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Improving Patient Portal Use in Primary Care
(2020-04-23)The Affordable Health Care Act has changed the manner in which healthcare is delivered and is focused on value-based health care in the United States. Value-based health care is safe, low-cost quality care, which seeks to ... -
Improving Referral Management After Biometric Health Screening
(2016-12-07)Referral management after biometric health screening is an integral component in the employee health model of care. Early detection and identification of health problems, counseling, follow-up, and referral to a health ... -
IMPROVING SCREENING FOR BREASTFEEDING DIFFICULTY AND ASSESSMENT OF LABIAL AND LINGUAL FRENULUM-TIES IN BREASTFEEDING INFANTS DURING THE PEDIATRIC VISIT
(2019-05-03)The correlation between breastfeeding difficulty and labial (lip) and lingual (tongue)-tie has recently been a controversial topic with focus on treatment concerns. The focus should be redirected to standardized identification ... -
Improving Self-Efficacy for Weight Loss Management in a Group Setting
(2017-04-24)Problem Statement: The growing costs of managing chronic disease in the United States is exacerbated by the obesity epidemic; obesity often contributes to increased comorbidities, or worsens the progression of existing ... -
Improving Staff and Patient Education to Increase Chlamydia Screening Rates
(2018-11-25)Chlamydia Trachomatis is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Infection rates increase yearly and are highest in women ages 16-24. Untreated infections can lead to chronic pelvic ... -
Improving Stress Management of a Nursing Staff in a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
(2019-07-22)Healthcare workers, especially nurses, experience high levels of stress every day due to the high demands of their jobs. Persistently high levels of stress can negatively impact an individual’s physical, mental, and ... -
Improving Transitions of Care after Critical Illness
(2020-04-26)Post intensive care syndrome (PICS) is a recently recognized condition of a group of physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional impairments affecting patients recovering from critical illness. As a new disorder, PICS is not ... -
Incorporation of a tool to measure fear of falling in the inpatient rehabilitation setting
(2018-07-18)One-third of older adults fall each year, resulting in costly injuries and impaired quality of life. For those who have experienced a stroke, fall incidence is even higher. Excessive fear of falling (FOF) is one factor ... -
Increase Advance Directives Knowledge among African Americans in the Faith-based Organization
(2018-07-19)Despite the passing of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PDSA) in 1990, advance directives (AD) remain underutilized. African Americans’ AD completion rates were found to be lower than rates of completion by white ... -
Increasing Alcohol Screening Among Women
(2020-04-24)Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is occurring at increasing rates among women in the United States. High-risk drinking, heavy alcohol use, and binge drinking are characteristics of the disorder. Screening for alcohol use can ... -
Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening in Northeastern North Carolina
(2018-04-25)Colorectal cancer has the 3rd highest prevalence and the 2nd highest mortality rate of all cancer in the United States, with over 4,000 new diagnoses and 1,600 deaths reported in North Carolina yearly. Early detection ... -
INCREASING COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING REFERRALS IN A PRIMARY CARE CLINIC
(2020-04-20)Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. When diagnosed early, CRC has a 90% 5-year survival rate. Despite the ... -
Increasing HPV Vaccination Rates Through Provider Intervention
(2018-04-25)Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most commonly sexually transmitted infection in the US. A vaccination is available that protects against the most common strands of the virus, however, uptake is low. A ... -
Increasing Identification of Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Patients
(2020-04-27)Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is known to be a significant risk factor for ischemic stroke, as well as other thromboembolic events. Patients with (AF) are at increased risk of arterial thromboembolism. The DNP Quality Improvement ... -
Increasing LGBTQ Cultural Competence in Primary Care Providers
(2021-04-26)The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) community experiences healthcare disparities disproportionate to their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. The etiology of these inequalities is ... -
Increasing Ophthalmology Referrals for Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
(2019-04-25)Diabetes mellitus currently afflicts 1 out of every 10 residents of North Carolina (North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2016). Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a distinct vascular complication of diabetes ... -
Increasing Skin Cancer Awareness in Southeastern North Carolinian Farmers
(2020-04-14)Farmers are at increased risk of occupational disease of skin cancer related to sun exposure and hesitancy to use protective methods. The purpose of this project was to increase skin cancer awareness among the farmers of ... -
Indigenous Ways of Explaining Health and Illness
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-11)The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine indigenous ways of explaining health and illness from the perspectives of Mayans in one rural village in Guatemala. A bilingual research team conducted ... -
Influences on transition to practice outcomes among new nurses
(East Carolina University, 2013)This research explored the investigation of influences on transition to practice outcomes among new graduate nurses in a nurse residency program. The study participants consisted of 641 nurse residents from the Versant RN ... -
Initiating Practice Guidelines for Postpartum Depression Screening at Well-Child Visits
(2014-11-21)Purpose: This project examined the process of initiating postpartum depression (PPD) screening via a PPD protocol at 2 month well-child visit in four pediatric/family practice offices in a rural North Carolina county. The ...