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Relationships Between Mindfulness, Nonacademic Factors, Stress, And Test Performance: A Cross-Sectional Study, Rebecca A. Baumeister

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Successful test performance is essential to nursing students. Poor performance comes with consequences such as inability to progress or removal from the program, leading to attrition. The influence of academic factors on test performance have been widely researched and stress is known to hinder it, yet other factors may also impact test performance.

Dispositional mindfulness has the potential to support test performance, but no known studies have focused on these two variables among undergraduate nursing students. A gap also exists in relation to the influence of nonacademic factors on undergraduate nursing students’ test performance. Due to the ongoing nursing shortage, …

Implementation Of A Protocol In The Freestanding Emergency Department To Screen For And Identify Possible Victims Of Human Trafficking, Joe Alvarado

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Human trafficking (HT) victims often seek medical care in the emergency room setting. In a recent study among HT survivors, 88% attested to receiving medical care while in captivity, with 63% treated in the emergency care setting. Freestanding emergency departments typically have lower acuity and lower patient volumes than hospital-based emergency departments. This setting creates shorter wait times and minimizes the length of stay at every point during the emergency room experience. For traffickers, this is an ideal situation if their victim needs medical attention, and they want to get in and get out of the emergency room with less …

Increasing Perioperative Outpatient Nurses’ Knowledge Of Pediatric Anxiety Through Use Of A Developed Clinical Guide, Christine Oliver

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Elevated perioperative anxiety levels in the pediatric population is a main concern when providing nursing care in a specialty area. In the United States, over five million pediatric patients will have some type of surgery each year and greater than 65 percent of those pediatric patients will exhibit preoperative anxiety. The care of pediatric patients in the outpatient surgical setting has grown significantly, and pediatric care is no longer restricted to specialized facilities or hospitals. This increased number of pediatric patients in day surgery centers has created a shift in nursing care for perioperative nurses. Anxiety has been directly related …