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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Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Timely Admission from the Emergency Department to Medical/Surgical Floor | Dewey, Karen | 2020 | Background: Visits to Emergency Departments (ED) are increasing, which in turn increases the number of admissions from the ED to the inpatient medical/surgical floor. These increases have led to crowding in the ED, resulting in boarding of patients awaiting admission. Boarding in the ED has been lin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
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Identifying Strategies to Decrease ED Boarding | VansCoy, Darrin | 2017 | Keeping patients in the emergency department (ED) after an admission decision has been made, also known as ED boarding, leads to ED overcrowding. Boarded patients continue to use ED resources and prevent new patients from being seen. Boarding can also have adverse effects, such as higher mortality r... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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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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