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Improving Nurse Responsiveness through Advanced Call Bell Implementation & Hourly Rounding
(2019-07-03)
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine if patient perceptions of staff responsiveness, as measured by the HCAHPS survey, are impacted by the implementation of an advanced call bell system and ...
Improving Nursing Teamwork through TeamSTEPPS
(2019-07-21)
Nursing teamwork is a critical element of patient care delivery. The willingness to work cross-functionally is imperative to ensure patients’ progression through the health care continuum in a safe manner. TeamSTEPPS is ...
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RAPID CARE MODEL IN A NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC HEALTH SETTING
(2019-07-25)
North Carolina (NC) has a prevalence of approximately 36,700 people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In 2016, there was an incidence rate of approximately 1,399 ...
Improving Stress Management of a Nursing Staff in a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
(2019-07-22)
Healthcare workers, especially nurses, experience high levels of stress every day due to the high demands of their jobs. Persistently high levels of stress can negatively impact an individual’s physical, mental, and ...
Vitamin D Protocol in a MS Clinic
(2019-07-18)
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health issue affecting more than half of society. Despite the existence of laboratory screening test and effective supplementation treatment, many vitamin D deficiencies go undetected and ...
Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions Through Patient Education Program
(2019-07-22)
The use of patient education as a tool to facilitate improved patient outcomes has been widely used by clinicians in healthcare. The aim of this quality improvement (QI) project was implementation of an outpatient heart ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...