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Title: Comprehensive Health Assessment: Decreasing Preventive Care Gaps in Older Adults
Author: Wright, Georgetta
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Gerontology, Public health
Description: Less than 50% of adults aged 65 and older complete annual recommended preventive care. Preventive care is important since a major risk factor for cancer is aging. Colon cancer occurs in more than 70% of people aged 65 and older. The most common ca...

Title: Evaluation of an Online Educational Intervention to Increase Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in Disaster Responders and Critical Care Transporters Caring for Individuals with Developmental Disability
Author: Edinger, Zachariah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Educational evaluation
Description: Individuals with developmental disabilities experience more negative outcomes due to natural and manmade disasters and emergencies than do people without disabilities. Considering the large number of individuals in the United States with a disabil...

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: 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...