The Graduate Nursing Project collection includes Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects and Master's students' non-thesis projects submitted as part of program requirements.
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Improving the Identification and Treatment of Postpartum Preeclampsia/Eclampsia and Obstetric Complaints in a Rural Emergency Department | McDaniel, Charity | 2023 | POSTER | Nursing Practice Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health, Poster |
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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 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education, Poster |
| 153 |
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Implementing an Electronic Social Needs Screener and Referral in a Rural Nurse Practitioner Owned and Operated Family Primary Care Clinic | Duncan, Alycia I.; Wallace, Andrea; Luther, Brenda | 2023 | Background: Many clinicians understand the connection between social determinants of health (SDoH) and poor health outcomes, yet there remains a reluctance to screen for social needs (Andermann, 2018). Reasons for reluctance include not knowing what to do if needs are found, where to refer patients,... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
| 154 |
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Implementation of Palliative Care Tools in Adult Oncology | Iheanacho, Chidiebere N. | 2023 | Background: Palliative care is a multidisciplinary specialty that provides patients and families with physical, psychosocial, and spiritual care facing serious illnesses. However, most patients who are seriously ill do not receive a palliative care intervention early in their disease trajectory. Man... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Adult / Gerontology Acute Care |
| 155 |
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Implementation of Palliative Care Tools in Adult Oncology | Iheanacho, Chidiebere N. | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Adult / Gerontology Acute Care, Poster |
| 156 |
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Improving Depression and Anxiety Care in the Post-COVID Population | Larson, Alyssa I. | 2023 | Background: The coronavirus pandemic has left countless individuals with lingering symptoms, both mental and physical. Anxiety and depression were among some of the top complaints reported by patients, causing an increased need for mental health care in the post-COVID patient population. Adequate sc... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
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Improving Depression and Anxiety Care in the Post-COVID Population | Larson, Alyssa I. | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP, Poster |
| 158 |
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Increasing Screening and Referrals in Primary Care for Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences | Connolly, Katie D. | 2023 | Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are common and have been linked to many adverse health outcomes. Despite this evidence, only 33% of primary care providers screen for ACEs; subsequently patients are often unaware of the health impacts and less likely to be referred to psychotherapy. ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
| 159 |
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Implementing the ACE and PCL-5 Screening Tools to Improve Trauma-Informed Care at an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic | Rockwood, Reilly, B. | 2023 | Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a trauma response that leads to adverse psychological and physical symptoms. Post-traumatic stress disorder is frequently underdiagnosed by providers, resulting in unrecognized and untreated trauma symptoms. Experts recommend screening patients wi... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psych / Mental Health |
| 160 |
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Overcoming Barriers to ACE Screening in Primary Care | Wallace, Chiara; Doyon, Kate | 2023 | Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are strongly linked with risk factors for the leading causes of death in adults, and recent evidence suggests that ACEs among college students are correlated with worse depression, substance use, diet, and sleep, and increased suicidal ideation. Local... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
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Implementing the ACE and PCL-5 Screening Tools to Improve Trauma-Informed Care at an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic | Rockwood, Reilly B. | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psych / Mental Health, Poster |
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Overcoming Barriers to ACE Screening in Primary Care | Wallace, Chiara; Doyon, Kate | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP, Poster |
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Identifying Female Sexual Dysfunction in Primary Care | Johnson, Quinta | 2023 | POSTER | Nursing Practice Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health, Poster |
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Identifying Depression in Adult Refugees With the Refugee Health Screener-15: A Quality Improvement Project | Parkin, Eliza | 2023 | Background: There are over 68.5 million people forcibly displaced worldwide due to persecution, violence, or conflict. Of this population, 25.4 million are refugees. Prevalence of depression and other mental health concerns is found to be around 30% in this population and yet current mental health s... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
| 165 |
