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![]() | Enhancing Heparin Infusion Safety: A Quality Improvement Initiative | Kagen, Stephanie D. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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![]() | Enhancing Heparin Infusion Safety: A Quality Improvement Initiative | Kagen, Stephanie D. | 2024 | Heparin, a critical high-alert medication, plays a pivotal role in the management of thromboembolic events. However, its administration and management, particularly in the inpatient setting at a large hospital in the Intermountain West, was fraught with challenges. We identified opportunities to imp... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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![]() | Insulin and Diabetes Education: An Intervention to Decrease Medication Errors | Hill, Jordan | 2022 | Nursing 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 |
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![]() | Patient Safety Team: Near-Miss Medication Errors and Predicting Serious Safety Events | Gashler, Alexis | 2020 | Medical 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 |
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![]() | Understanding and Improving Heparin Administration | LaValley, Sydnie | 2022 | At 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 |