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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Addressing Excess Weight in a Busy Women's Clinic | The number of adults with obesity has been rising at an alarming rate, and clinicians are challenged to increase efforts to address this condition. Over 1.6 billion adults in the world are overweight. This causes secondary conditions that ultimately lead to severe morbidity and increased mortality. ... | Hill, Liezle | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Weight Gain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Obesity, Maternal; Cost of Illness; Pregnancy Complications; Comorbidity; Women's Health; Health Promotion; Counseling; Motivational Interviewing; Patient Education as Topic; Weight Reduction Programs; Risk R... |
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Improving Health Provider Knowledge of Autoerotic and Erotic Asphyxiation | The goal of this project is to increase DNP students' knowledge about autoerotic (AEA) and erotic asphyxiation practices (EA) among patients in the clinical setting. An educational session was created to improve student knowledge of these practices. An assessment before and after the educational ses... | Heller, Katherine | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Sexual Behavior; Asphyxia; Hypoxia, Brain; Dangerous Behavior; Unsafe Sex; Sexual Arousal; Dominance-Subordination; Erotica; Sadism; Masochism; Orgasm; Risk-Taking; Health Risk Behaviors; Health Personnel; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice... |
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Enhancing Care to Transgender, Transsexual, and Gender Non-Conforming Adults Through Provider Education | Transgender individuals represent about 1% of the US population. This is an approximation and the number is likely higher. Despite the growing attention and acceptance of transgendered persons, they still represent a generally underserved population. Trans identifying persons frequently report facin... | Barnes, Angela | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Gender Dysphoria; Transgender Persons; Minority Groups; Vulnerable Populations; Health Services for Transgender Persons; Primary Health Care; Sexism; Student Health Services; Hormone Replacement Therapy; Health Education; Health Services Acces... |
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Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes: Improving Education About High-Risk Behaviors | Studies have demonstrated that teens are more likely to participate in high-risk behaviors than other age groups. These behaviors include the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs, as well as engaging in unprotected sex and disordered eating. Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who participa... | Bingham, Annie | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Adolescent; Risk-Taking; Mass Screening; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Hypoglycemia; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Vulnerable Populations; Risk Reduction Behavior; Adolescent Health; Health Education; Diabe... |
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Promoting Quality Acute Psychiatric Care Through Improved Suicide Safety Planning | Suicide is preventable, yet is a leading cause of death in the United States. Approximately 1.5 million people receive inpatient psychiatric care each year, and two-thirds of readmissions relate to risk of suicide. Current literature identifies safety-planning interventions (SPIs) as an effective in... | Leeper, Jamis | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Crisis Intervention; Suicide; Mentally Ill Persons; Patient Education as Topic; Patient Safety; Evidence-Based Practice; Health Literacy; Self Management; Teach-Back Communication; Psychiatric Rehabilitation; Patient Readmission; Patient Care ... |
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Proposal for Implementation of a Hospital Elder Life Program for the Prevention of Delirium at a Veteran's Administrative Hospital in the Intermountain West | This scholarly project was the development and presentation of a business plan proposing the implementation of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), for the prevention of delirium, in hospitalized veterans aged 65 years and older. The business plan presented data specific to the Veterans Administr... | Coates, Catherine | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Hospitals, Veterans; Veterans; Aged; Healthy Aging; Mental Disorders; Emergence Delirium; Crisis Intervention; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Comorbidity; Incidence; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction Behavior; Primary Prevention; Iatrogenic Dise... |
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Wearable Appointment Reminders for Homeless Patients: Assessment of Patient Preferences to Inform Device Design | This project is part of a long-term, grant funded project to design and create a low-cost, wearable appointment reminder device for homeless patients of an outpatient clinic. The intended role of this DNP Project was to test the first generation of such a device, but due to unforeseen circumstances,... | Vincent, Samuel | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Outpatients; Homeless Persons; Patient Preference; Appointments and Schedules; Medically Underserved Area; Vulnerable Populations; Lost to Follow-Up; Reminder Systems; Wearable Electronic Devices; Monitoring, Physiologic; Socioeconomic Factors... |
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Provider Education Regarding the Use of Telemental Health Care | Utah has identified mental health care as one of three Health Professional Shortage Areas. Studies have shown telemental health systems to be effective in delivering mental health care and in reducing this professional shortage gap; however, barriers remain that prevent mental health care profession... | Garey, Brittany | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Telemedicine; Remote Consultation; Mental Health Services; Vulnerable Populations; Health Manpower; Psychiatric Nursing; Professional Practice Gaps; Attitude of Health Personnel; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Clinical Competence; Cu... |
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Lifestyle Medicine Educational Modules for Primary Care Providers: Improving Care Through Education of Evidence-Based Lifestyle Interventions | The aim of this DNP project was to develop an introductory education module about lifestyle medicine for healthcare providers and students. Lifestyle practices and behaviors are one of the U.S.'s greatest determinants of health, yet healthcare providers frequently lack education in effectively provi... | Gibson, Natalie | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Life Style; Evidence-Based Practice; Risk Reduction Behavior; Health Promotion; Preventive Health Services; Motivational Interviewing |
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A National HIV Prevention Strategy: Increasing Awareness of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Primary Care Providers | Worldwide HIV rates have slowly been decreasing, except among men who have sex with men, where unfortunately rates have increased. Historically, HIV prevention strategies focused on public education surrounding safe sex practices. However, a new strategy has expanded HIV prevention to include an ora... | Heaney, Bobbi | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; HIV Infections; Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis; Primary Prevention; Anti-Retroviral Agents; Practice Guidelines as Topic |
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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 | 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... | Bailey, Georgia | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Health Education; Emergency Shelter; Child Health Services; Child Protective Services; Child Welfare; Programmed Instruction as Topic; Internet-Based Intervention; Online Systems; Vulnerable Populations; Quality of Life; Health Status; Health... |
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Using a Modified Early Warning System (mEWS) to Improve Time to Antibiotic Administration in Cancer Patients with a Sepsis Diagnosis | Sepsis is the leading cause of death in the hospital setting. According to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, early identification of sepsis and intervention with early goal-directed therapy protocols that include administration of antibiotics improve patient outcomes. Often, there are delays in the rec... | Peters, Charli | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Sepsis; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Neoplasms; Clinical Protocols; Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted; Patient Care Bundles; Cost of Illness; Early Warning Score; Electronic Health Records; Quality of Health Care; Treatment Outcome; Quality Improveme... |
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Early Mobilization in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A QI Project at a Large Teaching Institution | 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 ... | Barton, Tim | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Respiration, Artificial; Intensive Care Units; Evidence-Based Practice; Patient Care Management; Clinical Protocols; Early Ambulation; Length of Stay; Standard of Care; Patient Safety; Critical Care Outcomes; Muscle Weakness; Emergence Deliriu... |
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Examining Changes in the Mental Health Status of Refugees Over the First Six Months of Resettlement Using the Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15) | Refugees are people forced to leave their native countries and unable to return due to fear of war, violence, or political instability. Every year about 69,987 refugees resettle in the United States and approximately 1,200 refugees arrive in Utah. Refugees face various challenges, such as language a... | Dhakhwa, Niva | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Refugees; Stakeholder Participation; Depression; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Panic; Mental Status Schedule; Time Factors; Emigration and Immigration; Mental Health Services; Diagnostic Screening Programs; Community Health Services; Cult... |
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Provider Education on Hypersexual Disorder | Despite literature demonstrating hypersexual disorder (HD) as a growing problem with significant medical and psychosocial consequences, many providers lack the knowledge and skills needed to identify and treat hypersexual disorder. This project provided mental health care clinicians an online educat... | Frost, Jessalyn | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Education, Distance; Diagnostic Screening Programs; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological; Behavior, Addictive; Compulsive Behavior; Sex Counseling; Psychosocial Intervention; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Harm Reduction... |
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Improving Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Among Adults 50 and Older | Sexual risk taking behavior is not limited to the younger populations. With the various improvements made in heath care, people are living longer and healthier lives, and sexual expression has become an integral portion of an older adult's livelihood. However, due to a variety of factors, sexually t... | Preston, Morgan Broadway | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Adult; Aged; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Unsafe Sex; Health Risk Behaviors; Risk Assessment; Health Literacy; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Promotion; Sexual Behavior; Health Education; Health Behavior; Sex Education; Self-A... |
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Assessing the Nutritional Status of Rural Elderly Veterans in the Uintah Basin | 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... | Rust, Sandra | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Rural Population; Rural Health; Rural Health Services; Nutritional Status; Veterans; Aged; Geriatric Assessment; Health Services for the Aged; Mass Screening; Malnutrition; Healthcare Disparities; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Disparit... |
