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Dare County Quality Improvement Project for the Overweight and Obese Adult Patient
(2019-04-15)Obesity is a serious disease that has tripled in prevalence since the 1980s, it affects all Americans either directly or indirectly, and attributes to several serious comorbidities and premature death. While guidelines do ... -
DASH Diet Education for Improvement in Hypertensive Outcomes
(2020-04-30)Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease (AHA, 2015). Although hypertension is a modifiable risk factor, 54% of an estimated one million adults with hypertension have poorly controlled hypertension ... -
Decreasing Door-to-triage Times in the Emergency Department
(2023-07-14)In the emergency department, patients who are waiting for triage present with potentially time-sensitive and life-threatening conditions. The period of time between arrival and triage is rarely discussed in the literature, ... -
Decreasing Emergency Department Boarding Times for the Intensive Care Patient
(2021-07-19)When critically ill patients arrive in the ED, substantial resources are reallocated to the patient, moving the supplies and hospital personnel away from others. Critically ill patients are remaining in the ED waiting on ... -
Decreasing Employee Burnout Through Improved Resilience
(2022-07-25)Burnout rates for healthcare staff are continuing to rise at an alarming rate. Burnout can affect individual well-being, patient safety and satisfaction, quality of care delivered, and organizational costs. Improving staff ... -
Decreasing Falls in the Emergency Department
(2023-07-18)Decreasing falls in the Emergency Department (ED) is essential to protecting patient safety during the patient’s time in the ED. When a patient falls, it produces adverse effects contributing to poor patient outcomes. A ... -
Decreasing Inappropriate Speech Consults in a Neurologic Intensive Care Unit
(2022-07-18)Stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) is a common post-stroke complication associated with an increased risk of hospital mortality, prolonged hospital stay, and associated healthcare costs. Nurses use bedside swallow screenings ... -
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 ... -
Deprescribing Medications in Comfort Care Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
(2023-04-17)With advancements in medical care, life expectancy has increased in the United States, leading to more patients needing outpatient or inpatient hospice, or palliative care services. While in hospice care, performing a ... -
Depression Screening Implementation for a Substance Use Disorder Clinic
(2021-07-14)Each year the number of Americans diagnosed with depression rises but a large number of cases go undiagnosed. Often substance addiction and depression co-occur. Appropriate treatment needs must be addressed to provide high ... -
Depression Screening Implementation in a Primary Care Clinic
(2020-04-20)Depression is a common disorder that impacts one’s quality of life. It can cause significant medical, social, and financial complications to an individual and affect others close to the person suffering from it. Depression ... -
A descriptive exploratory study on how nurse educators use digital stories in the classroom
(East Carolina University, 2014)This study examines the experiences of 12 nurse educators using digital stories in undergraduate nursing courses. Two issues were explored: 1) How and for what purpose are nurse educators incorporating digital stories in ... -
Developing an Integrated Telehealth Algorithm for Diabetes Management
(2022-04-21)This paper reviews the analysis of telehealth utilization during the emergency use period of the COVID-19 pandemic at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) located in a rural setting. An element of the center’s strategic ... -
Developing Practice Standards to Target Mental Health Disparities Among the Farming Population
(2021-07-25)Mental health is a rising concern among farmers in the United States. Situational stressors related to the nature of their work are often responsible for some of the mental health disparities that currently exist. ... -
Developing Substance Misuse Educational Outreach for North Carolina’s Agricultural Population
(2022-07-25)This paper reviews the creation, implementation, and analysis of a substance misuse educational outreach program directed toward North Carolina’s agricultural population. The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute (NCAI) ... -
Development of a Free Health Care Clinic in western North Carolina
(2016-07-19)The purpose of this DNP project is to describe the development of a free health clinic in the western North Carolina community. The process will include the use of a community needs assessment to influence the formation ... -
Development of the Special Olympics North Carolina MedFest Toolkit
(2020-04-19)[BACKGROUND] Limited access to quality healthcare for individuals living with an intellectual disability (ILID) has numerous implications, including poorer health outcomes and significant health disparities for the ... -
Diabetic Eye Examination Compliance
(2019-05-03)Purpose: The purpose of this project is to increase the rate of screening for diabetic retinopathy in one academic primary care practice. Prior to the project, the rate of screening was 18%, which was below the benchmark ...