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Sacred Valley Health: A global organization with a local impact
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Sacred Valley Health (SVH) is a US 501 c3 nonprofit organization working in Ollantaytambo, Peru. The mission of SVH is to promote health in the underserved, rural communities ... -
Safety auditing as a nursing accountability measure for hospital fall prevention
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Preventing falls is important to patient safety. Despite 15 years of focused, evidence-based efforts our hospital was not consistently reducing falls to desired benchmarks. ... -
Safety climate: Perception of professionals in an emergency unit
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Introduction: The emergency medical services, characterized as challenging and dynamic environments, are considered particularly prone to adverse ... -
Safety rounds: Improving multidisciplinary communication
(2017-09-20)The Joint Commission describes communication as a key component of sentinel events. Obstetric Safety Rounds provides a forum for the exchange of information between medical providers and nurses thereby improving communication. ... -
Save Stan turns five: A large-scale interprofessional practice and academe innovation
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: Description of the Event: The Interdisciplinary Health Education Partnership (IHEP) is an inter-institutional, interprofessional team comprised of healthcare simulation ... -
Say "I Do": Engaging Students and Reducing Attrition Through Active Learning Strategies
The purpose of this project was to assess the effect of active learning strategies utilized in medical-surgical nursing on Fall-to-Fall attrition rates. Another aim was to examine the effect of active learning on Fall-to-Fall ... -
SBIRT implementation training for undergraduate nursing students
(2017-10-13)Project to implement evidence-based screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment (SBIRT) with pre-licensure nursing students. Describes formative adaption of SBIRT curriculum. Evaluates students for perception ... -
Scaffolding EBP knowledge and skills: BSN through DNP
Preparation of students for evidence-based practice is an essential component of professional nursing education. This presentation describes the trajectory of EBP knowledge and skill development beginning at the baccalaureate ... -
Scaling up nurse education: An evaluation of a national PhD capacity development programme in South Africa
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Background: The global shortage of nursing professionals educated at baccalaureate level and beyond has been highlighted and the impact of this ... -
Scientific exploration into Pokémon GO©: A detailed examination of family experiences and motivations for use
(2017-10-25)The purpose of this project is to provide an overview of the Pokemon GO user-experience from a family perspective and to gain insight into theory, motivation, and the potential utility of augmented reality as an mHealth ... -
Scoping nursing's roles in disasters through participation in community disaster drills
(2017-09-20)This presentation will discuss educational opportunities related to disaster nursing and identify potential nursing roles in the phases of disasters through participation in various disaster drills, activities in the ... -
Scoping review: Medication adherence in type 2 diabetes
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: In 2010, the most recent years for which national prevalence data are available, diabetes affects 25.8 million people, approximately 8.3% of ... -
A scoping review: Parental readiness to transition a college-bound emerging adult with type 1 diabetes
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss existing research and identify gaps in the literature to inform recommendations for future research about factors that promote readiness to transition in parents of emerging ... -
Screening adolescent females: An evidence-based practice research project
(2017-10-10)This evidence based practice project will focus on substantiating an intervention that can assist in screening young women for chlamydia, during their annual comprehensive physical examination. -
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment implementation localization
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based intervention for substance use disorder; however, rate of implementation is low. This project describes the localized process of SBIRT ... -
Searching for Clinical Guidelines, Algorithms, and Mixed Methods Studies: What's Wrong with PICO?
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Background Information: The Population-Intervention-Comparison-Outcome (PICO) format has often been promoted in nursing as the best method to formulate a clinical question ... -
Secondary analysis of cultural domains among Filipino nursing students
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: The purpose of this study was to describe the commonality and variability within cultural domains of communication, family roles & organization, pregnancy & childbearing, ... -
Secondary Emotional Labor: Supervisor Support vs. Non-Support of the Emotional Labor of Hospice Nurses
(2017-09-15)We present two dynamics among nurses and supervisors in Hospice Interdisciplinary Group Meetings: Supervisors encouraging nurses to process their emotional labor with patients and in contrast, supervisors suppressing these ... -
Secondary prevention in patients admitted with hip fracture
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Geriatric hip fractures have become nearly epidemic in the United States with over 2 million fractures each year, more than heart attacks, ... -
Secretary daily rounding: It works!
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Introduction: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a metric that represents the patient's perception of quality care received. Data ...