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Health Careers Exploration Club: Improving the Healthcare Workforce
(2023-04-17)
Career exploration programs introduce fundamentals of career pathways to youth and help them explore career interests, employment, and academic advancement. Youth from lower socioeconomic status (SES) have fewer opportunities ...
Deprescribing Medications in Comfort Care Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
(2023-04-17)
With advancements in medical care, life expectancy has increased in the United States, leading to more patients needing outpatient or inpatient hospice, or palliative care services. While in hospice care, performing a ...
Evidence Based Mindfulness Resource for Undergraduate Nursing Students
(2023-04-17)
Nursing is a stressful educational major and attrition rates in nursing programs are high. Nursing students also have higher than normal anxiety, and often experience depression and burnout. Mindfulness interventions ...
Falls Education and Post-Fall Management in an Independent Living Community
(2023-04-16)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every four adults over the age of 65 falls annually. Falls are the leading cause of injury for the older adult population, and fall-related deaths in ...
Promoting Web-based Education on Healthcare careers
(2023-04-17)
The Doctor of Nursing Practice project was formulated after the “Nurse Like Me” project began with middle and high school students to increase their interest in nursing. No website platform at ECU displayed healthcare ...
Prevention and Early Detection of ICU Delirium
(2023-04-17)
Delirium in the intensive care unit is a frequent complication occurring in critical care patients. It is associated with increased mortality, prolonged length of stay, increased disability, and increased healthcare costs. ...
ACUTE CARE NURSES’ KNOWLEDGE ON IN-HOSPITAL STROKES AND PREDICTORS OF KNOWLEDGE
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-21)
In-hospital strokes (IHS) account for one in five strokes; however, IHS patients have higher mortality and are half as likely to be discharged home when compared to community-occurring strokes (Chen et al., 2018). Nurse-driven ...
Faith Community Nursing Program: Empowering the Hispanic/Latinx Population
(2023-07-20)
The Hispanic/Latinx population of the United States is anticipated to increase to approximately 111.2 million by 2060. Nonetheless, Hispanics/Latinx continue to have limited healthcare access and underutilization of ...
Increasing Oncology Advanced Practice Provider Retention
(2023-07-15)
Background: COVID-19 placed extreme stress on the healthcare system, and many left their jobs due to stress and burnout. This issue brought to light the problem of dissatisfaction among Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) ...
Reinforcing Pediatric Nutrition Recommendations Using Low-Cost Resources to Reduce Impacts of Childhood Obesity
(2023-07-21)
A statistical correlation has been made between the incidence of childhood obesity, comorbid
conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, and food insecurity (Arnold et al., 2020). These
studies conclude that increasing ...