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Pediatric Nursing Practice Environment, Job Outcomes And Safety Climate: Structural Equation Modeling Approach, Edineis De Brito Guirardello, Daniela Fernanda Dos Santos Alves

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: The nursing practice environment is critical to the wellbeing of professionals and patient safety, as highlighted by national and international studies. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding this issue in pediatric units. The aim of this study was to assess correlations between the characteristics of nursing practice environment, emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, intention to leave the job, and safety climate.

Methods: A cross-sectional study in fifteen inpatient units and three intensive care units of two pediatric hospitals in Brazil. The study was conducted from December …

Are Nurses Who Are Digital Immigrants Resistant To Technology Use For Delivery Of Care?, Melissia Tomblin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and Friday, July 22, 2016:

Purpose: Medicare and Medicaid were the driving force behind implementing information technology in healthcare in the 1960s. Healthcare entities focused on advancing the implementation of technology in the 1970s while personal computers and networking became a realization in the 1980s. Digital Immigrants resistance to technology is a growing concern, increasingly apparent since the 1990s. A digital immigrant is a person born before overall endorsement of digital technology. A wide range of information technology systems were implemented with relatively no standardization in the education or training of this generation …

Descriptive Guidelines On How To Integrate Theory And Clinical Practice Using Innovative Mobile Learning Strategies, Juliana Willemse

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and Friday, July 22, 2016: Background: In today's health care environment, with the advancement in computers and information technology made it imperative for nurses to adapt to technological advancements to enable them to address the complexity in health care issues thus ensuring optimal delivery of care. Mobile devices have the capacity to store large quantities of information and their functioning systems allow applications that support sophisticated user interactions, their graphics capabilities offer representative flexibility and their networked status means that they afford easy communication among their users. A methodological review recognised that mobile …

Educating Rural Teenagers On Self Breast Examination In Carries, Haiti, Shanique Ivery, Michelle Muyibi

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016 and Sunday, July 24, 2016: Breast cancer is a disease that is very detrimental to many people's lives. This disease crosses social, economic, and racial lines. Black women such as Haitians are the most prevalent group to encounter a higher mortality breast cancer rate over other races. This issue may arise primarily because Haitians are currently facing a financial burden and are unable to receive high-quality cost-effective care. Consequently, these women go undiagnosed and undetected. According to World Health Organization (WHO) (2014), breast cancer ranked 13.9% of cancer deaths amongst the female population …

Determinants Of Hiv And Sti Testing Among Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence, Jessica R. Williams, Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Cherelle Carrington, Dalia Lorenzo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: HIV testing and counseling among high risk populations has been identified as a key strategy to reducing HIV related health disparities (CDC, 2007). There is a growing body of research documenting the disproportionate risk of acquiring HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that individuals experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) face (Campbell et al., 2008; Geilen et al., 2007; Li et al., 2014; Phillips et al., 2014). Disparities experienced by victims of IPV may be exacerbated by racial and ethnic disparities in the occurrence of HIV and other STIs and access to …

Factors Related To Postpartum Depression Among First Time Mothers And Fathers, Punpilai Sriarporn, Jiraporn Nunchai, Prueksalada Khiaokham, Nuchanart Suntornlimsiri, Kanokporn Juntratit

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Introduction: Being a first time mother or father is an important transition in life that affects mental health and may lead to postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is a deviation of emotional, thinking and perception that cause changes of physical and psychological of mother or father. It represented by fatigue, headache, blues, changes in appetite and use of drugs or alcohol. Postpartum depression is increasing worldwide, both in Europe and Asia. Postpartum depression affected to father, mother and child such as decrease functional of father, difficulties in adaptation to mother's and father's role, and …

Whole Genome Sequencing And Nursing Science Among Minority Populations, Jacquelyn Taylor

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The development of increasingly powerful technology such as genome sequencing to understand and decode human genome sequence is now having a dramatic and expanding impact on the ability to deliver effective and precisely targeted healthcare. Nurses are uniquely poised to carry out a critical role in this healthcare revolution. It is crucial that nurses are able to provide patients with a clear and understandable rationale for the therapeutic interventions dictated by genomic analysis and to counsel wisely as questions arise for patients and families in the course of treatment. The purpose of this presentation is to explicate how nurse …

My Hiv Diagnosis Was A Blessing: It Saved My Life, Richard Sowell, Barbara J. Blake, Gloria Ann Jones Taylor

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: HIV remains at epidemic levels in the rural southern United States. Blacks are the ethnic group most affected by HIV with the rate of new HIV infections being 8 times that of Whites based on population size. The largest numbers of new HIV cases have been reported in the southern U.S. where Blacks represent a disproportional number of cases. Among Black adults and adolescents, men accounted for 70% of the estimated 20,900 new HIV infections that occurred in 2010. Among these men, sex with other men was the leading cause of infection …

Halo: Health And Liver Optimization, Partners In Care, Renee Pozza, Anna Marie Hefner, Tarek I. Hassanein

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of the presentation is to disseminate knowledge and effectiveness of a unique model of patient care in chronic disease management. The Health and Liver Optimization (HALO) model of care provides an individual collaborative program with identified target goals for every patient who walks through the clinic doors, regardless of their condition. One of the greatest challenges facing the U.S. health care system is improving the care for patients with chronic illnesses. Forty eight percent of all Americans and eighty-seven percent of senior citizens insured through Medicare have at least one …

Intentional Consciousness: Empowering Nurses Through Evidence-Based Practice, Maria Sochima N. Mgbokwere

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Background: Nurses are being called upon to fill the ever-increasing demands and expanding roles in several different facets in the healthcare system. Without the knowledge of evidence-based practice (EBP), this task is difficult to achieve. Nursing faculty must incorporate and focus their teaching on EBP to enhance nursing students' knowledge, understanding, and embracing the concept of EBP. Although attitude regarding EBP is high among nursing faculty, their knowledge is lacking (Stichler et al 2011). To achieve a tangible knowledge of EBP for greater effectiveness and continuity, the involvement of all nurse educators who …

The Preferable Future For Nursing Curriculum, Denise Korniewicz

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: Nursing education continues to be reinventing the same traditional nursing curriculum of the past. Although today we call it "concept based nursing curriculum", the content continues to be the same. The focus of this presentation is to help transition nurse educators into redefining nursing curricula to meet the competencies of the future nurse workforce. What we have done in the past will not meet the workforce needs of the future since the skills of the future are not skills that are being taught in today's nursing programs. Methods: A comprehensive review of …

Intractable Peripheral Edema In Hospice: A Clinical Aromatherapy Case Study And Review Of The Literature, Dawn L. Langley-Brady

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: Many patients experience peripheral edema nearing end-of-life. Although peripheral edema is directly related to numerous hospice admitting diagnoses and co-morbid conditions, it may also be related to medication administered for palliation. Unfortunately, current pharmacological approaches to reduce acute, chronic, and neuropathic pain (i.e.: morphine and gabapentin) also have adverse effects which include peripheral edema. At times, peripheral edema is intractable to both pharmacological (i.e.: bumetanide, furosemide, and metolazone) and non-pharmacological (elevation, fluid and sodium restrictions) approaches. Aromatherapy is often understood as aroma from essential oils eliciting psychological or physiological responses via the …

Beliefs And Value Systems At A Collision Course: A Faculty Expedition Along A Client Pathway, Dora Maria Carbonu, Elissa Sakariassen, J. Rene Ritter, Anita Robertson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: Second-Year Students in the Nursing and Health Sciences Program at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC) are oriented to legal and ethical issues that they integrate into their own cultural framework as they provide healthcare services to their clients.

Methods: During a presentation on Traditional Inuit Law in February 2014, students and Faculty were challenged by shared experiences encountered by members of Inuit society as they sought health services within and outside their communities. Concepts evolving from these experiences included cultural issues impacting on client compliance, healthcare disparities, worldviews, and health education (Tilburt, 2010). …

Perceptions Of Students And Preceptors Regarding Primary Health Care Clinical Placements In Lesotho, Semakaleng Hyacinth Phafoli, Stacie C. Stender, E. Alice Christensen Majid

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Background: As a practice discipline, nursing education has a mandate to collaborate with the clinical setting to prepare nursing students to function and practice independently, competently and confidently in different healthcare settings, including Primary Health Care (PHC). In Lesotho in particular, PHC is the main access point for people to access health care services, and nurses and midwives provide the majority of care at this level. However, nursing and midwifery students are not receiving adequate exposure to PHC settings during their pre-service education. Since 2010, Jhpiego Lesotho has been working with the nurses' …

Feminine Hygiene Product Use And The Risk Of Ovarian Cancer, Sandra Kay Cesario

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this presentation to describe the findings of a study designed to explore the association between the use of feminine hygiene products (genital talc, tampons, and douching) and the risk for developing ovarian cancer.

Assessment Of The Knowledge, Utilisation And Opinions Of Healthcare Workers Regarding Hiv Post Prophylaxis, Melita Rasweswe, Mmapheko Doriccah Peu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose was to assess the knowledge, utilisation and opinions of healthcare workers regarding HIV post-exposure prophylaxis at a selected hospital in Gauteng, one of the provinces in South Africa. Healthcare workers work in an environment where there is a constant risk of occupational exposure to HIV infection and it is extremely important for nurses to be knowledgeable about the risk of HIV infection at work. Various strategies, such as Universal precautions (UPs) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) are in place to protect them from contracting blood-borne infections while performing their day-to-day activities …

Don't Take Away My Spark : A Humane Approach In Nursing Education, Mary Hermann, Barbara Jones, Anastasia Ness

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: Given the intense demands of the 21st century, how can nursing educators construct a nursing curriculum that seeks to prepare competent, humanistic and globally educated professional nurses? The typical nursing student enters the nursing program overflowing with aspirations to become a nurse because of an enormous desire to care for others. However, is nursing education sustaining the student nurse's initial spark of inspiration throughout the curriculum? The negative impact of a joyless nurse who has lost the spark to care or who has not assimilated the ability to meet the emotional needs …

Identifying Key Components Of Professional Practice Models For Nursing: A Synthesis Of The Literature, Diane Esma Twigg, Susanne Megan Davis, Linda L. Coventry, Susan Slatyer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: This presentation will synthesize the key components of professional practice models for nursing published in the literature. A professional practice model provides a foundation for safe, high quality care and depicts the values that underpin nursing practice. While the Magnet Recognition Program resulted in professional practice models being developed and implemented across much of the United States, more recently the value of a professional practice model to provide the best environment for quality care has resulted in a much wider attention and application. This paper will discuss the implications for nurse leaders …

Mhealth Technology And Clinical Integration Of Patient-Generated Health Data (Pghd) For Improving Patient Engagement, Madan Dharmar, Heather M. Young, Sarina Fazio, Sheridan Miyamoto

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: mHealth technologies are becoming an integral part of everyday life; this is particularly true among people suffering from chronic health conditions. Sixty two percent of Americans with 2 or more chronic conditions track a health indicator; of those, 45% have Diabetes Mellitus. While using sensors and technology has the potential to empower patients to better understand their disease and help them in self-management, technologic limitations exist due to the lack of integration of patient generated health data (PGHD) into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) thereby limiting its availability to their healthcare team. …

Navigating A Program Of Research Through The Ever-Changing Labyrinth Of Nutritional Recommendations, Terry A. Lennie

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Nutrition can play an important role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Consequently, interventions that help individuals manage their diet as part of a comprehensive heart-healthy life-style are needed to improve cardiovascular health. The importance of tailoring interventions to make them culturally and socio-economically relevant is well-recognized, challenge. There are two external factors, however, that make developing nutrition-related interventions particularly challenging: the frequent changes in nutritional recommendations and the food industry's response to these recommendations. For example, all dietary fats were initially thought to be the major culprits in cardiovascular disease. …

The Impact Of Nursing Support Workers On Nursing Work Activities, Michael A. Roche

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: To determine the impact of nursing support workers on the type of patient care activities completed on nursing units (wards) with and without nursing support workers.

Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of work sampling data. Data were collected from ten sampled wards in public general acute care hospitals in Perth, Western Australia between March and October 2013: 5 wards with AINs and 5 without. Nurses were observed using a validated data collection tool (Pelletier & Duffield, 2003; Urden & Roode, 1997), in randomly assigned time slots between the hours of 0700 and 1900, over …

The Impact Of Nursing Practice Environment On Job Dissatisfaction, Burnout, And Intention To Leave, Apiradee Nantsupawat

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Background: The shortage of nurses is a significant problem for healthcare systems. Nursing shortages have led to concerns following warnings and evidence of shortcomings in patient safety, quality of care, and welfare of nurses. Improving nursing practice environments has been suggested to reduce nurse turnover and improve nurse retention. To enhance strategies for solving the issues related to nursing shortages it is essential to better understand the effects of the nursing practice environment and how they relate to nurses' job satisfaction, intent to quit their current job, and nurses' burnout that contributes to …

Helping Mothers Survive And Helping Babies Breathe: Nurse-Midwives Bringing High Impact Interventions To Low-Resource Settings, Sara A. Chace, Jennifer L. Breads, Cherrie Lynn Evans

