Saturday, November 1, 2003
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 2, 2003
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Sunday, November 2, 2003
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Accepted Posters

 A Random Control Trial Study of a 6-week Arthritis Self-Management Programme (ASMP) for Outpatients with Arthritis in Hong Kong
Yin Bing Yip, RN, PhD, Janet W.H. Sit, RN, PhD, Samantha Y.C. Chong, RN, RM, MSc(HCM), L.H. Chung, RN, RM, MSc(Nursing), Doris Y.S. Wong, RN, MHA
 A Study of Patient Satisfaction in Psychiatric Unit in Taiwan
Mei-bih Chen, RN, MSN, Sing-ling Tsai, RN, PhD
 Chemotherapy Error Reduction With Multidisciplinary Templated Orders
Constance D. Dinning, BA, BSN, RN
 Children in Out-of-Home Placements: An Innovative Nursing Practice
Sara G. Fuller, RNCS, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, Phyllis K.C. Poyner, MSN, PNP
 Collegiate Exchange in Nursing Education: USA and Australia
Pamela Adamshick, RN, MSN, Janet Sipple, RN, EdD
 Creation of a Close Call Reporting System Through a Multidisciplinary Consensus Building Exercise
Debora Simmons, RN, MSN, CCRN, CCNS
 Cultural Attitudes, Knowledge and Skill of a Health Workforce: Caring for a Largely Hispanic Immigrant Population
Mary Elaine Jones, PhD, RN, Mary Lou Bond, PhD, RN
 Decreasing UTI's in a Large Rural (6) Hospital System by Nursing Education and Systems Approach
Kevin J. Ribby, MSN, RN, APRN, BC, Donna B. Lewis, RN, MSN, CFNP
 Developing an Instrument to Study the Nurse's Intention to Advocate for Patients
Xiaoyan Bu, RN, BSN, MSN, PNP
 Development of a Fall Risk Assessment Tool for a Hong Kong Hospital
Meyrick C.M. Chow, MA, Lung-sing Tsui, BSN, Karen Lam, BScHC
 End-of-Life In Intensive Care: A Survey of Primary Care Nurses Caring For Patients on Comfort Care
Terry C. Segelke, RN, MSN, CCRN, Myrna Lucas-Fleming, RN, MSN, CCRN, Avelina D. Estepa, RN, MSN, PHN, Nazir Jamal Habib, MD
 Enhancing Nursing Students' Drug Knowledge and Mathematical Ability Via a Web-Based Learning System - A Pilot Project
Meyrick C.M. Chow, MA, Sau-fong Leung, MSN, Filomena L.W. Chow, PhD, Lorna K.P. Suen, PhD
 Evidence-Based Patient Education in Oncology Nursing: Achieving Positive Patient Outcomes Through Collaborative Partnerships and Mentoring
Karen Lock, RN, BScN, CON(C), Barbara Willson, RN, BN, MS, CON(C)
 Families in Transition: Incarcerated Women Re/Connecting with Family
Janette Taylor, PhD, RN, WHCNP, Michele Eliason, PhD, RN
 Feet Can Last a Lifetime Clinic
Pamela Jean Frable, ND, RN
 Finding More Meaning: The Antecedents of Uncertainty Revisited
Meredith Wallace, PhD, APRN
 Gynecological Care of Elderly Women in Assisted Living Situations
Linda H Snell, DNS, WHNP-C, Pamela Miller, MS, WHNP-C, Karen A Piotrowski, MS, RN-C
 Health Promotion Programs Among Kakuma Refugee Youth
Ruby K. Dunlap, EdD
 Healthy Kids Learn
Chris Reid, MSN, CCBE, Judith Conedera, RN, MSN, CPNP
 HIV/AIDS and Advance Directives: A Review and Recommendations for Practice
Craig R. Sellers, MS, RN, APRN, BC, ANP
 ICU: Intensive Clinical Unit
Barbara James, DSN, RN, Pamela Ahlfeld, MS, RN
 Mother's Decision Making and Needs in Maternity Care: A Survey
Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen, PhD, RN, RM, FEANS
 Osteoporosis Screening in an Inner-city Family Practice
Karol Rejman, MS, FNP
 Pain in the Elderly with Cognitive Impairment
Kevin Woo, BScN, MSc, ACNP, GNC(C)
 Partnership for Learning: A Non-Terminal Externship Experience
Kathy Lynn Rush, PhD, RN, Karen A. Peel, MN, RN, Barbara McCracken, MSN, RN
 Partnerships and Strategies for Effective Health Promotion to Vulnerable Populations
Evelyn R. Hayes, PhD, RN, CS-FNP, Lisa Plowfield, PhD, RN, Bethany Hall-Long, PhD, RN
 Primary Care Training Partnership
Elizabeth G. Nichols, RN, DNS, FAAN, Lona Milburn, PhD, RN, Alana Knudson-Buresh, PhD, H. David Wilson, MD, John R. Baird, MD, Eleanor Dossenko, BS, RN, Mechri Nedirova, MD, John Joyce, MD
 Relationship of EBP, Student Perspectives of "Evidence", and Student Judgment Development
Deborah Navedo, MSN
 Religious Coping Styles, Medical Problems, & Health Service Utilization: Race Differences among Elderly Females
Pamela D. Ark, PhD, RN, Baqar A. Husaini, PhD
 Retrospective Study of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status at Intensive Care Unit in Korea
Sung-hee Ahn, RN, PhD, Kyung-mi Kim, RN, PhD, CIC
 Risk, Protection, and Resilience: Screening Elderly Women to Prevent Abuse and Neglect in Primary Care
Virginia L. Cronin, MS, RN, FNP-C, Carol Scheel Gavan, EdD, RN
 Staying Sober: The Identified Contextual Factors that Foster and Hinder the Process of Recovery from Alcoholism for Women Alcoholics
M. Kathleen Brewer, PhD, RN, CNS
 Student Nurse to RN Transition
Annette I. Peery, MSN, RN, CDE, Philip W. Julian, MSN, BSN, RN
 Students and Community Leaders as Partners in Grant Writing
Samantha S. Gueldenzopf, N/A, Susan Diemert Moch, RN, PhD
 Symptom Management within the Forensic Outpatient Treatment Setting
Maxima Encinares, RN, MScN, CPMHN, Jim McNamee, MSW, RSW
 Teaching Legal & Regulatory Issues in Nursing
Ann Mech, JD, RN
 Testing Unidimensional Measures of State Anxiety
M. Cecilia Wendler, RN, PhD, CCRN
 The Comparison of Pre and Post Nursing Competence and Influencing Factors in Implementing Clinical Ladder Systems
Nanly Hsu, BSN, MSN, PhD
 The Practice of Kangaroo Care for Preterm Infants in Taiwan: A Cultural Perspective
Miao-Ju Chwo, PhD, RN, Chan-Chuan Fang, MS, RN
 Traditional Versus Evidence-Based Practice: Reducing Catheter-Related Blood-Stream Infections
Susanne Lori Nelson, BScN
 Validation of the Differentiation of Self Inventory for Adolescents
Donna G. Knauth, PhD, RNC, Elizabeth A. Skowron, PhD
 Workforce Enhancement: Instilling Value in the Nursing Role and Basic Health Teaching to Elementary School Children Through Nursing Student Projects
Margaret G. Balster, RN, MS, Terri Olson, RN, MS
 Ambulatory Regional Anesthesia/Analgesia: A Quality Initiative Improvement
Kim E. Horrill, RN, MScN, ACNP, Margo Bettger-Hahn, RN, MScN
 OMAHA Outcomes Study: Geriatric Nurse Managed Centers
Daryl L. Canham, EdD, RN, C, Victoria Finck, MS, RN, Estelita Santos, MS, RN, Judith Monahan, MS, RN
 On the Postoperative Delirium Experiences in ICU Patient
Yuko Shiraishi, N/A
 The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Nursing Fellowship: Introducing Cancer Care to the Next Generation of Nurses
Joan M. Agretelis, PhD, RN, Joan Gallagher, EdD, RN, Jacqueline Somerville, MS, RN, Amanda B. Coakley, PhD, RN
 A Collaborative Partnership Model to Increase Students' Community-Based Knowledge and Meet the Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations
Kathleen A. Sternas, PhD, RN, Mary Ann Scharf, EdD
 Concept Mapping: A Nursing Model for Care Planning
Peggy L. Wros, RN, PhD, Jana Doughty Taylor, RN, MS, HNC, CHTP
