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Increasing Health Literacy of Parents of Children Age 0 to 5 Regarding Oral Health and Immunizations
(2021-07-15)
Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...
Increasing Health Literacy of Parents of Children 0 to 5 Regarding Oral Health and Immunizations
(2021-07-20)
Health literacy is the ability of an individual to find, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services. Limited health literacy is linked with lower health outcomes, increased hospitalization ...
Improving Resiliency Among Inpatient Nursing Teams During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
(2021-07-19)
Resiliency and grit are two words that describe today's nursing team members amid the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Registered Nurses (RNs) and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) have been on the frontline battling a pandemic that ...
Promoting Immunization and Oral Health Literacy Among Parents
(2021-07-20)
Pediatric periodontal and immunization-preventable disease are leading causes of pediatric morbidity. Evidence-based literature supports that improving parental health literacy can reduce pediatric periodontal and ...
Wellness Counseling and Education Effects on Diabetes Self-Management
(2021-07-21)
The project's purpose was to assess the effects of wellness counseling and education on individuals with elevated HbA1c levels to enhance and strengthen their diabetes self-management skills. The project provided wellness ...
Decreasing Emergency Department Boarding Times for the Intensive Care Patient
(2021-07-19)
When critically ill patients arrive in the ED, substantial resources are reallocated to the patient, moving the supplies and hospital personnel away from others. Critically ill patients are remaining in the ED waiting on ...
Putting a Human Face on Harm: Reducing Patient Adverse Events through Story-telling
(2021-07-20)
Patients are unintentionally harmed in healthcare settings across the country every day. This evidence-based quality improvement project was designed to decrease the total number of patient harm events and increase nurse ...
Depression Screening Implementation for a Substance Use Disorder Clinic
(2021-07-14)
Each year the number of Americans diagnosed with depression rises but a large number of cases go undiagnosed. Often substance addiction and depression co-occur. Appropriate treatment needs must be addressed to provide high ...
Resilience in Nurses Caring for Patients with COVID-19
(2021-07-20)
The purpose of this project was to assess the resilience of nurses caring for COVID patients and to implement evidence-based strategies to improve resilience. The setting for the project was an academic medical center ...
Improving Emergency Department Length of Stay by Reducing Laboratory Turnaround Times
(2021-07-19)
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to improve lab turnaround times to
decrease Emergency Department (ED) length of stay. The project participants included
registered nurses (RN) and medical doctors ...