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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 ...
Implementation of an Advance Directive Protocol among Hospitalized Patients
(2018-04-17)
Background. Medical advancements have progressed considerably in recent decades, highlighting the necessity of advance care planning (ACP). Advance directives (ADs) help honor and promote patient preference, quality of ...
Examining Factors Associated with Physical Activity During Cardiac Rehabilitation
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
Recurrent myocardial infarctions (MIs) account for a third of the incident rate for all MIs. Physical activity (PA) is an important health behavior to prevent a recurrent MI. Fatigue, sleepiness, anxiety, and depression ...
DISPARITIES IN COPING AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
Significance: Caring for a child with special health care needs requires increased emotional and physical resources from parents. Many parents do not have access to vital resources essential to caring for these children ...
Home Visiting and Six Week Postpartum Visit
(2018-07-12)
Community Medicaid/self-pay obstetric clinics report that only 52% of their patients return for their 6-week postpartum visit. This process improvement project evaluated the improvement strategies of providing patient ...
Impact of Shared Decision-Making on Contraception Continuation Rates
(2018-07-12)
Approximately fifty percent of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended each year. Reducing unintended pregnancy is a complex public health issue as identified in Healthy People 2020 with the goal of a ten percent ...
The Heart of the Matter: Bringing the R Back to SBAR
(2018-07-14)
This paper focuses on a quality improvement (QI) project implemented in a home health setting among a population of patients with heart failure (HF). It was discovered there was a lack of nurse-led recommendations and ...
Evaluation of Fire Risks to Improve Safety in the Operating Room
(2018-07-12)
Background: Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care, and has become an increasingly important public concern. Surgical fires are a preventable, never event. As with other low incidence but high impact ...
Implementation of a Emergency Preparedness Shelter Manual in Public Health
(2018-07-12)
Nurse Administrators have founded that Public Health Nurses (PHN) are not adequately equipped with the knowledge needed to effectively provide nursing care during a disastrous event. Hence, the significance of effectively ...