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Factors Associated with Self-Management in African Americans with Hypertension
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
African Americans (AAs) have a higher prevalence of hypertension (HTN) and poorer health outcomes. Effective management of HTN requires pharmacology, low sodium diet (DIET), and increased physical activity (PA). Little is ...
Role Conception in New Graduate Nurses: A Secondary Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Background: The new graduate transition to practice process affects retention, competency development, healthcare costs, quality, and assimilation into the profession. During the transition, new graduate nurses compare the ...
Exploring the Preparedness of Nurses to Care for Medical-Surgical Patients with a Secondary Diagnosis of Mental Illness
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-04)
The prevalence and impact of mental illness in the United States cannot be overlooked in acute medical settings where the complexity of care for medical-surgical patients increases with a secondary diagnosis of mental ...
Leader-Member Relationships and Patient Safety Culture
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Patient safety culture has been a national objective for years. Many different interventions have been explored in hopes of improvement, but reported statistics suggest that this issue has yet to be solved. The purpose of ...
Patient Safety Culture: Nurse Manager Safety Rounding and Influencing Characteristics
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
In response to the growing awareness of multifaceted influences on patient safety culture, hospitals have employed a litany of tactics to reduce harmful events. The literature endorses executive safety rounding as being ...
A Grounded Theory Study to Understand Nurse and Resident Physician Communication Dynamics
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Communication between nurses and physicians frequently occurs in the delivery of care to patients in the acute healthcare setting. In an environment where a person's life and well-being depends upon accurate communication, ...
Perceived Health Status of Mothers in Homelessness with Implementation of Healthy Behavior Classes
(2017-07-27)
Background: Family and child homelessness in the United States has been increasing over the last three decades and continues to rise. People who have experienced homelessness often have poorer health than those who have ...
Reducing Delays in Enrollment to Pregnancy Care Management (OBCM) through Workflow Improvements in a Rural Health Department
(2017-07-26)
A rural local health department in southeastern North Carolina, last completed a community health assessment (CHA) in 2015, this CHA identified a health disparity rate of 1.46 between white and minority population rates ...
Implementation of a Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Educational Program
(2017-07-27)
Background/Problem: At a project site located in western North Carolina a knowledge deficit existed among Nursery and Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) nurses related to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Additionally, it ...
Enhancing Awareness of Culturally-Sensitive Care for Veterans and Soldiers
(2017-07-26)
Abstract
Military culture has great impact upon health seeking behaviors of veterans and soldiers. Healthcare needs of veterans and soldier’s peak years after experiences of war and have a major impact upon illness and ...