The Graduate Nursing Project collection includes Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Scholarly Projects and Master's students' non-thesis projects submitted as part of program requirements.
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| Title | Creator | Date | Description | Relation Is Part Of | ||
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| 26 |  | Improving Burn Nursing through Burn Specific Skills Day | Orr, Mindy | 2020 | Background. The American Burn Association recently published a consensus-derived list of eleven standardized burn nursing competencies that nationwide burn unit nursing staff need to maintain. These competencies were published to help direct the educational priorities for burn nursing to ensure the ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 27 |  | Improving Inpatient Sleep Quality in the Acute Care Setting | Crockett, Mindy | 2020 | Background: Hospitalized patients are at risk of experiencing an increase in sleep disruptions and a decrease in quality of sleep. Illness, pain, medical interventions, treatments, and the hospital environment can lead to poor sleep. Poor sleep quality can lead to many adverse effects, including ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 28 |  | Improving Provider Knowledge and Referral Practice of Patients with Drug Resistant Epilepsy to a Comprehensive Epilepsy Center | Aschkenase, Thérèse Anne | 2020 | Background: Drug Resistant Epilepsy (DRE) occurs when two adequate trials of tolerated and appropriately chosen anti-seizure drugs fail to control seizures, and is associated with excess morbidity and mortality. Surgical treatment of DRE is one of the most underutilized evidence-based therapeutic in... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 29 |  | Improving Quality and Compliance of Suicide Screening | Stephens, Mary (Katy) Larson | 2020 | Background:Suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death in the United States, with treatment costing the healthcare system over 70 billion dollars. It is essential to properly screen and identify patients most at risk. Additionally, the joint commission identified poor suicide screening or asse... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 30 |  | Improving Sleep Quality for Critically Ill Patients in a Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit | Almberg, Lexi | 2020 | Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) care entails the need to continually interact with the patient for medically necessary assessments and interruptions creating increased levels in noise during sleeping hours. Sleep deprivation is harmful to critically ill patients leading to increased hospital l... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 31 |  | Improving Sleep Quality in the ICU Through a Noise Reduction Time | Drury, Zachary | 2020 | Background:Poor sleep quality is a common problem in the ICU and has been linked to adverse physiologic conditions including altered immune function, neuroendocrine abnormalities, respiratory muscle weakening, and delirium. Excess noise is a risk factor for poor sleep quality among patients. Sleep... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 32 |  | Increasing Insulin Access Awareness in the Acute Care Setting | Plott, Ashton | 2020 | Background: Between 2012 - 2016, the price of insulin has doubled, and since 2015 hyperglycemia related hospitalizations have increased 120% for those using insulin. Many patients with diabetes (PWD) are unable to afford the monthly cost of insulin and are turning to online trading, bartering, ratio... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 33 |  | The Integration of the Three-Wishes Project in an Oncology Specialized Intensive Care Unit: A Palliative Care Project | Gallagher, Meagan L.; Christensen, Scott; Brown, Jeanette | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 34 |  | The Integration of the Three-Wishes Project in an Oncology Specialized Intensive Care Unit: A Palliative Care Project | Gallagher, Meagan L.; Christensen, Scott; Brown, Jeanette | 2024 | In oncology intensive care units (ICUs), patients are critically ill and often face pain and suffering from their cancer diagnosis or treatments. Patient deaths in the oncology-ICU can be emotionally distressing for patients, families, and clinicians. Oncology nurses frequently experience compassion... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 35 |  | Needs Assessment for a Chaplain Program in a Thoracic Intensive Care Unit | Kingsford, Cammy; Gee, Perry; Scheese, Carolyn | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 36 |  | Needs Assessment for a Chaplain Program in a Thoracic Intensive Care Unit | Kingsford, Cammy; Gee, Perry; Scheese, Carolyn | 2024 | Extensive research underscores the positive correlation between nurses' engagement with spirituality and improved patient outcomes. Despite the acknowledged significance of addressing patients' spiritual needs, there is an underutilization and lack of coordination of available chaplain services, par... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 37 |  | Nurse Mentorship in the Emergency Department: An Approach to Improving Job Satisfaction and Retention | Salois, Alexandra M.; Palmer, Erin M.; Hart, Sara | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 38 |  | Promoting Upstream Integration of Palliative Care in Elderly Heart Failure Patients | Brown, Harmony Lauritzen | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 39 |  | Provider Perceptions of the Tele Critical Care Patient Transfer Process | ZoBell, David | 2020 | Background: Research has demonstrated how interfacility transfer of critically ill patients can be associated with adverse outcomes. A tele critical care (TCC) driven patient transfer process has been instituted by a large hospital system based in the intermountain west, but at this time it has not ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 40 |  | Utilizing In-situ Simulation to Improve Knowledge and Confidence in the Care of Trauma Patients | Weeks, Claire E.; Randall, Rachel; Atwood, Renee; Nerges, John | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 41 |  | Utilizing In-situ Simulation to Improve Knowledge and Confidence in the Care of Trauma Patients | Weeks, Claire E.; Randall, Rachel; Atwood, Renee; Nerges, John | 2024 | Trauma 1 patients have life or limb time-sensitive injuries that require urgent and critical management. Caring for these patients creates an environment that is stressful and error- prone, and these patients require a specific skill base that is utilized less often in the Emergency Department. In 2... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |
| 42 |  | A Collaborative Staffing Model in the Urban Community Hospital: Advanced Practice Clinician Integration | Michael, John | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 43 |  | A Framework for Providers and Nurses: Standardizing Interdisciplinary Patient Rounds Further Improving Collaborative Communication | Searle, Alexia R. | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 44 |  | A Novel Discharge Medication Process: A Needs Assessment | Mccreath, Lauren; Hobson, Alesa; Hart, Sara | 2024 | Bedside medication delivery programs involve delivering discharge medications to hospitalized patients before discharge. These programs have significantly reduced 30-day hospital readmissions and emergency department visits (Prusaczyk, Mixon, & Kripalani, 2020). Bedside medication delivery programs ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 45 |  | A Provider Mentorship Program with Integrated Mentor Training: A Needs Assessment | Lin, Chia-Hsuan; Favero, Heidi | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 46 |  | A Sleep/Wake Protocol to Reduce Delirium in the CVICU and SICU | Dalton, Anna T. | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 47 |  | Assessing the Feasibility of the Use of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool Versus Non-Verbal Pain Scale in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Intensive | Hunt, Sara; Terry, Kimberly; Kang, Youjeong | 2020 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 48 |  | Assessment & Utilization Improvement of Palliative Care in Older Adult Oncology | Dailey-Hansen, Amanda; Lynch, Keisa; Piper-Williams, Jaclyn | 2021 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 49 |  | Collaborative ICU Staffing Model | Delgadillo, Jorge A. | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |
| 50 |  | Develop and Implement a Vertebral Compression Fracture Toolkit: An Evidenced-Based Quality Improvement Initiative | Gonzales, David K.; Jarvis, Mathew; Luo, Jie; Hebdon, Megan | 2025 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care, Poster |