing Education And Practice, Providence M. Umuziga, Oluyinka Adejumo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Common perinatal mental disorders (CPMDs) in women (depression and anxiety) are recognized as a significant public health concern globally but often undiagnosed and thus untreated (WHO, 2008; Rahaman, Fisher, Bower & et al. 2013). Because of elevated risk factors, in African countries CPMDs may be more prevalent and occur in over 20% of new mothers (Sawyer, Ayers & Smith, 2010). However, Clarke, King and Prost (2013) demonstrated that CPMDs can be reduced in mothers in low and middle income countries (LMICs) through the simple provision of health promotion interventions. Our study was aimed at determining the occurrence and factors …

Bullying From The Schoolyard To The Workplace: Lessons Learned, Judith A. Vessey

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the impact of bullying on an individual's wellbeing, determining how to assess it, and identify opportunities for nurses to intervene, breaking its pernicious cycle.

Pain Management And Palliative Care: A Program Of Research, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

In this session a number of studies conducted in the field of pain management and palliative care in different countries and most recently in Lebanon will be presented. The session will depict the importance of a research trajectory and a clear program of research for knowledge development in the field and on impacting policy and health care practice. The trajectory of research started in the 1980s with a clear focus on pain assessment and pain management in children of all age groups first in the USA and at a later stage in the Netherlands and more recently in Lebanon. Palliative …

Principles Of Non-Violence: Altering Attitudes And Behaviors Of High School Students Regarding Violence And Social Justice, Carolyn D. Harris-Muchell

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to begin the process of empowering students to become the next generation of leaders for social change and healing, through using non-violence and social justice to dismantle racism and oppression. It is hypothesized that high school students from varying ethnic, religious, education levels and socioeconomic status will be transformed and demonstrate an increased sense of empowerment to affect change and help others; increased self-confidence and/or self-esteem; an increased belief in their capabilities to successfully engage in rigorous academic work; and a heightened understanding of America's diverse …

Gender-Specific Hiv Prevention Intervention For Adolescent Girls: Unanticipated Evidence For Broad Sexual Risk Reduction, Dianne Morrison-Beedy

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: Worldwide, more than 50% of individuals infected with HIV are women and girls (UNAIDS, 2014). Other sexual morbidities, such as STIs and unplanned pregnancy, negatively impact girls in many ways including delayed or incomplete education, limited workforce options and repeated behavioral patterns across the individual and her children (Chandra-Mouli, McCarraher, & Phillips, et al., 2014; Fallon, 2014). Despite the damage that sexual risk behaviors pose to teen girls, there are still few gender specific evidence-based interventions with documented long-term behavioral outcomes.

Methods: The Health Improvement Project for Teens (HIPTeens) was developed specifically …

A Synthesis Of Family-Focused Care Research In Acute Care Settings In Africa, Petra Brysiewicz

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Background: In family-focused care, health professionals are viewed as providing care from the position of an "expert" by assessing, assisting and providing recommendations for the family as a unit to follow. Much of the research work in this area has been developed in the western world and thus it is often questioned as to whether it is appropriate and transferable to a resource constrained, multi-cultural environment such as that found in many countries in Africa.

Purpose: This presentation will provide a synthesis of findings from a targeted body of research directed towards family …

The Sexual Assault Victim: What Every Nurse Practitioner Should Know, Sinegugu Duma

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

The behaviours and expressions portrayed by the victims of sexual assault when presenting in the health setting for the first time can be very confusing to the nurse practitioner. In some cases, such behaviours are often misinterpreted, documented with uninformed judgemental statements that potentially label the victim as a liar and can lead to maltreatment and secondary victimization of the victim of sexual assault as a patient. This paper describes the victims' experiences and related behaviours during the first week following trauma. It further explains neurological response by tapping into the brain and …

Motivations And Barriers For Saudi Nurses To Pursue A Doctoral Degree, Stephen J. Cavanagh, Abdualrahman Alshehry

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: A shortage of Saudi PhD prepared nursing school faculty and a limited number of advanced degree programs in Saudi Arabia are preventing the education of sufficient nurses to meet growing healthcare demands and prepare nurses for faculty roles. The purpose of this study was to identify motivation and barrier factors that may influence the decision of a nurse to seek further education at the doctorate level.

Methods: A mixed method design was used for this study based upon the Chain-of-Response Model (Cross, 1981). A questionnaire was distributed to four groups of nurses …

Intra-Organizational Communication Satisfaction And Job Satisfaction Among Nurses, Peter Vermeir, Dominique Vandijck, Els Tobback, Liesbeth Delesie, An Mariman, Rik Verhaeghe, Dirk Vogelaers

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: In an era of resource limitation, nursing effectiveness is an important goal, hampered by shortage and high turn over rate of nurses. One critical factor impacting job satisfaction and nurses' turnover is effective internal communication. Despite an increased emphasis on communication skills, communication deficiencies remain a frequent cause of reduced patient safety. The aim of the present study was to explore the possible relationships between communication satisfaction on the one hand, and job satisfaction, intention to leave and burn out on the other, among nurses in Belgian hospitals.

