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DISPARITIES IN COPING AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
Significance: Caring for a child with special health care needs requires increased emotional and physical resources from parents. Many parents do not have access to vital resources essential to caring for these children ...
An Examination of Nursing's Contribution to Global Health
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
Nurses provide the vast majority of front-line global healthcare, but little is known about the contribution that nursing has made to global population health. Study abroad programs have become a popular venue for engaging ...
Disparities in End of Life Pain: A Pilot Study in Hospice
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death. Pain is one of the most common, feared, and distressing symptoms associated with cancer. Minorities experience more severe pain than non-Hispanic whites and are more likely to ...
Home Visiting and Six Week Postpartum Visit
(2018-07-12)
Community Medicaid/self-pay obstetric clinics report that only 52% of their patients return for their 6-week postpartum visit. This process improvement project evaluated the improvement strategies of providing patient ...
Impact of Shared Decision-Making on Contraception Continuation Rates
(2018-07-12)
Approximately fifty percent of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended each year. Reducing unintended pregnancy is a complex public health issue as identified in Healthy People 2020 with the goal of a ten percent ...
The Heart of the Matter: Bringing the R Back to SBAR
(2018-07-14)
This paper focuses on a quality improvement (QI) project implemented in a home health setting among a population of patients with heart failure (HF). It was discovered there was a lack of nurse-led recommendations and ...
Evaluation of Fire Risks to Improve Safety in the Operating Room
(2018-07-12)
Background: Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care, and has become an increasingly important public concern. Surgical fires are a preventable, never event. As with other low incidence but high impact ...
A Provider Educational Program Promoting Testicular Cancer Awareness
(2017-11-15)
Abstract
Testicular cancer (TC) is the most common malignancy in males aged 15 to 40. It is estimated that only 3% of men perform Testicular Self-Exam (TSE) and they have little awareness of this disease and how it is ...
Improving Nursing Leadership’s Usage of Real Time, Data-Driven Dashboards
(2017-11-17)
The use of dashboards displaying real-time metrics has been shown to have a positive effect on patient care outcomes. A Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle was conducted to iterate the layout of an existing nursing dashboard ...
Identification of Residual Neuromuscular Blockade in Post-Surgical Patients
(2017-11-19)
Background: Many surgical procedures require administration of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking (NDNMB) agents. NDNMBs are typically reversed when surgery ends, allowing function to be restored. With more precise ...