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Standardizing Patient Handoff from the Emergency Department to the Stepdown Inpatient Unit
(2019-07-11)
The standardization of the patient handoff has become more imperative with the ever-increasing implementation of the electronic health record. An area especially vulnerable for patient handoff failure is from the Emergency ...
Clinical Ladder Mentoring: The Impact on Nursing Professional Development
(2019-07-17)
Clinical ladder mentorship programs engage registered nurses in professional development, improve job satisfaction, and retention. The aim of this quality improvement project was to foster professional growth in early to ...
Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Large Healthcare Organization
(2019-07-22)
Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a major health and financial burden internationally, nationally, and locally. Evidence has shown that early detection of CRC has improved the prognosis of patients diagnosed with CRC. Despite ...
Peer Accountability Program to Combat Nurse Incivility
(2019-07-07)
Incivility within the nursing profession is a topic of serious concern and requires immediate interventions. This quality improvement project utilized an evidenced-based approach to implement a program directed at nurse ...
Implementing a Diabetes Screening Protocol
(2019-07-21)
Type 2 diabetes is one of the greatest health concerns today. While one in ten Americans suffer from diabetes, 25% of them are unaware they have the disease. One third of the population has prediabetes, yet less than 12% ...
Birth Cohort Screening for Hepatitis C Virus
(2019-07-15)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been identified as a global, national, and local public health concern. Leading public health organizations have identified high-risk population groups and have developed screening guidelines. ...
POST-OPERATIVE VENTILATION PATTERNS AND THE EFFECTS OF NON-INVASIVE POSITIVE PRESSURE THERAPY ON VENTILATORY CHANGES AS MEASURED BY A NON-INVASIVE IMPEDANCE DEVICE IN PATIENTS WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-26)
Patients undergoing general anesthesia who have or are suspected of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be at increased risk for ventilatory complications, including respiratory depression, airway obstructions, and apnea ...
THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, PUBLIC HEALTH ACCREDITATION, AND COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA: 2007-2017
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)
This study explored the reporting of health equity issues in public health-led community health assessments (CHAs) and the reporting of measurable outcomes in the public health-led community health assessments (CHIPs). ...