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51 Needed Information for Registered Nurses: Water BirthBartlett, Jessica2016The purpose of the project was to write and submit an article for publication to provide evidence-based education about water immersion birth to clinical nurses. Currently, there is a lack of easily accessible and evidence-based education and information available to nurses who provide care to birth...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
52 Rural Healthcare: Assessment of the Need for Pediatric Behavioral Health ECHOByrd, Amanda2016Pediatric behavioral and mental health is under served in many rural counties across the country. Primary care providers manage many patients within this population. The purpose of this project is to assess the need for pediatric behavioral and mental health services in rural Utah. The objectives of...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
53 Simulation Training for Blood Loss Recognition During WaterbirthLazzara, Jennifer2016The occurrance of waterbirth (WB) in labor and delivery (L&D) units across the U.S. is a new mode of delivery for many delivering providers. As a result, providers lack experience in evaluating blood loss in water. Proper training and tools to accurately identify blood loss in water are needed for t...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
54 Addressing ICD-10 Learning Needs Among Primary Care Nurse Practitioner StudentsBaer, Lorna J.2016Experienced and novice healthcare providers alike need to understand how to correctly bill for their services and avoid billing errors. Healthcare academic programs are not meeting the learning needs of students when it comes to billing and documentation. As many as 86% of specialty healthcare provi...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
55 Heart Score in the Emergency DepartmentSpencer, Abbie2016The evaluation of chest pain can be very costly. Ruling out low-suspicion chest pain early can lead to decreased costs to patients and hospitals. Currently, all patients who present to the ED with the chief complaint of chest pain receive an extensive work-up, including serial labs, electrocardiogra...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
56 Postpartum Hemorrhage Simulation TrainingPowell, Justine Y.2016Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of death among women during childbirth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014). The World Health Organization (WHO) defines postpartum hemorrhage as a blood loss of 500 ml or more in the first 24 hours after birth, du...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
57 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
58 Stroke Recognition Improvement Project: An Educational Program for Rural Communities at RiskKorth, Sommer2016Stroke Recognition Improvement Project: An Educational Program for Rural Communities at Risk, is a public health campaign aimed at improving stroke awareness through education on prevention and risk, recognition of stroke symptoms, and urgency to seek treatment. In the United States, stroke continue...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
59 Quality Improvement in Maternity Care: PPH Safety BundlesKimberly, Megan2016This project was designed to create the curriculum for disseminating the new post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) safety bundle to hospitals across the State of Utah. A bundle is a set of actions that when performed collectively have demonstrated to improve patient outcomes. The Council on Patient Safety in...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
60 Template Development for a Potential Web-Based App Targeted to Low Income PopulationsYanguez, Katie2016As of 2008, 1.3 billion people worldwide did not have access to healthcare. Low and middle income countries (LMICs) bear 93% of the world's disease burden; at least 5.8 million annual childhood deaths could be prevented in LMICs if affected communities had accurate health information to manage the m...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
61 Development of a Workflow Algorithm for an Early Mobilization Protocol in a Neurologic Critical Care UnitCrane, Ashle M.2016The benefits of early mobilization in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting have been well established. Mobilizing patients early is associated with decreased hospital length of stays, number of days on ventilators, use of sedation, and number of hospital-acquired infections. Early mobilization has a...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
62 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
63 Developing Clinical Guidelines for Follow-Up Care for Sexual Assault Patients in a Primary Care SettingCalvin, Justin Page2016Sexual assault (SA) is a persistent problem in the United States and in the Salt Lake City, Utah area; impacting one in five women during their lifetime. National and international organizations recommend that patients who have been sexually assaulted follow-up with their primary care providers; how...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
64 Midwives and Disaster ReliefMeidell, Emily2016This project was undertaken to address the needs of pregnant women in disaster preparedness, and to create awareness of the potential role that midwives can assume in Utah disaster relief measures. This was accomplished by communicating the role of midwives to stakeholders in the community and state...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP
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