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The abusive relationship of emergency nursing: What is it doing to our nurses?
Emergency nurses face stressful situations daily. These situations have a profound impact resulting in multifaceted effects for emergency nurse. Using Husserl's descriptive phenomenology and Colaizzi's method for data ... -
An academic based nurse practitioner fellowship program: A pilot program to ease nurse practitioner transition to practice
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Graduate nurse practitioners (NPs) face numerous challenges transitioning from registered nurse to advanced practice nurse. They may struggle with role identification, ... -
Academic innovation and relevance: Developing a plan to capture the second-degree nursing student market
Nationally, nursing occupations are projected to grow by 15% between 2016 and 2026, faster than the average of all occupations (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017). Nurse educators are challenged to create new and innovative ... -
Academic integrity: It's more than not cheating
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015, Sunday and November 8, 2015: The introduction of the internet and web-based resources have made it easier to cheat and easier to get caught. As a result many programs and ... -
Academic leadership development: The Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (ENFLA)
(2017-10-09)This session provides an opportunity for the seven 2016/2017 Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Scholars to present outcomes from their individualized leadership projects as well as leadership development goals. ... -
Academic leadership development: The Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (ENFLA) cohort III outcomes
This session provides an opportunity for the nine 2018/2019 Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Scholars (3rd cohort) to present outcomes related to their leadership development. Additional information about ... -
Academic leadership for developing Sri Lanka’s first Master of Nursing Program
The purpose of this project was to establish the first Master of Nursing Programme in Sri Lanka, which will prepare nurses to provide leadership in education, management and research within a complex and dynamic, healthcare ... -
Academic mentoring and job satisfaction of baccalaureate nursing faculty
(2016-03-21)Background/purpose: Nursing faculty are an integral part educating new nurses. The shortage of nursing faculty is estimated to be 7.7% nationally (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2012). According to ... -
Academic service partnerships: Building bridges in a city of bridges and beyond to enhance the student experience
(2012-01-04)The UPMC Academic Service Partnership Council (ASPC) is comprised of academic partners who use the twenty UPMC hospitals and their other healthcare settings for clinical experiences. Academic partners represent doctorate, ... -
An Academic Shared Governance Model for Leadership in an Academic Setting
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: A West Texas university school of nursing (SON) has experienced tremendous growth over the past 14 years in three strategic areas - student enrollment, geographic locations, ... -
Academic-practice collaboration: A framework for promoting palliative and end-of-life care in academic and clinical settings
The purpose of this leadership project is to establish a framework for an academic-practice collaboration to prepare student nurses, new graduates and practicing nurses to provide compassionate, evidence-based palliative ... -
An academic-practice partnership to transition diverse associate degree nursing graduates into acute care and community health settings
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: An exceptional academic-practice partnership, funded by the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), has been developed by a Northeast University, two Associate ... -
Academic-practice partnership: A strategy to increase new graduate nurse retention
(2017-10-23)The purpose of this project is to begin to evaluate the effectiveness of the Nursing Academy (NA), an innovative academic-practice partnership model for the teaching, training and preparation of baccalaureate nursing ... -
Academic/clinical partnerships and the team approach to DNP practice improvement projects
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: This presentation will focus on the win-win situation of partnering with clinical agencies for DNP Capstone Projects and five necessary components of such an approach. ... -
Accessing rural populations for nursing research: Challenges and lessons learned
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: One fourth of the population of the United States lives in rural areas. It is known that those who reside in rural areas tend to have poorer ... -
Accidental late adaptor: Onboarding surgical services to a developed catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention protocol
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: The lack of a unit-based educator for a period of time in surgical services fuelled the development of a nursing staff knowledge deficit regarding a hospital-wide evidence-based ... -
Accountability among baccalaureate nursing students: Definitions, perceptions, and engagement practices of accountability
(2017-09-18)The purpose of this study was to explore, describe, and define student perceptions of accountability. Study findings suggested students understood the importance of accountability but were unable to verbalize a definition. ... -
The accuracy of machine learning to predict cardiac arrest: A systematic review
This systematic review sought to determine if machine learning models more accurately predict in-hospital cardiac arrest when compared to the modified early warning score. Five of five studies demonstrated that machine ... -
Achieving certification for a nurse-run school-based health center in Nevada
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: On December 4, 2014, the Joel and Carol Bower School Based Health Center became the first of seven school-based health centers in the state of Nevada to achieve state ... -
Achieving Cholesterol Management Goals: Identifying Clinician-Centered Challenges to Optimal Patient Care
(2017-09-27)Optimal cholesterol lowering is still a challenge and many clinicians are unsuccessful in achieving this target. This study examined the practices of clinicians in regard to their adherence to nationally recognized guidelines ...