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Healthy Habits for Teens: Changing the Trajectory of Obesity
(2022-04-18)Teenage obesity is an increasing concern throughout the world. Providers and communities need to engage in programs that address this concern. Childhood obesity often precedes obesity throughout the entire lifespan. Healthy ... -
Heart Failure 30-Day Readmissions: Causes, Prediction, Prevention in a Rural Hospital
(2015-10-27)Readmissions of heart failure (HF) patients are a costly and potentially avoidable expenditure for our healthcare systems. In 2015, acute care facilities who exceed pre-determined benchmarks for 30-day HF readmission rates ... -
Heart Failure Hospital Readmission Assessment: A Tool to Guide Transitional Care
(2023-07-18)Background: Heart failure cost and disease burden are significant (Patel, 2021). Objective: This project implemented a heart failure (HF) hospital readmission risk assessment tool to guide transitional care and decrease ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Hospice nurses' experience of caring for the elderly with wounds at the end-of-life.
(East Carolina University, 2015)Background: The goal of hospice care is to maximize quality of life and provide peace, comfort, and dignity to patients with terminal illness. Older dying patients pose unique challenges to meeting this essential goal, ... -
The HPV Vaccination Project: HPV Vaccination Following Pediatric Sexual Abuse
(2018-07-17)The nonavalent human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination prophylactically contributes to the prevention of nine types of HPV associated with vaginal, anal, oropharyngeal, labial, cervical and penile cancers. Rates of HPV ... -
Hypertension Treatment Adherence with 3-D Models
(2019-12-04)Hypertension treatment adherence is a significant issue in the United States. Almost half of patients with diagnosed hypertension are non-adherent with medications and/or diet and appointment keeping with their provider. ... -
Identification of Residual Neuromuscular Blockade in Post-Surgical Patients
(2017-11-19)Background: Many surgical procedures require administration of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking (NDNMB) agents. NDNMBs are typically reversed when surgery ends, allowing function to be restored. With more precise ... -
Identifying Barrett's Esophagus Risk in a Primary Care Setting
(2020-04-24)Barrett’s esophagus incidence has been on the rise for the past four decades. Early identification of Barrett’s esophagus is essential to preventing the morbidity and mortality associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma, a ... -
Identifying Delirium in the Geriatric Population
(2021-04-25)Delirium is a severe change in brain function that can have short and long-term consequences for the hospitalized geriatric patient. Untreated delirium can lead to increased lengths of stay, falls, reduced function ... -
Identifying Patient Education Needs in Hypertension Management
(2019-04-23)Purpose: Hypertension is one of the most commonly treated chronic diseases by primary care providers, with approximately half of those patients being uncontrolled. The purpose of this DNP quality improvement project is to ... -
Impact of a Nurse-Led Early Mobility Protocol in Postoperative General Surgery Older Adults on Medical-Surgical Units
(2021-07-16)The older population is rapidly growing due to increased longevity in the United States. With these changing demographics, the healthcare system must be prepared to provide quality care in respect to postoperative mobility ... -
Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Prescriptive Practices in Rural Health
(2020-04-19)Abstract Background: Variations in one’s genetic structure impact the response to medications. Literature supports the benefits of using pharmacogenetic testing to guide the prescriptive management of patient treatment ... -
Impact of Quiet Time on Patient Experience
(2023-07-24)A lack of rest and dedicated quiet time (QT) during the brief hospitalization can impact the women's experience and lead to adverse health outcomes. QT is a brief period of dedicated rest where the hospital nursing team ... -
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 ... -
Impact of simulation experiences on learning transfer in new graduate registered nurses.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of pre-work factors (healthcare experience, type of education, type and frequency of simulation exposure) and work factors (type and frequency of simulation exposure) ... -
Impact of the North Carolina Board of Nursing Regulation Change on Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice
(2015-11-18)Entry level preparation for the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) role is completion of a graduate degree or post-master’s certificate in nursing, with clinical specialization and preparation for expanded role functioning. ...