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Evaluating Heart Failure Knowledge
(2024-04-20)Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of Krames education on patients with heart failure who have been admitted to the hospital with a heart failure exacerbation. Design: Quantitative research Methods: Exclusion criteria ... -
Health Literacy Improvement in Low Literacy Population
(2024-04-15)BACKGROUND: Health literacy impacts health disparities as it relates to a social determinant of health. There is little research on policies or programs to improve. However, not mutually exclusive, low health literacy ... -
Assessing and Improving Nurses' Cultural Competence
(2024-05-04)Introduction: Cultural competence is an important component of patient care and needs to be implemented more by nurses. Addressing cultural competence will assist in improving patients’ health, decreasing healthcare ... -
Behavioral Health Nurse Champion Project
(2024-04-15)Background: Literature supports providing nurses with more than educational interventions to empower staff. The organization already uses a behavioral health response team (BERT) to support staff, but no current peer-led ... -
Increasing Awareness of Cardiovascular Risks that Impact Black Men through Barbershop Conversation
(2024-04-18)Black men have suffered abuse and mistreatment within our healthcare system. Past events proliferated medical mistrust and created a separation between provider and patient. As a result, many individuals within the Black ... -
Dementia with Dignity: Methods to Reduce Incidence and Severity of Challenging Encounters
(2024-04-18)Psychological and behavioral challenges are frequently exhibited by individuals living with dementia. Often the interaction between a caregiver and the individual is the precipitant for those behaviors. The leadership of ... -
Implementation of a Group Lifestyle Intervention Program for Staff and Hispanic Patients
(2024-04-17)Two-thirds of the adults in the United States (US) are overweight or obese, which can lead to diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Jarvis, 2019). More than one in ten adults currently has diabetes, almost 50% of the US ... -
Making the MOST of Advance Care Planning
(2024-04-01)Background and local problem: This project sought to improve patient confidence and satisfaction in Advance Care Planning (ACP) as applied to completing Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST) forms in a geriatric ... -
Assessing Shock Anxiety in Patients with ICDs
(2024-04-15)Background The Electrophysiology department at the collaborating institution for this DNP Project serves approximately 3,500 patients with implantable cardiac devices such as ICDs, pacemakers, and loop recorders. The ... -
Application Program Interface Implementation for the Intercommunication of Prescription Information
(2024-04-16)Medication errors are a significant problem related to mortality in the United States. When patients present to a healthcare facility without accurate knowledge of their home medication regimen, unintentional, harmful, ... -
Improving Successful Intubations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(2024-04-12)Background: Neonatal intubation is challenging due to an infant’s size, anatomy, and tolerance to the procedure. Utilizing rapid sequence intubation (RSI) improves outcomes for neonates and decreases adverse events (Johnston ... -
Donate with PRIDE: Updated FDA Blood Donor Criteria and Reducing LGBTQIA+ Stigma
(2024-04-15)The United States trails other countries in the global north in adopting LGBTQIA+ inclusive legislation and policies. This was especially evident in the outdated and stigmatizing FDA blood donation deferral guidelines ... -
Educating anesthesia providers about autism spectrum disorder
(2024-04-12)Healthcare providers (HCPs) who are well-versed in their patients’ conditions can undoubtedly give better care. Due to the increase in access to care, clearer diagnostic criteria, and streamlining of several diagnoses, ... -
Search strategy for a narrative literature review evaluating lithium dosing and titration for in-patient psychiatric hospitalizations
(2024-04-09)this is the search strategy developed in PubMed for a narrative review of lithium dosing and titration for in-patient psychiatric hospitalization. -
Penny Pinchers Healthy Grocery Store Tour Leader Talking Points
(2024-04-05)This slide set was created by Registered Dietitian Nutritionists in partnership with Pitt Partners for Health (PPH) to be printed and used as a guide for volunteers leading tours as a part of their Healthy Grocery Store ... -
Penny Pinchers Healthy Grocery Store Tour Training Slides
(2024-04-07)This slide set was created by Registered Dietitian Nutritionists in partnership with Pitt Partners for Health (PPH) to be used to train volunteers that will lead or assist with the Penny Pincher's Grocery Store Tour program. ... -
Our World, Our Fight: Teaching Advocacy and Activism as a Pivotal Practice for Talented Youth
(2024)Teaching advocacy and activism is a pivotal practice for talented youth. Advocacy is broadly defined as championing a cause, from self-advocacy and community/local issues to sociopolitical and global awareness contexts. ... -
Bringing PLCs to K-20: Student Learning Communities as a Pivotal Practice for Talented Youth
(2024)This chapter describes how professional learning communities, an educator practice, can be brought to K-20 classrooms as a pivotal practice for talented youth as Student Learning Communities (SLCs). Several research-based ... -
Protein helps us retain muscle mass as we age
(2024-02-07)