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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| 126 |  | Developing a Marijuana Counseling Module to Improve Mental and Physical Health Outcomes | Speed, Michael | 2019 | Problem/Background: Many years of recent United States military conflict have produced a large number of experienced combat veterans who face the challenge of reintegrating back into a civilian lifestyle. Mental health conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are common among these v... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 127 |  | Developing a Mentoring Program for Homeless Youth in Salt Lake City | Wanserski, Melissa M. | 2014 | Homeless youth face complex challenges that can have significant harmful effects on their well-being. Although much remains to be known about the homeless youth experience, current research identifies that homeless youth often lack trusting relationships with adults and further support systems (Bart... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 128 |  | Developing a Successful Implementation Plan for a Diabetes Self-Management Support Program | Hardwick, Dawn I. | 2015 | This Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project addressed provider and healthcare team support for a diabetes self-management support (DSMS) program in a community health clinic system. The clinic is currently participating in a National Institute of Health (NIH) study and anticipates clinic-wide ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 129 |  | Developing Anticipatory Guidance to Facilitate Optimal Care Transition Outcomes for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes | McDowell, Megan | 2018 | Background: Emerging adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at increased risk for poor health outcomes as they transition from pediatric to adult care providers. This is in part due to the complexities of young adult life as individuals with T1D enter the work force, leave home, or start college whil... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 130 |  | Developing Clinical Guidelines for Follow-Up Care for Sexual Assault Patients in a Primary Care Setting | Calvin, Justin Page | 2016 | Sexual assault (SA) is a persistent problem in the United States and in the Salt Lake City, Utah area; impacting one in five women during their lifetime. National and international organizations recommend that patients who have been sexually assaulted follow-up with their primary care providers; how... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 131 |  | Developing Code Blue Simulation for the Labor and Delivery Nurse | White, Georgette L. | 2019 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 132 |  | Developing Medication Administration Training for Non-Medical Staff In the Juvenile Justice System | Dame, Gabriella Kanizsai | 2017 | The Juvenile Justice System (JJS) provides programs for youth offenders. The non-medical staff members play a key role on the healthcare team by providing care for the detained youth during their stay. One of the roles of the staff is to administer over-the-counter and prescription medications daily... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 133 |  | Developing the Care Model for Comprehensive Outpatient Pediatric Palliative Care | Berg, Angela | 2015 | Children continue to lose their lives to life threatening and life limiting illnesses. Less than ten percent of them receive palliative or hospice support. This project addresses design and development of an outpatient model to provide comprehensive pediatric palliative care. Outpatient access to th... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 134 |  | Development and Dissemination of a Telemental Health Startup Toolkit | Greene, Liz | 2018 | Telemental health (TMH) is largely underutilized by psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNP) despite substantial literature supporting its use. This project sought to improve current and future PMHNP understanding of, and accessibility to, the components needed to provide TMH services i... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 135 |  | Development and Evaluation of a Comfort Care Guideline & Education Program with an Emphasis on Continuous Opioid Infusions | Cotner, Melissa | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 136 |  | The Development and Implementation of a Practitioner in Triage Process for the Emergency Department at Intermountain Medical Center | Gardner, Kristen | 2014 | The number of people visiting the emergency department (ED) has trended upwards over the last 20 years. Over utilization of the ED results in congestion and over crowding. The inappropriate use of the ED by lower acuity patients has created a financial burden and pulled resources from critical patie... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 137 |  | Development and Implementation of a Standardized Pharmacological Approach for Neonatal Seizure Medication in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit | Royce, Jennica | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 138 |  | Development and Implementation of A Standardized Pharmacological Approach for Neonatal Seizure Medication in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit | Royce, Jennica | 2017 | Critically ill neonates face the potential for numerous complications. One problem that many neonates suffer from are electrographic and/or clinical seizures. Neonatal seizures disrupt homeostasis in the fragile, immature neurological neonatal system. Potential long-term complications of neonatal se... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 139 |  | The Development and Implementation of Online Health Education Modules to Address the Learning Needs of Staff at a Children's Crisis Shelter | Bailey, Georgia | 2016 | 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... