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Adopting Evidence-Based National Guidelines to Treat Hypertension in Three Hybrid Retail/Same-Day Access Clinics
(2017-04-12)The popularity of retail care clinics has skyrocketed in the past decade. Today, they are a viable industry with a significant impact on healthcare. These clinics are recognized as providing affordable, accessible, quality ... -
ADVANCE DIRECTIVES AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN LUNG CANCER
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-04)The purpose of this study is to explore associations between disparities in the documentation of advance directives in the medical records of patients with lung cancer. Consecutive medical records of patients newly diagnosed ... -
An Advanced Practice Provider Advisory Group: Design and Structure
(2015-11-08)Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are critical to the functioning of healthcare systems. The 2011 Institute of Medicine report describes an optimal environment for APPs to provide quality, safe, cost effective patient ... -
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Pregnancy: Screening, Identification and Referral
(2019-04-22)Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur between birth and eighteen years of age (Radcliffe, Crouch, & Strompolis, 2018). The ACEs questionnaire consists of ten “yes” or “no” questions that ... -
An Algorithm for Using Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Disease
(2021-07-26)Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that affects many African Americans globally. This disease is characterized by acute complications from chronic anemia, episodes of painful acute on chronic ... -
AN ALL HAZARDS, ALL AGENCIES, ALL PEOPLE APPROACH TO ASSESS LOCAL- LEVEL HOUSEHOLD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE
(East Carolina University, 2022-11-30)Problem: Given the increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of disasters, and a gap in disaster research examining the interdependent systemic relationships between individuals and communities, we urgently need to ... -
An Examination of Nursing's Contribution to Global Health
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)Nurses provide the vast majority of front-line global healthcare, but little is known about the contribution that nursing has made to global population health. Study abroad programs have become a popular venue for engaging ... -
An Exploration of Heart Failure Readmission in Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-27)The purpose of this study is to identify and associate the level of patient activation and presence of comorbidities with early readmission, hospital discharge disposition, length of stay, number of admissions and all-cause ... -
AN EXPLORATORY GROUNDED THEORY OF BREASTFEEDING AMONG WOMEN WITH OPIOID USE DISORDER AND THEIR SUPPORT PERSONS
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)With over 16 million women using opioids in the United States, neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is increasing, and evidence suggests that NAS may be alleviated by breastfeeding. Yet, many women with opioid use disorder ... -
An Analysis of the Process of Nurse Practitioners Moving to Full Practice Authority and Developmental Summary of Practice Implications to Assist Others in the Future
(2017-04-27)Abstract Nurse Practitioners (NPs) have assumed a progressively important role as primary care providers for millions of Americans. Full practice authority (FPA) is the collection of state practice and licensure laws ... -
Anesthesia Providers’ Perceptions of Perioperative Temperature Monitoring: A DNP Project
(2022-11-25)Perioperative temperature monitoring is a standard of care and is important to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) and the associated increased risks. IPH is defined as a temperature of less than 36° Celsius ... -
Antibiotic Stewardship
(2019-04-22)Antibiotic resistance is among the greatest public health threats today. However, antibiotics are being prescribed when not indicated at astoundingly high rates. A gap exists between understanding when to prescribe antibiotics ... -
Antibiotic Stewardship: Implementing the Use of Centor Scoring for Pharyngitis
(2022-07-18)Antibiotics are prescribed at an alarmingly high rate and can lead to antibiotic resistance. Pharyngitis is one of the more common complaints seen in outpatient clinics and too often patients are sent home with antibiotics ... -
Application of the Opioid Risk Tool in the Management of Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in the Primary Care Setting
(2020-04-30)Problem: The opioid epidemic in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate. Many people lose their lives every day for abusing or misusing prescription opioids. Patients can be screened for risks of opioid abuse ...