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Dementia Risk Reduction in Geriatric Primary Care: A Needs Assessment | Shaw, Rebecca L. | 2023 | Background: Dementia is a costly disease that profoundly impacts patients, caregivers, and health systems, and increasing disease-related morbidity threatens to overwhelm an already overburdened healthcare infrastructure. Although there is no cure for dementia, it may be possible to delay the onset ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / 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 | 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, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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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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Improving Provider Knowledge, Skill, and Confidence With Ketamine-Assisted Therapy: A Quality Improvement Project | Cooper, Tyler; Bullock, Randy | 2022 | Background: Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Ketamine has been shown to have a robust and rapid effect on depression and has been shown to decrease suicidal ideation immediately after administering one treatment. Studies have found that combing ketamine with integrati... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Outpatient Psychiatry | Meier, Hannah C.; Bailey, ElLois; Webb, Sara | 2022 | Background: In the 1960s, researchers developed ketamine as a surgical anesthetic. More recently, the medical community has recognized ketamine as a mental health treatment separate from the indications of pain management or anesthesia. Subanesthetic therapeutic ketamine falls into the frameworks of... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Promoting Provider-Based Wellness Counseling in Primary Care With the WILD 5 Program | Boyle, Nicole E.; Bailey, ElLois | 2022 | Background: Wellness, defined by physical, mental, and social well-being, is declining across America. Uniquely positioned to do, primary care providers could reverse this trend, yet only one in three patients report that their provider spoke to them about modifiable lifestyle factors that could imp... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Implementing Verbal De-escalation on Agitated Patients with Serious Mental Illness In a Community Healthcare Setting | Smith, Sherrie; Bullock, Randy; Terry, Briana | 2022 | Background: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI, n.d.], 43.8 million adults in the U.S. experience mental illness each year. Individuals with mental illness are not necessarily more aggressive or violent than people without mental illness. Substance abuse, adverse childhood ex... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Improving Mental Health Care Providers Level of Confidence and Skills in Suicide Risk Assessment | Garbett, Cynthia | 2020 | Needs Assessment Background: Approximately 60% of suicides are associated with mood disorders, and nearly 50% of those that died by suicide had received mental care services one month before their death. A comprehensive assessment of suicidal behavior and ideation varies based on each mental health ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Improving De-escalation Techniques in a Psychiatric Setting | Shipp, Ethan | 2020 | Background:Violence towards those working in the mental health field is a known problem, consisting of physical assaults, verbal assaults, and threats of harm regularly. Healthcare workers in mental health facilities are at an increased risk of violence at the hands of the patients for whom they car... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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A Quality Improvement Intervention to Reduce the Use of PRN Psychotropic Medications Among Older Adults in the Long-Term Care Setting | Kwong, Kimmy | 2020 | Problem: Even with our increasing knowledge about the limited effectiveness and severe side effects of PRN psychotropic medications, the frequency of their use in the geriatric population remains high. Higher drug intake and potentially inappropriate PRN psychotropic medication administration contri... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Mindfulness-Based Training in Childbirth Education Classes to Reduce Stress in Pregnant Women | Jarrett, Marissa | 2020 | Background:Stress during pregnancy activates the maternal stress response, which can lead to various negative outcomes for the mother and infant. Currently, there is a gap in the education of pregnant women regarding how to manage stress during pregnancy. Although childbirth education classes are a ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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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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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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A Quality Improvement Initiative: Reducing the Number of Frequent Revisits in the Emergency Department | Alm, Melissa; Morgan, Deborah; Hopkins, Christy | 2020 | Background:Inappropriate use of the emergency department (ED) is a persistent and costly problem in the United States (US) healthcare system. More than 136 million ED visits were recorded in the US in 2014 and studies show 50-65% of this patient population have mental health problems. The introducti... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Suicide Prevention and 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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Transgender Preventive Health Awareness in a Therapy Setting | Nibley, Mariana E. | 2020 | Background:Transgender individuals experience an increase in health-related problems, including suicide rates up to 40%, a four-fold risk of contracting HIV, increased rates of substance use reported between 25-33%, and unsupervised hormone use reported between 29-63%. While the health-related probl... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |