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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 | Current State of Voice Recognition Charting | Lake, Susan | 2013 | Voice recognition technology is improving and being used for things such as text messaging or other commands on mobile devices ("Siri.", n.d.) or VoceraTM communication devices ("Voice communication", n.d.). Presently, voice recognition technology has been found to be useful within the healthcare in... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS |
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 | Workflow and Documentation Improvement Utilizing Existing Software Technologies: A Journey to Cancer Hospital Accreditation | Anderson, Joseph | 2023 | The Huntsman Cancer Hospital aims to achieve "cancer hospital" accreditation through the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer (CoC). The CoC requires nurses providing direct patient care to have oncology certification or complete 36 oncology-related continuing education unit (CEU) hour... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS |
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 | Alleviating Error During the Blood Administration Process in the Clinical Setting | Kichi, Nicollette | 2024 | The ability to safely administer blood products to patients, relies on the knowledge of the clinical staff and the accuracy of the electronic medical administration record (EMAR) (Lotterman & Sharma, 2023). EMARs streamline real time clinical documentation, deploy safety checks, and allow health car... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Design of a Cardiovascular Discharge Tool: An Optimization Project | Gomez, Jessica A. | 2023 | Background: National public reporting by hospitals and healthcare systems provides transparency and accountability to the public regarding cardiovascular surgical outcomes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) have data registries in which hospitals can... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Design of a Cardiovascular Discharge Tool: An Optimization Project | Gomez, Jessica A. | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Development of a Tool to Assess and Optimize Flowsheets | Thomas, Brandi | 2020 | Documentation is a written record produced by a clinician that includes the plan of care, the care provided to the patient throughout their shift, and the outcome of care. Documentation gives the care provider a foundation of information that can be used to determine outcomes as well as the patient'... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Enhancing Pain Management to Meet Accreditation Standards in a Large Healthcare System | Sanders, Kelsey M. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Enhancing Pain Management to Meet Accreditation Standards in a Large Healthcare System | Sanders, Kelsey M. | 2024 | A large academic healthcare system within the Mountain West identified opportunities to improve pain management practices. To address these issues a multimodal pain relief approach emphasizing non-opioid alternatives was implemented. This paper outlines the methods, results, and conclusions of a pai... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Evaluation and Optimization of an Inpatient Daily Cares Flowsheet | Jensen, Clayton | 2020 | Clinical documentation is one of the highest priorities of any clinician. Documentation is only second to the actual care of the patient and could be considered another dimension or extension of patient care (Andrews & St Aubyn, 2015). Ask any clinician about the importance of clinical documentation... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Evaluation of an Electronic Signature Consent Expansion Project | Morrill, Brett | 2021 | In July, 1999, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) approved and recommended the ESIGN Act, enabling electronic signatures to have the same legal status as that of handwritten signatures in America (Tank & Whitaker, 2019). Therefore, this change allows paper consent forms for procedures in a healthcare ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Improving Compliance and Documentation of Violent Restraint Use: A Strategic Initiative at a Large Health System for Enhanced Safety and Standards Adherence | Rainey, Katherine L. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Improving Compliance and Documentation of Violent Restraint Use: A Strategic Initiative at a Large Health System for Enhanced Safety and Standards Adherence | Rainey, Katherine L. | 2024 | A health system in the West conducted a project to improve violent restraint use documentation, necessitating a strategic initiative to align practices with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (NIA... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Improving Healthcare System Policy Library Efficiency: Policy Redundancy Analysis Using K-means Clustering | Wendorf, Michael D. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Improving Healthcare System Policy Library Efficiency: Policy Redundancy Analysis Using K-means Clustering | Wendorf, Michael D. | 2024 | This capstone project addresses the challenge of policy library redundancy within healthcare settings, highlighting the need for more research and solutions in policy library management. With the increasing volume of policies at healthcare institutions, managing and eliminating redundant policies is... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Improving the Quality of Documentation about Patient Safety Attendant Care | Smith, Shane | 2021 | Patient safety attendants (PSA) provide a critical service to ensure the safety of selected patients during their inpatient stay, but may incur high costs for a health care system. (Greeley et al., 2020, p. 317). One on one care is considered specialized treatment, which can be expensive for the pat... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Infant Flowsheet Optimization | Phengphoo, Saifon | 2021 | Nursing documentation is crucial in several ways for delivering safe patient care and is used to support multiple components of care delivery. First, it is important for communicating patients' conditions and nursing care plans among healthcare providers, the patient's family, and other parties. Nur... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Landscape analysis for a new critical lab reporting strategy | Aidif, Gennifer | 2022 | The landscape analysis of facilitators and barriers to a closed-loop, direct to provider critical lab reporting workflow is a quality improvement project that will benefit the health system studied. This project has the potential to increase regulatory compliance, decrease staffing needs, and improv... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Newborn Feeding Barcode Scanning Compliance Report | Mitchell, Joseph | 2022 | In consideration of the benefits of breastfeeding or human milk feeding (HM) and Bar- Coded Medication Administration (BCMA), along with the challenges inherent in those systems, this project seeks to identify behavior patterns and compliance with HM collections and administration policies. The prim... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Nursing Orders on FHIR: Information Modeling of Nursing Orders to Facilitate Interoperability | Yusuf, Saldi | 2021 | Nursing orders are used to communicate requests for nursing actions for patient care. A nursing order may contain requests to assess, care, teach, manage, and so forth, and may be simple or complex. While the Clinical Care Classification System (CCC) has a well-defined nursing action hierarchy in it... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Standardizing the Metadata of the Clinical Documentation Improvement Content for Future Automation | Greenlee, Dannie | 2022 | The lack of standardized metadata in the content authoring tool limited the ability to automatically share, deduplicate, aggregate, and view clinical documentation improvement (CDI) content. Additionally, there has been no way to automate the flow of content from one tool to the next; therefore, mov... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Workflow and Documentation Improvement Utilizing Existing Software Technologies: A Journey to Cancer Hospital Accreditation | Andersen, Joseph | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Alleviating Error During the Blood Administration Process in the Clinical Setting | Kichi, Nicollette | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics, Poster |
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 | Evaluation of the Electronic Signature Consent Project | Morrill, Brett | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics, Poster |
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 | Improving the Quality of Documentation about Patient Safety Attendant Care | Smith, Shane | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics, Poster |
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 | The Infant Flowsheet Optimization Project | Phengphoo, Saifon | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics, Poster |