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Evaluation Of The Associations Between Unplanned Readmissions And The Lace Index And Other Variables, Catherine Stankiewicz Oct 2024

Evaluation Of The Associations Between Unplanned Readmissions And The Lace Index And Other Variables, Catherine Stankiewicz

Leadership Connection

Unplanned readmissions are common and costly. Factors have been identified that predict readmissions, and predictive algorithms, such as LACE index, have been studied and widely adopted despite variability in predictive ability. We examined the associations between unplanned readmissions and the LACE index, and other variables not in the LACE index.


Evaluation Of Discharge Education: An Educational Intervention To Improve Patient Safety With Opioid Medications, Jill A. Taylor Pedro Oct 2024

Evaluation Of Discharge Education: An Educational Intervention To Improve Patient Safety With Opioid Medications, Jill A. Taylor Pedro

Leadership Connection

This poster presentation will describe a quality improvement project designed to increase the knowledge of staff nurses to effectively educate patients being discharged regarding the safe use, secure storage and proper disposal of opioids when prescribed. Participants will also be able to view the outcomes of this project.


Evaluation Of A Clean Delivery Kit Intervention In Preventing Umbilical Cord Infections In Monrovia, Liberia, Wendy Post, Odel Fayiah, Charlene Denyse Whitaker-Brown, Sharon Davies, Catherine Cooper Oct 2024

Evaluation Of A Clean Delivery Kit Intervention In Preventing Umbilical Cord Infections In Monrovia, Liberia, Wendy Post, Odel Fayiah, Charlene Denyse Whitaker-Brown, Sharon Davies, Catherine Cooper

Leadership Connection

The project's objective was to evaluate the effectiveness, impact, and rate of infant umbilical cord infection when community health care workers/ midwives utilized clean delivery kits in under-resourced areas of Monrovia, Liberia. A descriptive-exploratory design study was conducted to determine the rate of kit utilization,infection rate; with retrospective chart review.


Eta Omega Fosters Leadership Through Intern Program, Olivia Marshall, Christine Repsha, Sara Pietila Oct 2024

Eta Omega Fosters Leadership Through Intern Program, Olivia Marshall, Christine Repsha, Sara Pietila

Leadership Connection

The Leadership Intern Program successfully supports chapter growth, retention, and leadership succession by creating opportunities for new members to get involved with the Eta Omega chapter. Interns attend meetings, conventions, and create new projects for the chapter. This mentorship program fosters leadership skills and professionalism in new nurses.


Enhancing Nursing Education Through Lgbtq+ Inclusive Curriculum, Tara Nicole Noorani, Sasha Cohen Oct 2024

Enhancing Nursing Education Through Lgbtq+ Inclusive Curriculum, Tara Nicole Noorani, Sasha Cohen

Leadership Connection

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ+) patients face health disparities attributable to systemic discrimination, provider knowledge deficit and unconscious bias. The lack of LGBTQ+ content in health professions education is a barrier to the provision of compassionate patient-centered care, which can be addressed through curricular integration.


Engaging Members Through Scholarly Conversations In Nursing, Susan Marie Hampson, Charlene Bermele, Michele L. Poradzisz Oct 2024

Engaging Members Through Scholarly Conversations In Nursing, Susan Marie Hampson, Charlene Bermele, Michele L. Poradzisz

Leadership Connection

Through a series of "Scholarly Conversations in Nursing," Alpha Omicron Chapter has collaborated with university Alumni Association to engage its members, current students, and community partners to come together to learn about and discuss topics relevant to nursing. Since Fall 2016, events are held semi-annually, and attendance has steadily increased.


Engaging Members For Chapter Sustainability: Review Of A New Chapter's Best Practice Strategies, Jennifer L. Kuretski, Christine Conti, Jessica Nasrallah Oct 2024

Engaging Members For Chapter Sustainability: Review Of A New Chapter's Best Practice Strategies, Jennifer L. Kuretski, Christine Conti, Jessica Nasrallah

Leadership Connection

A needs assessment of a Sigma chapter helped to elucidate topics of interest of its chapter members. The chapter was successful in engaging a majority of its members through chapter best practice.


