Sunday, April 2, 2006: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Crystal Ballroom (Hilton Milwaukee City Center)

1335

Poster Session II

Acute Care 
Limiting the Usage of Intranasal Mupirocin Does Impact the Rate of Staphylococcus Aureus Deep Sternal Wound Infections
Laura A Huesman, RN, BSN, Case Manager, Mary R Nicholson, RN, BSN, Manager
Impact of Preoperative Warming on Unplanned Postoperative Hypothermia
Debra D Buchman, PhD, RN, CNS, Associate Professor
Incidence of Microbial Growth on the Anesthesia Machine
James C Peterson, BSN, MSN(c), Principal Investigator, Jacklyn L Ruthman, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
Addiction/Substance Abuse 
Inter-rater Reliability of Assessment for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Vicki E Keller, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor
To Tell the Truth: Self-Reported Drug Use
Linda Piacentine, MS, Predoctoral Student, Stacy Claesges, BA, Research Coordinator, Alan Bloom, PhD, Professor, Robert Risinger, MD, Assistant Professor
Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Alcohol Use
Wilma J Calvert, PhD, MPE, MS, BSN, Post Doctoral Fellow, Kathleen K Bucholz, PhD, MPE, Professor
Childbearing Related Research 
Transition to Parenthood and Early Parenting of High-Risk Multiple Birth Families
Kristin Lutz, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor
Lactation Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Intentions of NICU Nurses: An Intervention Study
Laura W Bernaix, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Micki L Arrizola, RN, BSN, IBCLC, Clinical Manager, Dina Iovinelli, RN, BSN, Cynthia A Schmidt, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
Comprehensive measurement of social support and symptoms of depression in female adolescents
M. Cynthia Logsdon, DNS, APRN, Associate Professor, Melissa Pinto-Foltz, BSN, RN, Craig Ziegler, MS, Research Analyst, Paige Hertweck, MD, Associate Professor
Comparison of Prenatal Coping Strategies, Cortisol, and Anti-inflammatory Cytokines between low-risk and high-risk pregnant African-American women
Carmen Giurgescu, PhD, RN, WHNP, Post Doctoral Fellow, Linda Janusek, PhD, RN, Herbert Mathews, PhD, Fred B Bryant, PhD, Professor
A pilot assessment of promoting passive fetal descent for management of low risk primigravidas during the second stage of labor.
Lisa C Hanson, DNSc, CNM, Associate Professor
Worries among HIV-positive pregnant women in Thailand
Ratchneewan Ross, PhD, MSc, RN, Assistant Professor, Pakvilai Srisaeng, PhD, RN, Instructor, Wilaiphan Sawatphanit, MSN, BscN, Assistant Professor, Claire B Draucker, PhD, RN, CS, Professor
Chronicity 
Symptoms and Quality of Life in Heart Failure
Bunny J Pozehl, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, Kathleen Duncan, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
Personal Factors, Self-Care, and Glycemic Control of Adults with Diabetes
Valmi D Sousa, PhD, APRN, BC, Post Doctoral Fellow, Jaclene A Zauszniewski, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Carol M Musil, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Patricia J Price Lea, PhD, RN, Dean, Schenita A Davis, MPH, RN, Instructor
Cross Validation of An Explanatory Model of Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Persons with Chronic Disabling Conditions
Alexa Stuifbergen, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor
Three-year Cumulative Effect of Exacerbations in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Mary C Kapella, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Janet L Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Margaret K Covey, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor
Sexual Concerns Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: Instrument Development
Rebecca J Muehrer, MS, RN, Predoctoral Student, Dorothy M Lanuza, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Mary Keller, PhD, RN
Patterns of Interdialytic Weight Gain During the First Year of Hemodialysis
Janet L Welch, DNS, RN, Associate Professor, Susan M Perkins, PhD, Associate Professor, Cynthia S Johnson, MA, Biostatistician, Michael A Kraus, MD, Associate Professor
Wrist Actigraphy During Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD
