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Collaborative Education Leadership Connection: Re-Purposing Nursing And Interprofessional Roles In National Healthcare Transformation, Mustafa Morris E. Bodrick, Mutlaq B. Almutairi, Ameera Cluntun, Nouf Alrumaihi Oct 2020

Collaborative Education Leadership Connection: Re-Purposing Nursing And Interprofessional Roles In National Healthcare Transformation, Mustafa Morris E. Bodrick, Mutlaq B. Almutairi, Ameera Cluntun, Nouf Alrumaihi

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

In a dynamic bold vision for healthcare transformation to be realized by 2030, it was essential to establish a country-wide education academy to drive the re-purposing of interprofessional roles in the healthcare provision. This insightful initiative required a unique and courageous education leadership approach to steer conceptualization and implementation.


Early Sepsis Identification In The Elderly: Examining Years Of Nursing Experience And Staff Education, Aldrin U. Nieves, Pamela J. Love Oct 2020

Early Sepsis Identification In The Elderly: Examining Years Of Nursing Experience And Staff Education, Aldrin U. Nieves, Pamela J. Love

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the years of nursing experience of inpatient registered nurses" was associated with higher levels of sepsis screening accuracy for hospitalized elderly patients after an educational intervention. Accurate sepsis screening is key to early sepsis diagnosis, treatment, and positive outcomes.


Sigma Leadership Opportunities: Stepping Stones To Leadership, Gwen D. Sherwood, Kuei-Ru Chou, Monina Hernandez Oct 2020

Sigma Leadership Opportunities: Stepping Stones To Leadership, Gwen D. Sherwood, Kuei-Ru Chou, Monina Hernandez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Have you considered the opportunity to serve Sigma through elected leadership? Do you know the roles and responsibilities for the available positions? Attend this session presented by members of the Leadership Succession Committee to hear more about "stepping stones to leadership" and the process for preparing the 2021 ballot.


Shifting Evidence-Based Culture: From Project To Practice, Heather L. Craven, Andrea L. Coyle, Amanda Davis Oct 2020

Shifting Evidence-Based Culture: From Project To Practice, Heather L. Craven, Andrea L. Coyle, Amanda Davis

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Learn how the collaboration between a nursing shared governance council and hospital based evidence-based practice (EBP) center facilitated the transition of the nursing culture from project focused EBP towards practice based. Improved clinical outcomes and RN engagement as well as increased nursing clinical inquiry propelled the journey to nursing excellence.


Enhancing Perception Of Readiness Through Clinic Emergency Simulations In The Ambulatory Staff Setting's Orientation Program, Emma Aquino-Maneja, Christine Yalang Ferrer Oct 2020

Enhancing Perception Of Readiness Through Clinic Emergency Simulations In The Ambulatory Staff Setting's Orientation Program, Emma Aquino-Maneja, Christine Yalang Ferrer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

A healthcare staff should always be ready to respond to an emergency. One way to enhance the individual"s readiness to act appropriately in a clinic emergency is through simulations. Several literatures support the utilization of simulation in increasing an individual"s self-efficacy for adequately performing in case of a healthcare emergency.


Adult And Pediatric Patients Seeking Care For Neurological Disorders At A Tertiary Referral Hospital, Kenya, Jane R. Von Gaudecker, O'Brian Kyololo, Janice Buelow Oct 2020

Adult And Pediatric Patients Seeking Care For Neurological Disorders At A Tertiary Referral Hospital, Kenya, Jane R. Von Gaudecker, O'Brian Kyololo, Janice Buelow

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

To evaluate the demographic characteristics of adult and pediatric patients seeking care for neurological disorders, a three-month cross-sectional survey of consecutive inpatients and outpatients seeking neurological care at a tertiary referral hospital in Kenya was conducted. The findings will support development of future research and interventions to promote care outcomes.


Deconstruction Of Relatedness In Physical Activity Among Adolescents And Implications For Nurses, Muna Ali Alali, Lorraine B. Robbins, Jiying Ling, Tsui-Sui Kao, Alan Smith Oct 2020

Deconstruction Of Relatedness In Physical Activity Among Adolescents And Implications For Nurses, Muna Ali Alali, Lorraine B. Robbins, Jiying Ling, Tsui-Sui Kao, Alan Smith

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Relatedness in PA is significant to foster intrinsic motivation of adolescents to engage in PA. Understanding relatedness in PA is important for adolescents with goal to integrate PA into their lifestyle. Conceptual clarity of relatedness in PA is needed for identifying its significance for developing PA among adolescents.


Forces Influencing Family-Centered Care Practice For Children Hospitalised Through Road Traffic Accidents In Ghana, Lillian Akorfa Ohene Oct 2020

Forces Influencing Family-Centered Care Practice For Children Hospitalised Through Road Traffic Accidents In Ghana, Lillian Akorfa Ohene

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Family centred care is the leading innovative approach in contemporary paediatric practice. However, limited scholarship exist on the concept in the Ghanaian context. This research being a by-product of a PhD study applied inductive and deductive reasoning to identify the driving and restraining forces of family centred care in Ghana.


Injury Incidence Trends Vary By Age, Sex, And Race Among Older Americans, 2004-2017, Dongjuan Xu, Julia Drew Oct 2020

Injury Incidence Trends Vary By Age, Sex, And Race Among Older Americans, 2004-2017, Dongjuan Xu, Julia Drew

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Using best available nationally representative data, we produce annual estimates of injury incidence for older adults for 2004 to 2017: (1) all-cause fatal and nonfatal injury, (2) fatal and non-fatal falls, (3) fatal and nonfatal injuries due to non-fall causes, and (4) minor and serious nonfatal injuries.


Paving A Path To Success: Portfolio Building For Promotion And Retention, Indra Hershorin Oct 2020

Paving A Path To Success: Portfolio Building For Promotion And Retention, Indra Hershorin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The promotion and retention processes are indicators of success in the nursing profession.For junior faculty members it can generate more trepidation and anxiety than anything else in their careers. Therefore,it is crucial that opportunities and resources are provided to help faculty navigate the promotion and retention process.


Faculty Management Of Online Graduate Nursing Students' Anxiety During Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, Tara C. Hilliard, Steven W. Branham Sep 2020

Faculty Management Of Online Graduate Nursing Students' Anxiety During Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, Tara C. Hilliard, Steven W. Branham

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Graduate nursing faculty will be able to identify online graduate nursing students' experience with anxiety related to objective structured clinical examinations while assessing factors that contribute to anxiety. Faculty-directed strategies to decrease student anxiety will be analyzed and discusses.


Improving Hiv Prevention In The Urgent Care Setting: Outcomes Of A Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) Protocol, Jack J. Mayeux, Yeow Chye Ng Sep 2020

Improving Hiv Prevention In The Urgent Care Setting: Outcomes Of A Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) Protocol, Jack J. Mayeux, Yeow Chye Ng

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this presentation is to provide the audience with the outcomes from disseminating a Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) protocol for use within the urgent care settings. The presentation aims to discuss the protocol and the results of a quality improvement project.


School Nurse Perceptions Of Child Asthma Management: Collaboration Through Research Supporting Community-Accessible Care, Linda M. Gibson-Young, Ellen B. Buckner, Julee B. Waldrop, Brenda Lindahl Sep 2020

School Nurse Perceptions Of Child Asthma Management: Collaboration Through Research Supporting Community-Accessible Care, Linda M. Gibson-Young, Ellen B. Buckner, Julee B. Waldrop, Brenda Lindahl

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of school nurses on managing asthma in the school setting. This study was a collaboration among a USA state coalition members from clinical practice, academia, and advocacy organizations. Implications for advocacy at the policy level with educational activities are supported.


Through The A/R/Tographers Lens: A Descriptive Qualitative Study On How Nurse Educator Use Digital Stories, Melissa Schwartz Beck Sep 2020

Through The A/R/Tographers Lens: A Descriptive Qualitative Study On How Nurse Educator Use Digital Stories, Melissa Schwartz Beck

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Using the art of storytelling, the artist-researcher-teacher, shares the results of her descriptive qualitative study on how nurse educators use digital stories in undergraduate nursing. Simultaneously, she uses a/rt/ography, an arts-based research methodology, to uncover the epistemology of aesthetics on how theater theory and praxis inform curriculum studies.


Determinants Of Breast Cancer Screening In Arab American Women: A Comparative, Cross-Sectional Study, Manal Alatrash Sep 2020

Determinants Of Breast Cancer Screening In Arab American Women: A Comparative, Cross-Sectional Study, Manal Alatrash

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study highlights the significance of knowledge, culture and religion in preventive health and breast cancer screening in Arab American women, an ethnic minority with very low screening rates. Healthcare professionals need to consider such determinants of health to be able to reach out to this population.


Achieving Sdg 8 For Countries With Entrenched Nurse Migration, Monina Hernandez Sep 2020

Achieving Sdg 8 For Countries With Entrenched Nurse Migration, Monina Hernandez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 - Decent work and economic growth, talks about promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. How this could be achieved within the context of entrenched nursing migration in the Philippines remains to be a challenge.


Towards Equity: Aboriginal Birthing Women Voice Uncomfortable Truths, Judith P. Wilson Sep 2020

Towards Equity: Aboriginal Birthing Women Voice Uncomfortable Truths, Judith P. Wilson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Australian Aboriginal birthing women share their stories of birth in today"s world. The uncomfortable truth is that cultural and health inequity prevail, resulting in poorer outcomes for pregnant women and newborn babies. Findings of this qualitative study can change practice.


Diabetic Health-Related Quality Of Life From The Indian Patient's Perspective, Jansirani Natarajan Sep 2020

Diabetic Health-Related Quality Of Life From The Indian Patient's Perspective, Jansirani Natarajan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation is about the impact of diabetes on south-Indian diabetic patients and the strategies to improve their health-related quality of life are also recommended.


Baccalaureate Nurses' Experiences And Understanding Of Adults Living With Sickle Cell Disease, Shelia Reid Sep 2020

Baccalaureate Nurses' Experiences And Understanding Of Adults Living With Sickle Cell Disease, Shelia Reid

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This abstract describes a phenomenological, hermeneutical, dissertation study, which offered an in-depth understanding of baccalaureate nurses" experiences and understanding of working with adults living with sickle cell disease. Baccalaureate nurses" experiences and understanding offered new insights to foster curricula change in nursing education, practice settings, and public policy.


Caregiver Experiences' Relating To The Educational Gap Regarding Feeding Tube Placement, Deltra C. Muoki Sep 2020

Caregiver Experiences' Relating To The Educational Gap Regarding Feeding Tube Placement, Deltra C. Muoki

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Despite the increase in feeding tube placement as people live longer with chronic illnesses, the research is scarce regarding how to care for the caregiver of individuals with chronic illnesses especially with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding tubes (PEG). Caregivers should receive psychosocial support and education about the PEG feeding tube.


Saliva-Extracted Dna Is A Noninvasive Sampling Technique For Examining Oprm1 Gene Methylation In Preterm Infants, Linda A. Hatfield, Rebecca K. Hoffman Sep 2020

Saliva-Extracted Dna Is A Noninvasive Sampling Technique For Examining Oprm1 Gene Methylation In Preterm Infants, Linda A. Hatfield, Rebecca K. Hoffman

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Mitigating pain in early life may prevent epigenetic changes that increase an individual"s susceptibility for developing chronic pain. Adverse effects and the quality of the DNA collected challenge the suitability of saliva-extracted DNA. Saliva-extracted DNA is a feasible, noninvasive DNA sampling technique for examining OPRM1 gene methylation in preterm infants.


Value-Based Care: Readmission Reduction, Polypharmacy Reduction, And Cost Containment, Ron Billano Ordona Sep 2020

Value-Based Care: Readmission Reduction, Polypharmacy Reduction, And Cost Containment, Ron Billano Ordona

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Value-Based Care is the future of healthcare in the US. Nurse Practitioners in Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) help address prevention of unplanned 30-day readmission, reduction in polypharmacy and overall cost-containment for the US Medicare system. The resurgence of house calls is contributing to quality of care and patient satisfaction.


Catalyzing Frontline Nurse Research With Intentional Connections, Shakira Lita Ismay Henderson Sep 2020

Catalyzing Frontline Nurse Research With Intentional Connections, Shakira Lita Ismay Henderson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

As the largest group of healthcare providers to care for and spend time with patients, nurses are well-positioned to foster a spirit of inquiry, develop and test new knowledge within the clinical practice environment, and use evidence to inform practice and improve outcomes. Innovation is key to accomplishing this goal.


Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Nursing Education Research And Pedagogical Research Participation, Sherry A. Burrell, Jennifer Gunberg Ross Sep 2020

Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Nursing Education Research And Pedagogical Research Participation, Sherry A. Burrell, Jennifer Gunberg Ross

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will discuss the results from a mixed methods study exploring nursing students" attitudes toward nursing education research and participation in pedagogical research. Study findings provide valuable insight into nursing students" attitudes toward research that may be used to design study protocols to enhance student participation in pedagogical research.


Bridging The Academic-Practice Gap: A Student Nurse Capstone Partnership, Larissa Africa, Jean S. Shinners Sep 2020

Bridging The Academic-Practice Gap: A Student Nurse Capstone Partnership, Larissa Africa, Jean S. Shinners

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation provides an overview of a SN Capstone program. It describes the journey to collaborative practice capacity between academia and clinical practice and discusses the outcomes including challenges and successes of the program.


Deliberate Self-Harm Among Adolescents In Thailand: Prevalence And Its Influencing Factors, Arunothai Singtakaew, Nujjaree Chaimongkol, Pornpat Hengudomsub Sep 2020

Deliberate Self-Harm Among Adolescents In Thailand: Prevalence And Its Influencing Factors, Arunothai Singtakaew, Nujjaree Chaimongkol, Pornpat Hengudomsub

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is an intentional behavior of direct destruction or cutting of body tissues which causes non-fatal physical trauma to the extent that bleeding occurs or causes a bruise to appear and without conscious suicidal intent. DSH in adolescents is frequently encountered in a mental health problem.


The Experience Of Intensive Care Nurses Caring For Intubated Patients With Delirium, Cherry Efe Iyiola, Shelley Schmollgruber, Judith C. Bruce Sep 2020

The Experience Of Intensive Care Nurses Caring For Intubated Patients With Delirium, Cherry Efe Iyiola, Shelley Schmollgruber, Judith C. Bruce

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Globally, delirium affects about 80% of critically-ill patients. Little is known about how nurses care for patients with delirium in Africa. Hence this study obtained a better understanding of nurses" experiences of caring for intubated patients with delirium and created awareness of the factors that help or impede their care.


Cultural Competence And Knowledge Of South Asian Culture Of Rns In An Urban Hospital: Pilot, Nisha Jobin Mathews Sep 2020

Cultural Competence And Knowledge Of South Asian Culture Of Rns In An Urban Hospital: Pilot, Nisha Jobin Mathews

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of pilot study was to examine the cultural competence and knowledge of South Asian culture of RNs working in an urban hospital setting. The outcomes of this study warrant further exploration of cultural competence and knowledge of South Asian culture of RNs working in an urban hospital setting.


Innovative Teaching Pedagogies: Intersections Of Art And Health Education, Siobhan Aaron, Joachim G. Voss Sep 2020

Innovative Teaching Pedagogies: Intersections Of Art And Health Education, Siobhan Aaron, Joachim G. Voss

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Todays nursing students encounter patients with high acuity and high complexity in all clinical situations. In order to meet not only the technical requirements of a nurse, students need creative pedagogies to explore and express their emotions to meet the complex demands of their future jobs.


Harnessing Education With Practice Change For Successful Implementation And Compliance, Lovely Simon Sep 2020

Harnessing Education With Practice Change For Successful Implementation And Compliance, Lovely Simon

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

It is a performance improvement project done utilizing the FOCUS PDCA cycle to improve the compliance with the process of doing the venous thromboembolism screening and the prophylaxis in a tertiary care hospital for all inpatients at the age of fourteen and above.