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Fostering Professional Fulfillment in Emergency Department Nurses | Speak, Alice | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP; Adult Gerontologyu/Acute Care, Poster |
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Fostering Professional Fulfillment in Emergency Department Nurses | Speak, Alice | 2023 | Background: Professional fulfillment, defined as a culture of wellness, efficiency of practice, and personal resilience, is essential for safe practice and nurse well-being. Lack of professional fulfillment is associated with burnout, increased risk for medical errors, and even self-harm and suicide... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP; Adult Gerontologyu/Acute Care |
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Improving Training to Decrease Co-prescribing of Benzodiazepines and Opiates | Manwaring, Ryan T. | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health, Poster |
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Understanding Patient Engagement in a Primary Care Setting: A Patient Health Portal Quality Improvement Project | Dinh, Tamiyah | 2018 | To comply with Meaningful Use (MU), Millcreek Primary Care (MCPC), a primary care clinic affiliated with St. Mark's Hospital in Utah, initiated eClinicalWorks Patient Health Portal (eCW). Stage 2 of MU mandates 5% of patients adopt the electronic health record (EHR) through engagement by secure mess... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Brain Code: A Standardized Response to a Neurological Emergency | Szemak, Erin | 2017 | Intracranial hypertension (IH) is a neurological emergency that can lead to profound disability and death and is consequently referred to as a brain code. Intracranial hypertension is the sequelae of typical acute care diseases or injuries such as stroke, traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), and hepatic... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Quality Improvement Project for Early Sepsis Iintervention and Education with Pre-Hospital EMS Teams | Woodruff, Whitney S. | 2019 | In the United States, sepsis is currently the third leading cause of death, and the number one leading cause of death of hospitalized patients (CDC, 2018; HCUP, 2016). Each year the United States pays over 27.4 billion dollars in the management and treatment of hospitalized patients with sepsis (HCU... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Enhancing Knowledge of Contraception and Safe Sex among Hispanic Teens | Garzón, Stanley | 2017 | The aim of this DNP project was to increase knowledge regarding safe sex practices, and contraception among Hispanic adolescents in order to improve their ability to prevent unintended pregnancies. Teen pregnancy rates are notably higher among Hispanic individuals in underserved areas with limited a... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improving Skin Cancer Prevention Education in a Primary Care Setting | Cooper, Elizabeth C.; Doyon, Katherine | 2022 | Background: Utah has consistently led the nation in the rate of melanoma diagnoses. Even though the melanoma mortality rate has slowed due to cancer treatment advances, the incidence rate in Utah has increased. Over the past 17 years, the rate of melanoma diagnoses has increased from 20.5 to 38.9 ca... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care, Adult / Gerontology |
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Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in a Primary Care Setting | Bywater, Kelsey | 2017 | Intimate partner violence (IPV) leads to serious health complications for women and has become a public health crisis across the US. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that clinicians screen all women of childbearing age for IPV, such as domestic violence (DV), and to provide ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Social Needs Screening in the Emergency Department: Workflow Analysis and Creating Education | Badgerow, Alaina | 2021 | Healthy People 2020 emphasizes the need to develop and transform environments, both socially and physically that improve health for everyone as one of the four main goals for the upcoming decade (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2020). This focus demonstrates the need to look at th... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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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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Educating Diabetic Women on the Potential Teratogenic Effects of Hyperglycemia on Fetal Development during Pregnancy | Seidel, Jeanette | 2017 | Millions of people in the United States have diabetes, and that number has increased exponentially in the past three decades. This has led to an increased incidence of pregnancies complicated by pregestational diabetes mellitus (PGDM). PGDM has also increased the number of infants admitted to the ne... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improving the Quality of Sleep in Patients on an Acute Medicine Unit Using a Sleep Hygiene Bundle | Lang, Tanisha E.; Whitt, Alex; Lynch, Keisa M. | 2023 | Abstract Background: Poor sleep is common in ICU and acute ward settings due to noise and other factors, negatively impacting patients' cognitive function and quality of life. Neglecting healthy sleep practices in hospitals can have adverse implications for patient outcomes because of the restorativ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP; Adult Gerontology/ Acute Care |
