Biography:

Odelia Keshev is a nurse and has completed her Master degree from the Hebrew University. She workes at Maccabi Health Services headquarter since 2012 and coordinate woman's health nationwide.

Abstract:

Background: Studies have shown significantly lower risk of complications during labour following prenatal care, allowing early detection, promoting normal pregnancy and birth. In May 2013 Maccabi Health Services launched "prenatal personal care" - a dual gynecologist and nurse follow up model . Goals: 

Preserving and promoting physical and mental condition of pregnant women.

• Early identification of high risk situations and intervention. Method: The model is based on periodic visits provided by 150 designated nurses and 200 gynecologists working in collaboration. The follow up consists of 5-6 visits through pregnancy period. Additional visits provided according to woman's health state. The intervention includes information on recommended tests, abnormal conditions, preliminary screening for depression during pregnancy (Edinburgh questionere) and counseling. Various communication services such as, Facebook, email, phone, app and personal meetings are availiable. The model maintains interfaces with other health care providers such as dieticians, pelvic floor physical therapysts, social workers and others. A designated computerized record was developed allowing generate and transparent follow up.

Findings: Prenatal care was given to 22% of pregnant women. 58% of them were vaccinated for pertussis compared to 22% in standard care. Depression screening found 0.4% positive answers to tendency for suicide, 11.5% were suspected for depression. In adition, 85.6% performed GCT test versus 74.3% with standard care.

Biography:

Denise Brehmer has been a Registered Nurse for 36 years with experience as a Pediatric Nurse in the acute care setting as well as the community setting. Having had a varied background in Nursing from Pediatrics to Critical Care and Community Health has allowed Professor Brehmer to be an effective faculty member for the last 20 years. She is currently employed at Indiana Wesleyan University in the USA as an Assistant Professor of Nursing. She is also employed as a Nurse Practitioner in a Wellness Setting. She is married to Lawrence Brehmer and they are parents of two grown daughters. She enjoys spending time with family, reading, attending church functions, and traveling.

Abstract:

The purpose of the presentation is to discuss trends in Pediatric Nursing with a focus on childhood obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Otitis Media Treatment. Nursing care of pediatric patients has changed over the years. Practices once thought as normal practice have now been replaced by newer innovative care. Nurses must read the literature to stay abreast of new practices to remain current in the field. Childhood obesity, treatment of otitis media, and prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) are just a few of the trending care topics. Childhood obesity is at epidemic rates in the US partially due to a more sedentary lifestyle than 20 years ago. School lunches had been filled with starch and fat. Busy parents often provide convenience foods or dine out as meals due to their busy schedules further adding more empty calories and a lack of nutritious foods. The nurse plays a crucial role in educating parents regarding making behavior changes for their children. Research revealed that nurses using motivational interview can help children make significant changes in their body mass index (BMI) Tucker, S., Ytterberg, K., Lenoch, L, Schmit, T, Mucha, D., Wooten, J., Lohse, C., Austin, C., &Wahlen, K. (2013). . Overuse of antibiotics results in multi-drug resistance as well as antibiotic use causing antibiotic related adverse effects such as diarrhea (McCormick, D., Chonmaitree, T., Pitman, C., Saeed, K., Friedman, N., Uchida, T., & Baldwin, C., 2005). Watchful waiting has been utilized as current practice in treating otitis media. Rather than provide an antibiotic at the first signs of an ear infection, waiting up to 72 hours has allowed otitis media to resolve on its’ own without an antibiotic therapy. In a comparative study, symptom resolution was quicker with antibiotic use but the number of patients that had complete resolution of symptoms was similar. The antibiotic group had a 74% resolution of symptoms at 7 days while the watchful waiting group had 53% (Hoberman, A., Paradise, J., Rockette, H., Shaikh, N., Wald, E., Kearney, D., Colborn, D., Lusky, M., Bhatnagear, S., Haralam, M., Zoffel, L., Jenkins, C., Pope, M., Balentine, T., &Barbadora., A., 2011) Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been linked to prone sleeping, sharing a bed and sleeping on a surface not indicated for sleeping (Allen, P. 2013). The Back to Sleep initiative began in 1994 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development recommending supine sleeping for infants. The number of infants sleeping in this position has greatly increased with overall SIDS rates decreasing. Current research on SIDS revealed that nearly 70% of cases involved infants sleeping on surfaces not intended for infant sleeping (Allen, P., 2013). Education of parents regarding safe sleeping is the primary role of the pediatric nurse in prevention of SIDS (Allen, P., 2013).

Biography:

Dr. MacDonald completed a Master’s degree in Nursing at the University of Toronto, Canada and a PhD at the University of Manchester in the UK. Currently she is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick (Canada). Dr. MacDonald’s doctoral work examined respite for parents who were caring for children who required complex care. This paper comes from that work. Dr. MacDonald has three children of her own.

Abstract:

Advances in nursing and medical care augmented by developments in pharmaceutical and health technologies have led to an increasing number of children who require complex care at home. Parents are their carer givers. In this ethnographic study there were: 47 Participants 19 Mothers 4 Fathers 7 Grandparents 13 Nurses 4 Social Workers Data Collection consisted of in-depth interviews; participant observation; anddocument review. There were five emergent themes: Parents Caring; Caring and the Impact on Parental Identity; The Nature of Respite; and Fair Play.In this paper the key categories within the theme Fair Play will be discussed. These categories include:  care obligations feelings of entitlement respite information needs ongoing support needs negotiating the system and equity

Biography:

Suzanne Guzelaydin completed her MS from University of Michigan in 1982. She currently is a Lecturer II faculty of the University of Michigan-Flint. In 2008, she authored and was funded for a 3 year Nurse Practice, Educatation and Practice grant from the Health Resource Service Administration (HRSA). The grant was used as an exemplar exampleby HRSA for 3 consecutive years. She has presented at National League of Nursing, American Academy of Nursing and Infusion Nurse Sociey nation conventions.

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The presentation will discussimplemention of an innovative clinical practice program that integrated computerized simulation, an electronic health record, point-of -care handheld health reference and tele-health resources throughout an undergraduate nursing curriculum. The STEPS program created a student-centered learning environment that combined theQuality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) elements with informatic essentials from the undergraduate nursing students' first introduction to clinical fundamentals. This foundation was integrated throughout the undergraduate nursing curriculum, targeting learning objectives to develop student critical thinking and decision making skills appropriate to their academic level (sophomore, junior, senior). Simulation case scenarios introduced students to progressive complexities of care and engaged them in active-learning situations exploring health care issues across the life span. Scenarios provided student experiences in acute care and community based settings. Core essentials of informatics were utilized in every simulation case scenario. Students gained proficiency in using technology systems to promote, support and improve patient and staff safety, interdisciplinary communication and the provision of patient centered care. Students learned the skills of navigating an electronic health record (data entry, retrieval, communication, aggregation and evidence based practice decision making), use of point-of–care hand held reference resources and tele-health methodologies in the delivery of care. Lessons learned by the project team in bringing the project to lifewill be discussed along with recommendations for avoiding pitfalls in implementation. Approaches used to build partnerships and support for the project from both internal and external prespectives will be examined.

Biography:

Nahar AlReshidi si working as senior lecturer in University of Salford , Nursing school UK.

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Background Although post-operative pain management has been researched extensively, it does not receive the same attention from Children nurses in Saudi Arabia. Practices are not based on sound evidence, but there is a willingness to improve. The factors to be addressed in this study had not been considered together in any study, and each in turn is supported by only minimal evidence of variable quality. No work of significance had been undertaken in the context of Saudi Arabia or other Gulf nations. Aims To test the impact of implementing an interactive postoperative pain management education programme on children nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of children’s pain; self-efficacy; and perceptions of barriers to optimal practice. Methods A quasi-experimental approach with a non-equivalent group, pre-test post-test design was used. A sample of 229 children nurses working in surgical units in Hail region hospitals was recruited and completed four questionnaires on three occasions, before the intervention, and at one and three months afterwards. The intervention was an interactive educational programme on DVD with explanations, exercises, video presentations and self-check games. Results Preliminary findings have shown a significant improvement in children nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of children’s pain, self-efficacy, and perceptions of barriers to optimal practice after receiving the education programme.

Biography:

Naomi Albert is working as a nurse in Emergency unit in Gailee Medical centre, Israel

Abstract:

Background: To test for both hereditary and metabolic diseases, nurses routinely draw blood from an infant's heel within 36-72 hours after birth. Since there is no obligatory protocol for pain prevention, we wanted to raise awareness of infant pain and suggest effective non-pharmaceutical analgesia. Methods: This cross-sectional study included infants born at Galilee Medical Center during 2012-2013. 150 infants were divided into three groups of 50 each: one received a pacifier dipped in sugar and no parental presence, one was hugged by a parent, and a control group had no intervention and no parental presence. A nurse trained to assess pain using the FLACC scale.

Results: Two minutes before needle prick, no pain was observed in any of the three groups. During the test, a statistically significant difference in pain level was seen (p<0.001), between group 1 (pacifier dipped in sugar) (median=2) and the other two groups both of which exhibited moderate pain (median=6 and median=5, respectively). Two minutes later there was no statistically significant difference in pain level among the three groups.

Conclusions: Pain-preventing intervention was found effective. Adopting non-pharmaceutical interventions for minimizing pain in healthy infants during clinical practice should be an integral part of providing quality treatment