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Increasing Advance Care Planning and Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Rates in Primary Care | Garcia, Hana M; Christensen, Scott S. | 2023 | Background: Worldwide, approximately 14% of individuals who need palliative care (PC) services are currently receiving PC and only 30% of Americans have an Advance Care Plan (ACP). Local Problem: There is a decreased awareness among policy-makers, healthcare providers, and the public about PC servic... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
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Implementing a Mental Health Screening and Referral Program in a Cardiology Clinic | Allen, Amy | 2023 | Background: Depression and anxiety negatively impact cardiac patient outcomes. Identifying and treating depression and anxiety in cardiac patients improves patient outcomes by decreasing the number of hospital admissions and mortality rates. Cardiology clinics can use mental health screenings to ide... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psych / Mental Health |
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Implementation of New Clinical Work-flow to Improve Enrollment Rates in Tobacco Cessation for Oncology Patients | Farka, Edlira Bozgo; Hofmann, Linda; Stoffel, Rebecca | 2022 | Background: Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States (Center for Disease Control, 2020). Persistent smoking for cancer patients can cause adverse effects on their survival rates, treatment-related effects on the tumor (e.g., accelerated growth, progression, me... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership, MS to DNP |
| 168 |
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Maintaining Intraoperative Normothermia Using Under-Body Forced Air Warming: A Quality Improvement Project | Diamond, Sarah A.; Garrett, Larry | 2022 | Background: Intraoperative hypothermia occurs when a patient has a core temperature less than 36.1 degrees Celsius. It is a common occurrence and it occurs anywhere from 26-90% of the time patients are in the operating room. At the Huntsman Cancer Hospital, over 40% of surgical patients experience p... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Preliminary Evaluation of an Alert to Manage Patients at Risk for Oversedation | Morris, Emma | 2022 | In 2021, IMC leadership decided that a clinical decision support (CDS) alert should be created and implemented in acute care units in the hospital to help registered nurses (RNs) identify patients at high risk of respiratory complications from sedation. The CDS alert prompts RNs to implement the Hig... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Development and Evaluation of Requirements for Intermountain's Care Coordination Digital Dashboard | Wolfe, Lana | 2022 | One form of technology that may assist in multidisciplinary communication during discharge rounding is the dashboard. Dashboards organize data in one centralized, visual location, in real-time (McKinney, 2012). Critical information can be seen and analyzed, quickly allowing for timely decision-makin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Implementation of a Toolkit for Families After Pediatric Sexual Assault: A Quality Improvement Project | Thayer, Madeline A.; Garrett, Larry | 2022 | Background: An estimated one in four to eight girls and one in ten to twelve boys are the victims of sexual assault or abuse before reaching adulthood. During an encounter for pediatric sexual assault, patients and caregivers are given extensive information about recovery, coping, and follow up care... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Newborn Feeding Barcode Scanning Compliance Report | Mitchell, Joseph | 2022 | In consideration of the benefits of breastfeeding or human milk feeding (HM) and Bar- Coded Medication Administration (BCMA), along with the challenges inherent in those systems, this project seeks to identify behavior patterns and compliance with HM collections and administration policies. The prim... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Decreasing Premature Termination of Addiction Treatment for Adolescent Females Through the Utilization of an Assessment Tool to Evaluate the Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Level of Motivation | Freeman, Corrine M.; Bullock, Randy | 2022 | Background: Premature discharge from a residential addiction treatment setting increases a patient's risk of relapse and the development of comorbid mental health disorders. Current evidence suggests that promoting intrinsic motivation, through a therapeutic approach, into a patient's treatment plan... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Increasing Provider Use of a Sleep Assessment Instrument at a VA Outpatient Mental Health Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project | Gavin, Lindsay P.; Doyon, Katherine; Webb, Sara M. | 2022 | Background: In the United States, sleep dysfunction occurs in 50-80% of patients seeking psychiatric treatment, compared to 10-18% of adults in the general U.S. population. In the veteran population, those numbers are magnified, and larger still in the veteran population who seek psychiatric treatme... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Implementing a Child-Friendly Teaching Tool for Kids with New-onset Type 1 Diabetes | Pinegar, Amelia J.; Garrett, Larry | 2022 | Background: Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is one of the most common chronic diseases in pediatric populations. It affects nearly 19,000 youth each year. This is a life-altering diagnosis with great consequences. American Diabetes Association guidelines recommend that the education for these patients should ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |