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Heart Failure Hospital Readmission Assessment: A Tool to Guide Transitional Care
(2023-07-18)
Background: Heart failure cost and disease burden are significant (Patel, 2021). Objective: This project implemented a heart failure (HF) hospital readmission risk assessment tool to guide transitional care and decrease ...
Improving Nurse Education on Using a Warm Compress During the Second Stage of Labor to Reduce Perineal Trauma
(2023-07-19)
Nursing education can be presented in various modalities to create change within the nursing population successfully. This project utilizes presentations, posters, and in-person coaching to increase the consistent use of ...
Nurse Leader Application of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
(2023-07-20)
There are many leadership development programs, but only some focus on the unique perspective of nurse managers. The organization that served as the project site has leadership development programs for aspiring nurse ...
Improving Reach Out and Read Implementation in the NICU
(2023-07-20)
Neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at high risk for neurocognitive and behavioral deficits. Reading to these neonates is shown to improve short- and long-term outcomes. Reach Out and Read (ROR) expanded ...
Making Intimate Partner Violence Vital
(2023-07-20)
Intimate Partner Violence, or IPV, is a physically and mentally violent phenomenon prevalent in today’s society. In order to follow guidelines by governing bodies of health care, a four-year university in the southeast ...
Decreasing Falls in the Emergency Department
(2023-07-18)
Decreasing falls in the Emergency Department (ED) is essential to protecting patient safety
during the patient’s time in the ED. When a patient falls, it produces adverse effects contributing
to poor patient outcomes. A ...
The Effect of an Orientation Video in the Pediatric Emergency Department
(2023-07-19)
Health systems’ reimbursement funding is highly influenced by patient satisfaction scores. Communication and availability of information are two of the common themes contributing to lower than optimal patient satisfaction ...
Leveraging Resources to Improve Access to Occupational Healthcare for Farmers
(2023-07-18)
Farming is the third deadliest occupation in America, however, less than 20 % of farmers seek healthcare (North Carolina Farmworker Health Program, 2022). Mandated medical clearances are a prerequisite to respiratory fit ...
Expanding the Care of Hospice Patients Across a Mobile Integrated Health System
(2023-11-29)
Transport demands for hospice patients are increasing, but mobile integrated health (MIH)
providers report feeling ill-equipped to meet such demands due to the limited clinical guidance in
their treatment protocols. This ...
Implementation of a Standardized Handout for Perioperative Care of Patients with Pacemakers and Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: A Doctor of Nursing Practice Project
(2023-12-07)
Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) are implanted in patients to treat life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and other heart rhythm abnormalities. The current process for anesthesia providers delivering perioperative ...