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The 17th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice (19-22 July 2006)

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Monday, 17 July 2006
8:30 AM-5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Best Practice Guidelines: Powerful Tools for Creating Clinical Excellence and Healthy Work Environments
WORKSHOP: Implementing Evidence in Practice
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
8:30 AM-5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Evidence-Based Practice: Building Knowledge & Skills to Advance a Best Practice Culture
WORKSHOP: The Role of Qualitative Evidence in Systematic Reviews
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
Plenary I - Improving Health Care Service Delivery through Collaborative Research
9:30 AM-10:00 AM
Poster Presentations I
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Acute Care Initiatives
End-of-Life Models and Studies
Evidence-Based Decision Making: From Bedside to Boardroom
Evidence-Based Practice Awareness Project: Peer-to-Peer Dissemination
Evidence-Based Practice Implications for Public Policy
Evidence-Based Practice Models
Global Collaboration Strategies
Health Promotion for Cardiac Patients
Informatics and Technology in Nursing
Initiatives for Culturally Competent Care
Nursing Education Strategies
Nursing Research Methods and Models
Nursing Research Residency: An Academic-Practice Partnership
Providing Care Within an Appropriate Cultural Context
Women Abuse Survivors Becoming Resolute: An Interdisciplinary Narrative Analysis
Your Patient with COPD has Arrived: Comparison of Pretest and Posttest Scores to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Healthcare Simulation Exercise
1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Advanced Practice Nursing Initiatives
Alternative Health Practices
Creating Culturally Competent Healthcare Organizations Through a Shared Vision
Developing and Testing Instruments and Scales
Education Initiatives to Support Evidence-Based Nursing
Evidence-Based Practice Outcomes: Measuring and Monitoring Strategies
Implementing an EBP Study in the Clinical Setting: A Focus on Process
Issues Related to the Psychological Effects of Terrorism: Findings from a Tour of the Israeli Health System
Mental Health Initiatives for Adults
Palliative Care Issues and Studies
Strategies in Nursing Administration
Teaching Nurse Practitioner Students: Issues of Cultural Diversity and Health Disparities
Techniques and Tools for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
Techniques for Nursing Education
Women's Health Issues Examined
Workforce Environment Initiatives
2:30 PM-3:00 PM
Poster Presentations I
3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Adult Health
Child and Adolescent Health Initiatives
Collaborative Teams Initiatives
Community Based Care Strategies
Community Health Initiatives
Cultural Competence in Nursing Students
Health Issues for Adult Women
Healthcare Disparities
International Perspectives on the Individual Cancer Experience
Leadership and Management Strategies
Moving the Evidence to the Bedside: Patient and Family Centered Care
Nursing Management of Hypertension: A Best Practice Guideline
Strategies for Care of the Chronically Ill
Strategies in the Acute Care Setting
Strategies to Improve Mental Health and Coping
Unique Approaches to Nursing Education
Thursday, 20 July 2006
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Adult Mental Health Issues and Innovations
Best Practices in Nursing Education
Caregiver and Home Health Issues
Comparison of Three Education Strategies for Nursing with Older Adults
Creating an Evidence-Based Nursing Environment
Developing Surveys and Scales
Evidence-Based Nursing and Public Policy: Issues Identified
Indigenous People's Healthcare Disparities
Measuring Evidence-Based Practice Outcomes
Nursing Education Designs and Models
Outcomes Measurement
Partnering to Advance Evidence-Based Practice: The Pace University and Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Experience
Quality of Life: International Perspectives on Aging
Research Theoretical and Methodological Strategies
Special Session: Creating Communities
Well-Being: Theoretical Perspectives, Measures, and Clinical Applications
10:00 AM-10:30 AM
Poster Presentations II
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Chronic Care Initiatives
Community-Based Care Initiatives
Education Strategies to Foster Evidence-Based Nursing
Empowering Future Nurses to Use Evidence-Based Practice through Educational Strategies
Ethical Issues
Evaluating the Attitudes and Perceptions of Student Nurses
Evidence-Based Practice for Children with Diabetes
Innovations in Nursing Education
Interventions for Women's Health Issues
Long-Term Care Initiatives
Models for Nurses' Work Environment
Nurse-Managed Health Centers: A Growing Movement to Serve the Healthcare Needs of Vulnerable and Underserved Communities
Nursing Education Projects and Studies
Special Session: Affiliating a School of Nursing with Sigma Theta Tau International Through a Chapter
The Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings
The Trials and Tribulations of Developing and Conducting Multi-Center Research Studies
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Acute Care Models and Strategies
Adolescent Health Issues
Advancing Evidence-Based Management
Care for Person's with Alzheimer's
Caring for the Chronically Ill
Exercise Programs to Improve Health
Family Health Initiatives
Initiatives to Create an Evidence-Based Nursing Environment
Issues in Child and Adolescent Health
Nursing Leadership and Management Initiatives
Public Health Strategies
Special Session: Towards a Healthy Work Environment: Renovating the Workplace Using the Tools of Best Practice Guidelines
Strategies Addressing Women's Health Issues
Strategies for Chronic Care Issues
The Development and Implementation of a Collaborative Partnership Between Practice and Education for Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Unique Innovations in Nursing Education
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Poster Presentations II
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
A Roadmap for Planning and Implementing an Effective Culturally Competent Nursing Program: An Academic Medical Center Experience
An Innovative Process for Work Environment Enhancement: An Analysis of Final Data and Lessons Learned
Caring for the Chronically Ill: Models and Programs
Creating an Evidence-Based Nursing Environment: Strategies & Initiatives
Cultural Issues with Adult Men and Women
Developing Measurement Scales and Inventories
EBP Competency and Culture: Developing Education and Resources in a Magnet Hospital
Health Promotion Strategies
Initiatives for Adult Women's Health Issues
Maternal-Child Care Strategies
Preparing Nurses for Tomorrow's Healthcare
Psychiatric/Mental Health for Children and Adolescents
Strategies for Child and Adolescent Health
Strategies for the Chronically Ill
Supporting Evidence-Based Nursing: Innovative Methods
Using Evidence to Enhance Patient Care
Friday, 21 July 2006
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Adult Women and Cancer Issues
Community Health Collaboration and Models
Evidence to Guide Best Practice with Overweight Children & Adolescents
Family Health Strategies
Health Promotion Initiatives
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Role of Academic-Clinical Partnerships
Issues of the Hospitalized Elderly
Measurement: Design and Development of Instrumentation to Assess Patient Attitudes and Beliefs and to Collect Background Information
Methodological Issues in Translational Research
Models and Strategies to Care for the Chronically Ill
Models for Child and Adolescent Healthcare Issues
Obtaining Evidence of Reliability and Validity for Computerized Examinations Used in Graduate and Undergraduate Nursing Programs
Patient, Staff, and Family Education Initiatives
Research Testing Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Base Practice
Studies and Assessments of Student Nurses
Workforce Enhancement Issues and Strategies
10:00 AM-10:30 AM
Poster Presentations III
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Collaborative Partnership: Service Learning Through a ‘Unique Lens’
Complementary and Alternative Health Practices
Creating a Culture for Evidence-Based Practice: One Institution's Story
Culturally Competent Care Practices
EBP Innovations in Specialty Nursing Organizations: A Model for Clinical Practice Guideline Development and Dissemination
Factoring Students in the Evidence-Based Practice Equation
Issues and Initiatives in the Workforce
Nursing Administration Issues
Nursing Education: Empowering Students
Nursing Education: How Students Study and Learn
Professional Nursing Education Initiatives
Programs and Models in Acute Care
Special Session: Evidence-Based Practice and Informatics - Panel
Transformational Learning: Nurturing the Second Career Student
Using Evidence to Approach Child Healthcare Issues
Women's Cardiac and Mental Health Issues
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Plenary II - Global Collaborations in Evidence-Based Practice
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Advancing Information Literacy Knowledge and Skills Through Collaboration: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Care of Aging Persons
Cultural Beliefs and Healthcare
Evidence-Based Nursing Implementation Initiatives
Fostering Evidence-Based Nursing: Education Initiatives
HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases
Health Experiences of Adult Women
Health Promotion Studies and Projects
Initiatives for Child and Adolescent Health Issues
Leadership Roles for Supporting Evidence-Based Care Delivery
Management Strategies to Create an Evidence-Based Nursing Environment
Primary Care Strategies and Instruments
Promoting Excellence: An Evidence-Based Practice Approach in a Children's Hospital
Psychiatric/Mental Health Issues and Strategies
Special Session: AHRQ Evidence-Based Practice Resources for Nurses
Using A Collaborative Research Utilization Model to Translate Evidence-Based Best Practices in a Magnet Community Hospital
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Poster Presentations III
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
ADHCC Research Collaborative: Long Term Healthcare Solutions in Short Term Reimbursement Environments
Acute Care Issues and Initiatives
Career Building for Nurse Retention
Caring for the Caregiver
Collaboration is the Key to Advancing EBP: Locally, Regionally, Nationally & Globally
Critical Care Initiatives
Developing Measurement Instruments
Diverse Studies of Nursing Education
Education Initiatives to Foster Evidence-Based Nursing
From Research to Practice: Initiatives and Strategies
Health Concerns for Adult Women
New Models in Nursing Education
Research Theory and Methods
Strategies to Improve Adult Health
Using Evidence to Determine Health Strategies
Women and Family Issues & Strategies
Saturday, 22 July 2006
8:15 AM-9:45 AM
Care Models and Programs for the Chronically Ill
Collaborative Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Nursing in a Hospital Setting
Creating an Evidence-Based Nursing Environment: Leadership Strategies
Creative Strategies for Nursing Education
Health Human Resource Modeling: Challenging the Past, Creating the Future
Initiatives in the Acute Care Setting
Nursing Leadership Strategies
Public Health Initiatives
Research Strategies and Instruments
Strategies in Critical Care
Strategies to Help Caregivers
Strategies to Promote Health to High Risk Populations
Stress and Healthcare Needs of Women
Studies and Models for Child and Adolescent Health Issues
The Cage Model: An Evidence-Based Model for Enhancing Global Learning
Work Environment Strategies and Models
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Acute Care Updates and Strategies
Analysis and Studies of Nursing Education
Children and Adolescents with Healthcare Issues
Clinical Strategies and Techniques
Creative Use of Technology
Cultural Influences on Healthcare
Global Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Create Evidence-Based Practice Environments
Implementing EBP in an Educational Setting: A Team Approach
Measurement and Instrument Development
Men's Health Issues
Military Nursing Care and Nurse Retention
Psychiatric/Mental Health Issues and Initiatives
Strategies for Care of the Aging
Supporting Evidence-Based Nursing: Educational Initiatives
Translating Research into Practice
Workforce Issues with a Global Perspective
11:45 AM-1:00 PM
Care of the Adult Mental Health Patient
Developing and Testing Measurement Instruments
Health Policy Issues
Implementing Evidence-Based Nursing
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Research Testing Initiatives
Indigenous People's Health Issues
Initiatives for Cancer Patients
Initiatives for Persons with Dementia
Initiatives in Nursing Administration
Nursing Research Methodological Strategies
Pediatric Issues and Initiatives
Psychological and Sociological Studies and Strategies
Smoking Cessation Strategies
Special Session: The Nursing Perspective: Why and How to Involve Nursing Staff in the Hospital Design Process
State of the Science in Translational Research
Terminology Used in Evidence-Based Practice Work and Studies
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Plenary III - Transforming Health Care: Nursing Holds the Key
Unscheduled Session
Accepted Oral Presentations for 17th Congress
Accepted Oral Presentations for 4th EBP Preconference
Accepted Posters for 4th EBP Preconference
Acute Care
Acute Care populations/settings
Adult Health
Advanced Practice Nursing
Aging & Health
All Accepted Posters
Ambulatory Care populations/settings
Child/Adolescent Health
Chronic Care populations/settings
Chronic Illness
Community-based Care
Community/Home/Public Health
Complementary/Alternative Health Practices
Critical Care
Cultural Diversity
Culturally Competent Care
Education strategies to support evidence-based nursing
End of Life/Palliative Care
Ethics
Evidence-Based Nursing Implementation/Research Utilization/Translation Research
Evidence-based nursing implications for public policy
Family Health
Forensic Nursing
Global Collaboration
Global perspectives in conducting translational research
HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases
Health Policy
Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
Healthcare Disparities
Healthcare Disparities & Indigenous People’s Health
Informatics/Technology
Leadership/Management strategies to create an evidence-based nursing environment
Measurement/Instrument Development
Measuring and monitoring evidence-based nursing outcomes
Men’s Health
Methodological and measurement issues in translational research
Mother, Babies and Family Health
Nursing Administration/Nursing Leadership
Nursing Education
Nursing History
Nursing Workforce
Other
Other
Outcomes Measurement
Primary Care
Primary Care populations/settings
Psychiatric Mental Health for Child/Adolescent
Psychiatric/Mental Health for Adults
Research testing strategies for implementation of evidence-based practices
State of the science in translational research
Subacute Care (i.e., rehab/extended care facilities, long-term care) populations/settings
Terminology used in evidence-based practice work and studies
Theoretical/Methodological Issues
Women’s Health