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Job Satisfaction In Relation To Communication In Healthcare Among Nurses: Practical Recommendations, Peter Vermeir, Sophie Degroote, Dominique Vandijck, Rik Verhaeghe, Dirk Vogelaers, An Mariman Oct 2024

Job Satisfaction In Relation To Communication In Healthcare Among Nurses: Practical Recommendations, Peter Vermeir, Sophie Degroote, Dominique Vandijck, Rik Verhaeghe, Dirk Vogelaers, An Mariman

Leadership Connection

Effective communication and teamwork are essential to provide high-quality care and patient safety. Poor communication can lead to various negative outcomes, such as discontinuity of care and compromise of patient safety. Participants can expect recommendations for improvement of communication and communication satisfaction as a prerequisite for increased job satisfaction.


How To Become A Website Of The Month, Noelle Pickler Oct 2024

How To Become A Website Of The Month, Noelle Pickler

Leadership Connection

Is your chapter using your website to its full potential? Sigma staff will highlight Website of the Month recipients and discuss how your chapter can make the most of your platform.


Helping Your Hashtags: Strategic Social Media Messaging, Noelle Pickler, Kailee Bennett Oct 2024

Helping Your Hashtags: Strategic Social Media Messaging, Noelle Pickler, Kailee Bennett

Leadership Connection

Now that you have your social media platforms set up, are you communicating on each one appropriately and effectively? This session will discuss the types of messages you should have on each platform.


Gapfon And Sigma Chapters: How Members And Chapters Can Contribute, Beth Baldwin Tigges Oct 2024

Gapfon And Sigma Chapters: How Members And Chapters Can Contribute, Beth Baldwin Tigges

Leadership Connection

In this presentation, President Beth Baldwin Tigges will present an overview of the GAPFON (Global Advisory Council on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery) initiative and how Sigma chapters can contribute to achievement of the strategies recommended by nurses and midwives from around the world during our GAPFON regional meetings.


Finding Our Voice Through Interdisciplinary Policy Teams: Strategies For Compelling Change, Yvonne M. Smith, Kimberly A. Cleveland Oct 2024

Finding Our Voice Through Interdisciplinary Policy Teams: Strategies For Compelling Change, Yvonne M. Smith, Kimberly A. Cleveland

Leadership Connection

Policy teams provide opportunities for faculty to understand issues, engage students and drive policy discussions. Speakers will discuss three policy team initiatives, benefits, member roles, and barriers to faculty and student involvement. These policy team examples occurred in an academic setting, but the principles are applicable to non-academic setting.


Evidence-Based Practice Use, Attitudes, Knowledge, And Skills: Curriculum Design And The Perceptions Of Nursing Students, Susan Mellott, Joan Elaine Edwards, Sandra Kay Cesario, Allison Huffman, Tuong Vi Ho, Peggy A. Landrum, Juan M. Leyva-Moral, Patrick Albert Palmieri Oct 2024

Evidence-Based Practice Use, Attitudes, Knowledge, And Skills: Curriculum Design And The Perceptions Of Nursing Students, Susan Mellott, Joan Elaine Edwards, Sandra Kay Cesario, Allison Huffman, Tuong Vi Ho, Peggy A. Landrum, Juan M. Leyva-Moral, Patrick Albert Palmieri

Leadership Connection

This study evaluated the impact of embedding EBP through the nursing curriculum, with experiential learning activities, on EBP use, attitudes, knowledge, and skills of undergraduate nursing students. Recommendations specific to the purposeful scaffolding of the learning activities are discussed. Also, differences in the outcomes of students by race/ethnicity are described.


Digital Disruption: Transforming Collaboration And Engaging Global Nurse Leaders, Rita Munley Gallagher, Carole D. Liske, Jeanne Widener Oct 2024

Digital Disruption: Transforming Collaboration And Engaging Global Nurse Leaders, Rita Munley Gallagher, Carole D. Liske, Jeanne Widener

Leadership Connection

Digital disruption and transformation are essential to enhance connectivity and collaboration in an ever-virtual world. The presentation discusses opportunities to enhance chapter-to-chapter collaboration sharing successful electronic strategies utilized in operations of Phi Gamma Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International's (Sigma's) only virtual chapter and Psi Upsilon Chapter, a recently chartered chapter.


