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Implementation of a Diabetes Flow Sheet in a Volunteer Community Clinic | Webb, Dorian Trane | 2013 | Diabetes currently affects 25.8 million people in the United States and is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). Moreover, it is a major cause of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, impaired sensation of pain in hands and feet,... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of a Diabetes Self-Management Education and Collaborative Goal Setting Intervention in the Primary Care Setting for Patients with Poorly Controlled Diabetes | Thurston, Ryan | 2019 | The purpose of this project was to evaluate the implementation of a diabetes self-management education (DMSE) and collaborative goal setting (CGS) intervention in the primary care setting for patients with poorly controlled diabetes. Patients with a hemoglobin A1c (A1C) > 7% met with a registered di... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of a Preconception Education Campaign in Primary Care | Moffitt, Austen | 2019 | Problem: In the United States, 50% of pregnancies are unplanned and maternal death rates are increasing. Preconception education informs women before pregnancy about healthy lifestyle behaviors to promote healthy pregnancies and avoid complications. Delivery of preconception health education to pati... | 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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Implementation of Depression Screening Program in a Primary Care Setting | Western, Lisa | 2016 | The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for depression in primary care settings. Limited access to mental health providers results in the need for primary care providers (PCP) to feel comfortable and confident screening and treating depression. Currently, usage of validated tool... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines within an Army Combat Support Hospital | Whaley, Kira S. | 2019 | Background: In 2017, the 328th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) failed to identify and utilize Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) during a pre-deployment training exercise. In 2018, this failure led to the 328th CSH Battalion Commander to direct all hospital departments to create, update, or revise al... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of the Ask Me 3 Program in a Pediatric Clinic | Harvey, Anne G. | 2014 | Failures in health literacy and communication result when patients do not understand their health problems, what they can do to manage their disease and why it is important for them to do so. In addition, navigation of the healthcare system can be complicated, confusing and intimidating; particularl... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementation of the Teach-Back Method into the Care of Patients with Diabetes in Rural Utah | Borrelli, Tillie | 2016 | Diabetes mellitus type 2 is a growing health concern throughout the United States. Over the last few decades extensive efforts have been made to improve diabetes care and the health outcomes of individuals with diabetes. However, standards of care and treatment goals, as defined by the American Diab... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Graduate Group to Improve Knowledge of DBT Skills | Leggett, Sarah C. | 2019 | Problem. Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) struggle to strengthen and generalize coping skills after completing a 7-month dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills group. A formal process addressing how to increase knowledge of DBT skills after completing this group is lacking. Met... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing a Fast Track | Burton, Kassie | 2016 | Over the past 10 years there has been an increase in the number of emergency room visits. From 1993 to 2013 the number of Emergency Departments in the United States has dropped by more than 500 (AHA, 2013). These changes have caused an increasing overcrowding problem; many researchers have categoriz... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing a Hand Hygiene Program in a Rural Elementary School | Greenhalgh, Trent | 2019 | In the United States of America 66% of children in the public-school system, will miss school due to illness or injury (Nandrup-Bus, 2009). The purpose of this project was to implement a hand hygiene program to help reduce the number of absences in a rural elementary school by improving knowledge an... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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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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Implementing a Revised Controlled Medication Protocol | Hoffman, Sarah A. | 2015 | Prescription drug abuse (PDA) in Utah continues to be at an epidemic level, which has many widespread ramifications, including a huge financial burden placed on the United States economy, and the healthcare system as a whole (Trust for America's Health, 2013). Healthcare providers play an important ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing After Visit Summaries for Low Socioeconomic Patients at a Free Clinic | Rolfe, Brandilyn | 2019 | Background: Patient recall and understanding of healthcare information received from a provider at an appointment is less than satisfactory. Factors that increase these barriers include, poor health literacy, low socioeconomic status, language barriers, complicated medical jargon and the sheer volum... | 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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Implementing Heart Failure Self-Management Teaching in a Primary Care Setting | Anderson, Gretchen | 2016 | The American Heart Association recommends that heart failure self-management education be provided at every healthcare visit. Despite this recommendation, self-management education is rarely done at primary care visits. Heart failure has become a common cause for hospitalizations in Medicare patient... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing Multimedia Discharge Instructions for Cardiac Patients 65 Years and Older to Improve Outcomes | Ellsworth, Pat | 2017 | Discharge instructions are an integral part of the care continuum and support a successful transition from care facility to home. Patient safety becomes a major concern when discharge instruction is confusing or misunderstood. Modern discharge instructions are often difficult to understand, resultin... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Implementing Screening for Venous Thromboembolism in an Urgent Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Pilot Project | Turgoose, William | 2018 | Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes both deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, may have serious health consequences for patients. However, over-referral of patients with these suspected symptoms may also result in burden to emergency departments and health care systems. E... | 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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Implementing Treatment Guidelines for Diabetic Ketoacidosis in the Emergency Department | Hanks, Heidi | 2013 | Diabetic ketoacidosis is a common diabetic emergency, and treatment is usually began in the emergency department. At Intermountain Medical Center Emergency Department, there are a variety of ways that diabetic ketoacidosis treatment is approached, with no treatment guidelines currently available. Di... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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The Importance of Patient Selection at Out-Patient Ambulatory Centers | Sanders, Greg | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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The Importance of Patient Selection at Out-Patient Ambulatory Centers | Sanders, Greg | 2017 | In the United States, there has been a shift in outpatient procedures being performed in the hospital setting to being done in outpatient surgery centers. As a result, it is very important to determine which patients are appropriate for procedures done in the outpatient facility and which patients n... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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The Importance of Proper Glucose Levels Prior to Conception: A Community Awareness Project | Pinkerman, Marcia | 2015 | Uncontrolled blood glucose levels prior and during pregnancy is associated with devastating adverse pregnancy outcomes for the mother and infant (Collier, Mulhonlland, Williams, Mersereau, Turay, and Prue, 2011). The percentage of live births affected by diabetes each year is alarming at about 5% of... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improved Knowledge of Pulmonary Hypertension Diagnosis Via Echocardiogram and Clinician Interpretation | Hooper, Sara | 2019 | Problem/Background: Pulmonary hypertension is a frequent diagnosis in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), which can be clinically challenging to diagnose. An echocardiogram is a non-invasive heart ultrasound which is the screening test of choice for pulmonary hypertension. However, the elements... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
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Improved Screening of Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Room on Maui | Bentley, Joshua R. | 2019 | Psychiatric patients who present as suicidal in the main rural emergency room on Maui are not being evaluated with a standard and reliable screening tool. This creates unreliable admission criteria and inconsistent outcomes for patients. Several patients who would have benefitted from admission were... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |