College of Nursing
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Expedited Partner Therapy: A Harm Reduction Tool for Local Health Departments
(2024-04-24)Background: Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT) is essential for combating sexually transmitted infections (STIs), yet its adoption is limited in local health departments (LHDs). Purpose: This quality improvement project ... -
Reducing Emergency Department Bounce-Back Through Nurse-Driven Discharge Education
(2024-04-23)A bounce-back is an emergency department (ED) visit by a patient previously treated and discharged who has subsequently checked back in within 48 hours for treatment (Montoy et al., 2019). Bounce-backs constitute a significant ... -
A Vascular Access Pathway to Decrease Computed Tomography Contrast Extravasations in Emergency Department Patients
(2024-04-22)Aim: This evidence-based project aimed to create a pathway tool for emergency department staff to utilize during peripheral intravenous (PIV) placement to decrease patient harm secondary to iodinated contrast media ... -
Increase the awareness and intent to pursue a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to improve healthcare and health equity access.
(2024-04-22)This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project aims to increase the knowledge, awareness, and intent to pursue advanced practice nursing degrees among nurses and future nurses of all non-European people. Moreover, a secondary ... -
Evaluating Employee Motivation in Expanding Adult Primary Services: A Grant-Funded Project
(2024-04-09)Many parts of North Carolina are considered rural, especially in Eastern North Carolina. In these rural areas access to healthcare continues to be an ongoing concern. Employee motivation was evaluated as a local health ... -
Expanding Access to Health Care for Agricultural Workers
(2024-04-02)Purpose: This quality improvement project offered free hypertension screenings to agricultural workers in a single farm in rural North Carolina to gain insight into whether the participants felt that onsite screenings ... -
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Utilization in the College-Health Setting
(2024-05-04)Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication was introduced in 2012 to reduce the chance of acquiring HIV via sex by 99 percent (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2022). Despite having a prevention method ... -
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 ...