Development And Dissemination Of Education To Increase Competence And Self-Confidence In Telephone Triage Nurses, Constance F. Buran, Katie Payne Oct 2024

Development And Dissemination Of Education To Increase Competence And Self-Confidence In Telephone Triage Nurses, Constance F. Buran, Katie Payne

Leadership Connection

Purposes of this presentation are to evaluate: (1) a newly created telephone triage orientation program (2) its effectiveness to increase competence and self-confidence in triage nurses and (3) the spread of the triage education and competency measures for all ambulatory care nurses. Data endorsing this educational program will be presented.


Developing And Validating An Instrument To Measure Perceived Authentic Nurse Leadership, Marie E. Giordano-Mulligan Oct 2024

Developing And Validating An Instrument To Measure Perceived Authentic Nurse Leadership, Marie E. Giordano-Mulligan

Leadership Connection

Research conducted to develop and validate an instrument measuring perceived authentic leadership in a nursing theoretical framework that supports clinical practice and knowledge development. Developed concepts were statistically supported. Nurse leaders who incorporate authentic nurse leadership into their practice are uniquely positioned to influence nurse work-life environment and nurse engagement.


Decision Maker Vs. Action Taker: Nurses On Governance And Policy Boards, Cynthia Vlasich, Kimberly Harper Oct 2024

Decision Maker Vs. Action Taker: Nurses On Governance And Policy Boards, Cynthia Vlasich, Kimberly Harper

Leadership Connection

This presentation will introduce NOBC's Board Leadership Competencies Model and discuss avenues for nurses to advocate for global health through policy engagement in a variety of settings and levels. Additionally, this presentation will detail the methodology behind the creation of the model and its significant importance within the nursing profession.


Design + Nursing: Transforming Concussion Prevention Through Interprofessional Education, Jeanine M. Goodin, Steven J. Doehler Oct 2024

Design + Nursing: Transforming Concussion Prevention Through Interprofessional Education, Jeanine M. Goodin, Steven J. Doehler

Leadership Connection

Upon completion of an interprofessional collaboration experience between a design and nursing program, the students gained an accelerated understanding of multi-disciplinary problem solving, peer to peer learning, and the satisfaction of addressing a problem for community populations that are in need of assistance.


Create Your Communications Plan Now (And Thank Yourself Later), Noelle Pickler Oct 2024

Create Your Communications Plan Now (And Thank Yourself Later), Noelle Pickler

Leadership Connection

Most chapters have A LOT of great news and initiatives to share with members, but no formal plan to communicate successfully. Join Sigma staff to create a plan that you will be thankful to have.


Collaboration, Chaos, And Compliance: A Pilot Study Merging Clinical Practice And Academia, Terri Moore, Heather Anderson Oct 2024

Collaboration, Chaos, And Compliance: A Pilot Study Merging Clinical Practice And Academia, Terri Moore, Heather Anderson

Leadership Connection

An in situ active shooter exercise was conducted with Baccalaureate nursing students and a home health and hospice organization in response to the new CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule. Tips for planning the exercise, participant feedback, and global implications will be discussed.


Cash Stash: Tips For Effective Chapter Budgeting, Jessica R. Wendorf, Kenneth W. Dion Oct 2024

Cash Stash: Tips For Effective Chapter Budgeting, Jessica R. Wendorf, Kenneth W. Dion

Leadership Connection

Join Sigma's Treasurer, Ken Dion, as he and Sigma staff discuss tips and considerations for how to create an effective chapter budget each year.


Aligning Aone And Quad Council Nursing Leadership Competencies In An Online Graduate Nursing Administration Program, Melanie Johnson, Jill Cornelison, Nancy Owens Oct 2024

Aligning Aone And Quad Council Nursing Leadership Competencies In An Online Graduate Nursing Administration Program, Melanie Johnson, Jill Cornelison, Nancy Owens

Leadership Connection

This presentation describes the development and utilization of a clinical evaluation tool that integrates AONE and Quad Council Nursing Leadership domains in an online Master of Science in Nursing Administration program that. The tool promotes the development of population-focused nursing practice and leadership competency.


