Biography:

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Biography:

Hala Mohamed Bayoumy BSc, MSc, DSc is an Assistant Professor in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. She is an author of many research articles (18) published in reputed journals. She has presented papers in numerous international conferences. She is in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices. She was Editor- for the special issue: Self Care Skills and Quality of Life of Patients - which was published under that Journal. She is also Reviewer for multiple journals and member of many academic bodies. Her reseach interest centers around advances in nursing education as well as exploring impact of different illness conditions, treatment modalities and nursing interventions

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Background: Learning engagement and its relationship with academic achievement is one of the new growing areas in academic research which aims at improving students’ quality of learning. Significantly, engagement is considered as an important component of nursing education and it is strongly believed that higher levels of engagement provide more information and better understanding which in turn, prepare graduates who are capable of providing higher standards of care (D’Souza, et al., 2013). A nursing student’s level of engagement has a critical influence on their learning, clinical care interactions, and ultimately, ongoing retention within the nursing profession. In fact, evidence suggests that student’s engagement during college is positively correlated with post-college labor market earnings (Hu & Wolniak, 2013). However, scarce amount of research work has been conducted within this scope. Moreover, the contextual variables that influence students’ engagement and motivation are varied and the link between engagement and motivation and academic attainment is uncertain. The current study, therefore, is conducted to address and explore the state of the relationship of learning engagement and motivation among nursing students and impact do this possible association have on students’ academic performance. The study also seeks an answer to the question of whether do students’ characteristics have any effect on their perceived learning engagement, their motivation and academic performance. The findings of the current study should be used to assess potentials for curricular development and design adjustments which could impact students’ learning.

Methods: A descriptive survey design, with a comparative correlational approach for data analysis was utilized to describe and compare levels of engagement in undergraduate nursing students. Moreover, factors associated with the motivation, academic engagement and performance of students enrolled in the baccalaureate-nursing program, were examined. A multi-course, multi-site survey study design was utilized in order to gain access to wide variety of students, and to improve generalizability of the research findings. Data was collected from the three campuses of King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, Jeddah and AlAhsa. Study instruments utilized for data collection, included the sociodemographic and education-related background sheet, student’s college and clinical engagement scales, motivation and academic achievement questionnaires. Validity and reliability was ensured through utilizing a nursing panel of experts and internal consistency analysis.

Results: Overall mean knowledge score was 7.68 ±2.07. Nursing students showed significantly higher knowledge than medical students (p=0.028). More nursing than medical students believed in the effectiveness of placebo (pË‚0.001). Medical students had a stronger belief that placebo effect is mental while nursing students believed it is both mental and physiologic (pË‚0.006). They also agreed that placebo intervention involves deception. Concerning placebo attitude, medical students significantly pointed that it should be prohibited but also significantly permitted if research supports its use (pË‚0.001).

Conclusion: This study focused on three aspects of engagement: behavioural, emotional, and cognitive. The reason is that they are well-defined, highly studied, conceptually distinct and highly constructive student classroom experiences that collectively represent the range of educationally important engagement constructs. Efforts was directed towards clarifying not only indicators of students’ engagement but also some specific facilitating conditions (e.g., engagement-fostering aspects of the classroom environment, students’ motivation) and engagement-related which is learning, achievement.

This paper is significant as there is a lack of knowledge as regards to bachelor nursing students’ impact of engagement levels and motivations. It is hoped that the findings of this study could be used as a quality indicator for guiding current efforts in renovating nursing education programs and achieving excellence in nursing education.

Keywords: Nursing students, engagement, motivation, academic achievement.

Biography:

Maia Gogashvili is the Head of the Nursing Department at the School of Health Sciences and Public Health of the University of Georgia since 2012. She has her PhD degree in Public Health. She has her experience in: teaching, development and implementation of degree curricula and syllabuses in nursing; management and coordination of local and international projects; development and teaching of nursing courses; expert advisory work. She has actively participated in many international meetings related to nursing and health care management, education.

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Nursing is an integral and important part of the healthcare system. In Soviet period nursing model in Georgia viewed nurse as the first stage of medical practice (doctor’s assistant). This resulted in the impediment in the development of nursing as an independent profession. In order to improve public health through further development of the nursing practices in the country, and achieve increase in the quality of nursing care, introduction of higher education system was urgent.  Throughout the recent history of Georgia, many fragmented attempts to develop the field were conducted. Nursing was one of the first health care group and practical discipline included in the Bologna Process.  As a result of reforming the education systems, from 2011 new level of a nurse have been introduced in the healthcare system of Georgia - Bachelor Nurse. Revision of  vocational curricula began just in recent years, however due to the lack of professional nursing literature and many other factors, such as the absence of nurse trainers and outdated methods of clinical practice, the quality of education in Georgia requires its harmonization with international standards and intensive work in this direction is in progress. The University of Georgia was the first educational institution in the country where BSN program was developed and introduced.

Biography:

Aidah Alkaissi is currently a Dean of Nursing College at An-Najah National University, Palestine. She is also coordinator of the Master programs of Nurse Anesthetists and Critical Care Nursing. She graduated BSN, MSN, PhD in Anesthesiology from Linköping University, Sweden. She also has Bachelor of Law degree from Arabic University of Beirut, Lebanon. She has published more than 17 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a Vice Chairman of IRB at An-Najah National University.

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Aim: To evaluate whether the postoperative IV administration of 5% dextrose water following surgery decreases postoperative symptoms focusing on postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in patients undergoing tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy.

Methods: Prospective, randomized double-blind, controlled study. Ninty pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy were randomly assigned into two groups (n=45 each). Dextrose water (DW) and ringer lactate (RL) groups. The incidence of postoperative symptoms was assessed.

Results: The incidence of nausea at 30 min postoperatively in DW group was significantly lower 3(6.7%) than RL group 26(57.8%), p=-0.000. At one hour, the incidence of nausea in the DW group 7 (15.6%) was significantly lower than RL group 21(46.7%), p=0.001. At overall period the incidence of nausea (0-5 hours) in DW group 22(48.9%) was significantly lower than the RL group 35(77.8%), (P-value 0.004). At 30 minutes postoperatively, M±S.D of VAS-N scale in the DW group (0.27+0.81) is significantly lower than the RL group(1.6+1.57), p=0.000. At one hour, in the DW group (0.31±0.73) is significantly lower than the RL group 1.07+1.25, p= 0.001. At discharge from the hospital, in the DW group (0.04±0.3) is significantly lower than the RL group (0.4+0.91), p=0.015. There is a significant difference in the use of rescue anti-emetic medication throughout the study period between the dextrose group 7 (15.6%) compared to ringer lactate group 17 (37.8%), p= 0.017. Dextrose water reduces significantly the incidence of post-operative symptoms that are headache, drowsiness, fatigue, thirst and hunger compared to the RL group, p<0.05.

Conclusion: The administration of intravenous dextrose postoperatively for patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy reduces significantly the incidence and intensity of nausea, the incidence of headache, drowsiness, fatigue, thirst and hunger.

Biography:

Hala Mohamed Bayoumy BSc, MSc, DSc is an Assistant Professor in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. She is an author of many research articles (18) published in reputed journals. She has presented papers in numerous international conferences. She is in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices. She was Editor- for the special issue: Self Care Skills and Quality of Life of Patients - which was published under that Journal. She is also Reviewer for multiple journals and member of many academic bodies. Her reseach interest centers around advances in nursing education as well as exploring impact of different illness conditions, treatment modalities and nursing interventions

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In today’s challenging health-care world, nurses need to be emotionally intelligent to be able to make appropriate decisions. The potential value of facilitating the emotional intelligence of nurses, is consistently demonstrated in the literature. There is consensus on the impact that emotional intelligence has on job satisfaction, stress level, burnout and helps to facilitate a positive environment. Several studies showed the benefits on students’ ability to manage their own emotions, in reducing stress, and on appropriate coping strategies development. Furthermore, it has repeatedly shown that students with high levels of emotional intelligence are more likely to score higher in their theoretical assignments and perform better in the clinical practice areas than students who are not (Beauvaisa, et al., 2011). Emotional intelligence thus has been viewed as a mandatory requirement that is considered necessary to prepare a good caring environment. Demands are increasing for expansion of new competencies and skills, and excellent quality in the performance of social and labor functions. Therefore, concentration should be given to teaching activities and academic knowledge directed toward improvement of not only clinical skills but also the soft skills that refer to the cluster of personality traits, social graces, including emotional intelligence.