Methods: Nurses of three …

Compassion Practice: New Insights Into Compassion Fatigue And Compassion Satisfaction, Siedine Knobloch Coetzee

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016:

For a term that only emerged in the early 1990's, a tremendous amount of research has been done on compassion fatigue, but authors continue to state that there is a lack of conceptual clarity about compassion fatigue and at best a relatively preliminary understanding of the concept. According to some authors the lack of conceptual clarity of compassion fatigue has hindered measurement and empirical study of the term. This is the case because current instruments fail to clearly reflect the concepts of compassion and fatigue and the few validation studies yielded limited information …

Postoperative Pain Management Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Elizabeth Ely

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to describe how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) understand and communicate about pain. A secondary aim was to describe how children with ASD understand and communicate about pain by identifying meaningful vocabulary and common frames of reference for pain. Pain assessment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is challenging and unexamined. However, given that the core deficits of ASD may significantly interfere with the ability to utilize traditional pediatric pain assessment tools (e.g. FACES, 0-10 numeric rating scales), a better understanding of how …

Instruct Apns To Deliver Bad News To Patients And Families In This Millennial Generation, Cheryl Mele

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

A health care professional must acquire abilities as well as a confidence level with this arduous communication responsibility. Formal education in the communication proficiencies required for delivering bad news has established rising attention in the health professional literature. Review of the literature reveals this universal duty is difficult for health care professionals. If delivering bad news is done improperly, it can create ill will among the patient's/family and be detrimental to the grieving process. Hence, creating a patient-centered environment, which is characterized by mutual respect, understanding, empathy and collaboration is a particular competency …

Daily Management System Improving Quality And Promoting Patient Safety: An Evidence-Based Practice Initiative, Pauline Marie Johnson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

The 2015 report from the Joint Commission emphasizes the importance of expanding evidence-based initiatives to improve care quality and safety in acute care hospitals across the USA. In addition, the Institute of Medicine report also highlights the urgency for acute care hospitals to improve patient safety. This is currently being enhanced by evidence-based quality improvement initiatives which facilitate effective teamwork and collaboration among caregivers. Daily Management System (DMS), a data driven process and a subsystem of Lean/Breakthrough is one such initiative. It has been successfully implemented in most acute care facilities in New …

Spiritual Coping: A Strong Buffer Used By Women At Risk For Preterm Birth, Paulette A. Chaponniere

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: Nurses are taught to provide holistic care. This is vital when working with women at risk for preterm births. As Mexican women become more acculturated to the United States, their risk for poor birth outcomes increases. This has been called the Latino paradox as the movement from health to illness is also present in other health areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between stress (state, perceived and pregnancy-related stress), stress buffers (social support, coping and optimism), acculturation, and birth outcomes (length of gestation and birth weight) of …

Smartphone Applications To Support Tuberculosis Prevention And Treatment: Review And Evaluation, Sarah J. Iribarren, Rebecca Schnall

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: According to the World Health Organization, globally there are over 14 million active cases, 9 million newly diagnosed, and 1.5 million deaths attributable to Tuberculosis (TB) annually.(WHO, 2014) Smartphone applications (apps) have been suggested as potential tools to support TB control efforts.(Denkinger et al, 2013, Iribarren, 2014) The purpose of this review was to identify and assess the functionalities of mobile apps focused on TB prevention and treatment.

Methods: We searched 3 online mobile app stores. Apps were included if they were focused on TB and were in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. …

Nursing By Another Name: Nursing Science Impact On Special Forces Clinicians In Prolonged Evacuation Situations, Kate Rocklein Kemplin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Parallel to burgeoning nursing science throughout the mid-20th century, President John F. Kennedy decreed the creation of a new brand of soldiers, with the ethical mandate that these Special Forces (SF) (green berets) would be liberators of the foreign oppressed, not purveyors of American aggression (Bank, 1986; Prados, 2015). Similar to nursing in its infancy, Special Forces medics' advanced-level practice and education is dictated by physicians; medics struggle to deliver holistic, evidence-based care to vulnerable populations under this current medical model (Rocklein, 2014). Within current geopolitical climates, SF medics continually deploy to third-world …

Advancing Patient Centered Oncology Practice, Advocacy, And Policy, Deborah Bruner

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN, is an internationally renowned researcher, scholar, and mentor. She has been continuously and well-funded in leading multi-disciplinary teams in patient-reported outcomes (PROs), sexual health, large national clinical trials focused on understanding and improving symptoms, as well as studies seeking to improve minority accrual to clinical trials. Dr. Bruner has worked for over two decades with the U. S. National Cancer Clinical Trials Network to conduct state of the art clinical trials to inform practice. PRACTICE CHANGING RESEARCH and MENTORSHIP: Examples of her research include: (PROs): Dr. Bruner …

Do Nurses' Intrapersonal Characteristics Influence Work Performance And Caring Behaviors?, Nelouise Geyer, Siedine Knobloch Coetzee, Suria Ellis, Leana R. Uys

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Purpose: Quality and safety of patient care is non-negotiable in healthcare. international studies recognize the link between nurses' work performance and the educational background of nurses as well as physical and psychosocial working environments. These links impact on the quality and safety of patient care. In addition, physical and psychosocial working environments also influence nurses' caring behaviors executed during patient care delivery. Evidence highlights that nurse caring behaviors determine a consistent proportion of patient satisfaction with aspects such as pain management. It also is a key motivational factor influencing recruitment and retention of …