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Health Careers Exploration Club: An Upstream Approach to Improving Health Equity
(2022-04-27)Social determinants of health (SDOH), including education, employment, and income, profoundly impact health outcomes. Career exploration and development programs for youth provide an upstream approach for lessening the ... -
Health Careers Exploration Club: Improving the Healthcare Workforce
(2023-04-17)Career exploration programs introduce fundamentals of career pathways to youth and help them explore career interests, employment, and academic advancement. Youth from lower socioeconomic status (SES) have fewer opportunities ... -
Health Literacy Improvement in Low Literacy Population
(2024-04-15)BACKGROUND: Health literacy impacts health disparities as it relates to a social determinant of health. There is little research on policies or programs to improve. However, not mutually exclusive, low health literacy ... -
Health Literacy Improvement Project
(2021-07-18)Limited or low health literacy has been linked with negative patient outcomes, higher healthcare costs, and difficulty in healthcare decision making. The goal of the Doctor of Nursing Practice project is to improve the ... -
Health Literacy Perception and Experience among Members of the Pediatric Nephrology Interprofessional Team
(2015-06-17)A project utilizing a twenty-six question web based electronic survey was conducted to examine a convenience sample of pediatric nephrology interprofessional team member characteristics, health literacy perception and ... -
Health Promotion for African-American Men: Improving awareness of the link between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease
(2016-12-02)Emerging literature has shown there is link between erectile dysfunction (ED) and cardiovascular (CVD) disease. It has been suggested that ED is an independent risk factor for CVD. The presence of moderate to severe ED in ... -
A HEALTH PROVIDER NUTRITION EDUCATION INITIATIVE FOR OBESE ADULTS
(2019-04-22)Current statistics and trends for obesity shed light on the overall impact obesity has. Obesity is a global epidemic. This project highlighted the importance of providing nutrition education on the Mediterranean diet to ... -
Healthcare Like Me
(2022-07-26)Shortage in staffing in healthcare is a significant issue in our community and our nation. Unfortunately, this issue continues to be on the rise and will continue for years to come if there is not an intervention put into ... -
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 ...