Journal of Nursing & Care

International Conference on Nursing & Emergency Medicine

December 02-04, 2013 Hampton Inn Tropicana, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts

• Dosing errors related to improper use of syringes: Dead space and technique

  Melanie A. Jordan

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• Racial micro aggressions and stress: Narratives of African American adults

  Joanne M. Hall and Becky Fields

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• Acute management of the psychiatric patient presenting to the emergency department

  Elda G. Ramirez

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• Pediatric mental health: Responding to a national emergency with school-based interventions

  Robin Fleming

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• Strategies for providing optimal care for children with special health care needs

  Melissa Geist, Valerie Griffin, Kathryn Schertz and Bedelia Russell

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• Research in extreme unusual environments: From surgery to the South Pole

  Sheryl L. Bishop

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• Home visit safety: The brain and behaviors

  Thomas Adamski

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• The trauma charge nurse in the pediatric emergency department

  Rhonda Carter

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• An important role for cancer nurses: Responding to psychosocial distress in cancer patients

  Margaret I. Fitch

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• Cardiac tele-healthcare with video cameras in daily life, especially for rural or disaster areas

  Makoto Yoshizawa

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• Evaluating the outcomes of a violence prevention training program in the emergency department

  Joy Duxbury, Marie Frances Gerdtz, Catherine Daniel, Vikki Dearie, Roshani Prematunga and Merrin Bamert

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• Bed manager nurse’s role in the management of emergency acceptance in hospital

  Angelo Pochini

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• Dementia gets dolled up

  Leah Bisiani

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• Painism model as a way to explore reification attitude toward non-verbal end- stage dementia patient

  Dorit Rubinstein

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• Nurses’ attitudes towards suicide and substance abuse/dependence in medical surgical hospitalized patients

  Kathleen Neville and Nora Roan

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• Effects of synchronous, staggered cognitive therapy of family members on stress response of perioperative patients with lung cancer

  Jing Ping Zhang

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• The complex dual diagnosis of diabetes and cancer

  Crystal Stevens

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• Meeting the supportive care needs of cancer patients

  Margaret I. Fitch

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• Pulmonary suctioning: Quality process and performance indicators

  Pam O’Neal

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• Genomics as cutting edge technology to measure and analyze clinically important genomic variants in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders

  Deborah V. Thomas

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• Nurses’ perceptions of the practice of patient rounding

  Kathleen Neville and Nora Roan

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• Reduce nursing waste time: Basic lean concepts

  Meriam Signo

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• Effects of chewing gum on abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and drug compliance for the patients taking polyethylene glycol solutions in the preparation of undergoing colonoscopy

  Lee Ji Sun, Lee Eun Jin, Kim Yu Mi, Kim Eun, Yu HaNa and Lee YeHRa

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• Intramuscular injection best practices: What does the literature say?

  Mary Shortreed

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• Oral health: An essential component of pediatric nursing practice

  Shelley Spurr

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• Nurses’ attitudes toward nursing sensitive indicators: An online survey in Australia

  XiaoquanXu, Liza Heslop and Lucy Lu

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• Gender differences in the perception of stress and coping strategies in patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment for colorectal cancer

  Sonia Betzabeth Ticona Benavente and Ana Lucia Siqueira Costa

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• Medication documentation in nursing discharge summaries at patient´s discharge from special care to primary care

  Anne Kuusisto and Paula Asikainen

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• Content validation of the nursing diagnosis ineffective breathing in adults

  Jana Mareckova and Sona Bockova

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• Use of iPhone by nurses in acute care settings to improve communication and decision making processes

  Maureen Farrell and Katy Weare

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• The influence of support group intervention on health promoting behaviors and quality of life in Thai women with breast cancer during and after treatment

  Kanaungnit Pongthavornkamo, Pornpun Wanavarodom, Porntip Sareso, Nithima Mahakkakanjana and Martha Meraviglia

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• Impact of a home based care package for elderly on prevention of bedsores

  Sukhpal Kaur

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• Efficacy of ‘medicated sitz bath’ and ‘betadine application in axilla’ on the growth of bacteria in leukemic children

  Sukhwinder Kaur

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• Emergencies in pediatric oncology

  Roganovic Jelena

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• Transitions across settings and the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) program

  Susan E. Hickman, Christine A. Nelson, Esther Smith-Howell and Bernard J. Hammes

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• Relationship based memory care

  Margo Karsten

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• Advance directives: More than just a good idea?

