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Improving Healthcare for Spanish-Speaking Special Olympics Athletes in Chatham County, North Carolina
(2021-04-23)Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Special Olympics Health was created in 1997 to focus more on the health of the athletes, who ... -
Improving Hospital Outcomes Through Implementation of a Triad Model of Case Management
(2020-07-29)The purpose of this scholarly project was to implement a Triad model of acute care case management. Participants in this project included nurse care managers, social workers and a utilization review specialist on an acute ... -
Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative
(2018-11-28)Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers are preventable if vaccinated. Opportunities to administer the HPV vaccination to adolescents were being missed with a rural, primary care clinic due to lack of ... -
IMPROVING HPV VACCINATION RATES IN A PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
(2019-04-22)Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to develop and implement a new evidence based practice protocol to ... -
Improving Jail Navigator Mental Health Referrals
(2018-11-29)Discharge planning links inmates with mental illness to community resources upon release. Jail navigators provide discharge planning services. A process was needed to improve referrals to jail navigators. The Doctor of ... -
Improving Mammogram Referrals in Hmong Women Utilizing Culturally-aware Patient Education Materials
(2018-07-19)Background: Screening mammograms are an important aspect of early detection of breast cancer. The American Cancer Society (2017) recommends that women with average risk of breast cancer start yearly screening mammograms ... -
Improving Marketplace Health Insurance Enrollment for Eligible HIV and AIDs Positive Clients in Need of Specialty Medical Care Services
(2021-04-26)Nearly 5,500 individuals living in Wake County, North Carolina, are diagnosed with HIV and AIDs (North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). Individuals living with HIV and AIDs have complex health ... -
Improving Nurse Responsiveness through Advanced Call Bell Implementation & Hourly Rounding
(2019-07-03)The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine if patient perceptions of staff responsiveness, as measured by the HCAHPS survey, are impacted by the implementation of an advanced call bell system and ... -
Improving Nursing Leadership’s Usage of Real Time, Data-Driven Dashboards
(2017-11-17)The use of dashboards displaying real-time metrics has been shown to have a positive effect on patient care outcomes. A Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle was conducted to iterate the layout of an existing nursing dashboard ... -
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ... -
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 ...