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1 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 PatientsKang, Esther2023Background: 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
2 Understanding and Improving Heparin AdministrationLaValley, Sydnie2022At a 400-bed teaching hospital in the Mountain West, unfractionated heparin administration continues to be a source of medication errors despite attempts to mitigate the inherent risks and improve education for all healthcare providers involved. Other institutions have completed quality improvement ...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
3 Insulin and Diabetes Education: An Intervention to Decrease Medication ErrorsHill, Jordan2022Nursing professional development practitioners (NPDPs) at an academic hospital brought attention to insulin administration errors on the intensive care units, women's specialty units, and acute care floors. This project aims to decrease insulin administration errors at this academic hospital. The ob...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
4 Magnet Hospital Recognition Program Gap Analysis for the University of Utah Gap AnalysisChavez-England, Jesika2022University of Utah Health has decided to consider the pursuit of Magnet accreditation as of December 2021 (S. Taylor, personal communication, December 7, 2021). The first step in the Magnet accreditation journey is conducting a gap analysis (Drenkard, 2010; Graystone, 2018b). Therefore, the specific...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
5 Improving Patient Education Efficacy in Same-day SurgeryCox, Hannah2021With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare world has changed a great deal. Hospitals and health systems have sought ways to both reduce community transmission of the coronavirus while maintaining normal operations. In an area such as surgical services, a significant source of revenue for a ...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
6 Investigating the Impact of a Shared Patient-Staff Educational Tool on Heart Failure and Fluid Restriction in a Cardiovascular Care UnitRodriguez, Anna M.2021When HF is inadequately managed, it can lead to worse health outcomes for patients and increased costs due to associated comorbidities and hospital readmissions (Buja et al., 2016; Kwok et al., 2020; Lahewala et al., 2019). Frequent hospital admissions can significantly disrupt the lives of HF patie...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
7 Unacknowledged CPOE Improvement ProjectBersick, Ben2021The advent of computerized physician order entries (CPOE) paralleled the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) (Zhivan & Diana, 2012). CPOE form the backbone of care provision for patients in hospital settings and have been recognized as a major factor in preserving patient safety (Wang et al...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
8 Quality Improvement on Continuous Intravenous Heparin Administration: Closing the Nursing Knowledge Gap to Reduce Medication Errors; NomogramsNelson, Kylee2021Anticoagulants are considered a high-alert or a high-risk medication (D'Souza et al., 2019; Johnson et al., 2018; Kindelin et al., 2020; Oertel & Heparin Consensus Group, 2004). This is due to their narrow therapeutic index and the "ability to cause significant patient harm or death" ...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
9 Preprocedural Patient Education and Improving Patient Outcomes and SatisfactionParker, Tesla A.2021With an increasing number of surgical and outpatient procedures being performed in the United States each year, positive patient outcomes and experiences are more important than ever before. Ensuring positive outcomes for all parties involved needs to begin prior to patients even reaching the hospit...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
10 Promoting Preceptor Preparation: A QI Project to Better Intern and Patient OutcomesMathews, Kiara2021It was observed by staff on a surgical services unit that new interns were often being precepted by registered nurses (RNs) who had just graduated from the nursing internship program themselves (M. Weller, personal communication, January 26, 2021). It was also found that many nurses taking on the ro...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
11 Planning for End of Life is Planning for Life: Quality Improvement and Research Data CollectionAnsari, Natasha2020End of life care is an essential part of the care of the patient. It not only is a continuation of the care of the patient we interact with as his or her disease gets worse, but also improves the quality of life for the patient's family once our patient passes away. Paladino, et al., (2019) state, "...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
12 Nursing Quality Dashboard: Development and ImplementationHummel, Dabney2020Dashboards are a tool that health care providers use to assess and analyze quality of patient care systems data in a visually appealing, user-friendly, and efficient way (Dowding et al., 2015; Olsha-Yehiav et al., 2006; Schall et al., 2017; Tan et al., 2013; Olsha-Yehiav et al., 2006). Dashboards pr...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
13 Increasing Engagement & Understanding of Patient Reported OutcomesRoberts, Janine2020With the rise of clinical informatics, questionnaires (also called instruments) have been used to collect data straight from the source - from patients themselves (Porter, Larsson, & Lee, 2016). These measures are called Patient Reported Outcome Measures, or PROMs. PROMs are defined as any informati...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
14 Preceptor and Staff Empowerment: A Quality Improvement ProjectBarno, Miriam2020There is an ever-growing need for youth mental health services in the state of Utah. The problem begins with the disparity that 40% of Utah's youth suffering from depression did not receive treatment (Summers, Meppen, & Ball, 2019). Subsequently, the overall national, non-population specific utili...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
15 Patient Safety Team: Near-Miss Medication Errors and Predicting Serious Safety EventsGashler, Alexis2020Medical errors remain a leading cause of death and poor patient outcomes during hospitalization in the United States (Oyebode, 2013; Rodziewicz & Hipskind, 2019). The Institute of Medicine reported that medical errors result in at least 7,000 deaths and cost 17-29 billion dollars annually (Oyebode,...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
16 Chlorhexidine Gluconate BathingXiong, Mai See2020Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are the leading cause of life-threateningcomplications in the United States (Reagan et al., 2019). HAIs includes central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), select surgical site infections (SSI), hosp...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
17 Solving the Change Within the Change: Ideas on How to Sustain Change in PracticeMonge, Cristina2020Introduction: Changes are inevitable. No matter where one works, it is an expected reality that change is part of the job. This is especially true within the field of healthcare. Medical and technological advances are constant, as well as procedure processes. The medical world is forever improving, ...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education
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