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Factors Associated with Self-Management in African Americans with Hypertension
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
African Americans (AAs) have a higher prevalence of hypertension (HTN) and poorer health outcomes. Effective management of HTN requires pharmacology, low sodium diet (DIET), and increased physical activity (PA). Little is ...
Role Conception in New Graduate Nurses: A Secondary Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Background: The new graduate transition to practice process affects retention, competency development, healthcare costs, quality, and assimilation into the profession. During the transition, new graduate nurses compare the ...
Exploring the Preparedness of Nurses to Care for Medical-Surgical Patients with a Secondary Diagnosis of Mental Illness
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-04)
The prevalence and impact of mental illness in the United States cannot be overlooked in acute medical settings where the complexity of care for medical-surgical patients increases with a secondary diagnosis of mental ...
Leader-Member Relationships and Patient Safety Culture
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Patient safety culture has been a national objective for years. Many different interventions have been explored in hopes of improvement, but reported statistics suggest that this issue has yet to be solved. The purpose of ...
Patient Safety Culture: Nurse Manager Safety Rounding and Influencing Characteristics
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
In response to the growing awareness of multifaceted influences on patient safety culture, hospitals have employed a litany of tactics to reduce harmful events. The literature endorses executive safety rounding as being ...
The Use of Electronic Maternal Early Warning Criteria to Improve Treatment of Hypertension in Hospitalized Obstetric Patients
(2017-07-21)
Background: It is difficult to recognize that an obstetric patient’s condition is deteriorating because normal physiological changes in pregnancy generate significant shifts in maternal vital signs. Elevated blood pressures ...
Text Messaging to Improve Uncontrolled A1c
(2017-07-25)
Abstract
A diabetes clinic at a rural health department in western North Carolina, as at many clinics, has a large number of patients with an uncontrolled Hemoglobin A1c result. Hemoglobin A1c results that are consistently ...
Conformity Through Communication: A Quality Improvement Project Implementing a Standardized Handoff Checklist from Anesthesia to the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
(2017-07-21)
Background: The transfer of care from anesthesia providers to PACU nurses has been recognized as a high-risk handoff vulnerable to information degradation.
Objectives: Introduction of a Targeted Solutions Tool (TST) a ...
A Systematic Review of Weight Loss Programs in the Jail Setting: Recommendations for Practice
(2017-07-21)
Background: Jails are designed for short-term residence. As the length of stay has increased, detainee health has suffered. The caloric needs of the population are likely to be less than those of the general population ...
Perceived Health Status of Mothers in Homelessness with Implementation of Healthy Behavior Classes
(2017-07-27)
Background: Family and child homelessness in the United States has been increasing over the last three decades and continues to rise. People who have experienced homelessness often have poorer health than those who have ...