Encouraging Meaningful Engagement Of Professionals, Jana J. Zeller, Alicia Arias, Christine Hober, Kathleen R. Ward, Rebecca Sander, Carolyn Insley, Tanya L. Smith, Terry J. Siek, Sarah Green Oct 2024

Encouraging Meaningful Engagement Of Professionals, Jana J. Zeller, Alicia Arias, Christine Hober, Kathleen R. Ward, Rebecca Sander, Carolyn Insley, Tanya L. Smith, Terry J. Siek, Sarah Green

Leadership Connection

Recruiting and retaining members are not the only important parts of a chapter's success. Engaging members in professional and valuable programs that foster educational tools that will help members in their practice are also successful tools that keep members active within a chapter.


Efficacy And Safety Of Bubble Cpap In Preterm Neonates: A Literature Review, Megan Kate Daniels Oct 2024

Efficacy And Safety Of Bubble Cpap In Preterm Neonates: A Literature Review, Megan Kate Daniels

Leadership Connection

Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) is a common and often fatal complication for preterm infants due to a surfactant deficiency and immature lung development. Bubble CPAP decreases extubation failure rates and ventilator dependence, enhances survival, and improves Silverman Andersen respiratory severity scores compared to alternative treatment methods.


Effectiveness Of Variable Payment Model To Influence Satisfaction And Turnover In Home Healthcare Nurses, Rabia Muhammad Iqbal Oct 2024

Effectiveness Of Variable Payment Model To Influence Satisfaction And Turnover In Home Healthcare Nurses, Rabia Muhammad Iqbal

Leadership Connection

This session will facilitate leaders and nurse researchers to learn about new management strategies and intervention to increase satisfaction and eventually reduce nurses' turn over in health care setting in developing countries.


Educational Program For Rns Related To The Use And Function Mechanical Prophylaxis In Vte Prevention, Mollie Garrison Oct 2024

Educational Program For Rns Related To The Use And Function Mechanical Prophylaxis In Vte Prevention, Mollie Garrison

Leadership Connection

This quality improvement project aimed to educate registered nurses on the importance of mechanical prophylaxis in high-risk patients. Content included: nursing knowledge of mechanical therapy; discussion of alternative SCD devices and contraindications to using; proper sizing; required patient care and education; nurse documentation of device usage; and parameters for discontinuation.


Educating Canadian Undergraduate Nursing Students Abroad, Stephanie M. Obara, Beth Perry Oct 2024

Educating Canadian Undergraduate Nursing Students Abroad, Stephanie M. Obara, Beth Perry

Leadership Connection

Many Canadian undergraduate nursing programs are offering student opportunities to study abroad. This Master of Nursing thesis research is focused upon describing Canadian nursing faculty members' perspectives on successful teaching methods used in recent study abroad programs.


Does Training In Motivational Interviewing Techniques Increase Providers' Use Of Patient Self-Management Goals?, Nanci A. Reiland Oct 2024

Does Training In Motivational Interviewing Techniques Increase Providers' Use Of Patient Self-Management Goals?, Nanci A. Reiland

Leadership Connection

This program evaluation will consider the unique characteristics of a federally qualified health center and the identified gap in self-management goal documentation. Based on a needs assessment, a professional development program was developed to increase primary care providers' knowledge and Motivational Interviewing technique skills to better construct and document goals.


Distance-Technology Delivered Grief Support Program: Perceived Quality And Satisfaction Of Training Provided To Social Workers, Daniela Mccroby Oct 2024

Distance-Technology Delivered Grief Support Program: Perceived Quality And Satisfaction Of Training Provided To Social Workers, Daniela Mccroby

Leadership Connection

Through a research grant provided by the Cambia Health Foundation, Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program, a non-profit organization located in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, extends grief support groups to rural/frontier Utah via distance-technology to diminish health care gap in under-served communities.


