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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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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Piloting a Women's Health Assessment among Refugees in Salt Lake City, UT: Experiences, Barriers, and Gaps | Gates, Jennie | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Sciences, MS, Nursing Education, Poster |
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Understanding Social Determinants of Health by Increasing Social Needs Screening and Referral at an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic | Stodtmeister, Paige; Luther, Brenda; Garbett, Cynthia | 2023 | Background: Unmet social needs are widespread and greatly influence health and well-being. Local Problem: Despite the prevalence of unmet social needs, clinics often fail to screen for and assess the impact of social needs on health. This project aimed to increase social needs screening at an outpat... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psych / Mental; Health |
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Understanding Social Determinants of Health by Increasing Social Needs Screening and Referral at an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic | Stodtmeister, Paige; Luther, Brenda; Garbett, Cynthia | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psych / Mental; 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 | 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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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 |
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Understanding Nurses' Perspectives for Social Needs Survey in the Emergency Department | Cheney, Janae | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics, Poster |
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Integrating Age-Friendly Concepts to Improve Care for Older Adults: Adopting the 4M Technique | Martinez, Jason M. | 2021 | As nurses, we recognize where healthcare disparities for older adults exist and are conscientious towards achieving quality health outcomes based on the needs and preferences of older adults. Research demonstrates that creating an age-friendly healthcare system (AFHS) helps improve assessment and c... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Care Management |
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Integrating Age-Friendly Concepts to Improve Care for Older Adults : Adopting the 4M Technique | Martinez, Jason M. | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Care Management, Poster |
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Assessing Patients' Social Needs While Delivering Emergency Nursing Care: A Pilot Evaluation to Inform the Use of a Screening Tool | Cheney, Janae | 2021 | With recent healthcare policy changes, including the creation of the accountable care organizations, screening for social risks such as food and housing insecurity has become increasingly common in the healthcare system. However, little is known about the social need screening practices in emergency... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Identifying and Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Perinatal Women with Substance Use Disorder | Jones, Kaitlyn M.; Roberts, Heather L.; Smid, Marcella; Charles, Jasmin; Simonson, Sara | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery, Poster |
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Improving Access to Primary Care for Medicare Patients with Complex Need | Hamilton, Catherine; Garrett, Teresa | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership, MS to DNP, Poster |
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Identifying and Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Perinatal Women with Substance Use Disorder | Jones, Kaitlyn M. | 2020 | Background: Pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorder have an increased need for social work services. Existing recommendations include universal screening for health-related social needs and access to social workers to address identified needs. This paper details a quality improveme... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Improving Access to Primary Care for Medicare Patients with Complex Need | Hamilton, Catherine | 2020 | Background: Healthcare spending is expected to reach 19.4% of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), exceeding $1.5 trillion, by 2028 (Sisko, Keehan, Poisalm, Cuckler, Smith, Madison, Rennie & Hardesty, 2019; OIG, 2019). Growth in overall healthcare spending is primarily due to the increase in the ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership, MS to DNP |
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Transition Planning for Youth with Special Health Care Needs in Utah's Foster Care System | Salama, Isabelle | 2020 | Youth with Special Health Care Needs (YSHCN) between the ages of 16 to 23 years old coming out of the Utah foster care system often experience gaps in healthcare transition planning as a result of poor communication between team members, including case workers, educators, caregivers, medical provide... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Assessing and Diagnosing Pain in Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment | Mower, Melissa | 2019 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP, Poster |
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Trans and Gender Non-Binary Education for Providers | Wann, Aurelia R. | 2019 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery, Cultural Diversity, Poster |
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Educating Women's Healthcare Providers on Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Care | Wann, Aurelia R. | 2019 | Transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) individuals experience significantly greater disparities related to healthcare access than their cisgender-identifying with the gender to which one was assigned at birth- counterparts (James, Rankin, Keisling, Mottet, & Anafi, 2016). The minority stress model... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Assessing the Usability, Feasibility, and Acceptability of the Hauer-Houtrow Algorithm for Diagnosing Pain in Children with Severe Neurological Impairment | Mower, Melissa | 2019 | Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to assess the usability, feasibility, and acceptability of the Hauer-Houtrow Algorithm in a specialty clinic for children with special healthcare needs. Background: Children with severe neurological impairment (SNI) have a significant redu... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Is It Time For Telehealth in Your Rural Hospital? A Needs Assessment | Simmons, Sarah | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
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Is It Time For Telehealth in Your Rural Hospital?: A Needs Assessment | Simmons, Sarah | 2018 | Healthcare shortages in rural areas are problematic, with a physician to patient ratio of 1 physician per 2,513 patients. The purpose of this needs assessment was to determine the access and demand for specialized providers in one rural level IV critical access hospital in Utah. This project assesse... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Collaborative ICU Staffing Model | Delgadillo, Jorge A. | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
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A Collaborative ICU Staffing Model: A Model Comprised of Nurse Practitioners and Physician | Delgadillo, Jorge A. | 2017 | The aging population and advanced medical therapies has contributed to an increased need for more onsite medical coverage in Intensive Care Units (ICU) across the country. However, there has been a shortage of adequately trained critical care provider to staff these ICUs. This has contributed to cur... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Enhancing Care to Transgender, Transsexual, and Gender Non-Conforming Adults Through Provider Education | Barnes, Angela | 2016 | Transgender individuals represent about 1% of the US population. This is an approximation and the number is likely higher. Despite the growing attention and acceptance of transgendered persons, they still represent a generally underserved population. Trans identifying persons frequently report facin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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The Consultation and Referral Plan: Removing the Barrier to Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority in Utah | Fawson, Sara R. | 2016 | Full practice authority for nurse practitioners (NPs) includes the evaluation of patients, diagnosis, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, initiation and management of therapeutic treatments and prescribing medications. Licensure in the state of Utah is overseen by the state board of nursing.... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |