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WEIGHTED BLANKET EFFICACY FOR REDUCING ANXIETY AND ANGER IN ADULT PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-21)
Restraint and seclusion continue to be used to manage aggressive and self-injurious behaviors in psychiatric patients on the inpatient psychiatric unit. This intervention can cause both physiological and psychological ...
Increasing Medication Adherence in a Primary Care Practice
(2021-07-22)
The focus of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project was to target medication adherence in a private, rural primary care office, designated as a Rural Health Clinic, in a Tier 1 county in central North Carolina. The project ...
Effects of Leader Rounding on Staff Satisfaction
(2021-07-15)
The literature review focuses on a manager's role in staff satisfaction through four common themes: visibility, communication, recognition, and support. As the themes improve, research validates that staff satisfaction ...
A Novel Educational Intervention: Improving Abdominal Pressure Strategies during Colonoscopy
(2021-07-23)
Gastroenterology (endoscopy) procedures continue to increase in volume as innovative therapeutic endoscopy procedures are performed to meet the increasing demand for minimally invasive procedures. During endoscopy procedures, ...
Social Determinants of Health
(2021-07-25)
The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are non-medical factors that impact our health outcomes and play a significant role in a person's ability to get and stay healthy. Standardizing the screening for SDOH can help ...
Impact of a Nurse-Led Early Mobility Protocol in Postoperative General Surgery Older Adults on Medical-Surgical Units
(2021-07-16)
The older population is rapidly growing due to increased longevity in the United States. With these changing demographics, the healthcare system must be prepared to provide quality care in respect to postoperative mobility ...
An Orientation Experience: Introducing Newly Licensed Nurses to Ambulatory Care Settings
(2021-07-25)
This project aimed to evaluate the impact of an orientation program on retention and
clinical confidence of newly licensed nurses hired in ambulatory care settings. Twenty-three
percent of newly licensed nurses leave ...
Developing Practice Standards to Target Mental Health Disparities Among the Farming Population
(2021-07-25)
Mental health is a rising concern among farmers in the United States. Situational stressors related to the nature of their work are often responsible for some of the mental health disparities that currently exist. ...
Optimizing Patient Education on Orthotic Bracing
(2021-07-22)
The partnering organization was a durable medical equipment company specializing in orthotic back bracing. The Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 forced the company to halt in-person delivery, thus eliminating in-person brace ...
Orientation for BSN-to-DNP Clinical Preceptors
(2021-07-25)
To support preceptor retention and recruitment efforts, a college of nursing in North Carolina desired to implement a formal orientation for clinical preceptors within a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) to Doctor of ...