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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 | Enhancing Critical Care Patient Safety: Evaluating the Impact of an Air-Assisted Pressure Offloading Device on Sacral Area Pressure Injuries. | Leishman, Lana L. | 2024 | Pressure Injuries (PIs) are one of the most common and costly complications occurring in US Hospitals. A large health system has faced challenges in meeting the benchmark standards for hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) set by the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) in f... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 52 |
 | Enhancing Documentation in the EHR to Reflect Nursing Workload in Acute Care Settings | Reinhardt, Kira Lee S. | 2023 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 53 |
 | Enhancing Documentation in the EHR to Reflect Nursing Workload in Acute Care Settings | Reinhartdt, Kira Lee S. | 2023 | Background: Despite extensive research on nursing workload since the 1930s, no standardized definition exists. However, it is crucial to consider the nurse-patient ratios as workload increases with the number of patients, adversely affecting both patient care and nurse morale. The University of Utah... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 54 |
 | Enhancing Heparin Infusion Safety: A Quality Improvement Initiative | Kagen, Stephanie D. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 55 |
 | 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 |
| 56 |
 | Enhancing Pain Management to Meet Accreditation Standards in a Large Healthcare System | Sanders, Kelsey M. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 57 |
 | Enhancing Pain Management to Meet Accreditation Standards in a Large Healthcare System | Sanders, Kelsey M. | 2024 | A large academic healthcare system within the Mountain West identified opportunities to improve pain management practices. To address these issues a multimodal pain relief approach emphasizing non-opioid alternatives was implemented. This paper outlines the methods, results, and conclusions of a pai... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 58 |
 | Enhancing Patient Care: Modernizing the Call Light System for Improved Healthcare Quality | Oviedo, Alonso B. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 59 |
 | Enhancing Patient Care: Modernizing the Call Light System for Improved Healthcare Quality | Oviedo, Alonso B. | 2024 | Effective communication systems are crucial for ensuring timely and efficient patient care in healthcare settings. However, outdated call light systems can pose significant challenges, leading to interoperability issues and affecting both patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. This study addresses... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 60 |
 | Enhancing Patient Safety and Clinical Efficiency Through Vital Sign Standardization | Kellogg, Ryan J. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 61 |
 | Enhancing Patient Safety and Clinical Efficiency Through Vital Sign Standardization | Kellogg, Ryan J. | 2024 | This quality improvement (QI) project targets standardizing vital sign order sets to enhance patient safety and clinical staff efficiency in a hospital setting. Given the challenges of ambiguous orders for new or rotating staff, a systematic approach to developing clear, direct vital sign orders is ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 62 |
 | Enhancing the Quality of a Medical Assistant Program Through Targeted Curriculum Improvements | Kimoto, Mari Davis | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
| 63 |
 | Enhancing the Quality of a Medical Assistant Program Through Targeted Curriculum Improvements | Kimoto, Mari Davis | 2024 | A large university in the Western US has a medical assistant (MA) program that trains students to work in clinical settings. The program offers a combination of asynchronous hybrid learning followed by hands-on internship placement within the clinic system affiliated with the university. Enhancement... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
| 64 |
 | Evaluating Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) for Public Health Reporting | White, Mason | 2020 | Public health reporting of communicable diseases is critical for the prevention, control, and monitoring of the spread of disease within a population. Information gathered from clinical systems and shared as public health case reports informs and justifies the actions a public health department may ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 65 |
 | Evaluation and Optimization of an Inpatient Daily Cares Flowsheet | Jensen, Clayton | 2020 | Clinical documentation is one of the highest priorities of any clinician. Documentation is only second to the actual care of the patient and could be considered another dimension or extension of patient care (Andrews & St Aubyn, 2015). Ask any clinician about the importance of clinical documentation... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 66 |
 | Evaluation of an Electronic Signature Consent Expansion Project | Morrill, Brett | 2021 | In July, 1999, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) approved and recommended the ESIGN Act, enabling electronic signatures to have the same legal status as that of handwritten signatures in America (Tank & Whitaker, 2019). Therefore, this change allows paper consent forms for procedures in a healthcare ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 67 |
 | Evaluation of interface requirements between an EHR and mobile application for verbal dictation to document patient encounters in a clinic setting | Lister, Daniel | 2022 | Intermountain 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 |
| 68 |
 | Evaluation of Patient Safety Data and Patient Experience Surveys to Identify Themes between the Two Sets of Data | Monter, Renee | 2021 | Patient safety is a top priority for healthcare system leaders, providers, and patients, but data can often fall through the cracks. An increasing number of healthcare systems are adopting patient safety reporting systems, yet leveraging this data to improve safety remains a challenge, particularly... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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 | Evaluation Plan for Intermountain's TeleHealth Critical Care and Hospitalist Admission and Transfer Program (Quarterback Program) | Anderson, Cynthia A. | 2020 | Current communication and information technologies allow one to connect and exchange information with a variety of people and systems instantaneously. While this can enrich lives socially, it also plays an integral role in the delivery of telehealth. The Office of the National Coordinator of Healt... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
| 70 |
 | Exploring Implementation Strategies for a Case Management Social Needs Assessment | Haynes, Robyn | 2021 | Social determinates of health (SDoH) (Appendix A) are defined by the World Health Organization (2017) as conditions that people are born, grow, live, work, and age in (Fink-Samnick, 2018a). Individuals that are affected by SDoH are the most vulnerable in society, incurring 50% of the health care c... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Care Management |
| 71 |
 | Health Care Liaison Role Creation for Utah's Juvenile Justice System | Bradford, Kathleen | 2021 | The Juvenile Justice System (JJS) provides a system of rehabilitation and interventions for adolescents accused of committing a delinquent or criminal act (Youth.Gov, n.d.). The Utah Division of JJS provides a variety of interventions and programs to promote rehabilitation opportunities for youth o... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
| 72 |
 | Impact of Evidence-Based Practice Education on New Graduate Nurses | DaCruz, Phillip L. | 2024 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
| 73 |
 | Impact of Evidence-Based Practice Education on New Graduate Nurses | DaCruz, Phillip L. | 2024 | A large hospital in the western United States developed a new graduate nurse residency program. As the hospital works to achieve Magnet status, education leaders identified that a specific focus on evidence- based practice (EBP) would assist in meeting program objectives. Methods: An EBP course was ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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 | Implementation of a Standard Process for Communicating Delays | Fenton, Angie | 2020 | Patient satisfaction is an essential part of healthcare, which is measured by patient surveys (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2019). Patient satisfaction surveysallow consumers to investigate their healthcare options (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2019). Surveys impr... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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 | Implementation of the Age-Friendly Health System's 4M Framework in an Ambulatory Care System in Collaboration with UGEC | Crandall, Leslie G. | 2021 | The rapidly growing older adult population of the United States creates unique health care challenges. By 2060, demographers anticipate a near doubling of the over 65 cohort (Mather, 2019). Utah's latest census measures the over 65 population at 11.4%, about 365,000 people, with a seminal increase ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Care Management |