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1 Improving Clinicians' Experience of End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit Through Implementation of the ‘3 Wishes Project'Nelson, Kendall K.2023Background: The '3 Wishes Project,' is an end-of-life program meant to bring humanity and dignity to dying patients, while encouraging meaningful connection and multidisciplinary communication among clinicians. The purpose of this project was to improve clinician experience of end-of-life care in th...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP; Adult Gerontology /Acute Care
2 The Creation and Implementation of a Neonatal Palliative Care ToolkitWarren, Charise; Bierer, Ryan; Hamilton, Jennifer2023Background: According to the March of Dimes (2020), the infant mortality rate in Salt Lake County, Utah was 5.4 per 1,000 live births, with 69% of these infant deaths occurring during the neonatal period. Advances in perinatal medicine have led to increased identification of fetuses with fatal or li...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal
3 The Creation and Implementation of a Neonatal Palliative Care ToolkitWarren, Charise; Bierer, Ryan; Hamilton, Jennifer2023POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal; Poster
4 Improving Clinicians' Experience of End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit Through Implementation of the ‘3 Wishes Project'Nelson, Kendall K.2023POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP; Adult Gerontology /Acute Care; Poster
5 End-of-Life Self-Efficacy Initiative for Advanced Practice Providers in the NICUTrimm, M. Rhiannon2022Background: End-of-life care is ever-present in the newborn intensive care unit, with approximately 5% of neonatal patients in the United States requiring end-of-life care annually. A scarcity of educational resources currently exists with little to no formal training offered to advanced practice pr...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal
6 Early, Systematic Palliative Care Referrals in Patients with; Metastatic Gastrointestinal CancerBayer, Valkyria R.; Gee, Julia P.2022POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Adult / Gerontology, Poster
7 Assessment of Early, Standardized Palliative Care Referrals in Patients with Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Quality Improvement InitiativeBayer, Valkyria R.; Gee, Julia P.2022Background: Patients with advanced cancer often present with high symptom burden and decreased quality of life. Metastatic gastrointestinal cancers can be especially debilitating with 5-year relative survival rates ranging from 2%-15%. Early involvement of palliative care has shown to improve sympto...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Adult / Gerontology
8 End-of-life self-efficacy initiative in the NICUTrimm, M. Rhiannon2022POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal, Poster
9 Improving Palliative Care Knowledge Among NursesKelso, Taylor; Doyon, Katherine2021POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care, Poster
10 Provider Self-Efficacy with End-of-Life CareAndrade, Micah; Jarvis, Matthew Chuck; Bannon, Meredith2021POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster
11 Planning for End of Life is Planning for Life: Quality Improvement and Research Data CollectionAnsari, Natasha2020End of life care is an essential part of the care of the patient. It not only is a continuation of the care of the patient we interact with as his or her disease gets worse, but also improves the quality of life for the patient's family once our patient passes away. Paladino, et al., (2019) state, "...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
12 Promoting Upstream Integration of Palliative Care in Elderly Heart Failure PatientsBrown, Harmony Lauritzen2018POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster
13 Development and Evaluation of a Comfort Care Guideline & Education Program with an Emphasis on Continuous Opioid InfusionsCotner, Melissa2018POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
14 Development of a Pilot Comfort Care Guideline and Education Program with an Emphasis on Continuous Opioid InfusionsCotner, Melissa2018Background: The hospital model of acute care is antithetical to the major underpinnings of hospice care, however many patients will die in hospitals. Clinicians are often not focused on patient comfort care and feel uneasy managing opioid infusions commonly used in EOL. The use of comfort care order...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
15 Promoting Upstream Integration of Palliative Care in Elderly Heart Failure PatientsBrown, Harmony Lauritzen2018Heart failure (HF) is a devastating disease that inordinately affects the elderly. Although palliative care (PC) can be an invaluable tool in promoting symptom management and quality of life (QOL) for elderly end-stage heart failure (ESHF) patients, it is a resource that is often underutilized by HF...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
16 Provider Perceptions of Palliative Care in an Emergency DepartmentTateoka, Elizabeth Buffy2016Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is defined by Healthy People 2020, and addresses aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and social health, and how health status affects and impacts emotions and overall satisfaction with life (USDHHS, 2015). Emergency departments see high volumes of older adu...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
17 Education, Nursing, Graduate; Developing the Care Model for Comprehensive Outpatient Pediatric Palliative CareBerg, Angela2015Children continue to lose their lives to life threatening and life limiting illnesses. Less than ten percent of them receive palliative or hospice support. This project addresses design and development of an outpatient model to provide comprehensive pediatric palliative care. Outpatient access to th...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
18 Developing the Care Model for Comprehensive Outpatient Pediatric Palliative CareBerg, Angela2015Children continue to lose their lives to life threatening and life limiting illnesses. Less than ten percent of them receive palliative or hospice support. This project addresses design and development of an outpatient model to provide comprehensive pediatric palliative care. Outpatient access to th...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
19 Improving End-of-Life Care: An Evidence-based CurriculumMcleskey, Nanci2015Americans are not only living longer, many experience terminal illnesses for extended periods of time. Management of these terminal illnesses and deaths frequently occur in acute care settings where nurses are often the healthcare professional at the bedside. Unfortunately, many nurses caring for ol...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
20 A Fall Prevention Protocol for Home Hospice PatientsPark, Minji2014Hospice patients are at a greater risk of falls than community-dwelling geriatric populations due to the nature of terminal illness. Although the necessity of developing a fall risk assessment and fall prevention protocol for home hospice patients has been discussed, an assessment protocol for home ...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
21 Increasing Awareness and Knowledge of Advance Directives in the Healthy Older Adult CommunityTimm, Melissa2014End-of-life treatment decisions have long been debated among healthcare providers, policy makers, and the public. Historically, physicians made end of life decisions based on the assumption professionals were acting in the patient's "best interest". With advancements in medical technology, patients ...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
22 End-of-Life Teaching StrategiesHowell, Rocky2013A number of national organizations have identified the need to improve the quality of care for patients ar the end-of-life (EOL). For example, in 2003 the Last Acts Campaign released the results of a survey in which every state in the United states rated the care at the EOL as mediocre or worse. The...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS
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