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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.


Strategies That Work: Recognition Of Chapter Excellence Through The Chapter Key Award, Aris Eliades, Dina Dornack Oct 2024

Strategies That Work: Recognition Of Chapter Excellence Through The Chapter Key Award, Aris Eliades, Dina Dornack

Leadership Connection

Since it was established in 1991, the Chapter Key Award acknowledges Chapter excellence. This poster provides attendees with a toolbox of ideas, used by a chapter that has received 13 Key Awards, to develop, implement and evaluate Chapter Excellence in preparing and submitting the Chapter Key Award application!


Reviewing Effectiveness Of Nurse-Led Pediatric Asthma Education Programs In Preventing Hospital Recidivism And Missed-School Days, Dylan Asher Mclellan Oct 2024

Reviewing Effectiveness Of Nurse-Led Pediatric Asthma Education Programs In Preventing Hospital Recidivism And Missed-School Days, Dylan Asher Mclellan

Leadership Connection

The poster will provide an overview of nurse-led pediatric asthma education and its relationship with hospital recidivism and missed school days. Research was done via a literature review and the poster will highlight technology use and best-practice techniques in current practice.


Reinvigoration: Ideas For Chapter Leaders, Charlotte E. Swint, Elicia Collins Oct 2024

Reinvigoration: Ideas For Chapter Leaders, Charlotte E. Swint, Elicia Collins

Leadership Connection

Chapter leaders set the tone for the success of the chapter. Reinvigoration of a chapter can be a full-time job, but the rewards are great for the chapter and the members. This session will highlight case studies where ideas for breathing life back into a chapter are discussed.


Put More Than A Digital Stamp On It: How Postcards Increased Attendance At Chapter Events, Valerie Marie Pauli Oct 2024

Put More Than A Digital Stamp On It: How Postcards Increased Attendance At Chapter Events, Valerie Marie Pauli

Leadership Connection

Through the trifecta of communication, membership attendance doubled, and at times even tripled, at chapter events. This is attributed to communication methods the utilized both the digital stamp as well as the US postal stamp. Moral of the story, do not underestimate the power of snail mail.


Pursuing The Trifecta: Chapter Best Practices For Undergraduate Recruitment, Engagement, And Retention, Amanda Yi Wong, Davika D. Reid, Lisa Geshell Oct 2024

Pursuing The Trifecta: Chapter Best Practices For Undergraduate Recruitment, Engagement, And Retention, Amanda Yi Wong, Davika D. Reid, Lisa Geshell

Leadership Connection

This poster describes dynamic strategies utilized to increase recruitment, engagement, and retention of undergraduate chapter members. Common reasons that undergraduates felt disengaged with membership in our chapter are addressed, and strategies such as active collaboration and providing leadership opportunities are described.


Preceptorship: A Concept Analysis, Patricia Strobehn Oct 2024

Preceptorship: A Concept Analysis, Patricia Strobehn

Leadership Connection

The definition of preceptorship in nursing education has essentially remained unchanged for 45 years (LeFlore & Thomas, 2016). Etymologic origins, traditions, and educational practices were explored in this poster presentation to clarify the meaning of preceptorship and develop a current operational definition for all scopes of nursing practice.


Personal Factors And Environmental Influences Within The Family As Predictors Of Adolescent Asthma Self-Management, Jennifer S. Dolgoff, Mona Wicks, Elizabeth A. Tolley, Christie Michael, J. Carolyn Graff, Shaquita A. Starks, Loretta Alexia Williams, Hyekyun Rhee Oct 2024

Personal Factors And Environmental Influences Within The Family As Predictors Of Adolescent Asthma Self-Management, Jennifer S. Dolgoff, Mona Wicks, Elizabeth A. Tolley, Christie Michael, J. Carolyn Graff, Shaquita A. Starks, Loretta Alexia Williams, Hyekyun Rhee

Leadership Connection

This secondary data analysis will examine adolescent personal factors (e.g., sex and self-efficacy) and family environmental influences (e.g., family history of asthma, family socioeconomic status, and perceived family support) together as predictors of adolescent asthma self-management preventive and relief behaviors across age subgroups (i.e., early, middle, and late adolescence).


Perceptions Of Primary Care Facilitators And Barriers Among Homeless-Experienced Individuals, Kirsten A. Dickins, Susan Buchholz, Lynne T. Braun, Melinda Earle, Diana L. Ingram, Niranjan Karnik Oct 2024

Perceptions Of Primary Care Facilitators And Barriers Among Homeless-Experienced Individuals, Kirsten A. Dickins, Susan Buchholz, Lynne T. Braun, Melinda Earle, Diana L. Ingram, Niranjan Karnik

Leadership Connection

The impact of the Affordable Care Act on the growing homeless population in the United States remains under-examined, from the participant perspective. This qualitative study explored the experiences of healthcare access and use, highlighting the facilitators and barriers to utilizing a regular source of primary care among urban homeless-experienced individuals.