Advancing The Voice Of Nursing Through Leadership: The Current State Of The Evidence Base, Dawn M. Gordon, Jennifer A. Specht Oct 2024

Advancing The Voice Of Nursing Through Leadership: The Current State Of The Evidence Base, Dawn M. Gordon, Jennifer A. Specht

Leadership Connection

Key themes related to leadership in nursing and nursing education in the current, evidence-based literature will be explored in the context of nursing education, nursing practice, and health care delivery and policy. Recommendations for future research and for empowering change in the current health care environment will be offered.


A New Direction: Psychiatric Virtual Simulations To Provide Comprehensive Clinical Experiences, Kathleen Marie-Anne Huun, Andreas Martin Kummerow Oct 2024

A New Direction: Psychiatric Virtual Simulations To Provide Comprehensive Clinical Experiences, Kathleen Marie-Anne Huun, Andreas Martin Kummerow

Leadership Connection

Comprehensive psychiatric clinical experiences for pre-licensure nursing students can be achieved through the incorporation of multiple, content specific, virtually simulated mental health scenarios. The virtual simulations also provide a quantitative method to assess student achievement allowing for readily identifiable areas of individual strengths and weaknesses.


Wic Professionals' Adaptations In Clinical Practice To Better Assess And Address Household Food Insecurity, Kristal C. Kim Oct 2024

Wic Professionals' Adaptations In Clinical Practice To Better Assess And Address Household Food Insecurity, Kristal C. Kim

Leadership Connection

Examining determinants of poor maternal health should be considered a keystone factor in improving overall population health. This integrative literature review reviews how perinatal depression and food insecurity, two noxious and synergistic factors, negatively impact maternal health.


Using Implementation Science To Initiate Survivorship Care Plan Practice Change, Betty Goracke Olguin Oct 2024

Using Implementation Science To Initiate Survivorship Care Plan Practice Change, Betty Goracke Olguin

Leadership Connection

Survivorship Care Plans are a communication tool that empowers cancer patients to self-advocate and strengthens the relationship between oncology providers and primary care. This presentation will describe the process, implications, findings, and lessons learned when implementing SCPs at an outpatient oncology clinic.


Using Images To Elicit Leadership And Management In Nursing Praxis: A Photovoice Research, Juneau Flor Encinares Julian, Carren B. Manalo, Esteve Adrian Estiva Oct 2024

Using Images To Elicit Leadership And Management In Nursing Praxis: A Photovoice Research, Juneau Flor Encinares Julian, Carren B. Manalo, Esteve Adrian Estiva

Leadership Connection

This study used photovoice to typify leadership from the descriptions of selected photos eidetic of management. This study will also explore, document and reflect on the experiences of the participants on their exercise of leadership and to excerpt from their own insights of what leadership means.


Understanding Patient Engagement In A Primary Care Setting: A Patient Health Portal Quality Improvement Project, Tamiyah Dinh, Jia-Wen Guo Oct 2024

Understanding Patient Engagement In A Primary Care Setting: A Patient Health Portal Quality Improvement Project, Tamiyah Dinh, Jia-Wen Guo

Leadership Connection

To investigate motivating factors influencing patients' use of health information technology (HIT), we conducted a survey based on the Health Information Technology Acceptance Model (HITAM) in a primary care clinic. By enhancing patients' positive attitude, creating useful, reliable HIT for patients' self-efficacy, we suggest developing strategies for improved patient engagement.


Uncertainty In Illness And Health Literacy In Pancreatic Cancer Patients, Rae Brana Reynolds, Geri Wood, Terri S. Armstrong, Nikhil S. Padhye, Matthew Katz Oct 2024

Uncertainty In Illness And Health Literacy In Pancreatic Cancer Patients, Rae Brana Reynolds, Geri Wood, Terri S. Armstrong, Nikhil S. Padhye, Matthew Katz

Leadership Connection

Neither uncertainty nor health literacy has been studied with a focus on pancreatic cancer patients whose complicated and challenging illness experiences predispose to uncertainty and require proficient health literacy to manage effectively. This study evaluated the relationship between uncertainty and health literacy along with their predictors in pancreatic cancer patients.


Type 1 Diabetes And Use Of A Web-Based Telemedicine Application, Felicia D. Kimbrough Oct 2024

Type 1 Diabetes And Use Of A Web-Based Telemedicine Application, Felicia D. Kimbrough

Leadership Connection

This project focuses on the implementation of a web-based application in the type 1 diabetic population within a moderately sized public high school in Southern Illinois. The project was done with three students consisting of male, females, Caucasian, Hispanic and Mixed descent.


Trauma-Informed Care: A Response To Sex Trafficking, Amanda E. Hasegawa, Colin M. Yuan Oct 2024

Trauma-Informed Care: A Response To Sex Trafficking, Amanda E. Hasegawa, Colin M. Yuan

Leadership Connection

As a public health issue, sex trafficking devastates every aspect of a person's wellbeing. Nurses are ideally positioned to respond; however, literature indicates that the majority of nurses consider themselves to be unprepared. A trauma-informed care response equips and empowers nurses to care holistically for survivors of sex trafficking.


Transforming Nursing Education: Utilization Of The Ipad In Laboratory And Clinical Settings, Lu Ann V. Reed, Tasha Turner-Bicknell Oct 2024

Transforming Nursing Education: Utilization Of The Ipad In Laboratory And Clinical Settings, Lu Ann V. Reed, Tasha Turner-Bicknell

Leadership Connection

Utilization of iPad with sophomore BSN students in skills lab and clinical sites to document patient data, and upload assignments. Our goal was to simulate the electronic medium utilized in the clinical setting, improve IT literacy and reduce overall expenses. There were challenges, rewards, and lessons learned for future success.


The Role Of The Caregiver In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) Following Cesarean Section, Emily A. Leister Oct 2024

The Role Of The Caregiver In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) Following Cesarean Section, Emily A. Leister

Leadership Connection

C-sections have been linked to the development of postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). During C-sections, the caregiver has been identified as influential. This is especially true in traumatic births. This literature review identifies risk factors, screening mechanisms, and management strategies for postpartum PTSD, and discusses the importance of respectful care.


The Meaning Of Hope For Women Diagnosed With Terminal Illness: A Literature Review, Stephanie J. Orth Oct 2024

The Meaning Of Hope For Women Diagnosed With Terminal Illness: A Literature Review, Stephanie J. Orth

Leadership Connection

The concept of hope at the end of life is a personal and complicated phenomenon. Researchers have investigated the concept of hope as it relates to caregivers and nurses. However, the meaning of hope for women at the end of life is underreported and literature shows further study is needed.


The Gamma Tau At-Large Chapter Celebrating Nursing Excellence In Scholarship, Leadership, And Service, Renee Krystle Doll Lazaro, Christine Lagman, Anna Dermenchyan Oct 2024

The Gamma Tau At-Large Chapter Celebrating Nursing Excellence In Scholarship, Leadership, And Service, Renee Krystle Doll Lazaro, Christine Lagman, Anna Dermenchyan

Leadership Connection

The Gamma Tau-at-Large Chapter promotes the Sigma mission by celebrating nursing excellence in scholarship, leadership, and service. The chapter has applied Connect, Collaborate and Catalyze themes by hosting numerous educational programs throughout the year, supporting research activities that advocate for nursing advancement, and serving the local community through volunteering.


The Changing Face In The Workplace: The Arrival Of The Millennials, Peggy Lee, Thomas Kippenbrock, Deanna Jan Emory Oct 2024

The Changing Face In The Workplace: The Arrival Of The Millennials, Peggy Lee, Thomas Kippenbrock, Deanna Jan Emory

Leadership Connection

The learner will discover the impact of the Millennials entering the nursing workforce.Learners will learn to understand and leverage differences and commonalities to promote success in the multi-generational work environment.


Student Hotspotting: An Opportunity For Student Nurses To Work With High-Utilizers On Interprofessional Teams, Colin Mcnamara, Michael Arenson, Jennifer R. Dyson, Madeleine Rutledge, Sindhuja Surapaneni Oct 2024

Student Hotspotting: An Opportunity For Student Nurses To Work With High-Utilizers On Interprofessional Teams, Colin Mcnamara, Michael Arenson, Jennifer R. Dyson, Madeleine Rutledge, Sindhuja Surapaneni

Leadership Connection

Healthcare costs are driven largely by a group of high-utilizers who constitute 5% of the population but account for about 50% of expenditures. A Grady Hospital-based intervention was created to engage Atlanta's high-utilizers with teams of interprofessional students in addressing non-medical concerns that contribute to frequent utilization.