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Consumer Intravenous Vitamin Therapy: Wellness Boost or Toxicity
(2021-09)
Intravenous vitamin therapy (IVVT) has become increasingly popular in recent years promising to cure or improve a variety of health problems or infuse “wellness”. Patients and consumers have IV vitamins or other nutrients ...
Health Careers Exploration Club: An Upstream Approach to Improving Health Equity
(2022-04-27)
Social determinants of health (SDOH), including education, employment, and income, profoundly impact health outcomes. Career exploration and development programs for youth provide an upstream approach for lessening the ...
Improving Patient and Family Experience in Level One Post Anesthesia Care Unit
(2022-04-25)
Historically speaking, post-anesthesia care units (PACU’s) have been closed off to visitation.
However, several studies on the patient experience of care that demonstrates that family
visitation in PACU not only increases ...
Streamlining the Volunteer Orientation Process for a Charlotte, NC Nonprofit: A Process Improvement Project
(2022-04-24)
The purpose of the DNP project was to increase the number of volunteers at a Charlotte, NC nonprofit organization to meet the needs of families registered with the organization. The population of focus was new volunteer ...
Fermented foods like Kimchi are fer-me and fer-you
(2022-04-27)
This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is fermented foods like kimchi is a fun way to spice up a meal, a good source of vitamins, and can help improve digestion and ...
Reducing Restraint Use in an Intensive Care Unit Through Staff Education
(2022-04-25)
Physical restraints are often used in intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent interference with medical devices. However, physical restraints are associated with adverse outcomes, such as delirium, stress, and injury. An ...
Developing an Integrated Telehealth Algorithm for Diabetes Management
(2022-04-21)
This paper reviews the analysis of telehealth utilization during the emergency use period of the COVID-19 pandemic at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) located in a rural setting. An element of the center’s strategic ...
Effect of Educational Session Including Lived Experiences from Local First Responders on Community Readiness to Complete Advance Directives
(2022-04-21)
Although Advanced Care Planning and Advance Directives are effective tools for communicating an individual’s wishes, if they become unable to speak for themselves, they are underutilized, and their purpose is frequently ...
Nurse Like Me Mentorship Project
(2022-04-24)
The nursing shortage continues to grow along with the aging population of the US. COVID-19 only exacerbated this shortage. The Nurse Like Me (NLM) project aimed to reduce the nursing shortage while increasing diversity in ...