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Enhancing Provider Education to Increase HPV Vaccination Rates in Adolescents
(2018-11-29)
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world and in the United States. Despite ACIP recommendations and Healthy People 2020 goals, HPV vaccination completion rates in North ...
Improving Documentation of Symptom Management in General In-Patient Hospice
(2018-11-08)
The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to evaluate nursing compliance of using an evidence-based flowsheet for General In-Patient (GIP) symptom management with a secondary purpose of improving nursing ...
Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Screenings in Physical Therapy: An Interprofessional DNP Project
(2018-11-26)
Physical therapists are increasing their autonomous practice, which includes direct patient referral without a provider first assessing the patient. The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice recommends that every patient ...
STUDENT ATTITUDES REGARDING GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY DURING AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL IMMERSION PROGRAM IN GUATEMALA
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-06)
As the world population explodes the need for health professionals who have positive attitudes toward cultural diversity and a willingness to learn about other cultures is essential to providing optimal care to these ...
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. ...
Co-prescribing Naloxone with Opioids in the Emergency Department
(2019-04-24)
Background: The United States is facing an opioid epidemic with 115 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses and they are the leading cause of accidental death. Naloxone (Narcan) is an opioid antagonist, which ...