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Mitigating Risk In Chapter Fundraising, Jessica R. Wendorf, Nathan Thomas Oct 2024

Mitigating Risk In Chapter Fundraising, Jessica R. Wendorf, Nathan Thomas

Leadership Connection

There are many legal considerations to discuss before your chapter moves forward with any fundraising activities. This session will help you understand the risks you face and how to mitigate them.


Medical Tourism: Trends, Certification, Opportunities, Dale M. Mueller Oct 2024

Medical Tourism: Trends, Certification, Opportunities, Dale M. Mueller

Leadership Connection

This presentation includes opportunities for nurses, emerging services and global impacts. This study was conducted in 2017, including visits to two countries, a literature review and Certification as a Medical Tourism Professional. Leadership roles for nurses include case and risk management, specialty/wellness promotion, cultural competence, facility accreditation and Certification.


Lessons Learned From The Sigma Survey, Mirjam Lynam, Julie J. Adams Oct 2024

Lessons Learned From The Sigma Survey, Mirjam Lynam, Julie J. Adams

Leadership Connection

Take a deep dive into the results of the last survey of members of Sigma Theta Tau International and what these results mean for your chapter.


Let's Get Started: Building Ebp In New Nursing Students, Kady L. Martini, Tracy Taylor Oct 2024

Let's Get Started: Building Ebp In New Nursing Students, Kady L. Martini, Tracy Taylor

Leadership Connection

Gain an understanding on how to build a evidence based, experiential learning program for new nursing students. This presentation will guide individuals attending this conference on how to build an evidence based rich program, so new nurses come out with the skills needed to navigate healthcare using evidence based practice.


Lessons Learned From Leadership Intern Programs, Katherine Rogers Oct 2024

Lessons Learned From Leadership Intern Programs, Katherine Rogers

Leadership Connection

Several Sigma chapters have successful Leadership Intern Programs that help them engage students in leadership roles early in their membership. Come hear their success stories!


Leadership Successes Continue To Advance Nursing Excellence Across The Globe, Caroline M. Peltz, Diane Porretta Fox, Vicki Lynn Washington Oct 2024

Leadership Successes Continue To Advance Nursing Excellence Across The Globe, Caroline M. Peltz, Diane Porretta Fox, Vicki Lynn Washington

Leadership Connection

Authentic leadership skills continue to drive the relationships between a nursing program in a developing country, a midwest university and a global health business. Face to face connections with a global partner have secured opportunities for research, mentoring, nursing education and nursing practice, benefiting all stakeholders.


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.


International Leadership Opportunities, Gwen D. Sherwood Oct 2024

International Leadership Opportunities, Gwen D. Sherwood

Leadership Connection

Members of the Leadership Succession Committee will discuss opportunities for serving as an international leader in the Honor Society. Open positions and position descriptions will be identified during this session as well as qualifications and time commitment required.


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.


Incentivize And Energize: How To Offer Continuing Nursing Education Credits, Matthew S. Howard Oct 2024

Incentivize And Energize: How To Offer Continuing Nursing Education Credits, Matthew S. Howard

Leadership Connection

One easy way to incentivize your members to attend chapter events is to offer continuing nursing education contact hours. This session will show you how!


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.


Grants And Mentorship: A Mutually Beneficial Partnership, Lois Sarah Marshall, Matthew S. Howard Oct 2024

Grants And Mentorship: A Mutually Beneficial Partnership, Lois Sarah Marshall, Matthew S. Howard

Leadership Connection

This session focuses on the process of developing small grants for mentorship. Whether you need funding to develop, implement, or evaluate a mentorship program or to develop a mentorship program for individuals to develop their skills in grant writing, this session addresses both. Practical tips will be presented.


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.


Frontline Nurse Leader Professional Development, Tammy M. Mcgarity Oct 2024

Frontline Nurse Leader Professional Development, Tammy M. Mcgarity

Leadership Connection

Front line nurse leaders are expected to lead staff while managing the work systems and processes on their units in addition to ensuring high quality safe patient care is being delivered; however they typically have not been given the opportunity to attend a professional development program.


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.


Evidence-Based Authentic Leadership Training, Aileen Tanafranca Oct 2024

Evidence-Based Authentic Leadership Training, Aileen Tanafranca

Leadership Connection

Authentic leadership is the root of all positive forms of leadership. By having an authentic leadership training in hospital organizations, there can be an improved self- awareness in authentic behaviors by nurse leaders, which can lead to positive outcomes of staff and patients.


Empowering Nurses To Become Ebp Experts And Lifelong Learners, Judith Ann Moran-Peters Oct 2024

Empowering Nurses To Become Ebp Experts And Lifelong Learners, Judith Ann Moran-Peters

Leadership Connection

Discover innovative methods used by a Nurse Research to educate nurses from all levels of a healthcare organization to become evidence-based practice (EBP) experts. learn how EBP mastery promotes lifelong learning, empowers nurses to advance Nursing Science, and improves patient-centered outcomes.


Education Through Virtual Methodologies: An Innovative Way To Increase Staff Compliance And Engagement, Jahmela Pech Oct 2024

Education Through Virtual Methodologies: An Innovative Way To Increase Staff Compliance And Engagement, Jahmela Pech

Leadership Connection

This Performance Improvement Project shows how the use of virtual methodologies such as a monthly education page increase staff engagement and compliance in completing required education topics. The problem was first identified when nursing staff education compliance was 10-20 percent.


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.


Bridging The Gap From Clinical Expert To Academic Educator, Deana Batross, Regina Prusinski, Christine Zamaripa Oct 2024

Bridging The Gap From Clinical Expert To Academic Educator, Deana Batross, Regina Prusinski, Christine Zamaripa

Leadership Connection

Participants will gain understanding of obstacles experienced by new faculty and will be able to formulate strategies to effectively facilitate the transition from clinical practice to the faculty role. Exploration of topics will include story telling, small group reflection and sharing, and illuminating the current literature via lecture discussion.


Assess And Act: Tips To Retain At-Risk Members, Laura Perkins Oct 2024

Assess And Act: Tips To Retain At-Risk Members, Laura Perkins

Leadership Connection

This session will help your chapter identify those who are at-risk of becoming inactive members and what your chapter's leaders can do to change their mind!


Applying Evidence-Based Practice To Advance Leadership In Practice Among Graduate Nursing Students, Sharon K. Byrne Oct 2024

Applying Evidence-Based Practice To Advance Leadership In Practice Among Graduate Nursing Students, Sharon K. Byrne

Leadership Connection

Graduate students need a firm knowledge and application of evidence-based practice (EBP) and research in order to promote positive outcomes in patient populations and healthcare practice settings. A capstone project can provide them with the opportunity to advance their leadership skills through project development, implementation and evaluation.