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Improving Leadership Communication Utilizing Huddle Boards
(2023-07-11)Effective communication is critical within the healthcare industry. The identified problem for this evidnece-based project was a lack of effective leadership communication within a targeted nursing unit. A literature review ... -
Increasing Advance Care Planning in Primary Care
(2023-07-10)Advance Care Planning (ACP) discusses and documents end-of-life healthcare wishes with a medical provider. Having a documented ACP has been shown to decrease Medicare spending while increasing patient quality of life and ... -
Promoting Engagement in Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
(2023-07-26)Lack of engagement in the unlicensed staff can contribute to the disconnection between unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) and licensed coworkers, leaving the accomplishment of engagement to come from their own personal ... -
Preoperative Video Education to Increase Comprehension and Satisfaction in General Surgery Patients
(2023-07-25)Objective: Preoperative education has numerous benefits for patients, providers, and healthcare systems. Preoperative education is a proven intervention to improve surgical out-comes, increase patient satisfaction, reduce ... -
Bonding Through Books: Enhancing Neurodevelopment and Parental Bonding for Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care
(2023-07-11)Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national 501(c)3 nonprofit started in 1989. In recent years, it has expanded its program to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) to provide families with the knowledge and resources they need ... -
Workplace Violence Prevention in the Emergency Department Utilizing the Broset Violence Checklist
(2023-07-21)Workplace violence (WPV) is an epidemic in healthcare and is particularly a problem in high-risk areas of the hospital, such as the Emergency Department (ED). Literature reviewed consisted of minimal information supporting ... -
Implementation of a Structured Evidenced-Based Clinical Faculty Orientation
(2023-07-21)Nursing programs must facilitate curricula in adherence to accreditation body standards to ensure student learning and success. Several factors impact the achievement of program compliance with accreditation standards. ... -
Transfer Checklist: Improving Outcomes for Cardiac Intensive Care Patients
(2023-07-10)Patient transfers are common occurrences in hospital intensive care units. It is a complicated process, which, when inadequate, is associated with negative patient outcomes. These outcomes include medication errors, increased ... -
Leveraging Resources to Improve Access to Occupational Healthcare for Farmers
(2023-07-24)Occupational stress among agricultural workers, limited access to care, and poor health literacy lead to substandard health outcomes for farming communities. Alternative healthcare delivery models can assist in meeting the ... -
Impact of Quiet Time on Patient Experience
(2023-07-24)A lack of rest and dedicated quiet time (QT) during the brief hospitalization can impact the women's experience and lead to adverse health outcomes. QT is a brief period of dedicated rest where the hospital nursing team ... -
Organizational Wound Policy Improvement and Expansion
(2023-07-21)Hospital acquired pressure injuries are a costly and significant health care issue that can have major implications for patients and health care organizations. Accurate and timely wound assessment and documentation is an ... -
Increasing Service Utilization of An Outpatient Breastfeeding Clinic
(2023-07-10)Breastfeeding is highly recommended by the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and the American Association of Pediatrics (CDC, 2020; WHO, 2014; Meek & Noble, 2022). One goal of Healthy People 2030 is ... -
Increasing Skilled Nursing Facility Authorization Requests on Weekends
(2023-07-21)The goal of the evidence-based project was to increase skilled nursing facility (SNF) authorization requests on the weekends. Saturday and Sunday authorization requests were increased during the project period from 1.3% ... -
Faith Community Nursing Program: Empowering the Hispanic/Latinx Population
(2023-07-20)The Hispanic/Latinx population of the United States is anticipated to increase to approximately 111.2 million by 2060. Nonetheless, Hispanics/Latinx continue to have limited healthcare access and underutilization of ... -
Increasing Oncology Advanced Practice Provider Retention
(2023-07-15)Background: COVID-19 placed extreme stress on the healthcare system, and many left their jobs due to stress and burnout. This issue brought to light the problem of dissatisfaction among Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) ... -
Reinforcing Pediatric Nutrition Recommendations Using Low-Cost Resources to Reduce Impacts of Childhood Obesity
(2023-07-21)A statistical correlation has been made between the incidence of childhood obesity, comorbid conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, and food insecurity (Arnold et al., 2020). These studies conclude that increasing ... -
Pet Therapy and Resilience
(2023-07-21)Nurses are consistently in high-stress working conditions and exposed to direct insults caring for the critically ill. Nurse-related stress and burnout threaten nurses’ mental well-being and contribute to turnover. Workload ... -
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 ... -
Assessing Burnout and Resilience in Advanced Practice Clinicians
(2023-07-21)Burnout is a work-related phenomenon consisting of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and dissatisfaction with personal accomplishments (PA). Nurse practitioners (NP) experiencing increased burnout were at ... -
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, ...