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Assessing the Nutritional Status of Rural Elderly Veterans in the Uintah Basin | Rust, Sandra | 2016 | Malnutrition is a significant problem in the elderly, with as much as 10% of the population living in communities being malnourished and with rates rising significantly higher in long-term care residents. The geriatric population is expected to double over the next sixty years and malnutrition is ex... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of an Obesity Screening/Intervention Program at a College Student Health Clinic | White, Ryan | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP; Poster |
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Understanding Insomnia in the College Population | Williams, Rachel | 2013 | The purpose of my project was to increase awareness among healthcare providers and students regarding the importance of sleep assessment and management at the University of Utah Student Health Center. Despite the fact that 50-70 million Americans suffer from sleep disturbances (Institute of Medicine... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Health Promotion for Older Adults: A Framework for Personalized Health Advice During Medicare Wellness Visits | Land, Lauren | 2013 | As the population ages, growing evidence supports health promotion strategies to optimize functional status and reduce morbidity and mortality in older adults. Medicare Wellness Visits provide a unique opportunity to deliver preventive care services to this population on an annual basis. Key require... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of an Obesity Screening/Intervention Program at a College Student Health Clinic | White, Ryan | 2017 | Obesity is a serious health epidemic that is a concern to numerous health agencies and providers. The prevalence of obesity continues to increase in all demographics and is associated with numerous non-communicable diseases (NCDs), early mortality, and excessive healthcare costs. In 2012, the United... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Survivorship Care Plan (SCP): Bridging the Knowledge and Care Access Gap: A Pilot Study | Lee, Wenny | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Poster |
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Provider Perceptions of Palliative Care in an Emergency Department | Tateoka, Elizabeth Buffy | 2016 | Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is defined by Healthy People 2020, and addresses aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and social health, and how health status affects and impacts emotions and overall satisfaction with life (USDHHS, 2015). Emergency departments see high volumes of older adu... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Translation of HABIT Program for Mild Cognitive Impairment to a Virtual Platform | Tolley, Vic | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education, Poster |
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Complicated Grief Screening for Veterans | Haynes, Lara Burns | 2017 | Complicated grief (CG) is grief experienced over a prolonged period of time that negatively affects physical, mental, and social health. Rates of alcoholism, insomnia, psychiatric disorders, physical illness, and death are all higher in people who are experiencing CG. Estimated prevalence of CG in b... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Reducing High Utilization Patient Care through Improved Provider Communication | Gonzales, Rebecca R. | 2018 | Nearly one-fifth of Medicare patients who have been discharged from a hospital in the United States are readmitted within thirty days. Almost half of these hospital readmissions are deemed to be preventable (Verhaegh, K. et. al., 2014). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the Hospital Readmiss... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Evaluation and Treatment Guidelines for Depression in Heart Failure Patients | Morrison, Tod | 2013 | Heart failure affects more than 5.7 million Americans (Pressler et. al, 2011) with approximately 500,000 new cases diagnosed annually (Jiang et. al, 2008). Depression is a prevalent comorbidity associated with heart failure (Silver, 2010). Depression in heart failure patients leads to increased mort... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Exploring the Role of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Beyond the NICU | Yilaire, Renee Y. | 2020 | Background: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) graduate is at an increased risk of morbidities and mortality after discharge from the acute care setting of the NICU. The lack of experienced healthcare providers with specialized training and knowledge of the NICU graduate creates gaps in follow-... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal |
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Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence-Based Interventions | Blair, Ruth | 2013 | Sleep problems are especially common in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies estimate the prevalence of sleep to be 44%-83% for children with ASD compared with 32% of typically-developing children and 46% of children wit other developmental disabili... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS |
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Nurse-Led Sexual Health Interventions in the Care of Women with Cancers Affecting the Female Reproductive System (Gynecologic & Breast Malignancies) | Ekpoma, Victoria | 2021 | The pathology, disease process and treatment options/modalities in the management of cancers affecting the female reproductive system (CAFRS), which includes gynecologic cancers (uterine, ovarian, cervical and vaginal malignancies) as well as breast cancers, have been widely shown to adversely affec... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Treating Chronic Pain in Women Veterans at a Veterans Administration Medical Center | Houskeeper, Karla | 2014 | Primary care providers are often uneducated on how to effectively treat and manage chronic pain, yet they prescribe 20 percent of all narcotics given for pain (Manubay, Muchow & Sullivan, 2011). Managing chronic pain with an interdisciplinary approach is a more successful treatment, especially as na... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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A Fall Prevention Protocol for Home Hospice Patients | Park, Minji | 2014 | Hospice patients are at a greater risk of falls than community-dwelling geriatric populations due to the nature of terminal illness. Although the necessity of developing a fall risk assessment and fall prevention protocol for home hospice patients has been discussed, an assessment protocol for home ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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The Development and Implementation of Online Health Education Modules to Address the Learning Needs of Staff at a Children's Crisis Shelter | Bailey, Georgia | 2016 | Each year, thousands of children in the United States and Utah suffer physical, sexual, mental, and emotional abuse. In addition, children who are victims of abuse are more likely to be neglected, abandoned, or exposed to domestic violence. A high proportion of abused, neglected, or abandoned childr... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing Training Modules to Facilitate the Patient Health Questionnaire-2&9 (PHQ-2&9) Screening Administration for Improving Depression Screening in a Local Free Clinic | Nicol, Hanna | 2018 | Background: Major depressive disorder affects approximately 9 percent of the adult population annually and has a 17 percent lifetime prevalence in the United States (Maurer, 2012; Meyer & Grob, 2014; NIMH, 2015). Adult depression occurs more frequently in low income and uninsured populations in the ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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A Practice Model to Integrate Mental Health Care at an Outpatient Burn Clinic | Harris, Alissa K.; Quinn, Kristen; Morgan, Deborah | 2023 | Background: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more than 350,000 individuals sought medical treatment for burn injuries in 2020. Over half of those individuals will experience a mental health disorder within one year. Despite the known link between mental health disorde... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Psychiatric / Mental Health |
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Pain Assessment in Older Adults with Cognitive Dysfunction | Gilbert, Karen A. | 2017 | This project examined the utility of an educational module to increase the knowledge and understanding of the application of current clinical guidelines by a health care team (HCT) in the assessment of pain in older adults with cognitive dysfunction. Twelve members of the HCT in a local memory care ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Adaptation of the Mayo Clinic's HABIT Program to a Virtual Platform | Robinson, Allegra | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education, Poster |
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Increasing Awareness and Knowledge of Advance Directives in the Healthy Older Adult Community | Timm, Melissa | 2014 | End-of-life treatment decisions have long been debated among healthcare providers, policy makers, and the public. Historically, physicians made end of life decisions based on the assumption professionals were acting in the patient's "best interest". With advancements in medical technology, patients ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing Educational Training of the PHQ-2&9 in Primary Care Clinic | Nicol, Hanna | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship Care Plan: Bridging the Knowledge and Care Access Gap: A Pilot Study | Lee, Wenny | 2018 | In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as National Academy of Medicine (NAM), recognized that there is a lack of continuation of cancer survivor care in the United States. The IOM recommended that all comprehensive cancer centers address the need of survivor care by using survivorship c... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Pain Assessment in Older Adults with Cognitive Dysfunction | Gilbert, Karen A. | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Family / Adult Gerontology, Poster |