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Analysis of Inpatient Falls to Improve Prevention Strategies | Gaichuk, Alla | 2020 | Inpatient fall prevention is a patient safety goal for hospitals highlighted in government healthcare agencies' publications and explored by researchers (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2019). The 2020 Hospital National Safety Goals include the most crucial factor for inpatient fa... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Improving Birth Attendants' Awareness and Utilization of the Transfer Toolkit for Out-of-Hospital (OOH) Births | Kingston, Ruth | 2020 | Background: Planned (OOH) birth is on the rise. Approximately 6.6% of those OOH births result in a transfer to a hospital setting. At the time of a transfer, there is the potential for important information to get missed and not passed on from the OOH birth attendant to the hospital receiving staff.... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Evaluation and Optimization of an Inpatient Daily Cares Flowsheet | Jensen, Clayton | 2020 | Clinical documentation is one of the highest priorities of any clinician. Documentation is only second to the actual care of the patient and could be considered another dimension or extension of patient care (Andrews & St Aubyn, 2015). Ask any clinician about the importance of clinical documentation... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Development and Implementation of a Referral Resource for a Multidisciplinary Team at an Urban Free Mental Health Clinic | Hamilton, Tessa | 2020 | Background:Approximately 30 million individuals in the United States are uninsured, and 11.2 million individuals are struggling with Serious Mental Illness (SMI). The lack of comprehensive health resources impedes uninsured and low-income individuals in reaching recovery. Free mental health clinics ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership |
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Improving Primary Care Providers' Knowledge and Utilization of Pessaries in Women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse | Smith, Jennifer | 2020 | Background:Primary care providers receive minimal to no training on vaginal pessaries as a treatment option for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). This lack of knowledge leads to women suffering from pelvic organ prolapse with minimal treatment options available. Patients that are not candidates for surgi... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training for Certified Flight Instructors at a State | Peterssen, Tiffani | 2020 | Background: Several studies have reported airline pilots with depressive symptoms, including suicidal thoughts, operating aircraft, but none have examined the mental health of aviation students prior the students becoming pilots. Furthermore, although suicide gatekeeper training has been recommended... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Evaluating Sepsis Care in the Emergency Department:A Descriptive Analysis of Sepsis Care and Treatment | Oliver, Christopher J. | 2020 | Background: Sepsis is a complex disease process with significant mortality and cost of care. Sepsis accounts for approximately 10% of all United States hospitalizations and nearly one in three in-hospital deaths. The purpose of this project was to evaluate how sepsis is identified and treated in a l... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Improving a Peer Support Group for Burn Survivors | Farris, Jason R. | 2020 | Background: Approximately forty-thousand people in the United States are hospitalized for burn-related injuries each year. An estimated one-quarter of burn survivors experience depression, anxiety, physical limitations, body-image distress, and social isolation beyond one-year post-injury. Peer supp... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Mental Health Integration in a Women's Health Clinic: Real World Implementation | Scott, Susan | 2020 | Background: There is a critical shortage of mental health (MH) services which is projected to increase. Mental Health Integration (MHI) is one approach to increasing access to MH services. MHI is also shown to increase provider satisfaction and improve patient outcomes. In many settings where resour... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership, MS to DNP |
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Quality Improvement Project to Improve Cognitive Screening in Patients with Diabetes | Dalley, Necia | 2020 | Background: The largest growth in patients with diabetes is expected to be in those over the age of 65. Two risk factors for developing dementia include age and diabetes. In fact, type 2 diabetes increases dementia risk two-fold. About 50% of the time, dementia is preceded by mild cognitive impai... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Improving Postpartum Depression Screening among WIC Clinicians | Hewlett, Jennifer | 2020 | BackgroundPostpartum depression affects one in nine women in the United States. Signs and symptoms of postpartum depression vary greatly, from sadness and irritability to over or under-eating. Young mothers, single mothers, mothers of low socioeconomic status, and minorities are at the highest ris... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Proposing an Early Labor Lounge at the University of Utah Medical Center | Martinez, Erminia | 2020 | Background:Cesarean sections have become a common operating room procedure in the United States, with approximately one-third of American women delivering by cesarean. Organizations such as the World Health Organization and U.S. Healthy People 2020 have identified the need to reduce Cesarean section... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Implementation of Screening and Referral Protocol for Paternal Postpartum Depression in a Pediatric Clinic Setting | George, Clint | 2020 | Background:Paternal Postpartum Depression (PPpD) can have dire long-lasting effects on children's cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development yet there is little attention given to the mental health of new fathers. Rates of PPpD have been found to be as high as 35.5% in the United State... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Breastfeeding Education for Nurses in Rural Rwanda | McCullough, Jennifer | 2020 | Background:An infant's survival is highly dependent on their ability to effectively breastfeed. Effective breastfeeding and expression of breastmilk require the foundational efforts of mother, infant, and supportive nursing staff. Ineffective breastfeeding leads to undernutrition, increases the infa... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP, Global, Cultural Diversity |
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Implementation and Evaluation of Burnout Training for Outpatient Mental Health Nurse Practitioners | Porter, Sarah T. | 2020 | Background: Burnout for mental health providers is negatively impacting Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) as it harms their physical and mental health. Nursing burnout, including APRN burnout, is costly for organizations, hinders patient care and degrades patient outcomes. This educational... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Mock Codes: A Quality Improvement Project | Memmott, Jacob | 2020 | Background: Code blues are one of the most intense, stressful, and mistaken prone situations in all of healthcare (Hatley, Jordan, Powers, & Morton, 2019). In the long term acute care hospital (LTAC) setting, very sick patients are cared for, but not many code blue emergencies occur. Therefore, clin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Improving Stroke Awareness in Primary Care | Twitchell, Josh | 2020 | Background: Stroke remains the second leading cause of death worldwide. Research shows that most strokes have significant modifiable risk factors. Currently primary care settings in the United States lack a systematic stroke risk screening process. It further suggests that stroke risk knowledge amon... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Suicide Prevention & Clinical Implications | Simmons, Siqin | 2020 | Background:In the past twenty years, the annual suicide rate has increased 30% nationwide and 46% in Utah. Clinicians work on the frontline with patients. Proactive screening for suicide risk factors and prompt intervention can preventing suicide. Provider's lack of awareness of recently-identified ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Improving Provider Ability to Prevent Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Pregnancy and Postpartum | McCready, Brittany E. | 2020 | Background: Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) is primarily responsible for urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and some sexual dysfunction and pelvic pain. PFD affects one third of women in the United States, and pregnancy/childbirth are major risk factors in its developmen... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing SBAR to Facilitate Communication and Improve Transitions Between Inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Healthcare Services | Taylor, Ligia J. | 2020 | Background: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement the Situation Background Assessment and Recommendation (SBAR) communication tool in an inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) to improve transitions of care for veterans. Ineffective hand-offs contribute to adverse events, de... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Safe Environment for Every Kid: Screening Tool Implementation for Quality Improvement in a Primary Care Pediatric Clinic | Collins, Whitney | 2020 | Background Child abuse and neglect are significant issues in our world today with over 700,000 substantiated cases annually, costing our country more than 124 billion each year. More than four children die daily in the United States due to child maltreatment and yet it is rarely addressed in the pri... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Improving Depression Screening and Follow-Up for Adolescents | Gay, Noemi | 2020 | AbstractBackground: Adolescent depression is a major problem in the United States. The incidence of depression in 12 to 17-year-old adolescents is estimated to be 1 in 5. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends routine screening of depression for the 12 to 21-year-old population. The lack of u... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Improving Sleep Quality in the ICU Through a Noise Reduction Time | Drury, Zachary | 2020 | Background:Poor sleep quality is a common problem in the ICU and has been linked to adverse physiologic conditions including altered immune function, neuroendocrine abnormalities, respiratory muscle weakening, and delirium. Excess noise is a risk factor for poor sleep quality among patients. Sleep... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
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Pre-Implementation Assessment of a Death Reporting-on-FHIR Web Application | Herrmann, Jennifer | 2020 | In the United States,death information is derived from the death certification process.Each state maintains its own registration system that collects, validates, and archives deaths in their states (Tripp, Duncan, Finch, and Huff, 2015). Death certificates are a permanent legal record of death that ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Feasibility and Acceptability of the Delivery of Male Reproductive Health Screening and Education Within the Context of a Rural Utah Public Health Department | Fulmer, Josephine; Simonson, Sara | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery, Poster |