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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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A Clinical Practice Guideline Promoting Opioid Awareness in a Level IV NICU | Kendall, Allison | 2019 | Problem. Neonates may be exposed to significant amounts of opioids in the NICU. The objective of this project was to investigate opioid exposure of neonates in a level IV NICU, enhance provider knowledge of this problem through education, and develop a clinical practice guideline to promote increase... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Connecting the Dots: The Impact of Bedside Shift Report on Nurse Communication and Patient Satisfaction | Kotobalavu, Cassidy | 2021 | The nursing shift change report is an essential component of nursing practice that allows for the exchange of relevant patient information from one professional to another (Sherman et al., 2013). Report is the transfer of responsibility, accountability and authority for a patient and their care from... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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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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Active Learning for Nurse Residents | Patzke, William L. | 2023 | Background: The University of Utah Hospital is developing a transition-to-practice program for their new graduate nurses (NGNs) entering practice. This program comes after the COVID-19 pandemic, which has challenged hospitals nationwide with the retention of experienced employees. These NGNs are ent... | Graduatre Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Education |
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Existing Late Onset Sepsis Tool in a Culture-positive Patient Subgroup at a Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit | Valadez, Marta G.; Hardin, Pamela | 2022 | Background: Late-onset sepsis is an overwhelming systemic response to a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection and a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has recommended each unit have a systematic sepsis screening process. Implementing a screening approach... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Neonatal |
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Implementing Standardized Depression Screening in Long-term Care: A QI Project | Mitchell Holmes; Deborah Morgan; Lynn Reinke | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Adult / Gerontology |
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Mock Codes: A Quality Improvement Project | Memmott, Jacob | 2020 | Background: Code blues are one of the most intense, stressful, and mistaken prone situations in all of healthcare (Hatley, Jordan, Powers, & Morton, 2019). In the long term acute care hospital (LTAC) setting, very sick patients are cared for, but not many code blue emergencies occur. Therefore, clin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Proposing an Early Labor Lounge at the University of Utah Medical Center | Martinez, Erminia | 2020 | Background:Cesarean sections have become a common operating room procedure in the United States, with approximately one-third of American women delivering by cesarean. Organizations such as the World Health Organization and U.S. Healthy People 2020 have identified the need to reduce Cesarean section... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Women's Health / Nurse Midwifery |
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Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use Counseling in the Juvenile Justice Setting: A Nursing Staff Quality Improvement Project | Leavitt, Jessica L. | 2018 | The majority of youth in juvenile justice facilities have substance use disorders. Motivational interviewing (MI) has been found to be an effective counseling style for substance use among adolescents. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief MI training for nurses and ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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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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Assessing Patients' Social Needs While Delivering Emergency Nursing Care: A Pilot Evaluation to Inform the Use of a Screening Tool | Cheney, Janae | 2021 | With recent healthcare policy changes, including the creation of the accountable care organizations, screening for social risks such as food and housing insecurity has become increasingly common in the healthcare system. However, little is known about the social need screening practices in emergency... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Nursing Informatics |
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Implementation of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Toolkit: A Quality Improvement Project | Victor M. Tolley; Nancy Allen | 2024 | | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
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Implementing a Minimal Stimulation Guideline to Decrease the Risk of Intraventricular Hemorrhage | Tingey, Cameron L. | 2019 | Background: Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in preterm infants. It is a condition most often affecting infants born less than 32 weeks' gestation, and more likely occurring with decreasing gestational age. The majority of IVH occurs during the firs... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Increasing Emotional Intelligence in Healthcare Providers | Taylor, Noelle | 2018 | Emotional intelligence (EI) has long been overlooked in medical education and recent studies show medical providers miss opportunities to show EI to patients and staff. Emotional intelligence can enhance patient-provider communication and patient trust, thus affecting overall patient care and safety... | 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 |
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Integrating Age-Friendly Concepts to Improve Care for Older Adults: Adopting the 4M Technique | Martinez, Jason M. | 2021 | As nurses, we recognize where healthcare disparities for older adults exist and are conscientious towards achieving quality health outcomes based on the needs and preferences of older adults. Research demonstrates that creating an age-friendly healthcare system (AFHS) helps improve assessment and c... | Graduate Nursing Project, Master of Science, MS, Care Management |
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Screening of Patients at Risk for Post-Intensive Care Unit Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Dayton, Kali | 2018 | Many patients discharged from the intensive care unit (ICU) setting experience post-ICU post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for up to a year after discharge. With the right knowledge and screening tools ICU staff can minimize the frequency and severity of post-ICU PTSD. The focus of this project w... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Exploring Barriers to Primary Care Hospice Referral: A Needs Assessment | Spangrude, Tegan E. | 2023 | Background: The Veterans Health Administration has made significant improvements in end-of-life care, including an increase in hospice utilization. Timely referrals to hospice care are crucial for improving the quality of life for terminally ill Veterans. The primary care setting is an ideal place t... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care / FNP |
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Decreasing Older Adult Mortality in Disasters | Neville, McKenna | 2020 | Purposes/Aims: This project created a standard operating guideline to decrease older adult mortality in disasters for use by the Utah Health Emergency Response Team (UHERT). Rationale/Background: The UHERT is a mobile medical response team comprised of 75 healthcare workers across Utah. The team can... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Primary Care FNP |
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Development of Standardized Extubation Guidelines in a Medical Intensive Care Unit | Bradford, Ben | 2017 | Oral endotracheal tube (OETT) intubation is a medical intervention for critically ill medical patients who have lost the ability to maintain their airway, suffer respiratory failure, or have deteriorated clinically to the point at which loss of the ability to protect their airway is imminent. For th... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improving Education: Promoting Practice-Based Prescribing Competencies for New Nurse Practitioners | Lugo, Rogelio | 2017 | The release of the Institute of Medicine's publication, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System revealed the amount of medical errors and threats to patient safety that occur within the U.S. healthcare system. Since its publication, many initiatives have been created in order to reduce medic... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Defining Current Practice of Iron Deficiency Screening Among High-Risk Neonates | Willes, Dallin | 2018 | Infants that are born small for gestational age (SGA), very low birthweight (VLBW), or as an infant of a diabetic mother (IDM) are at an increased risk of having iron deficiency anemia early in their life. Iron deficiency anemia puts an infant at risk for several serious conditions that can be detri... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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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 |
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Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Timely Admission from the Emergency Department to Medical/Surgical Floor | Dewey, Karen | 2020 | Background: Visits to Emergency Departments (ED) are increasing, which in turn increases the number of admissions from the ED to the inpatient medical/surgical floor. These increases have led to crowding in the ED, resulting in boarding of patients awaiting admission. Boarding in the ED has been lin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP, Acute Care |