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Title: Nursing Comfort with End-of-Life Care of Patients and Families
Author: Mason, Megan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: Majority of Americans are faced with mortality in the acute care setting and require excellent care in order to maintain comfort, quality, and dignity at the end-of-life (EOL). Nurses play a large role in palliative and EOL care. Curre...

Title: Optimizing the interdisciplinary team in a neuroscience ICU
Author: Gibson, Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Introduction: A high-functioning interdisciplinary team is needed to achieve optimal team and patient outcomes in the provision of care for intensive care patients. The difference between a high functioning and suboptimal interdisciplinary team ma...

Title: Preoperative Education and The Reduction of Parental Anxiety
Author: Bernardo, Sherry
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Health services administration
Description: Background: One of the most frequently reported emotions in children in the setting of surgery or a medical procedure is anxiety. Currently, many interventions are used to assist with the perioperative reduction in anxiety for both parent and chil...

Title: Preventing 30-Day Rehospitalization Among Elderly Patients Through A Collaborative Transition of Care Program Between Acute and Primary Care
Author: Wingate, Katie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Gerontology
Description: There is a disconnect between acute and primary care when transitioning elderly patients from the hospital to the community, often leading to insufficient primary care follow-up and increased rehospitalization. The purpose of this pilot study was ...

Title: Responsible Opioid Stewardship: A Nurse Driven Preoperative Education Intervention
Author: DICKENS, DESHUNA
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: BACKGROUND: Opioid use following surgery is one factor that has contributed to the national epidemic of opioid abuse. This abuse has led to increased morbidity and mortality rates and a negative financial burden to the healthcare system. It is imp...

Title: Safe Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care Through Implementation of Evidence-Based Guidelines
Author: Starnes, Michelle
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Many people are affected by chronic pain. The use of opioids for pain has resulted in an increase in the number of opioid-related overdose deaths. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) created opioid prescribing guidelines to help providers safely ...

Title: Structured Interdisciplinary Rounds and Communication on a Geographic Medical Unit: A Pilot Study
Author: Wahab, Holly
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Communication, Medicine
Description: ABSTRACTIntroductionEffective, concise, and consistent communication is essential for safe, quality patient care. However, traditional models of physician rounding can result in gaps and delays in communication between team members involved in the...

Title: TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT HOW TO MANAGE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS IN LONG TERM NURSING CARE FACILITES
Author: Sullivan, Tiyika
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Introduction: More than 40% of patients that are admitted to the hospital with HF exacerbations are discharged to LTC facilities. It is estimated that 50% of those patients are hospitalized within 90 days of going to a LTC facility, which may be a...

Title: THE IMPACT OF AN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION FOR NON-VA CIVILIAN NURSE PRACTITIONERS: A MEASURE OF COMFORT IN CARING FOR VETERANS
Author: Pettus, Keshia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: There is a nationwide focus on increasing awareness about veterans’ unique healthcare needs. The CHOICE Act allows eligible veterans to receive care from community healthcare providers; however, literature on effective methods to prepa...

Title: The Association of Structural and Process Factors with Medication Errors for Residents Entering a Nursing Home
Author: Lane, Sandi
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Health services administration
Description: Objective: The purpose of the study is to elucidate the relationships and inter-relatedness of specific structure, process, and outcome elements contributing to harmful medication errors for the vulnerable people who reside in nursing homes by exp...

Title: The Effect of an Education Intervention on Nurses’ Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Regarding Evidence-Based Practice
Author: McGuffin, Timothy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a fundamental component of nursing practice and a hallmark of nursing excellence; however, nurses lack the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to apply evidence to daily practice. The primary objec...

Title: The Effectiveness of the Nurse Discharge Eucator on Postpartum Womens Perception of Readiness for Discharge
Author: Wilson, Lorraine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Introduction: In preparation for hospital discharge, anticipatory discharge education is critical for postpartum women. Standard care is that the many nurses who care for postpartum women provide the education, which may contribute to inconsistent...

Title: The Effects of an Educational Module on Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Frequency of Screening HIV Patients with Substance Use Disorders
Author: Hairston, Tawanna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: People living with HIV (PLWH) are among the most affected patient populations who suffer with SUDs. Health care providers (HCPs) must be knowledgeable about SUDs and cognizant of their own attitudes towards PLWH who suffer with substance abuse. Ad...

Title: The Efficacy of An Educational Intervention on Latinas' Cervical Cancer Screening Knowledge
Author: Harper, Amber
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education, Medical sciences
Description: Latinas’ lack of knowledge regarding cervical cancer screening (CCS) guidelines has a significant impact on CCS adherence and ultimately impacts their health outcomes related to cervical cancer. Studies have demonstrated that small media, cultural...

Title: The Evaluation of an Educational Intervention on Food Label Literacy Among Parents of Children in an Outpatient Pediatric Clinic
Author: Okocha, Ifunanya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education, Nutrition
Description: Childhood obesity has been on the rise for decades and its effects have a negative impact on the health, psychology of the people with significant economic cost to the society at large. Many risk factors have been attributed to obesity such as qua...

Title: The Impact of Prewarming on the Prevention of Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia
Author: Earnhardt, Exie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: This DNP scholarly project was implemented to evaluate the impact of prewarming on the incidence of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) in adult patients undergoing surgical hip procedures (SHP) with combined sedation and neuraxial anesthe...

Title: The Impact of Standardized, Health Literate Education Materials for Postoperative Patients with a New Ostomy
Author: Pate, Kimberly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Patients undergoing surgery for a new ostomy require an extensive amount of education due to the complexity of the tasks required for self-care. By starting education earlier in the preoperative setting and providing written health literate materi...

Title: The Influence of Leadership Practices on Faculty Job Satisfaction in Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Program
Author: Afam, Clifford
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Nursing
Description: Using a correlational, cross-sectional study design with self-administered questionnaires, this study explored the extent to which leadership practices of deans and department heads influence faculty job satisfaction in baccalaureate degree nursin...

Title: The impact of nurses’ professionalism from an innovative peer review committee
Author: Goble, Patricia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: Peer review is a vital process through which nurses provide feedback to their peers in real time to advance their professional practice. The purpose of this scholarly project was to determine the impact of implementing an innovative pe...

Title: Utilization of a Teaching Video to Improve Outcomes for Post MI and Stent Patients
Author: Winiger, Amy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Amy Winiger ACNP-BC, AACC. Utilization of a Teaching Video to Improve Outcomes for Post MI and Stent Patients. (Under the direction of Dr. Katie Shue-McGuffin) The Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) for Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute (SHVI), ...