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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| 476 |  | Promoting Upstream Integration of Palliative Care in Elderly Heart Failure Patients | Brown, Harmony Lauritzen | 2018 | Heart failure (HF) is a devastating disease that inordinately affects the elderly. Although palliative care (PC) can be an invaluable tool in promoting symptom management and quality of life (QOL) for elderly end-stage heart failure (ESHF) patients, it is a resource that is often underutilized by HF... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 477 |  | Proposal for Implementation of a Hospital Elder Life Program for the Prevention of Delirium at a Veteran's Administrative Hospital in the Intermountain West | Coates, Catherine | 2016 | 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... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 478 |  | Prostate Cancer Screening: Using Informed Decision Making in Primary Care Settings | Staley, Jason | 2017 | Since 2012, multiple new guidelines have been issued advising changes in screening for prostate cancer (PC). New guidelines suggest limiting the frequency of prostate cancer screening, although prostate cancer is now the most prevalent form of cancer in males 30 years and older in the United States ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 479 |  | Protocol Development for an Emergency Department at an Urban Utah Hospital | Hansen, Erik S. | 2019 | Pediatric head trauma protocols have been shown to decrease unnecessary imaging for patients being evaluated for a head trauma in the emergency department. The purpose of this project was to assess the current imaging and treatment practices of the providers at an urban medical center and to develop... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 480 |  | Provider and Patient Education on the Signs, Symptoms, and Diagnostic Criteria of Inflammatory Breast Cancer | Solomon, Daphne | 2013 | Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive and deadly form of breast cancer. IBC was once a universally fatal disease, but today the 5-year survival is 30-40% (Bond, Connoly, & Asci, 2010). IBC is 1% - 6% of all breast cancer diagnoses. Rarity breeds unfamiliarity in both providers and ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 481 |  | Provider Education on Hypersexual Disorder | Frost, Jessalyn | 2016 | 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... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 482 |  | Provider Education Regarding the Use of Telemental Health Care | Garey, Brittany | 2016 | 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... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 483 |  | Provider Perceptions of Palliative Care in an Emergency Department | Tateoka, Elizabeth Buffy | 2016 | Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is defined by Healthy People 2020, and addresses aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and social health, and how health status affects and impacts emotions and overall satisfaction with life (USDHHS, 2015). Emergency departments see high volumes of older adu... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 484 |  | Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners in Behavioral Health Access Centers: A Collaborative Staffing Model | Diamond, Alex | 2019 | Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide (Miller et al., 2017). In general, hospital emergency departments (ED) are seeing increases in visits for behavioral health reasons (Cooke, 2017). To free up ED resources for more timely treatment of critical care patients, hospitals have begun opening b... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 485 |  | PTSD in Utah's Rural ICU Nurses: A Needs Assessment | Ferrin, Bruce | 2018 | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), when experienced by rural intensive care unit (ICU) nurses, can negatively impact safe, effective, patient care (Badger, 2001; Mealer, Burnham, Goode, Rothbaum, & Moss, 2009). Hospitals share responsibility for supporting these nurses through work-related traum... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 486 |  | PTSD Veterans Simulation Training | Angell, Charleen | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 487 |  | Quality Improvement in Maternity Care: PPH Safety Bundles | Kimberly, Megan | 2016 | This project was designed to create the curriculum for disseminating the new post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) safety bundle to hospitals across the State of Utah. A bundle is a set of actions that when performed collectively have demonstrated to improve patient outcomes. The Council on Patient Safety in... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 488 |  | Quality Improvement in the Ordering Practices of TPN in the Neonate | Durrant, Adrianna | 2013 | Preconception health care focuses on the health of the female from menses through menopause. When a woman is attentive to addressing possible chronic health concerns, knowledgeable about her medications, and up-to-date on her immunizations; understands her genetic risk factors; and refrains from alc... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 489 |  | Quality Improvement Project for Early Sepsis Iintervention and Education with Pre-Hospital EMS Teams | Woodruff, Whitney S. | 2019 | In the United States, sepsis is currently the third leading cause of death, and the number one leading cause of death of hospitalized patients (CDC, 2018; HCUP, 2016). Each year the United States pays over 27.4 billion dollars in the management and treatment of hospitalized patients with sepsis (HCU... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 490 |  | Radiology Service For The Uninsured At Dirne Health Clinic, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho | Brown, Peter C. | 2013 | This project involved researching and analyzing the options for establishing a radiology service at Dirne Health Clinic (DHC) in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The clinic currently does not have the equipment to perform it own x-rays and relies on a financial agreement with the local hospital to provide radi... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 491 |  | Raising Concussion Awareness and Integrating ImPACT Testing at Uintah High School | Birch, Becky | 2014 | The incidence of concussions has doubled in the past decade. Emerging research on concussion recovery time is now finding that after physical symptoms have resolved, cognitive recovery time may be significantly longer than many athletic trainers and physicians assumed. Research suggests that neurolo... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 492 |  | Raising High School Students' Awareness of Nurse Practitioners and Interest in Becoming Nurse Practitioners as a Means to Addressing the Primary Care Shortage | Coy, Jen | 2013 | The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts the primary care physician shortage will be 21,000 by 2015 (HealthReform.gov, 2012). Sixty million people, almost one out of every five Americans, do not have adequate access to care due to the lack of primary care providers (Kaiseredu.org, 2011)... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 493 |  | RE-AIM Framework for Evaluating Perioperative Nozin®: A Topical Nasal Antiseptic | Kinikini, Susanna | 2019 | This project sought to evaluate the process of implementation and the usefulness of Nozin® in reducing surgical site infections using the RE-AIM framework. Evaluation of an intervention often takes place during implementation to give insight into research as a foundation to clinical practice. Backg... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 494 |  | Readiness Assessment for Extubation Planning for Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative | Johnny, Jace D. | 2019 | Problem/Background: Extubation failure (EF) is the need for reintubation within 48 hours after a planned extubation in patients meeting weaning criteria from mechanical ventilation (MV). The incidence rate varies in the literature but has a statistically significant correlation with mortality, prolo... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 495 |  | Recognize and Treat Intracranial Hypertension to Improve the Quality of Patient Outcomes Who are Treated in the Neuro Critical Care Unit | Bentley, Kristy | 2018 | Background Treating intracranial hypertension (IH) and brain herniation quickly and effectively is imperative in reducing morbidity and mortality. Local Problem The Neuro Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) is considered the leader within Intermountain Health Care (IHC) i... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 496 |  | Reducing Blood Pressure through a Home Blood Pressure Monitor Program | Irving, Stewart | 2015 | High blood pressure, also known as the "silent killer", affects millions of people, or one in three adults in the United States and is costing the nation over $45 billion each year. Untreated high blood pressure leads to cardiovascular disease and strokes, the two leading causes of death for America... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 497 |  | Reducing Contrast Induced Nephropathy: Developing a Treatment Algorithm | Maxwell, Wendy | 2014 | Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is the result of acute renal impairment after the administration of IV radiocontrast medium. Because of the increasing age of our population as well as the increased incidence of chronic kidney disease, we can only expect to also see an increase number of patients ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 498 |  | Reducing High Utilization in Healthcare | Gonzales, Rebecca | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 499 |  | Reducing High Utilization Patient Care through Improved Provider Communication | Gonzales, Rebecca R. | 2018 | Nearly one-fifth of Medicare patients who have been discharged from a hospital in the United States are readmitted within thirty days. Almost half of these hospital readmissions are deemed to be preventable (Verhaegh, K. et. al., 2014). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the Hospital Readmiss... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 500 |  | Reducing Nurse Burnout Through Volunteerism | Shelley, Stacey | 2019 | Problem: Burnout in nursing occurs at an alarming rate and can pose negative outcomes on patient safety. Burnout can also lead to nurses taking time off from work or leave the workforce altogether. Nurses do not always have access to resources to decrease burnout symptoms which only compounds the pr... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |