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Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF PRACTICE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN A LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT: WILL IT INCREASE CLINIC EFFICIENCY AND IMPROVE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION?
Author: McCune, Melody
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Objectives: The objectives of the project were to improve patient satisfaction scores of child health patients in the local health department and to decrease visit wait time. The first expected outcome would be patient satisfaction scores would re...

Title: IMPLEMENTING INTERVENTIONS IN A HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR SAFE SLEEP PRACTICES FOR INFANTS
Author: Fisher, Stephanie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health services administration
Description: Safe infant sleep is a national public health concern accounting for approximately 350 deaths from Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUID) in the United States annually. SUID is a term used to describe the sudden unexpected death of an infant up to...

Title: IMPLEMENTING SBIRT IN THE ADULT TRAMA POPULATION ADMITTED BY NORTHEAST ACUTE CARE SURGERY AT CHS NORTHEAST
Author: Ragan, Mallory
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: ABSTRACTMALLORY RAGAN ROYALL: Implementing SBIRT in the Acute Care Trauma Population admitted by Northeast Acute Care Surgery at Carolinas Healthcare Center Northeast. (Under the direction of DR. ALLISON BURFIELD) Background: Abuse of alcohol and ...

Title: IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH CLINICIANS’ BELIEFS AND BEHAVIORS WITH LGBT INDIVIDUALS
Author: Townsend-Chambers, Colette
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Queer studies
Description: ABSTRACTCOLETTE TOWNSEND-CHAMBERS. Improving Public Health Clinicians' Beliefs and Behaviors with LGBT Individuals (Under the direction of DR. KELLY POWERS).Identified gaps in the education of healthcare clinicians contribute to non-affirming beli...

Title: INTEGRATION OF PROPHYLAXIS PROTOCOL IN MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN
Author: Dalton, Cynthia
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Queer studies
Description: ABSTRACTCynthia Denise Dalton. Integration of pre-exposure protocol in men who have sex with men. (Under the direction of DR. JUDY CORNELIUS).In the United States, men who have sex with men (MSM) remains the highest group infected with HIV. Truvad...

Title: INTERPROFESSIONAL BEDSIDE ROUNDS TO IMPROVE PATIENT PERCEPTION OF HEALTHCARE TEAM COMMUNICATION
Author: Austin-Connolly, Star
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: To improve patient outcomes, there is an increased emphasis on patient-centeredness and effective communication among the patient and healthcare team. Patients complete the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) ...

Title: Impact of High-Fidelity Simulation Training on Medical-Surgical Nurses' Self-Confidence and Mock Code Blue Performance: A Pilot Study
Author: Morton, Shannon
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Nurses working on medical-surgical units are often responders to situations of acute patient deterioration and must be ready to act and implement life-saving interventions (Buckley & Gordon, 2011). Training programs that incorporate high-fidelity ...

Title: Implementation of a Warming Protocol to Prevent Unintentional Perioperative Hypothermia in PACU
Author: Johnson, Michelle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Women's studies, Health education
Description: Title- Implementation of a Warming Protocol to Prevent Unintentional Perioperative Hypothermia in PACUCandidate: Michelle Johnson MSN, RNProgram: Doctor of Nursing PracticeSponsoring Chair: Dr. Katherine Shue McGuffinCommittee: Dr. Charlene Whitak...

Title: Improved Screening for Binge Eating Disorder in Primary Care
Author: Giuffrida, Josette
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) has come into focus with its listing in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition (DSM-5). Primary care is an appropriate place to screen for BED. However, some primary care providers are not aware of the disorder ...

Title: Improving Nursing Recognition and Management of Postoperative Delirium in the Acute Care Setting
Author: Belin, Latasia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Introduction: Postoperative delirium is a common cognitive complication characterized by an abrupt disturbance in brain function after surgery. It occurs in 15 to 25% of patients undergoing major elective surgeries and up to 50% of patients who ha...

Title: Improving Provider Compliance with Outpatient Heart Failure Prescribing
Author: Sossoman , Leslie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Guidelines recommend prescribing four classifications of medications for individuals with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Individuals on guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) have been shown to have reduced mortality and ...

Title: Improving Provider Utilization of Medication Adherence Screening Tools in Adults with Hypertension in Primary Care
Author: Colleton-Livingston, kia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Gerontology
Description: Background In the United States according to Centers for Disease Control (2019), nearly half of adults, 108 million (45%) have hypertension defined as having a systolic blood pressure greater than 130 or diastolic blood pressure greater than 80. T...

Title: Improving Reporting Culture through Daily Safety Huddle
Author: MacKay, Margaret
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health services administration
Description: The Institute of Medicine’s report "To Err is Human" remains relevant two decades later: medical error is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and 40% of hospitalized children experience medical error. One obstacle to safer care ...

Title: Improving the Interprofessional Teams’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Self-Efficacy in the Care of Adult Brain Tumor Patients
Author: McDonnell, Margaret
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education, Continuing education
Description: Purpose:The purpose of this educational project was to determine whether interprofessional team members who participate in a structured educational session demonstrate an increase in knowledge, confidence and self-efficacy in the care of adult bra...

Title: Increasing the Oncology Nurses' Knowledge of, and Barriers to, the Nurse Navigator Role
Author: McFarland, LaDonna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Oncology
Description: The American Cancer Society estimated that more than 1.7 million people would receive a new cancer diagnosis, and over 600,000 people would die from cancer in the United States in 2019 (American Cancer Society, 2019). Cancer patients face multiple...

Title: Introducing clean delivery kits to improve knowledge of clean birth practices in Haiti.
Author: Ostan, Grace
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Maternal and infant mortality rates in developing countries are significantly higher than rates in developed countries with sepsis contributing to mortality. Cleanliness at birth has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a key ...

Title: Investigation of a Nursing Career Counseling Program in a Community College
Author: Hedgpeth, Ruth
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Nursing, Health education
Description: ABSTRACT Balancing the demands of heavy academics with everyday adult responsibilities often proves overwhelming for nontraditional nursing students in a community college nursing program. Too often, nontraditional students elect to leave school a...

Title: Linking Patients with Diabetes Self-Management Education in the Primary Care Setting
Author: Benton, Zeleka
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Diabetes self-management education (DSME) can change the life path of people with diabetes (PWD). Many PWD blood glucose levels exceed recommendations set by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). A PWD could benefit from convenient access to a ...

Title: Lived experiences of nurses on a burn unit related to secondary traumatic stress.
Author: Shearer, Lindsay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Psychology
Description: Nursing is a large and growing profession. Nurses provide a critical service to patients and families, often in highly stressful work environments (McGibbon, Peter, & Gallop, 2010; Theme Filha, Costa, & Guilam, 2013). The stressful nature of nursi...

Title: Monitoring of Social-Emotional Problems in Transitioning Foster Children Aged 0 to 5
Author: Merritt, Kaynieka
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Social sciences, Developmental psychology
Description: BACKGROUND: Foster children who have experienced adverse childhood events are at-risk for developing social-emotional problems that may ultimately lead to toxic stress. There is a lack of research on whether administration of a standardized questi...