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Improving Nursing Teamwork through TeamSTEPPS
(2019-07-21)Nursing teamwork is a critical element of patient care delivery. The willingness to work cross-functionally is imperative to ensure patients’ progression through the health care continuum in a safe manner. TeamSTEPPS is ... -
Improving Patient and Family Experience in Level One Post Anesthesia Care Unit
(2022-04-25)Historically speaking, post-anesthesia care units (PACU’s) have been closed off to visitation. However, several studies on the patient experience of care that demonstrates that family visitation in PACU not only increases ... -
Improving Patient and Provider Engagement in Hypertension Control
(2022-07-13)Hypertension is the second leading cause of death and costs the United States over $130 billion annually. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid promote control through the star rating system and primary care reimbursement. ... -
Improving Patient Comfort with Nonpharmacologic Therapies
(2018-04-20)This quality improvement (QI) project was conducted on a 32-bed medical telemetry unit at a 235-bed hospital. The reason this project was chosen because the opioid crisis needs to be alleviated and one way we can help it ... -
Improving Patient Portal Use in Primary Care
(2020-04-23)The Affordable Health Care Act has changed the manner in which healthcare is delivered and is focused on value-based health care in the United States. Value-based health care is safe, low-cost quality care, which seeks to ... -
Improving Quality and Efficiency of Postpartum Hospital Patient Education Delivery
(2021-07-27)The impact of the coronavirus-19 pandemic is forcing hospitals around the world to organize care differently than before. In March of 2020, the target organization’s Birthing Center was faced with the dilemma of closing ... -
Improving Reach Out and Read Implementation in the NICU
(2023-07-20)Neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at high risk for neurocognitive and behavioral deficits. Reading to these neonates is shown to improve short- and long-term outcomes. Reach Out and Read (ROR) expanded ... -
Improving Referral Management After Biometric Health Screening
(2016-12-07)Referral management after biometric health screening is an integral component in the employee health model of care. Early detection and identification of health problems, counseling, follow-up, and referral to a health ... -
Improving Resiliency Among Inpatient Nursing Teams During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
(2021-07-19)Resiliency and grit are two words that describe today's nursing team members amid the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Registered Nurses (RNs) and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) have been on the frontline battling a pandemic that ... -
Improving Resiliency and Patient Satisfaction in a Rural Community Hospital
(2022-04-25)The lack of resiliency affects the overall well-being of healthcare professionals (HCP) negatively impacting one’s ability to provide compassionate, safe, quality care. The literature supports that lack of resiliency ... -
IMPROVING SCREENING FOR BREASTFEEDING DIFFICULTY AND ASSESSMENT OF LABIAL AND LINGUAL FRENULUM-TIES IN BREASTFEEDING INFANTS DURING THE PEDIATRIC VISIT
(2019-05-03)The correlation between breastfeeding difficulty and labial (lip) and lingual (tongue)-tie has recently been a controversial topic with focus on treatment concerns. The focus should be redirected to standardized identification ... -
Improving Self-Efficacy for Weight Loss Management in a Group Setting
(2017-04-24)Problem Statement: The growing costs of managing chronic disease in the United States is exacerbated by the obesity epidemic; obesity often contributes to increased comorbidities, or worsens the progression of existing ... -
Improving Self-Management in Patients with Uncontrolled Blood Pressure
(2023-07-17)Hypertension is one of the top contributors to the risk of death worldwide. Per the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 2022a), every year, 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke, and it is the leading cause ... -
Improving Staff and Patient Education to Increase Chlamydia Screening Rates
(2018-11-25)Chlamydia Trachomatis is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Infection rates increase yearly and are highest in women ages 16-24. Untreated infections can lead to chronic pelvic ... -
Improving Staff Education and Application of Knowledge Regarding COVID-19 Transmission Prevention in Long-Term Care Facilities in North Carolina: A Collaborative Effort
(2021-07-29)Long-term care facilities (LTCF) residents and staff were disproportionately affected by the COVD-19 pandemic. This DNP project was a quality improvement undertaking that sought to increase the strike team's proficiency ... -
Improving Stress Management of a Nursing Staff in a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
(2019-07-22)Healthcare workers, especially nurses, experience high levels of stress every day due to the high demands of their jobs. Persistently high levels of stress can negatively impact an individual’s physical, mental, and ... -
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 ... -
Improving the Resilience of Nurses in the Emergency Department
(2022-07-18)Enhancing the resiliency of nurses in the emergency department (ED) will be needed to meet communities’ challenging health care needs. Poor resilience can result in burnout syndrome and is linked to the development of ... -
Improving Transitions of Care after Critical Illness
(2020-04-26)Post intensive care syndrome (PICS) is a recently recognized condition of a group of physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional impairments affecting patients recovering from critical illness. As a new disorder, PICS is not ...