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Understanding the Role of Schools in Community Prevention of Childhood Obesity
(2014)
Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic with the percentage of obesity among children in the United States more than tripling in the past 30 years (Institute of Medicine, 2012). Many factors in the environment contribute ...
Student retention in associate degree nursing programs in north carolina
(East Carolina University, 2013)
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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 ...
Evaluation of the Sexual Health Education of Teenage Males in a Middle School in Rural North Carolina
(2015)
Teenage pregnancy has serious consequences for the young couple including limited education, inadequate employment opportunities, and adverse health outcomes (Alford & Houser, 2011). North Carolina is consistently among ...
Reframing disorder: gender, class, and the history of the resurfacing debate in nursing
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The nursing profession has sustained a state of disorder. The debate within the disorder historically exists in relationship to multiple educational pathways for entry into RN practice. Diploma, BSN, and ADN pathways still ...
Implementing the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) to Improve Health Literacy at a Rural Community Health Center
(2014)
Health literacy, as defined by the Institute of Medicine, is "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decisions regarding ...
Evaluating Type 1 Diabetes Management in an Elementary School Setting
(2015)
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease that affects 208,000 youth and children in the United States (American Diabetes Association, [ADA], 2014). Managing the disease requires intermittent monitoring throughout the ...
The use of grounded theory to develop a framework for understanding student retention in community college nursing programs
(East Carolina University, 2013)
Gaining admission into pre-licensure nursing programs has proven to be quite difficult for the average college student. Topping the list of crucial priorities for many academic institutions is the retention of these nursing ...
Exploring the Attitudes Toward Interprofessional Practice: Eastern North Carolina Perspectives
(2014-12-16)
Interprofessional health care delivery has the potential to greatly impact the experience, costs, and outcomes of health care. Primary care providers have the capacity to be the tipping point of this change. Primary care ...
A Pilot Study: The Effect of Healing Touch on Anxiety, Stress, Pain, Pain Medication Usage, and Physiological Measures in Hospitalized Sickle Cell Disease Adults Experiencing a Vaso-occlusive Pain Episode.
(East Carolina University, 2010)
Sickle cell disease (SCD), a common genetic blood disorder affecting primarily African-Americans (Edwards, Scales, Loughlin, Bennett, Harris-Peterson, et al., 2005) causes a vaso-occlusive pain episode (VOPE) affecting ...