The workshop will attempt to answer the following questions:

• What is the level of emotional intelligence among nursing students?
• Is there a relationship between Emotional Intelligence, stress level, coping strategies, and performance among nursing students?
• What are the efforts directed toward development of evidence based emotional intelligence interventions in nursing education?
• What are the recommendations of/for evidence based emotional intelligence interventions in nursing education?

The workshop will provide opportunity for participants to share expertise in the area of emotional intelligence among professional healthcare workers and specifically nursing sector. Areas for future collaborative research will be explored and recommendations for practice and education will be developed.

Keywords: Nursing students, engagement, motivation, academic achievement.

Biography:

Linda Charlotte Hallengreen is a teacher, adjunct at the Nursing Academy in Region Zealand, Nykøbing F. She has a background as a nurse, and specialized as ICU nurse and completed her Master of Health Science degree from University of Copenhagen. She holds a particular interest in the nursing profession and the diversity between the clinical and the theoretical parts of the nursing field and education.

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This project presents a unique and innovative way of present interventions in research in clinical nursing practice. As a part of a multicenter study at the Danish National Hospital regarding thirst among Intensive care patients, which is a well-known area, that bothers intensive care patients, the Department of Neuroanesthesia made, in cooperation with the Nursing Academy a particular custom made movie. It contained an introduction for the project and demonstration of the interventions, water, soda, ice-cream etc., as the primary information source. The movie lasted 8:05 minutes and were distributed by a closed YouTube Channel and personal email. The setting for the movie was an empty unused room comparable to the other patients’ wards, so the movie was taken in a natural setting. The movie consisted of both professional and teaching considerations to promote a result oriented and a flexible implementation. This project showed that this way of presenting information resulted in a wide support from the nurses, which directly expressed in the highest inclusion rate in this multicenter study. The right amount of knowledge at the right time – is a keystone in running am effectively heath department today. With today’s technology it is possible to make movies on different devices, even those with less technical skills, and upholds new opportunities for the nursing profession and science in clinical practice.

Biography:

Fatima Hirzallah has recently completed her PhD in Nursing Science from University of Porto, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Porto-Portugal. She is currently Lecturer of Critical Care nursing course in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at An-Najah National University, Nablus- Palestine. She has published two papers in reputed journals. She is the coordinator of the ACLS and TNCC courses at An-Najah National University.

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Objective: To determine if the weaning protocol led exclusively by critical care nurse reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV), weaning time, intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital length of stay (LOS), and reintubation rate, and hospital mortality in critically ill adult patients who received invasive ventilation at the time of study enrolment compared to usual care (UC) of weaning among intensive care units of Palestinian hospitals.

Methods: A quantitative, prospective, quasi-experimental study design. Sixty eight adult patients (≥18 years) who were mechanically ventilated via endotracheal tube for ≥24 hours, in multicenter ICU's in Palestinian hospitals were distributed in experimental group and control group. The nurse-led weaning protocol for the experimental group was matched with historical controls (1:1 matching) of retrospective data of UC weaning for the control group, assigned into two groups (n=34 each).

Results: There were no significant differences in the two groups at baseline. Median durations of mechanical ventilation (MV) in the NLWP and UC groups were 24 hours (IQR=30hrs), (min-max=24-110) and 48hrs (IQR=48hrs), (min-max =24-216), respectively (P=0.034). Median of weaning time in the NLWP and UC groups were 2 hours (IQR=2hrs), (min-max = 1-4) and 4 hours (IQR=3hrs), (min-max =2-13), respectively (P=0.001). Median durations of ICU length of stay (LOS) in the NLWP and UC groups were 5 days (IQR=5 days) (min-max=2-17) and 7 days (IQR=6days), (min-max=2-26), respectively (P=0.03). There was statistical significant differences in reintubation rate (%) in the NLWP and UC groups was 3/34 (8.8%) and 11/34 (32.4%), respectively (P= 0.016). There was no difference in hospital LOS, and hospital mortality between the two groups.

Conclusion: Our results clearly indicate that nurses-led weaning protocol was associated with shorter in duration of MV, shorter weaning time, shorter ICU LOS and less of Reintubation rate.