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Developing Medication Administration Training for Non-Medical Staff In the Juvenile Justice System | Dame, Gabriella Kanizsai | 2017 | The Juvenile Justice System (JJS) provides programs for youth offenders. The non-medical staff members play a key role on the healthcare team by providing care for the detained youth during their stay. One of the roles of the staff is to administer over-the-counter and prescription medications daily... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Developing Medication Administration Training for Non-Medical Staff in the Juvenile Justice System (JJS) | Dame, Gabriella Kanizsai | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Poster |
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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 |
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Safe Environment for Every Kid: Screening Tool Implementation for Quality Improvement in a Primary Care Pediatric Clinic | Collins, Whitney; Sylvester, Robert; Visick, Michael | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP, Poster |
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Safe Environment for Every Kid: Screening Tool Implementation for Quality Improvement in a Primary Care Pediatric Clinic | Collins, Whitney | 2020 | Background Child abuse and neglect are significant issues in our world today with over 700,000 substantiated cases annually, costing our country more than 124 billion each year. More than four children die daily in the United States due to child maltreatment and yet it is rarely addressed in the pri... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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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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Standardizing Post-Operative Pain Management in the NICU: A Pilot Study | Birkeland, Angela H. | 2019 | Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all institutions have written pain management guidelines to standardize the management of neonatal pain to improve pain management practices and to increase patient safety. Despite the increased awareness and evidence-based recommendatio... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal |
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Nurse Participation in No Harm Near Miss Error Reporting: A Quality Improvement Initiative | Bersick, Ben | 2023 | Background: No harm and near miss (NHNM) safety event reports contribute to improved patient safety. These events expose the latent conditions in a healthcare system. Learning from them is key to quality improvement (QI). Lack of training and effective feedback to the reporters have been identified ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership |
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Resources for Aesthetic Medicine Providers | Nebeker, Kierstin | 2016 | The aesthetic medicine discipline continues to grow, and with it, an increasing number of medical practices that offer these services. However, resources and education for aesthetic medicine providers have not reflected the growing industry. There is also a lack of connectivity amongst providers as ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Early Mobilization in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A QI Project at a Large Teaching Institution | Barton, Tim | 2016 | This is a quality improvement project in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) with the aim of increasing the rates of early mobilization in mechanically ventilated patients. In spite of the research showing the benefits to early mobility, many institutions are slow to adopt this practice. Designing ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Evaluation Study of a Web-Based Virtual Preceptorship for Moderate Sedation Training | Mudalige, Aruni | 2015 | Safe Sedation Training® (SST®), is an interactive, web-based module related to moderate sedation. SST® can be utilized to standardize moderate sedation training in a given healthcare organization. However, SST has not been formally evaluated or tested in a broad spectrum of healthcare workers or ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improving Quality and Compliance of Suicide Screening | Stephens, Mary (Katy) Larson; Johnson, Linda | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
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Increasing Engagement and Feelings of Belonging of Teleworking Nurses | Duford-Hutchinson, Brittany C. | 2022 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership, MS to DNP, Poster |
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Increasing Engagement and Feelings of Belonging of Teleworking Nurses to Improve Care Coordination: A Project in the Veterans Health Administration Healthcare System | Duford-Hutchinson, Brittany C. | 2022 | Problem: Nurse disengagement contributes to poor patient experiences, decreased patient safety, and negative patient outcomes. Working in the virtual setting may contribute to feeling disconnected from the organization. The goal of this project was to implement an intervention that protects patient ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Organizational Leadership, MS to DNP |
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Activating the Rapid Response Team: Barriers and Facilitating Factors for Oncology Nurses | Milne, Suzanne | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Poster |
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Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Recognition, Assessment, and Communication: A Quality Improvement Project | Monson, Kristina | 2014 | At the Volunteers of America (VOA) Adult Detoxification Center in Utah individuals across multiple disciplines unite together to form substance abuse treatment teams that coordinate the medical and psychosocial care of clients withdrawing from alcohol. These professionals have different training, ed... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Standardizing Post-Operative Pain Management in the NICU: A Pilot Study | Birkeland, Angela H. | 2019 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal, Poster |
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Unacknowledged CPOE Improvement Project | Bersick, Ben | 2021 | The advent of computerized physician order entries (CPOE) paralleled the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) (Zhivan & Diana, 2012). CPOE form the backbone of care provision for patients in hospital settings and have been recognized as a major factor in preserving patient safety (Wang et al... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Activating the Rapid Response Team: Barriers and Facilitating Factors for Oncology Nurses | Milne, Suzanne | 2017 | The Institute for Healthcare Improvement introduced the idea of a rapid response team (RRT) in 2004. The goal was to quickly mobilize critical expertise and intervention to the bedside as soon as signs of patient deterioration are noted. If the RRT is called, patients can receive appropriate interve... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Suicide Prevention & Clinical Implications | Simmons, Siqin | 2020 | Background:In the past twenty years, the annual suicide rate has increased 30% nationwide and 46% in Utah. Clinicians work on the frontline with patients. Proactive screening for suicide risk factors and prompt intervention can preventing suicide. Provider's lack of awareness of recently-identified ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Using Simulation Methodology to Teach De-escalation Techniques and Behavioral Emergency Response | Lassche, Madeline L. | 2019 | The purpose of this project was to educate behavioral emergency response team (BERT) members in de-escalation techniques using best practices in simulation methodology. The goal was to increase confidence in dealing with potentially violent situations. The University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics ha... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Current Prescribing Practices of Oral Anti-Reflux Medications in the Neonatal Population | Worman, Catherine | 2017 | This quality improvement project aimed to examine the current practices in the prescribing of oral histamine-2 receptor agonists (H2RA) and proton pump inhibitors (PPI) in a freestanding children's hospital level four newborn intensive care unit (NICU) in the year 2016. PPI and H2RA drugs are prescr... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing SBAR to Facilitate Communication and Improve Transitions Between Inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Healthcare Services | Taylor, Ligia J. | 2020 | Background: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement the Situation Background Assessment and Recommendation (SBAR) communication tool in an inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) to improve transitions of care for veterans. Ineffective hand-offs contribute to adverse events, de... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Replacing No-Suicide Contracts with Individualized Safety Assessments and Safety Plans in the Psychiatric Inpatient Setting | Taylor, Stephen | 2018 | Background: Verbal or written no-suicide contracting is a common nursing practice in psychiatric inpatient settings, and remains common place in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) inpatient psychiatric units. There is well supported evidence indicating that such contracts are oftentimes afford... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improving Bedside Report Within an Inpatient Unit | Salih, Hussein; Garret, Larry | 2023 | Background: Bedside reporting is a communication process used during the shift change, where the outgoing nurse hands over the responsibility of patient care to the incoming nurse. This handoff takes place at the patient's bedside, it improves patient safety, communication, and satisfaction, yet com... | Nursing Practice Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |