4th Biennial Research Conference Saturday September 29, 2012 Conference Proceedings i ii Table of Contents WOMEN’S HEALTH Autoethnography: Reflective Journaling and Meditation to Cope With Life-Threatening Breast Cancer ..................................................................................................................................... 2 No Choice but to Leave: The General Work and Health of Women Temporary Agricultural Workers in Canada ........................................................................................................ 3 The Disconnect Between Quantitative Quality of Life Scores of Life Scores and Qualitative Comments from Survivors of Gynecological Cancer ..................................................... 4 The Experience of Menopause: Voices of Sedentary Women .......................................................... 5 EDUCATION I Bridging Education Shapes the Future of Nursing ............................................................................ 7 Easing Transition to Professional Practice for Senior Level Baccalaureate Students: A Case Study ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Education and Clinical Practice Partnership with Simulation ........................................................... 9 Student Educator Relationships: Sharing the Power ......................................................................... 10 COMMUNITY I’ve Never Had a Place I Could Call Home: Health Challenges of the Hidden Homeless ............... 12 Engaging Students to Create a Safe Campus Community ................................................................. 13 Exploring the Health Issues of Hidden Homeless IV Drug Users in a Mid-Sized Canadian Community ........................................................................................................................................ 14 Poverty in London and Middlesex ..................................................................................................... 15 INFECTION CONTROL A Standardized Approach to Prevention of Hospital Acquired Infections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Define It, Measure It, Act on It! ...................................................................... 17 An Interprofessional Approach to Sepsis Care .................................................................................. 18 Bug Patrol: A Practice Approach to Outpatient Screening ............................................................... 19 Determinants of Hand Hygiene Among Registered Nurses Caring for Critically Ill Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ................................................................................................... 20 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Nurses are Human: Transforming the Nursing culture to a Just Culture (Part 1) ............................. 22 iii Should We Console, Coach or Discipline? The Experience and Outcomes of Implementing a Just Culture (Part 2) ................................................................................................. 23 Bringing Knowledge Transfer into Focus .......................................................................................... 24 Nurses and Their Work in Hospitals: Ruled by Embedded Ideologies and Moving Discourses .......................................................................................................................................... 25 EMERGENCY AND CRTICAL CARE Predictors of Symptom Congruence Among patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction ................. 27 Evidence-to-Practice: The use of fresh whole blood in trauma Casualties in Afghanistan .............. 28 Drama in Trauma ............................................................................................................................... 29 The Joint Theatre Trauma System: Evidence-to-Practice in a War Zone ......................................... 30 EDUCATION II Exploring Experiences of BScN Students’ Clinical Preparation: Clinical Instructor and Nursing Student Perspectives ............................................................................................................ 32 Immunization Clinic Experience for BScN Students ........................................................................ 33 Open Peer Review and Simulation Instructional Design Clinic Experience for BScN Students .............................................................................................................................................. 34 The Long and Winding Road to Effective Interprofessional Simulated Learning ............................ 35 PATIENT CARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Developing a Patient Safety Culture – From Boardroom to Bedside ................................................ 37 State of the Science for Integrative Therapies as Sleep-Promoting Intervention in the ICU a Patient Safety Culture – From Boardroom to Bedside .................................................................... 38 Stress and Pain Associated with Dressing Change in Chronic Would Patients ................................. 39 The Importance of Process Evaluation in Determining the Integrity of Nursing Interventions ...................................................................................................................................... 40 MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: An Improved Model of Care Related to Improved Quality of Life from the Early 20th Century to Present Day .............................................................. 42 Healthcare Providers’ Experiences of caring for older people with Dementia Who Lived Alone .................................................................................................................................................. 44 Mental Health Crisis in Postsecondary Students ............................................................................... 45 Understanding Women’s Experiences of Taking Part in the Intervention for Health Enhancement After Leaving [iHEAL] ............................................................................................... 46 iv CHRONI ILLNESS Eating Patterns of Obese and Non-Obese Individuals Living With and Without Type 2 Diabetes: A Focus Group Study ....................................................................................................... 49 Giving In, Giving Up, Giving Back, or Going On: Experiences of Unwanted Obesity ................... 50 Erie St. Clair Community Care Access Centre Palliative Care Consultation Team (PCCT) ............ 51 Understanding Couples’ Marital Satisfaction in the Context of Phantom Limb Pain: A Gadamerian Hermeneutic Study ........................................................................................................ 52 POLICY AND NURSE INTEGRATION Collaboration: Bridging Hospital and Public Health Nursing .......................................................... 54 Political Activism in Sustaining a Successful Community Program ................................................. 55 The Impact of the Process of Deinstitutionalization of Mental Health Services in Canada: An Increase in Accessing of Health Professionals for Mental Health Concerns ............................... 56 The Effect of a Public Policy on New Graduate Nurse Employment ................................................ 57 PROFESSIONAL TRENDS AND ISSUES Employment Goals, Expectations, and Migration Intentions of Nursing Graduates in a Canadian Border City ........................................................................................................................ 59 Retention of Men in the Nursing Profession ...................................................................................... 60 Social Media: Implications for Professional Nursing Practice ......................................................... 61 POSTER PRESENTATIONS A New Frontier in Patient Safety: Safe Medication Practices for Nursing Students through Interdisciplinary Academic-Hospital Partnerships ............................................................... 63 A Problem with Parts was Part of our Problem: A Specimen Safety Initiative .....................64 Back to Basics: Perfecting the Medication Administration Process One Step at a Time .......................................................................................................................................65 Bringing Shift to Shift Report to the Bedside ........................................................................66 Building Care, Compassion and Safety into the Windsor Regional Hospital Redevelopment Project ..........................................................................................................67 Chronic Disease Management in Complex Continuing Care at Windsor Regional Hospital (WRH) .....................................................................................................................68 Early Recognition and Management of Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) in the Institutionalized Elderly .........................................................................................................69 v Evidence Shaping Perinatal and Paediatric Nursing Practice in Southwestern Ontario ...................................................................................................................................70 Food Insecurity and Homelessness Increases the Risk of Developing Cardivascular Disease