Gerene S Bauldoff, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Philip T Diaz, MD, Associate Professor
Transplant Symptom Inventory (TSI): A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) Using Parcels
Cheryl A Lefaiver, MSN, RN, Project Coordinator, Dorothy M Lanuza, PhD, MS, BSN, Professor
Effectiveness of Music for Anxiety Reduction in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Individuals
Laurie A Knippen, CNP, MSN, Nurse Practitioner
Ethnicity 
Assessing Culturally Competent Nursing Care
Michele L Buratti, MSN, BSN, RN, N/A, Unit Educator
An Interventional Study to Increase Cultural Competence in Health Care Professionals
Teresa J Krassa, PhD, MSN, BSN, Assistant Professor, Linda L Farrand, PhD, APN, Assistant Professor
Latino Construction Workers' Experience with Occupational Noise
Madeleine J Kerr, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Cheryl L Robertson, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor
Korean American Adolescents (KAAs) and Their Parents: Their Perceptions of Acculturative Stress and Mental Health Promotion Programs for KAAs
Heeseung Choi, DSN, MPH, RN, Post Doctoral Fellow, Barbara L Dancy, PhD, FAAN, RN, Professor, Mi Ja Kim, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Kathleen F Norr, PhD, Professor
Measuring and Modeling Health Disparities: Methodological Challenges and Recommendations
Thomas N Templin, PhD, Associate Professor
Family Health 
Family adaptability, cohesion, and type: Reports of childhood quick weight loss behavior
Heather A Krueger, PhD(c), FNP, ANP, RN, Predoctoral Student
'Who Does What and When' in Families with Youth Born with HIV
Kimberly A Stieglitz, DNSc, APRN, BC, PNP, Assistant Professor, Phyllis Ballard, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kelly Nolan, MSW, LCSW, Case Manager, Stacey Slovacek, BS, Case Manager, Kathleen A McGann, MD, Associate Professor, Gregory Storch, MD, Professor
Comparison of Health Related Quality of Life Among 10-12 year old Children with Chronic Illnesses and Healthy Children: The Parents' Perspective
Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, PhD, RN, Dean, Brynja Orlygsdottir, PhDc, RN, Research Assistant
Health Seeking Behaviors 
Effects of Aspartame Consumption on Cognitive Function
Glenda Lindseth, PhD, MS, RN, FADA, Professor, Fang Ye, BSN, RN, Graduate Research Assistant, Thomas Petros, PhD, Professor, Debra Fossum, RD, BS, Instructor
Sexual Awareness, Body Image, and Self-Esteem of Individuals Who Have Ostomies
Dianne M Smolen, PhD, MSN, BS, RN, Professor
Sexual Health for Military Women: What do They Know, Need, and Desire?
Victoria Von Sadovszky, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Nancy A Ryan-Wenger, PhD, RN, PNP, Professor
Wellness for Women: Logging on to Lose Weight
Carol H Pullen, EdD, RN, Assistant Dean, Susan N Walker, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Patricia A Hageman, PhD, PT, Professor, Linda S Boeckner, PhD, Professor, Maureen K Oberdorfer, MPA, BS, Project Coordinator, Hope Jackson-Konnath, MSN, RN, Dayna Dittmer, MSN, RN, Family Nurse Practitioner
Translation and Validation of CHD questionnaires Into Korean
Ju Young Shin, MSN, Predoctoral Student, Rene Martin, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Ji Young Lim, PhD, Assistant Professor, John A Spertus, MD, MPH, Professor
Pediatric Nursing 
Normal Values and the Impact of a Painful Procedure on Salivary Cortisol Levels in Children
Ann Marie McCarthy, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Kirsten Hanrahan, MA, ARNP, Project Director, Charmaine Kleiber, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Susan Lutgendorf, PhD, Eva Tsalikian, MD, Bridget Zimmerman, PhD
Patterns of Heart Rate Variability in Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Defects
Jill M Winters, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Kathleen Mussatto, BSN, RN, Research Coordinator, Raymond T Fedderly, MD, Associate Professor, Mary Krolikowski, MSN, RN, Research Coordinator, Karen A Pridham, PhD, RN, FAAN, Emeritus Professor
Preventive Health Status of Invisible Populations: Carnival and Migrant Worker Children
Jill F Kilanowski, PhD(c), MSN, CPNP, BSN, Pre-doctoral Fellow
A Closer Look at the Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-R)
Martha Driessnack, PhD, PNP, RN, Post Doctoral Fellow
Prevalence of Children's Health Risk Behaviors in Two Midwest Cities
Susan K. Riesch, DNSc, RN, FAAN, Professor, Melissa Merrick, BS, Nicole Angresano, MPH
Physiological Phenomenon 
Contribution of mobility and skin temperature to pressure ulcer risk
Mary Pat Rapp, DNSc, Assistant Professor, Nancy Bergstrom, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor
Proposed Model for Evidence-Based Public Health Nursing
Naomi E Ervin, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, Assistant Dean, Sue Ellen Bell, PhD, APRN, BC, Joan T Bickes, MSN, RN, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor
Public Health/Community Health 
Depressive Cognition and Healthcare Utilization in Discharged Patients with COPD in Southern Taiwan
Yea-Jyh Chen, PhD, MSN, RN, Project Manager, Jaclene A Zauszniewski, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Georgia Narsavage, PhD, APRN, BC, Professor
Long Term Effect of Chicago Health Corps/Americorps Service Experiences: Participants' Sustainable Volunteerism
Beverly J McElmurry, EdD, RN, FAAN, Associate Dean, Chang G Park, PhD, Research Analyst, Pei-Yun Tsai, PhD(c), MSN, Predoctoral Student, Aaron Buseh, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
Common Sense Information Needs among Residents in an Arsenic Advisory Area
Dolores J Severtson, PhD, RN, Post Doctoral Fellow, Laurie Hartjes, MS, APRN, BC, PNP, Predoctoral Student, T. Martin Salas, S, Linda Baumann, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, Professor
Hypertension Management in Uninsured Women
Mary Ann Lough, PhD, MS, BSN, RN, Assistant Professor
"I Take my Pills and Do What I Have to Do": HIV-Infected Women's Successes with Medication Adherence
Amy Morton-Miller, MS, RN, APRN, BC, Graduate Research Assistant, Sandra K Plach, PhD, RN, CCRN, Assistant Professor, Patricia E Stevens, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor
Qualitative Research 
Experience of Young Women Returning from a Wilderness Expedition
Helen M Wedin, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor
Teenage mothers and their teen children's fertility: What goes around comes around?
Lee SmithBattle, DNSc, RN, Professor
Conception Practices of HIV-Infected Women
Nancy J Cibulka, PhDc, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor
Research Utilization/Evidence Based Practice 
New Approaches to Disseminating Research Results to Nurses and Other Clinicians
Marilyn H Oermann, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, Professor, Judith A Floyd, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Janna C. Roop, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Elizabeth A Galvin, MS, RN, AOCN, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Diabetic Education for Healthcare Providers (HCP)
Christine E Hall, MS, APRN, CNS, CDE, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Theory Development 
Partnering with Patients - A Concept Ready for Action
Mary L Hook, MS, APRN, BC, Predoctoral Student
Using HLM to Analyze Time Effects from Diverse Longitudinal Evaluation Studies: A New Method
Powhatan J Wooldridge, PhD, Associate Professor, Yow Wu Bill Wu, PhD, Associate Professor, Bradley R Fulton, PhD, Susan L Saltzman, ND, Visiting Lecturer
Using Hierarchical Linear Models to Analyze A National Nursing Survey Study
Yow-Wu B Wu, PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Carol Brewer, PhD, Christine Kovner, PhD, Ying Cheng, PhD(c)
Rural Families Caring for Children with Complex Chronic Health Conditions
Diane K Rose, PhD(c), MS, BS, Predoctoral Student
Women's Health 
A Prospective Pre-Post Comparison of Physiologic and Psychologic Variables in Childbearing-Aged Women Experiencing Hypnosis
Leona VandeVusse, PhD, CNM, RN, Associate Professor, Margaret A Berner, MSN, CNM, RN, Instructor, Jill M Winters, PhD, RN, Associate Professor
Conceptual Model: Women's Decisions To Determine and Affect Bone Health
Ann Falkenberg Olson, MS, MA, FNP, WHNP, Predoctoral Student
Evaluation and Comparison of the Psychometric Properties of Three Retrospective Multi-Item Measures of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Polly A Hulme, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor
Program:General Submissions

The 30th Annual MNRS Research Conference