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1 Palliative Care Trigger Tool in the CVICU: A Needs AssessmentMoore, Gabriella H.2023Background: Palliative care is a valuable resource that assists patients in determining their goals of care and end-of-life care preferences. Automated trigger tools can help to identify patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) who may benefit from palliative care. Problem: Several ICUs at the Univ...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP
2 Palliative Care Trigger Tool in the CVICU: A Needs AssessmentMoore, Gabriella H.2023POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP, Poster
3 Exploring Barriers to Primary Care Hospice Referral: A Needs AssessmentSpangrude, Tegan E.2023Background: The Veterans Health Administration has made significant improvements in end-of-life care, including an increase in hospice utilization. Timely referrals to hospice care are crucial for improving the quality of life for terminally ill Veterans. The primary care setting is an ideal place t...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP
4 Exploring Barriers to Primary Care Hospice Referral: A Needs AssessmentSpangrude, Tegan E.2023POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP, Poster
5 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
6 The Creation and Implementation of a Neonatal Palliative Care ToolkitWarren, Charise; Bierer, Ryan; Hamilton, Jennifer2023POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal; Poster
7 Screening of ICU Patients for Palliative and Hospice CareSchmidt, Michelle2016The purpose of this quality improvement project was to create an intensive care unit (ICU) admission screening tool for nurses to assess patient qualification for palliative and hospice care programs. Few medical facilities in the US currently use a specific screening tool to identify patients who q...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
8 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
9 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
10 Home-Based Pediatric Palliative Care Delivered by a HospiceBarrus, Heidi2015This project was designed to address the lack of outpatient pediatric palliative care programs in Nevada by initiating a new program involving an existing specialty children's center and an existing hospice. The objectives of the project included proposing a palliative care model involving new servi...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
11 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
12 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
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