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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 ... -
Inclusive Training for Future Health Care Providers Regarding Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
(2022-04-21)Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities suffer from a multitude of health disparities, including but not limited to obesity, diabetes, and mental health problems. The prevalence of these morbidities ... -
Incorporation of a tool to measure fear of falling in the inpatient rehabilitation setting
(2018-07-18)One-third of older adults fall each year, resulting in costly injuries and impaired quality of life. For those who have experienced a stroke, fall incidence is even higher. Excessive fear of falling (FOF) is one factor ... -
Increase Advance Directives Knowledge among African Americans in the Faith-based Organization
(2018-07-19)Despite the passing of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PDSA) in 1990, advance directives (AD) remain underutilized. African Americans’ AD completion rates were found to be lower than rates of completion by white ... -
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 ... -
Increasing Advance Care Planning in Primary Care
(2023-07-10)Advance Care Planning (ACP) discusses and documents end-of-life healthcare wishes with a medical provider. Having a documented ACP has been shown to decrease Medicare spending while increasing patient quality of life and ...