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Title: Advance Care Planning: A Nursing Educational Intervention
Author: Pointer, Shannon
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: It is so rewarding to help someone to achieve their desires for their health care. The feeling of helping to empower others to know the choices that they have available to them while they can make those choices is profound. It is also gratifying t...

Title: Assessment of Burnout With Implementation of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention in Palliative Care Clinicians
Author: Snyder, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: While work in palliative and hospice care can be a rewarding experience in helping those suffering with complicated and terminal illnesses, it can also expose those involved to significant work stress, potentially leading to burnout. P...

Title: Effects of E-Cigarette Education in Adolescents and Young Adults in Primary Care
Author: Carriker, Amy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: ABSTRACT AMY E. CARRIKER. Effects of E-Cigarette Education in Adolescents and Young Adults in Primary Care. (Under the direction of DR. TONYA ANDERSON) Approximately one in five high school student and 1 in 20 middle school students currently use ...

Title: Evaluation of Acute Care Providers' Opioid Prescribing Practices in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
Author: Buckner, Kimberly
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Over 760,000 people have died from an opioid overdose since 1999. In 2019, the opioid epidemic claimed more than 70,000 lives, with over 1.6 million having an opioid use disorder. Literature suggests an association between increased opioid prescri...

Title: How Do the Homeless Newly Diagnosed With Cancer Receive Safe and Cost-Effective HealthCare Year One Following Diagnosis?
Author: Edinger, Amy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: ABSTRACTAMY B. EDINGER. How Do the Homeless Newly Diagnosed with Cancer Receive Safe and Cost-Effective Healthcare During Year One Following Diagnosis? (Under the direction of DR. STEPHANIE WOODS) Cancer is one of the most common causes of mortali...

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 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: 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: 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: 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: What is in my Patient's Pantry? Addressing Food Insecurity in Primary Care: a Quality Improvement Project
Author: Koontz, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Food insecurity (FI) has negative health effects throughout the lifespan, yet there is a disconnect between national recognition of FI as a health issue and FI screening in the clinical setting. The purpose of this project was to determine if an e...