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 140 |  | The Development of a Diabetes Toolkit for Latino Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus | Lewis, Erika | 2019 | This paper discusses a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) project conducted at two Latino community clinics-Consultorio Medico Hispano (CMH)-in metro Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of this project was to address the problem of culturally relevant resources for the Spanish-speaking adult population w... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 141 |  | Development of a Education Guide: "Sepsis: A Guide for Patients and Families" | LaPolla, Ann E. | 2013 | According to the Global Sepsis Alliance (2012) sepsis is a medical emergency and one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Sepsis and its associated syndromes are common and associated with substantial morbidity and mortality in the general population (Rivers et al., 2001). In 2006, Martin, Mann... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 142 |  | The Development of a Fotonovela for HPV Vaccine Education | Yale, Jocelyn | 2016 | The goal of this project was to develop, with community input, a fotonovela that can be used to educate Latino parents about the HPV vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer. Despite the preventability of cervical cancer, 12,109 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 4,092 women died fro... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 143 |  | Development of a Pilot Comfort Care Guideline and Education Program with an Emphasis on Continuous Opioid Infusions | Cotner, Melissa | 2018 | Background: The hospital model of acute care is antithetical to the major underpinnings of hospice care, however many patients will die in hospitals. Clinicians are often not focused on patient comfort care and feel uneasy managing opioid infusions commonly used in EOL. The use of comfort care order... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 144 |  | Development of a Provider Treatment Toolkit for Postpartum Depression | Johnson, Erika | 2015 | The purpose of this project was to focus provider efforts on the diagnosis, treatment and referral for postpartum depression (PPD) in the clinical setting through the use of a PPD treatment toolkit. The objectives of this project were to develop a PPD treatment toolkit that provided assessment tools... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 145 |  | Development of a Vena Cava Filter Retrieval Reminder: Optimizing the Removal of Inferior Vena Cava Filters | Carroll, Brett L. | 2016 | Retrievable vena cava filters (VCF) are commonly used to treat patients at risk for venous thromboembolic (e.g., deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism) events where anticoagulation, the primary treatment, is contraindicated. All VCF devices are approved be a left in situ as permanent devices, how... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 146 |  | Development of a Workflow Algorithm for an Early Mobilization Protocol in a Neurologic Critical Care Unit | Crane, Ashle M. | 2016 | The benefits of early mobilization in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting have been well established. Mobilizing patients early is associated with decreased hospital length of stays, number of days on ventilators, use of sedation, and number of hospital-acquired infections. Early mobilization has a... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 147 |  | Development of an Opioid Guideline for Emergency Department Providers | Ericksen, Nicole | 2017 | The United States (U.S) is currently facing an opioid epidemic. Along with high addiction and death rates, Emergency Departments (ED) across the nation have been adversely affected by this epidemic. Individuals who use opioid medications, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and oxycontin are four times m... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 148 |  | Development of Education Intervention to Improve Awareness and Knowledge of Heart Disease in Hispanic Women at a Non-Profit Organization in Salt Lake City | Guitarrari, Carolina | 2015 | Heart disease continues to be the primary cause of death for women in the United States (CDC, 2015). In 2009, heart disease killed 292,188 women, and despite the effort of education campaigns, only 54% of women identify that heart disease is their number one killer (CDC, 2014). Hispanic women have b... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 149 |  | The Development of Neurocritical eLearning Modules for NICU Nurses and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners | Hearne, Jennifer Ann | 2019 | Problem: Infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are at increased risk for varying degrees of neurological injury that can ultimately result in morbidities. NICU registered nurses (RNs) and neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) are key stakeholders in providing neonates with appropriate neu... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 150 |  | The Development of Practice Guidelines for Advanced Practice Clinicians in the Emergency Departments Staffed by the Utah Emergency Physicians | Newman, Jennifer | 2013 | The emergency departments (EDs) staffed by the Utah Emergency Physicians (UEP) are faced with unique challenges. Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) and McKay-Dee Hospital are often faced with long door to provider times and an increased length of stay (LOS) for patients due to the high volume of pat... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |