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Transportation And Geographical Challenges, Martin E. Blair, C. Feeley, University Of Montana Rural Institute

Independent Living and Community Participation

The Policy Summit: Innovations in Adult Programming, sponsored by the Autism Services, Education, Resources, and Training Collaborative (ASERT) brought together experts from across the United States who specialize in programs and policy development and implementation for adults with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, other developmental disabilities, and mental health diagnoses. The purpose of this presentation was to discuss ways to address transportation and geographical challenges faced by policy and decision-makers to generate new ideas in Pennsylvania.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 26, March 21, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Parent Satisfaction With School Health Delivery Models, Sherri R. Becker

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The purpose of this project is to compare parent perceptions of quality of health care delivery in two different school health staffing models.

Assessing And Addressing The Needs Of Stroke Survivors And Family Caregivers Across The Care Continuum, Barbara Lutz

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Introduction: Patients who receive inpatient rehabilitation care have often experienced a sudden, life-changing disabling illness or injury that has long-term implications for the patient and family unit. An illness event (e.g. stroke) may elicit a crisis response, and feelings of grief and loss for both patients and family members. With improved survival rates and shorter inpatient stays for patients experiencing these events, family members are now assuming caregiving tasks that previously were only performed by formal caregivers, e.g. nurses and nursing assistants. Family members need assistance and support to help them deal with …

How To Excel At Evaluating A New Graduate Nurse Residency Evidence-Based Practice Program, Donnya E. Mogensen

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is an integral part of nursing and needs to be included in any program that transitions new nurses into practice. New Graduate Nurse Residency Programs (NGNRP) are designed to build knowledge, skills and attitudes of new nurses during this transition. The NGNRP in this example is a year-long program featuring three distinct components; classroom learning, clinical precepted experience and an EBP project. The EBP component is designed to ignite the spirit of inquiry and advance best practices. The EBP component includes classroom EBP curriculum, a hands-on EBP project and …

The Effectiveness Of Culturally-Focused Interventions In Increasing Satisfaction Of Hospitalized Adult Asian Patients, Xing Lian Chen, Karolina Ubogaya, Millicent Alfred, Diana Wint, Priscilla Worral

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Culturally competent care has gained global attention as a key element to improving quality and eliminatingracialand ethnic disparities in health care. This has been at the forefront of global health considerations because of the increase in population diversity, which presents a challenge that needs to be addressed from a multicultural perspective. The Asian population in the United States is increasing at a significant rate, from 4.8% in 2010 to 9.2% in 2050. It is important to understand the needs of the Asian inpatient, in order to implement culturally-focused …

In Their Shoes: A Poverty Simulation, Jacqueline Paik, Dolores J. Wright

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Background: Poverty is the most influential social determinant of health. Because nurses care for people from all socioeconomic groups, they will encounter people who live in poverty who often feel that health care providers are frequently insensitive to their needs and concerns. Therefore it is incumbent upon nursing faculty to address poverty-related-to-health issues with their students. Purpose: The goal of this educational experience was to use and evaluate a poverty simulation that explores undergraduate public health nursing (PHN) students' attitudes about those living in poverty. Description: A four hour poverty simulation was included …

A Poverty Simulation For Heath Care Professions Students, Lori I. Kidd, Sheri Hartman

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015:

Purpose: Research was conducted to evaluate whether a poverty simulation presented for health care professions students effected a change in attitudes toward those living in poverty.

Problem: Poverty is on the rise in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics, 2012). Poverty is a significant social determinant of health, impacting mental illness, obesity, cardiovascular health and other acute and chronic illnesses. It is essential that nursing students and other health care professionals develop an empathic understanding for the complexity of poverty and related health outcomes, yet few undergraduate students may have real …

Evaluation Of Memory Book Interventions With Orphaned Children In India, Kenya And South Africa, Barbara J. Braband, Kaye Wilson-Anderson, Tamara Lynn Faris

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015:

Purpose: The purpose of this collaborative multi-site research study was to explore and compare the lived experiences of orphaned children in India, Kenya and South Africa who have utilized the Memory Book intervention.

Background: Circumstances leading to an orphaned state were related to HIV/AIDS or abandonment due to poverty, disease or war. Traditional models for surrogate parenting by extended families have been strained by the frequent loss of one or both parents of affected children resulting in the need for alternative care models such as orphanages. Orphaned children have sustained many threats to …

Breaking Down Silos: Impact Of An Interprofessional Curriculum To Teach Health Professions Students Oncology Palliative Care, Carla P. Hermann

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015:

Nursing students must be prepared for collaborative interdisciplinary practice if they are to succeed in today's healthcare environment. Preparing baccalaureate nursing students to be effective members of interprofessional teams is a challenge facing undergraduate nursing programs. The need to meet this challenge is evident. Interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving health outcomes is an essential component of baccalaureate education (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008). Team work and collaboration is a core pre-licensure competency according to the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative (Cronenwett, et al, 2007). The key to …

Promoting Health Promotion Practices In The Low Income Population, Maria Alice Masciarelli

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015:

The increasing proportion of the low income, uninsured population has become the focus of the United States health care reform. The importance of health promotion is emphasized in the literature and the Affordable Care Act. The literature has focused on perceived health status, perceived health competence and health-promoting behaviors of some populations but revealed that little is known about the health promotion behaviors of the low income population. In 2013, an exploratory, descriptive study using a structured interview method was used to explore the perceived health status, perceived health competence and health-promoting behaviors …

A Study Examining Senior Nursing Students' Expectations Of Work And The Workforce, Deborah Saber

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015:

Background: Nursing is considered fast-paced, labor intensive work with cyclical shortages. To ensure that patients receive a consistently high level of care, hospitals have increasingly relied on schools of nursing to rapidly prepare newly licensed registered nurses (NLRNs) to function with high competence. Educational pathways resulting in a BSN degree include traditional 4-year and shorter accelerated nursing programs. The accelerated program provides an expedited alternative (i.e., 11-18 months) to a BSN degree for students who have achieved a previous bachelor's degree. Kramer (1974) described the stressful transition from nursing education to practice as …

Meeting Family Needs At The Bedside And Across The Continuum: Theory, Research, Response, Anita J. Catlin

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

The movement to incorporate Family Centered Care (FCC) models in the care of hospitalized patients has swept through North America. Previously limited access to loved ones who are hospitalized has changed over the years to a culture within institutions that now recognizes the importance of family involvement in patient care. This shift to a FCC approach is especially critical in a changing healthcare environment where patients are being discharged home with more complex needs and increased functional limitations, and family members are expected to assume the caregiving roles and responsibilities once performed by …

Use Of Art, Interview And Survey To Assess Family Needs At The Bedside Of Hospitalized Oncology Patients In Acute Care And At The Bedside Of Hospitalized Stroke Patients In A Rehabilitation Hospital, Anita J. Catlin

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Background: Two studies were completed within a hospital system to determine the needs of family members who maintain vigil at the bedside of their loved ones. A movement worldwide, and specifically new to our hospital system, is the implementation of Patient and Family Centered Care. We conducted these two studies to be sure that we knew what needs were of our patients' families. Using an acute care oncology unit and a stroke rehabilitation unit, we conducted a triangulated study used the qualitative methods of interviews and art therapy, and a quantitative method, the …

Save Stan Turns Five: A Large-Scale Interprofessional Practice And Academe Innovation, Colette R. Foisy-Doll, Sharla King, Dawn Ansell, Margot Zemrau

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Description of the Event: The Interdisciplinary Health Education Partnership (IHEP) is an inter-institutional, interprofessional team comprised of healthcare simulation specialists and interprofessional education experts from both clinical practice and academic settings in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Over the past seven years, IHEP members have successfully developed, implemented, and evaluated multi-modal interprofessional simulations (SIM-IPE) for pre-licensure learners at HELP! Save Stan Saturday (SSS). This annual IPE event offers learners a full day of interprofessional team-based scenarios focused on increasing interprofessional competence. IHEP, through the implementation of SSS, has developed capacity for SIM-IPE in faculty and …

Health Team Members' Perceptions Of Strategies For Patient-Centred Care In Acute Care Settings, Linda M. Ferguson

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Patient-centred care is an ideal of interprofessional collaborative care, and an expectation of patients and their families. Patients and their family members are often referred to as members of the interprofessional team for their care. However, according to patient surveys, this ideal of Interprofessional collaborative care and patient-centred care is often not achieved in the acute care setting. In this session, we report on a qualitative study examining the perceptions of 15 healthcare professionals about patient-centred care on an acute care medical unit in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Professions in this study …

Unfolding Case Study Exemplifying Care Coordination With Advance Practice Nursing, Tamatha Arms

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

The development, progression and evolution of the nursing process which begins with a foundation for patient problem management also parallels with dynamic thinking processes. The third generation of nursing process or the Outcome-Present State - Test (OPT) emphasized clinical reasoning that was reflective, creative and outcome specific given a client's story. However, healthcare practice has yet shifted again to a focus on care coordination, systems thinking, value network and analysis to determine priority patient healthcare issues that interface with interdependent health care provider roles and relationships. The authors propose a Care Coordination Clinical …

Meeting Family Needs At The Bedside And Across The Continuum: Theory, Research, Response, Anita J. Catlin

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

The movement to incorporate Family Centered Care (FCC) models in the care of hospitalized patients has swept through North America. Previously limited access to loved ones who are hospitalized has changed over the years to a culture within institutions that now recognizes the importance of family involvement in patient care. This shift to a FCC approach is especially critical in a changing healthcare environment where patients are being discharged home with more complex needs and increased functional limitations, and family members are expected to assume the caregiving roles and responsibilities once performed by …

Project Empower: An Interdisciplinary Project, Dawn Garrett-Wright, Saundra Starks, Cheryl Wolf

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

The purpose of this presentation is to describe an interprofessional project that brought together Social Work, Nursing and Counseling. Project EMPOWER was a grant funded project began by Social Work faculty from WKU. The acronym E.M.P.O.W.E.R. represents the overall goals for the project of Enhancing skills and abilities while providing Motivation for goal attainment and Prosperity, Overcoming challenges with the use of team Work through increased positive Energy to reach higher and gain Respect for self and others. Project EMPOWER offered free psychosocial assessments, referrals, counseling services and resources for children, adolescents, adults …

Transforming Care For Individuals With Developmental Disabilities: Innovations In Education, Catherine M. Mann, Lisa Sherry Ball

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

Nursing faculty recognize individuals with developmental disabilities as an underserved community with unmet needs. Disparities in health care may be attributed to lack of health provider knowledge and comfort in caring for the population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014; Ward, Nichols, & Freedman, 2010). In response to the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council's (NYS DDPC) call for proposals related to piloting, evaluating, and infusing innovative programs to educate and empower health care professionals to act as leaders in providing quality health care to people …

Capturing Faculty Practice Data: Examining The Interdisciplinary Student Opportunities In A Multi-Site Faculty Practice Setting, Raechel Ferry-Rooney, Alice Geis, Angela M. Moss

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

Since the 1980s, the Rush University College of Nursing Office of Faculty Practice has maintained multiple Chicagoland community partnerships for the provision of nurse-managed, faculty-led access to healthcare. Community partners and faculty collaborate to develop programs and services based on community and population needs. Currently, Rush University College of Nursing Faculty Practice encompasses over 20 direct care clinical sites and employs 30 Registered Nurses and APRNS. Over 16,000 hours of direct patient care are provided annually to populations traditionally classified as medically underserved, such as minority, immigrant, low-come, …

Activities Of Daily Living In Residents Of Nursing Home And Assisted Living Facilities: A Multilevel Analysis, Wen Liu, Jay Unick, Barbara Resnick, Elizabeth Galik

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Background: The ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) is the most basic function for older adults living in long-term care (LTC). Various personal and institutional factors can be associated with functional performance in ADLs among LTC residents.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to examine the trajectory of functional performance in ADLs over time, the variance in functional performance that is attributable to individual and institutional variations, as well as the impact of individual and institutional characteristics on functional performance among residents living in LTC …

Innovation In Practice: A Qsen Framework For Redesigning A Clinical Advancement Program For Nurses, Kathleen A. Bradley

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

The Institute of Medicine recommendations to address quality and safety provided the spark for the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) movement. This spark has also been felt within the practice setting. QSEN now serves as the cornerstone for building competency-based practice focusing on the six domains of nursing practice. Healthcare reform is a driving force in the practice setting. Nursing executives value competency as the driver of quality, patient safety and cost of care. Improving nursing competency and advancing the profession are the goals of a clinical advancement program. This presentation will …

Innovation In Practice: A Qsen Framework For Redesigning A Clinical Advancement Program For Nurses And Strategies To Grow And Sustain A Competency Assessment Model Utilizing The Quality Safety Education For Nurses (Qsen) In The Clinical Setting, Nicki M. Shonka

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

The Institute of Medicine recommendations to address quality and safety provided the spark for the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) movement. This spark has also been felt within the practice setting. QSEN now serves as the cornerstone for building competency-based practice focusing on the six domains of nursing practice. Healthcare reform is a driving force in the practice setting. Nursing executives value competency as the driver of quality, patient safety and cost of care. Improving nursing competency and advancing the profession are the goals of a clinical advancement program. This presentation will …

Claiming An Area Of Knowledge As Nursing Science To Improve The Health Of Marginalized Populations, Jacquelyn C. Campbell

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The meaning of the Greek word episteme is a system of understanding or a body of ideas which give shape to the knowledge of that time, contrasted to "doxa" or common belief or opinion. The collaborative effort of many nurse researchers and practitioners over 25 years has resulted in the holistic health outcomes of violence being recognized both inside and outside nursing as an important area of nursing science. Nursing science has broken ground in integrating knowledge about the physiological and neurobiological with physical and mental health and behavioral responses to being abused and victimized by violence. The nursing knowledge …

Ed Community Placement Project (Edcpp): "Right Service-Right Venue", Karen Elizabeth Mitchell-Keels

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Background: San Diego has the 3rd largest homeless population in the United States, second only to New York and Los Angeles. Nearly one-third of all visits to the emergency room are made by people who struggle with chronic homelessness coupled with co-occurring disorders. Emergency departments (ED) are not equipped to meet the psychosocial needs of homeless community members and do not have the capacity to assist them with housing, substance abuse treatment, and mental health care. Goal Statement: The goal for this project was to identify the costliest and in need patients, then …

Theoretical Perspective On Families At The Bedside, Jeanine M. Carr

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The family's close, protective involvement with hospitalized relatives, has become a common occurrence in U.S. inpatient settings. Prior to the 1960's, visiting policies restricted family presence at the bedside. However, in the 1960's and 1970's changes in visiting policies encouraged parents to stay with their hospitalized children. Family members are now often visibly present with hospitalized relatives in a multitude of acute care settings. Questions about the family's perspective of vigilance led this researcher to conduct three qualitative studies to explore the meanings, patterns, and day-to-day experience of family members staying with hospitalized relatives. The inductive development of a middle …

Influence Of Intrapersonal Characteristics On Nurses' Work Performance, Nelouise Geyer, Siedine Knobloch Coetzee

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

BACKGROUND: Reports about poor nursing and midwifery care was on the increase with public media reporting only negative incidents. This is supported by the growth in numbers of nurses who are found guilty of poor nursing or midwifery care during professional conduct hearings at the South African Nursing Council. These reports are contradicted by anecdotal information provided by patients that have received good nursing or midwifery care in the same hospitals that reportedly provide poor care. The performance of nurses and other healthcare workers are influenced by physical …

Exploring Effects Of A Cultural Immersion Experience On Health Care Students Cultural Competence, Stacie L. Olson, Joni Tweeten

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

Problem: Health care providers are expected to be prepared to provide culturally sensitive care to the US's increasingly diverse population. Baccalaureate education can be full of essential content which can limit the available culturally diverse experiences for students. Not all students at this university have clinical experiences that expose them to various diverse cultures, especially living in the Midwest, where there are limitations to access diverse populations. There are many studies that support immersion experiences in international countries to prepare health care students to increase cultural competence. Many …