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Breast Reconstruction: Effects on Body Image Following Surgery
(2017-04-25)Women undergoing breast reconstruction are susceptible to many consequences from this process including negative implications on the female psyche related to body image. This project assessed the satisfaction women had ... -
Breastfeeding Education for Obstetric Providers in a Rural Public Health Department
(2020-05-05)Breastfeeding has many known positive benefits for both mother and baby. Prenatal breastfeeding education has been proven beneficial to expectant mothers; however, there is no known current data recommending how often and ... -
BREASTFEEDING SELF-EFFICACY IN WOMEN USING ASSISTIVE TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES TO ADDRESS MATERNAL AND INFANT FEEDING PROBLEMS
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)This dissertation used the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991, 2002) and breastfeeding self-efficacy theory (Dennis, 1999) to explore relationships among breastfeeding self-efficacy and both the source and intensity ... -
Breastfeeding Support Group
(2022-07-15)Breastfeeding provides numerous health benefits to women and their infants. Even with knowledge of the protective benefits of breast milk, there continues to be early breastfeeding discontinuation. The state and national ... -
Bridging the Gap Between Transitional Care and Home Health to Prevent Hospital Readmission
(2023-07-15)Transitional Care (TC) aims to improve overall patient outcomes and promote continuity of treatment by coordinating healthcare for vulnerable groups. The DNP project aimed to facilitate care transitions using the Transitional ... -
Bridging the Gap: Achieving Excellence in Oncology Transitional Care
(2021-07-18)Transitional care (TC) is the provision of care coordination for at-risk populations aimed at improving continuity and overall patient outcomes. The purpose of the DNP project was to utilize the evidence-based Transitional ... -
Bridging the Gap: S.T.A.B.L.E. cardiac education and nurses’ self-efficacy
(2016-12-08)Background: Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are the leading cause of birth defect-associated infant illness and death. An estimated 40,000 infants are born each year with CHDs and of those, about one fourth are labeled ... -
Building a Staff Development Program for Nursing Assistants in Long-Term Care
(2022-07-27)Nursing assistant (NA) turnover was 88.9% for four long-term care facilities combined within the project organization. A staff development program was designed for NAs across all four facilities within the organization ... -
Caritas Certification Program Impact on Human Services Leadership
(2022-07-25)Health care organizations have a hidden treasure within their acute care settings that can expand the ability to improve the experiences of care by achieving improved team engagement of the second-largest workforce. On ... -
Changing Prescribing Patterns Through Early Identification of High Risk Patients
(2018-07-16)The prescription drug use/abuse epidemic is increasing within the United States, and has affected 12.5 million Americans and the U.S. economy with an estimated $50 billion/year in lost wages, productivity, and criminal ... -
Child Passenger Safety Initiative for Primary Care Providers
(2022-07-27)Motor vehicle collisions are a leading cause of childhood injury and death. Primary care providers (PCP) have the potential to equip parents and caregivers with knowledge and education regarding the importance of child ... -
Clinic Staff Adherence to the CDC’s STD Treatment Guidelines: A QI Initiative in a Local Health Department
(2016-07-25)The Orange County Health Department (OCHD), a medium sized health department in central North Carolina, manages many patients for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) based on the CDC’s STD Treatment Guidelines and guidance ... -
Clinical Ladder Mentoring: The Impact on Nursing Professional Development
(2019-07-17)Clinical ladder mentorship programs engage registered nurses in professional development, improve job satisfaction, and retention. The aim of this quality improvement project was to foster professional growth in early to ... -
Clinical Practice Change: Suboxone Use in Inpatient Psychiatry
(2019-04-26)The opioid epidemic is public health crisis with veterans twice as likely as civilians to die from opioid overdose (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence [NCADD], 2017). The VA prescribes Suboxone in the ... -
Closing Perceived Care Gaps Through Process Development
(2022-04-25)Cancer screening is an important aspect of primary care in terms of caring for patients and in terms of hitting benchmarks for reimbursement. When a primary care clinic transitioned to a new electronic health record and ... -
Closing Treatment Gaps for Adult Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disorders Through the Use of an Educational Module for College of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice Students
(2022-07-25)Educational module for doctor of nursing practice students on primary care considerations for adults with an intellectual or developmental disability. -
Co-Prescribing Naloxone Policy for Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy
(2020-07-29)Opioid misuse and overdose related deaths are an escalating problem in the nation that crosses all gender, age, sociologic, economic, and race barriers. A private practice clinic treating chronic pain with opioid medication ... -
Co-prescribing Naloxone with Opioids in the Emergency Department
(2019-04-24)Background: The United States is facing an opioid epidemic with 115 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses and they are the leading cause of accidental death. Naloxone (Narcan) is an opioid antagonist, which ...