  Joan M. Nelson and Tessa C. Nelson

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• Utilising volunteers to deliver person centred care for people with dementia/delirium in an acute setting

  Kaye Ervin

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• The role of nurses in adult and pediatric biobanks

  Elena Salvaterra

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• Migrants in elderly care-Elderly care for migrants

  Nevin Altintop

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• Sleep patterns and sleeping disorders among low risk and high risk pregnant Saudi women: A comparative approach

  Abeer Eswi and A. El Kiweri

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• The impact of qualitative research on the development of nursing

  Mateja Lorber

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• A study on Lacrimation and associated symptoms of mild dry eye by the application of warm compress among geriatric population (> 60 years of age) at village Dhanas, U.T., Chandigarh.

  Sukhwinder Kaur, Sandhya Ghai, Madhu Malini and Indarjit Walia

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• Hospice nurses’ perspectives of spirituality

  Tiew Lay Hwa

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• An RCT on comparative impact of the two training strategies on the status of maternity preparedness among primigravida women in PGIMER, Chandigarh

  Avinash Kaur Rana, Amarjeet Singh and Vanita Suri

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• Did distinguishing between euthanasia vs. do not resuscitate order (D.N.R) vs. allowing natural death (A.N.D) help to decision making process in

  Dorit Rubinstein

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• Cardiovascular disease in women- assessing primary and secondary risk with valid risk assessment tools

  Elizabeth Scruth

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• Heart failure, guidelines and women: Applying the evidence in 2014

  Leilani A. Siaki

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• Assessment of nursing care needs of elderly in Chandigarh, North India: A pilot study

  Sukhpal Kaur, Amarjeet Singh, Parabjyot Kaur, Ashish Bhalla, Savita Kumari, and Gagan Paul Kaur

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• Experiences of fear by pregnant women living with HIV in Vhembe district Limpopo province of south Africa

  Jeanette Ramakuela

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• Age at menopause and prevalence of symptoms among early postmenopausal women in suburban Chandigarh, India

  Sukhwinder Kaur

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• Knowledge of breast cancer and its early detection measures among rural women in Vhembe district of Limpopo province, South Africa

  M. L. Mangena-Netshikweta

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• Health disparities in acute outcomes of life-threatening injury: Potential mechanisms and implications for nursing practice and research

  Elizabeth NeSmith

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• New modalities in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke and nursing implications

  Catherine Harris

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• Leading change in healthcare

  Pam O’Neal

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• Post-pyloric feeding tube placement by critical care nurses: A performance improvement target

  Mary McCarthy, C. Mount and N. Boyer

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• Changes in intensive care sedation practices over the past decade: how have they impacted on the lived experience of mechanically ventilated patients? A phenomenological inquiry

  C. Tembo Agness

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• Caring for patients receiving therapeutic hypothermia post cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit

  Glen Gardner and Sandra Mac Donald

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• What do patients rate as most important when cared for in ICU

  Ingrid Wahlin

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• Prevention of respiratory tract colonization: Assumptions and evidence

  Irene P. Jongerden

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• Discrepancies in beliefs of the ward and medical emergency team (MET) nurses regarding patients for whom MET is activated

  Imran Khalid

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• IVIG in neonatal sepsis: Alea iacta est

  Volker N. Umlauf

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• Older adults following disasters: A flex-model for long term assessment

  Marlene M. Rosenkoetter

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• The role of the nurse in the fight against childhood obesity

  Elaine M. Rutkowski

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• Pedia BP: Synergy of technology and healthcare: Development of a smartphone application to improve the accuracy and management of hypertension in children and adolescents

  Hope Bussenius

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• Animal-assisted therapy with children with autism spectrum disorder

  William S. Pope

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• Evolution in emergency care: The Pivot team

  Robin Scott and April Koehler

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• Effectiveness of coronary computed tomography as tool in emergency department patients with acute chest pain: A systematic review of the literature

  Joan Catherine Widmer

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• The emergency nurse’s perception of incivility the workplace

  Katy Garth

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• Nursing medical malpractice - The elephant in everyone’s room

  Sandra Bogenrief

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• When mental health and emergency care collide: Maintaining a safe work environment in the emergency department

  Caroline Vierheller

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• Children’s experiences of acute hospitalisation to a paediatric emergency and assessment unit

  Claus Sixtus Jensen

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• Pre-hospital care service in Brazil: Policies and advances

  Andrea Bernardes, Anazilda Carvalho da Silva, Rosana Joaquim Fernandes, Karina Fonseca de Souza Leite, José Carlos Rios and Carmen Silvia Gabriel

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• The journey of patients with acute abdominal pain in the ED, EDOU and surgical assessment unit

  Helen Schultz, Niels Qvist, Christian Backer Mogensen and Birthe D. Pedersen

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• Hospitals’ characteristics impact on 30-day mortality and readmission rates

  Sarah Smith

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• The development of an aggression risk screening process for ED triage: Implementation and preliminary outcomes

  Cathy Daniel, Marie Gerdtz, Stephen Elsom and Jonathan Knott

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• A study to assess the effectiveness of animated cartoons as a distraction to reduce perception of pain and fear among children of 3-6 years age undergoing venipuncture at pediatric surgery ward, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

  Sandhya Ghai

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• Mass gathering health care and disaster management in Saudi Arabia

  Tagwa Omer

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• The effect of kangaroo mother care on physiologic responses to pain of an intramuscular injection in preterm neonates

  Ashraf Mohamadzadeh, Farhat A and Khazainejad S

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• ELSI: The roots of nursing as viewed through a complex synergistic system lens

  Rose E. Constantino

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• Learning through research: Involving students to increase understanding of the role neighborhoods play in health

  Jennifer C. Robinson

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• Hybrid learning in nursing education: Students experience

  Priscilla O. Okunji

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• Palliative care in graduate nursing education

  Elzbieta Sikorska-Simmons

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• Not the same old nursing profession- Effecting the future of nursing

  Doreen Mingo

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• The effect of a model demonstration during debriefing on students’ clinical judgment, selfconfidence, and satisfaction during a simulated learning experience

  Amy Weaver

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• Pilot study: The use of virtual tutoring in baccalaureate nursing education

  John E. Scarbrough

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• The impact of preceptor behavior on the critical thinking skills of beginning ICU nurses

  Mahmoud Kaddoura

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• Leadership education in macro and micro system that impacts quality patient care and involvement in healthcare policy

  Anita C. All

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• Active-learning strategies: The use of a game to reinforce learning in nursing education. A case study

  Lisa Boctor

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• Assessing foundation pediatric nursing knowledge and critical thinking ability of the registered nurse before orientation: A case study

  Christina Ryan-Scott

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• Adopting principles of mission-based management in continuing education administration

  Kimberly Cheramie

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• Married State Preceptorship Model (MSPM): A synergistic collaborative approach in sustaining newly graduated registered nurses' role transition

  Solimar Figueroa

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• Emergence Technologies: Promoting global citizenship and leadership through developing an international module through the use of technology

  Sharon Elizabeth Metcalfe

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• Clinical liaison nurse model in a community hospital: A unique academic- practice partnership that strengthens clinical nursing education

  Catherine P. Lovecchio

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• An exploratory study of caring transaction in nursing education

  Jennifer C. F. Loke

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• Usefulness of nursing documentations in multi-professional collaboration and information exchange in Finland

  Anne Kuusisto

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• Improving mentoring practice via the adaptive mentorship© model

  Edwin G. Ralph

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• Importance of nurses’ knowledge about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome (MCS) at emergency department

  Nami Imai

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• Safety in leadership: Whose role is it?

  Joyce Hendricks

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• Using cultural inclusive teaching practices to motivate culturally and linguistically nursing students to learn and succeed in their academic studies

  Saras Henderson

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• Research findings: Knowledge exchange in the abstract

  Vicki Cope

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• Usefulness of nursing documentations in multi-professional collaboration and information exchange in Finland

  Anne Kuusisto, Pirkko Nykänen and Johanna Kaipio

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• High fidelity simulation educational model about trauma patients in emergency nursing

  Fusun Terzioglu

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• Knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding care of elderly: An Indian perspective

  Sukhpal Kaur, Bhawna Rani, Anoop Kumar, Baljeet Kaur, Sandhya Ghai and Monaliza

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• Performance assessment of graduates of a baccalaureate nursing completion programme: Graduates’ and supervisors’ perceptions

  Philip Onuoha

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