Differences In The Rothman Index Scores In Evolving Emergent Events In Medical-Surgical Patients, Deborah Cardenas, Cathie E. Guzzetta, Quiping (Pearl) Zhou Oct 2024

Differences In The Rothman Index Scores In Evolving Emergent Events In Medical-Surgical Patients, Deborah Cardenas, Cathie E. Guzzetta, Quiping (Pearl) Zhou

Leadership Connection

The Rothman Index, an early warning system using software integrated with the electronic medical record, provides scores monitoring patient conditions. Minimal findings exist regarding Rothman Index scores in medical-surgical patients. Differences in Rothman Index scores were explored for medical-surgical patients who suffered rapid response, cardiopulmonary resuscitation or death events.


Differences In Cardiovascular Risk Factors In College Students Between Two Regions, Midwest Vs. West Coast, Dieu-My T. Tran Oct 2024

Differences In Cardiovascular Risk Factors In College Students Between Two Regions, Midwest Vs. West Coast, Dieu-My T. Tran

Leadership Connection

This study found that college students are at risk for cardiovascular disease in addition to the differences between regions in regards to cardiovascular risk factors. This implication put forth the initiative for health care providers especially nurses working in colleges to intervene early in this population.


Developing A Transition To Practice Program To Enhance Neonatal Nurse Expertise, Megan Zerillo Oct 2024

Developing A Transition To Practice Program To Enhance Neonatal Nurse Expertise, Megan Zerillo

Leadership Connection

A transition to practice program was implemented in a Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to manage new hire transition into the specialty area. Results of the program were statistically significant and showed improvement in knowledge gained and feeling of preparedness to practice as a nurse in the NICU.


Developing A Chapter Communication Plan To Enhance Member Engagement, Larry Z. Slater, Selena A. Gilles, Vincenza Coughlin Oct 2024

Developing A Chapter Communication Plan To Enhance Member Engagement, Larry Z. Slater, Selena A. Gilles, Vincenza Coughlin

Leadership Connection

The development of a multifaceted communication strategy can assist chapters in building membership engagement and chapter recognition. This can include adding communications to the chapter's structure (e.g., Communication Committee), as well as incorporating multiple avenues of communication (e.g., email blasts, websites, social media, newsletters).


Delta Zeta Chapter Transforming Through Membership Engagement: Connecting, Collaborating, And Catalyzing, Wanda Williams Johnson, Cassandra Dobson, Catherine Alicia Georges Oct 2024

Delta Zeta Chapter Transforming Through Membership Engagement: Connecting, Collaborating, And Catalyzing, Wanda Williams Johnson, Cassandra Dobson, Catherine Alicia Georges

Leadership Connection

The abstract contains information on the amount of work that is done to increase enrollment in the chapter as well as the increased scholarly work currently being done in the chapter. Creative and innovated work is done consistently to meet health care needs of the community that Delta Zeta served.


Cultural Competency Training For Heightened Awareness Of The Hospital Staff And Program, Folorunso (Temmy) Ladipo Oct 2024

Cultural Competency Training For Heightened Awareness Of The Hospital Staff And Program, Folorunso (Temmy) Ladipo

Leadership Connection

Cultural competency training for mental health and addiction hospital staff utilized two tools to increase heightened awareness for the staff in providing a more culturally competent care and culturally competent program at the hospital.


Concerted Management Support In New Graduate Rns: What's It All About?, Megan E. Duffy Oct 2024

Concerted Management Support In New Graduate Rns: What's It All About?, Megan E. Duffy

Leadership Connection

One of the main reasons for the nursing shortage today is due to the inability of hospitals to retain new nurses. By attending this session, participants can expect to learn about one method to improve new graduate nurse retention rates, via a concerted support effort from the nursing management team.


Cost Analysis Of Hospital-Acquired Infections (Hais) Intervention: A Nursing Perspective, David Baba Oct 2024

Cost Analysis Of Hospital-Acquired Infections (Hais) Intervention: A Nursing Perspective, David Baba

Leadership Connection

HAIs are infections suffered by clients while receiving treatment for health problems. The five U.S. major HAIs cost 9.8 billion between 2011 and 2013 (Zimlichman et al., 2013). HAIs represent a major threat to client safety and as well as their economic burden on clients, nurses must be concerned.


