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26 Identifying Female Sexual Dysfunction in Primary CareJohnson, Quinta2023POSTERNursing Practice Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health, Poster
27 Increasing Advance Care Planning and Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Rates in Primary CareGarcia, Hana M; Christensen, Scott S.2023Background: Worldwide, approximately 14% of individuals who need palliative care (PC) services are currently receiving PC and only 30% of Americans have an Advance Care Plan (ACP). Local Problem: There is a decreased awareness among policy-makers, healthcare providers, and the public about PC servic...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP
28 The Development of a Gender-Diversity Toolkit for Use in Primary CareMaruyama, Christina L.; Gay, Noemi; Clifton, Jennifer2023Background: Gender-diverse (GD) individuals (i.e. those identifying as transgender, nonbinary, gender-fluid, genderqueer, or two-spirit) face frequent discrimination, harassment, exclusion, and violence. Negative experiences in healthcare settings discourage them from seeking vital preventive and em...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primaruy Care / FNP
29 Improving Treatment and Awareness of Adoptees in Residential Treatment: A Screening and Education Quality ProjectBrooks, Paige D.2023Background: Two to three percent of people in the United States are adopted. These rates are higher among adolescents with serious mental illness in residential treatment centers (RTC), where rates range between 25%-30% percent. Despite these rates, mental health clinicians report limited education ...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health
30 Improving Treatment and Awareness of Adoptees in Residential Treatment: A Screening and Education Quality ProjectBrooks, Rachel2023POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health, Poster
31 Preliminary Evaluation of an Alert to Manage Patients at Risk for OversedationMorris, Emma2022In 2021, IMC leadership decided that a clinical decision support (CDS) alert should be created and implemented in acute care units in the hospital to help registered nurses (RNs) identify patients at high risk of respiratory complications from sedation. The CDS alert prompts RNs to implement the Hig...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics
32 Increasing Provider Use of a Sleep Assessment Instrument at a VA Outpatient Mental Health Clinic: A Quality Improvement ProjectGavin, Lindsay P.; Doyon, Katherine; Webb, Sara M.2022Background: 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
33 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
34 Utilization of a Sleep Assessment Instrument at a VA Outpatient Mental Health ClinicGavin, Lindsay P.; Doyon, Katherine; Webb, Sara M.2022POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health, Poster
35 Improving Provider Comfort in Discussing Race-Based Health Disparities in Pregnant and Birthing PeopleCreal, Cristi; Cohen, Susanna; Al-Khudairi, Amanda; Fall, Jeelan2022POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery, Poster
36 Increasing Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Usage Among Heart Failure Patients via a New Clinic Protocol: A Quality Improvement ProjectTonks, Trevor K.; Ugolini, Sharon; Gee, Julie P.2022POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Adult / Gerontology, Poster
37 Increasing Rates of Unclogged Feeding Tubes in Hospitalized; PatientsBates, Brittany E.; Lynch, Keisa; Sloan, Colgan2022POSTERGraduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Adult / Gerontology, Poster
38 Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Facilitating the Initiation and Use for Patients with Type2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Rural Primary ClinicDotson, Laura M.2022Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus continues to be one of the most significant health problems worldwide. It can lead to several health complications, such as amputations, vision loss, neuropathy, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease. These complications can be delayed or even avoided by mai...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care, Adult / Gerontology
39 Implementing an Asthma Clinical Practice Guideline in Primary CareMcmillin, Sarah; Phares, Pamela2022Background: Asthma is a common chronic illness, affecting more than 300 million people worldwide. Asthma is primarily diagnosed and managed in a primary care setting. If ineffectively managed, asthma can reduce quality of life and create economic as well as health care system burden. Inconsistent ma...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP
40 Implementation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale as a Universal Screening Tool in a Rural Utah Postpartum PopulationHopkins, Megan E.; Bailey, ElLois2022Background: Major and minor depressive episodes during the perinatal period impact 12-20% of all childbearing women. Consequences of maternal depression include maternal dysfunction- psychosocial, relational, occupational, and physical, pre-term delivery, dysfunction in the maternal-infant relations...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health