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An Initiative to Identify and Address Dementia Patient and Provider Needs in Community Clinics | Morgan, Deborah | 2019 | The majority of individuals living with dementia receive their care from Primary Care Providers. Multiple barriers such as time limitations, lack of specialist knowledge and lack of available resources have been identified in such a model, with caregivers of dementia patients reporting frustration a... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Congenital Cytomegalovirus and Timely Newborn Hearing Screens in the NICU | Boogaard, Melanie | 2017 | Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is a prevalent infection that can have devastating adverse effects, such as hearing loss, vision loss, and neurologic deficit. Identifying an infant with cCMV can be difficult, as only 10% of infants are symptomatic and not every infant is screened. The purpose of t... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Use of Obstetric Emergency Interprofessional Simulation in a Rural Setting to Improve Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and Attitudes | Garrett, Kellie R.; Phares, Pamela; Cohen, Susanna | 2022 | Background: Utah has ten counties with fewer than six primary care providers, including OB- GYN providers, and two counties with none. Evidence-based obstetric (OB) practice in rural settings can be challenging outside of an academic medical care setting without strategies to ensure the disseminatio... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Exclusive Human Milk Diet for Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants | Bushati, Charity | 2020 | Problem:Despite advances in nutrition, extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants remain at high risk for extrauterine growth restriction that is correlated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. To provide adequate calories and essential nutrients, fortification of human milk (HM) is necessary. T... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal |
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Implementation of a Toolkit for Families After Pediatric Sexual Assault: A Quality Improvement Project | Thayer, Madeline A.; Garrett, Larry | 2022 | Background: An estimated one in four to eight girls and one in ten to twelve boys are the victims of sexual assault or abuse before reaching adulthood. During an encounter for pediatric sexual assault, patients and caregivers are given extensive information about recovery, coping, and follow up care... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Integrating a Genetics/Genomics Team Into a Reproductive Medicine Practice | Lloyd, Anne-Marie; Swanson-Taylor, Lisa; Dorais, Jessie A. | 2022 | Background: Genetic screening of human embryos began in 1990. Since the nineties, advances in the genetic screening of human embryos called preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) have evolved. Over the last 30 years, reproductive medicine offices nationwide have increased to more than 100,000 cases o... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, MS to DNP |
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Improvement of Rapid Response Training in the Urgent Care | Horito, Breanna | 2019 | Rapid response teams have been shown to improve patient outcomes in medical emergencies. As community clinics expand to include urgent care departments, there is an increased likelihood of medical emergencies occurring within clinics. In response to this change, this project designed and implemented... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Increasing Knowledge of Intrauterine Devices in the Immediate Postpartum Period | Nichols, Kristi | 2017 | The goal of this scholarly project was to increase knowledge about immediate postpartum intrauterine device insertions (IUDs) in the hospital setting among current labor and delivery nurses. To accomplish this goal, an educational module was created about immediate postpartum IUD insertions, which w... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Layperson Naloxone Education | Noyes, Tiffany | 2017 | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the opioid overdose crisis is now a nationwide epidemic, with over 60% of overdoses being unintentional. Although many overdoses are from illegal opiates such as heroin, chronic pain patients taking prescription painkillers experien... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to Reduce Burnout & Increase Resiliency in Med-Surg Nurses | Hanna, Elizabeth | 2019 | A nursing shortage is predicted to grow over the next 20 years, with many nurses retiring and too few to replace them, making retention a critical issue. Previous studies have demonstrated the utility of mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) programs to reduce burnout and are being used to reduc... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improving Care for Older Adults: Assessing the Need for a Managed Care Model in a Rural Area | Green, Patricia | 2018 | Introduction: Older adults with complex medical needs are difficult to manage within various care settings, particularly in rural areas. The purpose of this project was to assess if Sweetwater County WY would benefit from an intervention aimed at improving care coordination in the form of a managed ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |