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REDUCING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN A HOME HEALTH AGENCY
(2019-04-17)
The cost of care for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients can be greatly reduced by utilizing home health services. However, baseline data analyzed on initial chart review of patients admitted to one local home health ...
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 ...
Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Primary Care
(2019-04-13)
Despite efforts to improve health and reduce morbidity and mortality rates, health screenings for significant conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are often missed. It is estimated that 80% of OSA cases remain ...
Increasing Ophthalmology Referrals for Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
(2019-04-25)
Diabetes mellitus currently afflicts 1 out of every 10 residents of North Carolina (North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2016). Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a distinct vascular complication of diabetes ...
Implementing Substance Abuse Screening in a Free Clinic
(2019-04)
Substance abuse in the United States is on the rise and evidence has shown that screening patients is ideal in primary care. Early identification of substance use is important in decreasing mortality and morbidity associated ...
Improving Advance Care Planning Among Providers in a Long-Term Care Setting
(2019-04-25)
A quality improvement (QI) initiative was implemented to increase Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations and documentation by healthcare providers in two southeastern skilled nursing facilities (SNF) in North Carolina. ...
Co-prescribing Naloxone with Opioids in the Emergency Department
(2019-04-24)
Background: The United States is facing an opioid epidemic with 115 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses and they are the leading cause of accidental death. Naloxone (Narcan) is an opioid antagonist, which ...
Clinical Practice Change: Suboxone Use in Inpatient Psychiatry
(2019-04-26)
The opioid epidemic is public health crisis with veterans twice as likely as civilians to die from opioid overdose (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence [NCADD], 2017). The VA prescribes Suboxone in the ...
Implementation of Sacral Ulcer Prevention Protocol
(2019-04-25)
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to effect a change in nursing practice to prevent pressure ulcers in a hospital setting, by implementing an adjunctive nursing protocol aligned with current evidence-based ...
Identifying Patient Education Needs in Hypertension Management
(2019-04-23)
Purpose: Hypertension is one of the most commonly treated chronic diseases by primary care providers, with approximately half of those patients being uncontrolled. The purpose of this DNP quality improvement project is to ...