41 Diabetic Bundle Implementation to Improve Clinical Quality Measures: A Quality Improvement ProjectJohnson, Frances M.; Hastings, Katherine M.; Bald, Elizabeth M.; Ose, Dominik; Gee, Julie P.2022Background: In the United States, approximately 34.2 million adults over 18 years of age have diabetes. In Utah alone, over 180,000 adults over the age of 20 years have type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Diabetes is costly; about $245 billion each year is spent on care directly or indirectly related t...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP
42 Cervical Cancer Prevention: Improving Abnormal Pap Follow-UpFuqua, Dana M.; Taylor-Swanson, Lisa J.2022Background: Cervical cancer continues to be a pervasive disease despite effective screening (Pap test) and treatment options available to reduce morbidity and mortality of cancer progression. Studies suggest that nearly half of cervical cancer diagnoses result from a lack of follow-up after an abnor...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery
43 Improving Provider Comfort in Discussing Race-Based Health Disparities in Pregnant and Birthing PeopleCreal, Cristi; Cohen, Susanna; Al-Khudairi, Amanda; Fall, Jeelan2022Background: Race-based health disparities continue in the United States despite directed and significant efforts. Regardless of age, income status, education level, or gender identity, people of color continue to fall victim to higher morbidity and mortality rates compared to White individuals. Cons...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery
44 Evaluation of interface requirements between an EHR and mobile application for verbal dictation to document patient encounters in a clinic settingLister, Daniel2022Intermountain Healthcare is piloting and evaluating an application that uses natural language processing software and artificial intelligence to eliminate the cost of medical scribes and make documentation more efficient. The findings from this pilot study will be used to determine if a larger study...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics
45 Landscape analysis for a new critical lab reporting strategyAidif, Gennifer2022The 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
46 Improving Patency of Feeding Tubes by Implementing a New Clinical Practice Guideline: A Quality Improvement ProjectBates, Brittany E.; Lynch, Keisa2022Background: Patients with feeding tubes are at risk of experiencing internal obstructions caused by clotting of intact protein formulas, crushed medications, refluxed gastric contents, and viscous products that enter the tube. A variety of anecdotal methods for attempting to unclog feeding tubes inc...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Adult / Gerontology
47 Improving the Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Program at an Urban Free ClinicWalsh, Jeffery; Clifton, Jennifer2022Background: Many patients with abnormal blood pressures are not accurately assessed in a clinical setting. Home blood pressure monitoring allows patients to regularly check their blood pressure without having to come to a clinic. While this resource is becoming more common, it is often underutilized...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP
48 Increasing Remote Patient Monitoring Usage Among Heart Failure Patients via a New Clinic Protocol: A Quality Improvement ProjectTonks, Trevor K.; Ugolini, Sharon; Gee, Julie P.2022Background: Heart failure effects six million adults in the United States and the prevalence is expected to increase 46% from 2012 to 2030. The advancement of technology has provided significant improvements to our disease management of heart failure, specifically, the use of remote patient monitori...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Adult / Gerontology
49 Improve Adherence to the Nurse-Driven Continuous Intravenous Heparin Administration Protocol on a Neurocritical Care UnitCastle, Bronwynne2022Background: Anticoagulation therapy is associated with high rates of dosing errors, and intravenous heparin therapy accounts for two-thirds of those errors. The therapeutic margins for heparin are narrow, and errors result in coagulation times that are too short or prolonged and can produce harmful ...Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP
50 Analysis of Central Line Cares in a Hospital SettingTurcotte, Catherine2022Central line-associated infection (CLABSI) accounts for approximately 14% of healthcare associated infections (Wood, 2017). CLABSI is an avoidable, yet very serious condition, and can be responsible for high mortality in patients (Conley, 2016). One of the key practices involved with reducing CLABSI...Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics
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