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Enhancing the Quality of a Medical Assistant Program Through Targeted Curriculum Improvements | Mari Davis Kimoto | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Impact of Evidence-Based Practice Education on New Graduate Nurses | Phillip L. DaCruz | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Using National Standards to Create Effective Educator-Facilitated Simulation Learning | Trudy W. Postma | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Quality in Intravenous Medication Titration Orders for Enhanced Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit | Amanda Mitchell | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Improving Patient and Visitor Understanding of an Emergency Department's Workflow | Nels Nichols | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Piloting a Women's Health Assessment Among Refugees in Salt Lake City, UT: Experiences, Barriers, and Gaps | Gates, Jennie | 2023 | Background: The health of refugee women after settlement in a new country, can be adversely or positively affected by individual, interpersonal, community, and organizational factors. As the number of forcibly displaced women continues to grow due to conflict, persecution, violence, natural disaster... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Quality Improvement Project on Social Determinants of Health: Insights into the Readiness of Obstetric Clinicians to Ensure the Social Needs Screener is Completed by Obstetric Patients | Kang, Esther | 2023 | Background: Social Determinants of Health (SDOHs) can impact patient health outcomes in more ways than previously known. Social Determinants of Health (SDOHs) can play a role in mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, health care expenditures, health status, and functional limitations. Obstetric (OB)... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Understanding and Improving Heparin Administration | LaValley, Sydnie | 2022 | At a 400-bed teaching hospital in the Mountain West, unfractionated heparin administration continues to be a source of medication errors despite attempts to mitigate the inherent risks and improve education for all healthcare providers involved. Other institutions have completed quality improvement ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Insulin and Diabetes Education: An Intervention to Decrease Medication Errors | Hill, Jordan | 2022 | Nursing professional development practitioners (NPDPs) at an academic hospital brought attention to insulin administration errors on the intensive care units, women's specialty units, and acute care floors. This project aims to decrease insulin administration errors at this academic hospital. The ob... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Magnet Hospital Recognition Program Gap Analysis for the University of Utah Gap Analysis | Chavez-England, Jesika | 2022 | University of Utah Health has decided to consider the pursuit of Magnet accreditation as of December 2021 (S. Taylor, personal communication, December 7, 2021). The first step in the Magnet accreditation journey is conducting a gap analysis (Drenkard, 2010; Graystone, 2018b). Therefore, the specific... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Bedside Shift Report - Improving Communication, Patient Safety and Patient Satisfaction on a Medical-Surgical Unit | Liston, Brooke | 2022 | The leadership team on this medical-surgical unit identified that despite previous education and identifying bedside shift reports (BSR) as best practice, the medical-surgical team was not frequently performing BSR. According to the internal Press Ganey reports, 41.67% of patients reported "usually"... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Social Needs Screening in the Emergency Department: Workflow Analysis and Creating Education | Badgerow, Alaina | 2021 | Healthy People 2020 emphasizes the need to develop and transform environments, both socially and physically that improve health for everyone as one of the four main goals for the upcoming decade (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2020). This focus demonstrates the need to look at th... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Nurse-Led Sexual Health Interventions in the Care of Women with Cancers Affecting the Female Reproductive System (Gynecologic & Breast Malignancies) | Ekpoma, Victoria | 2021 | The pathology, disease process and treatment options/modalities in the management of cancers affecting the female reproductive system (CAFRS), which includes gynecologic cancers (uterine, ovarian, cervical and vaginal malignancies) as well as breast cancers, have been widely shown to adversely affec... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Improving Patient Education Efficacy in Same-day Surgery | Cox, Hannah | 2021 | With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare world has changed a great deal. Hospitals and health systems have sought ways to both reduce community transmission of the coronavirus while maintaining normal operations. In an area such as surgical services, a significant source of revenue for a ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Investigating the Impact of a Shared Patient-Staff Educational Tool on Heart Failure and Fluid Restriction in a Cardiovascular Care Unit | Rodriguez, Anna M. | 2021 | When HF is inadequately managed, it can lead to worse health outcomes for patients and increased costs due to associated comorbidities and hospital readmissions (Buja et al., 2016; Kwok et al., 2020; Lahewala et al., 2019). Frequent hospital admissions can significantly disrupt the lives of HF patie... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Connecting the Dots: The Impact of Bedside Shift Report on Nurse Communication and Patient Satisfaction | Kotobalavu, Cassidy | 2021 | The nursing shift change report is an essential component of nursing practice that allows for the exchange of relevant patient information from one professional to another (Sherman et al., 2013). Report is the transfer of responsibility, accountability and authority for a patient and their care from... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Adaptation of the Mayo Clinic's HABIT Program to a Virtual Platform | Robinson, Allegra | 2021 | Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered a decline in cognitive function beyond normal aging that is less debilitating than dementia and does not yet significantly impair daily function (Jongsiriyanyong & Limpawattana, 2018; Sanford, 2017). Dementia occurs when there is both cognitive impairmen... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Translation of HABIT Program for Mild Cognitive Impairment to a Virtual Platform | Tolley, Vic | 2021 | Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate state between normal cognition and dementia (Peterson, 2021). According to Peterson (2021), MCI refers to cognitive impairment, however it does not meet criteria for dementia, but is more than normal aging. Dementia is a condition that is characteri... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Unacknowledged CPOE Improvement Project | Bersick, Ben | 2021 | The advent of computerized physician order entries (CPOE) paralleled the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) (Zhivan & Diana, 2012). CPOE form the backbone of care provision for patients in hospital settings and have been recognized as a major factor in preserving patient safety (Wang et al... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Quality Improvement on Continuous Intravenous Heparin Administration: Closing the Nursing Knowledge Gap to Reduce Medication Errors; Nomograms | Nelson, Kylee | 2021 | Anticoagulants are considered a high-alert or a high-risk medication (D'Souza et al., 2019; Johnson et al., 2018; Kindelin et al., 2020; Oertel & Heparin Consensus Group, 2004). This is due to their narrow therapeutic index and the "ability to cause significant patient harm or death" ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Clinical Narratives: An EBP-QI Project | Ward, Nicole | 2021 | It has long been understood that empathy, interprofessional teamwork, and a strong sense of community within the workplace are all components of an effective health care team (Hojat et al., 2015). These characteristics work together to improve the patient experience, which ultimately can have a posi... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Preprocedural Patient Education and Improving Patient Outcomes and Satisfaction | Parker, Tesla A. | 2021 | With an increasing number of surgical and outpatient procedures being performed in the United States each year, positive patient outcomes and experiences are more important than ever before. Ensuring positive outcomes for all parties involved needs to begin prior to patients even reaching the hospit... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Health Care Liaison Role Creation for Utah's Juvenile Justice System | Bradford, Kathleen | 2021 | The Juvenile Justice System (JJS) provides a system of rehabilitation and interventions for adolescents accused of committing a delinquent or criminal act (Youth.Gov, n.d.). The Utah Division of JJS provides a variety of interventions and programs to promote rehabilitation opportunities for youth o... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Promoting Preceptor Preparation: A QI Project to Better Intern and Patient Outcomes | Mathews, Kiara | 2021 | It was observed by staff on a surgical services unit that new interns were often being precepted by registered nurses (RNs) who had just graduated from the nursing internship program themselves (M. Weller, personal communication, January 26, 2021). It was also found that many nurses taking on the ro... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Obstetric Care for Women with Opioid Use Disorder: Evaluation of Online Patient Resources in Utah | Waldvogel, Jael | 2020 | Opioid use in pregnancy has increased at an alarming rate, mirroring the opioid epidemic that is sweeping our nation. Drug-related overdose deaths outnumber deaths from auto accidents in the United States (Krans & Patrick, 2016) and data from the Utah Perinatal Morality Review Committee found that d... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |