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37th Biennial Convention - Scientific Session
Sigma Theta Tau International
Toronto, Ontario  Canada

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 Monday, November 3, 2003

 7:30 AM-9:00 AM
Accepted Posters 
Rising Stars of Scholarship and Research 

 9:00 AM-10:15 AM
Plenary Session II -- Episteme Laureate Presentation 

 10:30 AM-11:45 AM
Adolescence 
Alternative Care 
An International Examination of the Cost of Turnover and Its Impact on Patient Safety and Nurse Outcomes 
Behavioral Interventions 
Building Partnerships in Nursing Research 
Curriculum Strategies 
E.R. Nursing 
Evidence in Nursing 
Families Struggling with Depression 
Family Health 
Health Care Delivery Problem Solving 
Health During Pregnancy and Delivery 
Health of School Age Children 
Healthy Infants 
Homecare for High Risk 
Infant Care 
Invited Session: The Art and Science of Pediatric Palliative Care 
Issues in Nursing Research 
Nursing History 
Testing the Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Intervention for Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) 
The Nursing Experience 
The Patient Factor: Adherence Predicts Outcome across Chronic Disorders 
Theory and Research 
Transcultural Nursing 
Using Perspective in Qualitative Inquiry 
Violence Against Women 
Women and Aging 
Women and Cancer 
Women and HIV 

 1:30 PM-2:45 PM
Advanced Practice Nursing 
Assisting People with a Persistent Mental Illness 
Collaboration in Research/ Nursing Education 
Creating Quality Work Environments for Nurses 
Critical Care Nursing 
Development of the CATS: Child-Adolescent Teasing Scale 
Empowerment in Nursing 
Family Care Givers 
HIV Prevention 
Health Promotion 
High Risk Children 
Homecare Delivery 
Innovation in Health Care 
Invited Session: Building a Program of Research through Relationships, Repetition and Reality Testing 
Measurement in Nursing Education 
Mother/Infant Care 
Novice to Expert 
Nursing Sensitive Outcomes 
Nursing Work Force 
Organizational Environment 
Pain Management 
Professionalism and Nursing 
Satisfaction of Patients and Nurses 
Testing through Research Methodology 
The Journey of Science and Policy 
Understanding Health 
Well-being of Nursing Students 
Women, Wellness, and Heart Issues 
Work Place Issues 

 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Adults and Chronic Illness 
Art and Science of Nursing 
Caring and Advocacy for the Suffering 
Children and Chronic Illness 
Critical Thinking/ Clinical Reasoning 
Cultivating Discoveries in Patient Safety  
Distance Education 
Experiencing a Chronic Illness 
Faculty Competence/ Caring 
Families at Risk 
Global Research Collaboration 
Health Promotion Behavior 
High Risk Behavior 
Informatics in Nursing Education 
Interventions for Pain 
Invited Session: Methods and Issues in Translation Science 
Lipodystrophic Symptomatology, Medication Adherence, Depression, CAM Therapies, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons with HIV Disease 
Maximizing the Nursing Role 
Measuring Outcomes 
Palliative Care and the Adult Patient 
Patients with Diabetes 
Practice Knowledge 
Primary Health Care Development: Lessons Learned from Global Research Collaborations 
Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nursing 
Quality of Life for Cancer Patients 
Quality of Life for Those with HIV 
Research Development 
School Health Nursing 
Well-being of Elderly 
Women's Health