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Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Military Sexual Trauma | The role adverse childhood experiences (ACE) play on one's physical and mental health has become more understood over the past several years. A strong and graded relationship has been identified between the level of traumatic stress in childhood and poor physical and mental health in adulthood. Mili... | Qian, Xinyi | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Military Personnel; Sexual Trauma; Violence; Crime Victims; Exposure to Violence; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Veterans; Self Concept; Anxiety Disorders; Depression; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Adult Survivors of Child Abuse; Risk Fact... |
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Utilizing Scripted Communication in the Health Care Setting | Developing a positive relationship between healthcare professionals and patients requires effective communication skills. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on Health Professions and Training, identified that health professionals lack adequate skills in communicating with patients. A possible in... | Butikofer, Sam L. | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Patient Participation; Stakeholder Participation; Communication; Consumer Health Information; Patient Care; Patient Care Management; Patient-Centered Care; Patient Satisfaction; Patient Safety; Delivery of Health Care; Standard of Care; Emerge... |
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Determining the Barriers and Beliefs of Salt Lake City Iraqi Refugee Torture Survivors Related to Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease | The 2003 war in Iraq caused the displacement of over 4.2 million people. Since 2007, over 60,000 Iraqi refugees have resettled in the United States. In Utah, Iraqi refugees are the second largest refugee population. Iraqi refugees have a high prevalence of metabolic and cardiovascular disease prior ... | Paulsen, Brooke | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Refugees; Emigration and Immigration; Torture; Survivors; Stress, Physiological; Stress, Psychological; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Health Status; Risk Factors; Cardiovascular Diseases; Metabolic Diseases; Exercise; Food Habits; Health S... |
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Improving Glucose Self-Management Practices Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes | Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has become an enormous health burden affecting all age groups, all ethnicities, and all regions of the world. One in three Americans is at risk for T2DM. The burden of the disease is emotionally, physically, and financially devastating. The risk of complications of T2... | Krill, Kathryn E. | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Adult; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Disease Susceptibility; Blood Glucose; Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; Self-Management; Disease Management; Glycemic Control; Cost of Illness; Cost Control; Primary Health Care; Early Intervention (Education);... |
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The Consultation and Referral Plan: Removing the Barrier to Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority in Utah | Full practice authority for nurse practitioners (NPs) includes the evaluation of patients, diagnosis, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, initiation and management of therapeutic treatments and prescribing medications. Licensure in the state of Utah is overseen by the state board of nursing.... | Fawson, Sara R. | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Nurse Practitioners; Licensure, Nursing; Professional Autonomy; Legislation, Nursing; Referral and Consultation; Scope of Practice; Health Care Costs; Health Services Needs and Demand; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Quality of Health Care; ... |
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Lifestyle Medicine: Promoting a Sustainable Community-Based Nutrition Program in Logan, Utah | It is widely recognized that the ‘Western diet' is associated with an increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, CVD and many types of cancer, and effective strategies to improve such dietary patterns are a public health priority. Coupled with personal health risk, the growing obesity epidemic thr... | Nielsen, Kellie Rogers | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Diet; Nutrition Policy; Program Evaluation; Health Status; Health Promotion; Health Plan Implementation; Guideline Adherence; Utah |
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Paving the Way For EHR Implementation Within the Juvenile Justice System | Evidence has shown that adolescents within the Juvenile Justice System (JJS) experience greater health disparities and have more unique health care needs than their non-delinquent counterparts. These health issues are often undiagnosed and complex, necessitating the need for good continuity of care ... | Bradley, Callie | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Electronic Health Records; Healthcare Disparities; Health Status Disparities; Adolescent; Adolescent Health; Residential Facilities; Vulnerable Populations; Patient Care Management; Continuity of Patient Care; Delivery of Health Care, Integrat... |
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Health in Juvenile Justice Youth: Increasing Non-Medical Staff Health Competency | The Juvenile Justice System (JJS) provides programs for youth offenders. The non-medical staff members are a key part of the healthcare team for supervision and informal education of detained youth. This project addressed the overall health of the incarcerated youth population through a health educa... | Barker, Celeste C. | Advanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Health Education; Risk Reduction Behavior; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Adolescent Health; Competency-Based Education; Education, Distance; Allied Health Personnel; Health Literacy; Self Efficacy; Practice Guidelines as Topic |