Competence In Caring For Patients With Opioid Addiction: A Phenomenological Approach, Natasha M. Maith Oct 2024

Competence In Caring For Patients With Opioid Addiction: A Phenomenological Approach, Natasha M. Maith

Leadership Connection

There is an increasing number of hospital admissions of patients living with the disease of opioid addiction. Building competency amongst nursing students and novice nurses is one step towards increasing the quality of care to these patients.


Compassion Fatigue In The Presence Of Employee Engagement, Carrie Ann Roberts Oct 2024

Compassion Fatigue In The Presence Of Employee Engagement, Carrie Ann Roberts

Leadership Connection

A relationship exists between employee engagement and compassion fatigue. The screening for compassion fatigue in conjunction with employee engagement on acute care nursing units will provide nursing administration the necessary information to promote a caring culture that elicits best outcomes for nursing staff and their patients.


Closing The Loop On A Quality Improvement Project: A Peer-Tutoring Program For Nursing Students, Rebecca Boruff Oct 2024

Closing The Loop On A Quality Improvement Project: A Peer-Tutoring Program For Nursing Students, Rebecca Boruff

Leadership Connection

Faculty planned, implemented and studied a peer tutoring initiative with goals of retention and success of nursing students. Now, the peer tutoring coordinator is closing the loop on a quality improvement cycle. The current focus for improvement is on peer tutor training.


Challenges To Managing Diabetes Among American Indians: Preliminary Findings From A Focus Group Study, Ilse E. Velazquez, Lisa Scarton, Latoya O'Neal, Diana Wilkie Oct 2024

Challenges To Managing Diabetes Among American Indians: Preliminary Findings From A Focus Group Study, Ilse E. Velazquez, Lisa Scarton, Latoya O'Neal, Diana Wilkie

Leadership Connection

The immense disparity in the rates of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) related complications among the American Indian (AI) population, has been connected to the unsuccessful management of T2D. Need for family involvement and multigenerational participation are major factors in effective control and prevention of T2D in AI adults and youth.


Challenges Faced By Deans And Heads Of Departments In Kenyan Public Universities, Naomi Kathure Mutea Oct 2024

Challenges Faced By Deans And Heads Of Departments In Kenyan Public Universities, Naomi Kathure Mutea

Leadership Connection

The presenter will make a posta presentation that will captivate and stimulate thoughts and discussion on academic leadership issues facing educational leaders in Kenya and other developing countries with resource-limited resources.


Catalyzing Your Chapter To The Key Award: Developing An Effective Strategic Plan, Jennifer S. Graber, Jennifer L. Saylor Oct 2024

Catalyzing Your Chapter To The Key Award: Developing An Effective Strategic Plan, Jennifer S. Graber, Jennifer L. Saylor

Leadership Connection

Strong chapter operations create a vibrant chapter. Having a well defined Policy and Procedure Manual and Strategic Plan are imperative steps toward attaining the prestigious Key Award for your chapter. This poster will highlight several areas to help your chapter achieve that next Key Award.


Catalyze Your Chapter Through Program Development, Pia L. Inquito, Jennifer L. Saylor, Jennifer S. Graber, Jacqueline Fabricatore Oct 2024

Catalyze Your Chapter Through Program Development, Pia L. Inquito, Jennifer L. Saylor, Jennifer S. Graber, Jacqueline Fabricatore

Leadership Connection

This poster illustrates the importance of program development through the work of a vibrant Leadership Succession Committee. The chapter cultivates future leaders through participation in service, mentoring, and leadership activities such as evidence-based practice/continuing education meetings and career development/nursing skills boot camp.


Caring For The Poor: Nurses' Attitudes Toward Patients From The Culture Of Poverty, Kimi Collyer Yuchs, C. Elizabeth Bonham Oct 2024

Caring For The Poor: Nurses' Attitudes Toward Patients From The Culture Of Poverty, Kimi Collyer Yuchs, C. Elizabeth Bonham

Leadership Connection

Patients from the culture of poverty are challenged when seeking health care. When nurses are cognizant of their personal attitudes and biases toward poverty, practice may change and improve health outcomes for this population.