 Development of a Metroplex Perinatal Education Consortium
Virginia A. Gill, RNC, BSN, Barbara True-Driver, RNC, MN
 e-OASIS (electronic Outcome Assessment of Students in Independent Settings)
Audrey Bopp, RN, MSN, Pamela Korte, RN, MS
 Pain Management: A Multidisciplinary Partnership with Patients and Their Families
Gwenyth Wallen, PhD, RN, Jan Yates, PhD, RN, Linda McCullagh, MPH, RN, Karen Baker, MSN, RN
 Use of Guided Imagery to Enhance Outcomes in Joint Replacement Patients
Denise Kresevic, PhD, Gloria Antall, ND
 Positive and Negative Outcomes of Parental Grief Transition at End of Life
Linda Phillips Riley, RN, MSN
 A Framework for Community Based Partnerships for Pediatric Health Care
Daryl L. Canham, EdD, RN, C, Marian K. Yoder, EdD, RN, Jayne M. Cohen, DNSc, RNC, NP, Merle Kataoka-Yahiro, DrPH, RNC, APRN
 A Model for the Intentional Use of Vibrational Energies to Affect Learning, Healing, and Human Growth
Carole Cayer, MS, MN, F. Douglas Tratchel, N/A, Corey D. Hawkins, RN, BSN
 Creation of a Critical Care Transition Team for Improved Patient Care and Outcomes
Sandra Devlin, RN, MScN, CHE, Mary H. Van Soeren, RN, PhD, ACNP, Fabrice P. Brunet, MD, MHA, PhD, FRCPC, Jeffrey Wasserman, MD, FRCPC
 The Development of an Indigenous Definition and Model of Nursing in Chinese Community
Thomas K. S. Wong, RN, PhD, Samantha Pang, PhD
 Children's Perceptions of the Costs and Rewards of Diabetes and its Treatment
Judith Herrman, RN, MS
 Making a Difference through Teamwork
Debra A. Beauchaine, MN, ARNP, Anne Bailey, MN, RN
 Counting the Cost of Cultural Diversity
Carol Cox, PhD, MSc, MA, Ed, PG, Dip, Ed, B
 Partnering to Decrease Barriers to Health Promotion Needs of Community-Residing Hispanic Elderly
Sara Elizabeth Kolb, PhD, Jean Deliganis, PhD, Irene Gilliland, MSN, CNS
 Should Clinical Tools be Used for Research? An Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Genogram
JoEllen M. Murata, RN, PhD, FNP
 Partnering in the Web Environment for Enhanced Education and Practice Outcomes
Roxie Thompson Isherwood, RN, BN, MEd
 Predictors of an Eating Disorder of College Women in Korea
Mi-Hae Sung, RN, PhD
 Restraints Are Not Reduced In A Day - From Discussion to Action
Paula Smyth, RN, BSCN, Terrie Dean, RN, BA, Diane Carter, RN, Sonya Kochanski, BSC(OT), OT, Reg, (Ont)
 Results From An Effective TableTop Exercise: Lessons for Nurses
Terri Rebmann, RN, MSN, CIC, Shelly Schechter, RN, R. Gregory Evans, PhD, MPH
 Design and Testing of Symptom Scales: Shortness of Breath Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and Symptom Rating Scale
Deborah Judd, MSN, RN-C, FNP, Mary Jo Goolsby, EDD, MSN, APRN-C, FAANP
 The Health Professions Pharmacology Task Force: A Collaborative Partnership Approach to Problem Resolution
Joan Paternoster, RN, PhD, Luz Rebecca DeGuzman, MS, MD, Charles Ford, BA, MTOM, Helaine Hertzlich, MSN, RN, APRN, BC, Nanette W. Hyland, MS, PT
 Role of the Nurse in Bioterrorism Preparedness: A New Training Resource
Terri Rebmann, RN, MSN, CIC, Ruth Carrico, PhD, RN, CIC, R. Gregory Evans, PhD, MPH
 Using Distance Learning to Teach Informatics to Multi-National RN-BSN Completion Students
Janet T. Ihlenfeld, RN, PhD, Carole A. Gutt, RN, EdD
 Sharing Nursing Faculty Between Hospitals and Schools of Nursing
Robin Toms, PhD, RN, CNAA
 Transition to Professional Nursing Practice
Lynn L. Wiles, MSN, RN

37th Biennial Convention - Clinical Sessions
Sigma Theta Tau International