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Building on the success of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) is an innovative training initiative to equip nurses, midwives, and other frontline workers with the knowledge and skills required to prevent mothers dying from preventable causes on the day of birth. Both HMS and HBB are simulation-based training packages for providers working in countries with a high burden of Maternal and newborn mortality. These packages complement and extend the reach of basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) training by acting as the 'booster shot' to the initial 'immunization' of …

Initiating An Undergraduate Public Health Nursing Leadership Program For Underrepresented Students, Caroline Varner Coburn, Angela Frederick Amar

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: The "Building Nursing's Diverse Leadership at Emory" (BUNDLE) program at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (NHWSN) in Atlanta, Georgia was initiated to prepare nursing students from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to enter the public health nursing workforce as leaders who provide care to underserved populations and who can make a difference in local communities. A major focus of the BUNDLE program is to reduce the social and structural forces that act as barriers to the enrollment and retention of students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds. The objectives of the BUNDLE …

Hiv Task Shifting From Physicians To Nurses In Nigeria: Correlates Of Self-Efficacy And Job Satisfaction, Emilia Ngozi Iwu, William L. Holzemer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: With 25% of the global disease burden and 3% of the world's health workforce, the African region has the worst health worker shortage. According to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV & AIDS (UNAIDS), Sub-Sahara Africa accounted for 24.7 out of 35 Million people living with HIV globally and 70% of all new HIV infections in 2013. Task shifting (or sharing), a human resource strategy to maximize contributions of available health workers has improved access to HIV treatment in sub-Sahara Africa. However, it also led to nurses acquiring roles previously performed …

Weight Related Perceptions And Lifestyle Behaviors Of Black Nurses In The United States, Doris Ezomo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine weight-related perceptions and lifestyle behaviors of Black nurses living in the United States.

Methods: Participants (N=41) were recruited from the graduate and undergraduate nursing program at Kean University. An Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved Consent was obtained from the participants to complete a 13-item questionnaire that assessed their weight perceptions and life style behaviors. Eligibility for this study entailed students who identified as nurses and as Black, communicated in English and were enrolled in the masters or baccalaureate degree program. Data was analyzed …

Re-Designing The Leadership Development Of Academic Healthcare Leaders In A Higher Education Context, Karien Jooste, Jose Frantz, Firdouza Waggie

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: Universities are in a highly competitive environment needing strong academic leadership. Changes in technology, student demographics, funding or government regulations will affect higher education instiutions, and the need for certain leadership skills and traits will endure (Kelly,2015). However, academic leaders are appointed in positions from previous acting as only academics that could pose challenges. The need for a more proactive approach is needed to identifying leadership competencies and developing leadership throughout universities. It is also known that new models of leadership are needed for the higher education sector. Heads as senior academics …

Validity And Reliability Of Health Literacy Scale For Turkish Diabetic Patients, Hatice Agrali, Imatullah Akyar

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:

Purpose: The aim of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of Health Literacy Scale which measures health literacy in three levels (functional, communicative, critical) for Turkish Diabetic Patients.

Methods: This study was conducted as a methodological study. Health Literacy scale was developed by Ishikawa et al. (2008) to provide a better understanding of diabetic patients perspective in disease management focusing health-promotion activities. Following approval from Ishikawa, ethical committee and institutional approvals were obtained. Turkish adaptation of scale started with language adaptation process. Scale translated from English to Turkish by three experts …

A Program Of Research: Improving Outcomes For Infants Born Preterm, Rita H. Pickler

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016:

This presentation will focus on the development and maintenance of a program of research focused on the care of the preterm infants. The program of research has been on-going for over 30 years and has included multiple National Institute of Health funded studies as well as numerous foundation and organizationally funded projects. The program of research began with a focus on how nurses interacted with and managed care for preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. With input from practicing nurses and awareness of the lack of evidence to support care practices, …

Facilitators And Barriers To Reproductive Health Information Among Women And Men Affected By Hiv, Lorraine Byrnes

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: To examine and explore factors which facilitate accessing reproductive health information and treatment (RHI/T) for women and men living with HIV and the barriers that exist when attempting to access reproductive health information and treatment.

Methods: This qualitative grounded theory study utilized face to face interviews with 8 men and 6 women who identified as wanting to have biological children, had been diagnosed with HIV, and/or had a partner living with HIV. The study took place in the U.S. over 8 months in 2014-2015. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim by …