3 results match your criteria: "University of South Alabama (USA)[Affiliation]"
A heart failure initiative to reduce the length of stay and readmission rates.
Prof Case Manag
August 2016
Sabrina Marie White, DNP, MSN, APRN, ACNP-BC, received her Doctorate in Nursing from the University of South Alabama. Presently, she is a nurse practitioner in Heart Failure at East Jefferson Medical Center in Metairie, LA. She has practiced as a Heart Failure/Heart Transplant practitioner for 11 years and received the 2013 graduate award for her work in heart failure from Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. She also worked as a faculty member, educating and shaping the minds of aspiring nurses at Charity School of Nursing and Louisiana State University in New Orleans, LA. Alethea Hill, PhD, MSN, ANP-BC, is currently Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama (USA) College of Nursing and an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in private practice. She obtained her BSN and MSN degree in Nursing from the University of South Alabama and received a PhD in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her dissertation focused on the associations between perceived discrimination, allostatic load, and insulin resistance in nondiabetic African American women of the Jackson Heart Study. Dr. Hill's interest includes the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on health outcomes. She is also interested in the interconnectedness of social/environmental determinants of health and health disparities on cardiovascular health status.
Purpose/objectives: The purpose of this pilot was to improve multidisciplinary coordination of care and patient education and foster self-management behaviors. The primary and secondary outcomes achieved from this pilot were to decrease the 30-day readmission rate and heart failure length of stay.
Primary Practice Site: The primary practice site was an inpatient medical-surgical nursing unit.
The normal and abnormal owl monkey (Aotus sp.) heart: looking at cardiomyopathy changes with echocardiography and electrocardiography.
J Med Primatol
June 2010
Center for Neotropical Primate Research and Resources, University of South Alabama (USA), Mobile, AL, USA.
Background: Cardiovascular disease, especially cardiomyopathy, was the major cause of death among owl monkeys (Aotus sp.) at a major colony and threatened colony sustainability. For this study, echocardiography (echo) and electrocardiography (ECG) normal values were established, and cardiomyopathy animals identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssessment of AACN baccalaureate nursing education curriculum model in the People's Republic of China: a transcultural exploratory study.
J Prof Nurs
September 2002
Department of Community/Mental Health Nursing, the University of South Alabama (USA), College of Nursing, Mobile, AL 36688, USA.
This study examines the relevance of The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 1998) to baccalaureate nursing curriculum development in the People's Republic of China. A Likert-type survey was developed to measure Chinese nurse educators' perceptions regarding the 21 key concepts extracted from The Essentials document in both the present curriculum and an ideal curriculum across three dimensions: importance, cultural relevance, and extent of exposure. Surveys were sent to all known baccalaureate nursing programs in China (N = 22) with a 50 percent return rate.
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