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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Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Treating Chronic Pain in Women Veterans at a Veterans Administration Medical Center | Houskeeper, Karla | 2014 | Primary care providers are often uneducated on how to effectively treat and manage chronic pain, yet they prescribe 20 percent of all narcotics given for pain (Manubay, Muchow & Sullivan, 2011). Managing chronic pain with an interdisciplinary approach is a more successful treatment, especially as na... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 202 |
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Evaluation of an Intervention to Reduce Hospital Readmission Within 30 Days of Discharge | Merkley, Jennifer | 2016 | A hospitalist group of a local tertiary care academic hospital developed and implemented an intervention aimed at decreasing readmission rates. This intervention included a follow up appointment made before discharge and a follow up phone call by a nurse coordinator 2-3 days after discharge to evalu... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 203 |
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Evaluation of the Experience of the Hotspotting Program on Complex Care Individuals in Salt Lake County | Cochrane, Ryan K. | 2019 | Healthcare costs are exceedingly high and continue to rise in the United States. Individuals with complex care needs are the most vulnerable to utilizing healthcare services that are inefficient and ineffective. The Camden Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Model was applied to identified complex... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 204 |
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Evaluation of the Use of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners in Level I and II Neonatal Intensive Care Units | Dansie, Chad | 2015 | Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NNPs) play a significant role in providing medical care for neonates in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across the United States. NNPs are employed in all levels of neonatal care due to their competence, skills, experience, and lower cost to hospitals and patients... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 205 |
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Evaluation of Transition to Practice Training for Advanced Practice Clinicians | Tye, Jason | 2017 | The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a current transition to practice program, assess the transitional needs of local Advanced Practice Clinicians (APC) entering the workforce within a large healthcare facility, and develop proposed enhancements to the current program. Fo... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 206 |
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Evaluation Study of a Web-Based Virtual Preceptorship for Moderate Sedation Training | Mudalige, Aruni | 2015 | Safe Sedation Training® (SST®), is an interactive, web-based module related to moderate sedation. SST® can be utilized to standardize moderate sedation training in a given healthcare organization. However, SST has not been formally evaluated or tested in a broad spectrum of healthcare workers or ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 207 |
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Evidence-Based Asthma Guideline Implementation in a Pediatric Primary Care Practice | Yoosook, Vanessa | 2015 | Despite the availability of national guidelines on asthma management, asthma and its' complications continue to negatively impact many children and their families. Inadequate asthma management decreases quality of life, increases pediatric morbidity and drives up the cost of health care. Pediatric a... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 208 |
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Evidence-based Breastfeeding Support: A Toolkit for Providers | Morphis, Christina | 2017 | This quality improvement scholarly project used evidence to assist providers to deliver information to patients about the benefits of breastfeeding, assess risks for early breastfeeding attrition (EBA), and offer interventions to help achieve continued breastfeeding. Mothers and their healthcare pro... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 209 |
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Evidence-Based Practice Core Curriculum and Life Care Planning Methodology | Metekingi, Judy | 2015 | A life care plan (LCP) outlines life-long needs with associated costs for individuals (clients) with catastrophic illnesses and injuries. Nursing science has created a significant body of knowledge to guide the discipline of nursing practice and has expanded the scientific underpinnings of the disci... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 210 |
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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) | Dhakhwa, Niva | 2016 | 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... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 211 |
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Exploring an Integrated Maternity Care System Across Birth Settings in the Salt Lake Valley | Whiting, Christina | 2014 | Birth certificate data from 2010 reported that 1.18% of U.S. births occurred out of hospital (OOH) (MacDorman, Declerq, & Mathews, 2013, p. 2). Evidence for safety in births that take place OOH is debated for various reasons. Research methods are observational and not controlled or randomized which ... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 212 |
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Exploring Beliefs about Contraception in Bhutanese Women | Poudel, Bindu | 2013 | Bhutanese immigrants are the first poor Hindus to arrive in the United States as refugees in large numbers. They lived in seven refugee camps in Nepal for about twenty years. They also identify themselves as Nepalese or Nepali Bhutanese. More than 49,000 Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in the... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 213 |
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Extended Dwell Catheters in the NICU | Chenoweth, Kimberlee | 2017 | Most infants in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) require insertion of a device to acquire vascular access during hospitalization and this is the most common procedure in the NICU. New devices are met with uncertainty due to lack of evidence for their use. Extended dwell catheters (EDC) are new... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 214 |
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Facilitating Healthcare Providers to Use Project Echo for Rural Healthcare | Willardson, Deven | 2018 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 215 |
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Facilitating Transfer from Community-Based Birth to Hospital | Johnston, Heather | 2017 | POSTER | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 216 |
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Facilitating Transfers from Community-Based Birth to Hospital | Johnston, Heather | 2017 | This project addressed a specific community need for educational resources to guide the implementation of a transfer toolkit from a planned home or birth center birth to a hospital. Utah has one of the highest rates of planned home and birth center births in the nation and it is rising. Currently th... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 217 |
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Factors Influencing Breast Cancer Rates in Utah County | Pexton, Laura | 2015 | The Federal government initiative Healthy People 2020 has set some cancer-related objectives to reduce late stage diagnosis and death rates for breast cancer. Data predicted that it would take 13 years or more for Utah County to reach these goals. To identify possible explanations for these rates, 1... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 218 |
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Factors Influencing Utah Nurse Practitioners' Decisions to Join Nurse Practitioner Associations | Rowley, Thomas | 2018 | While the benefits of professional associations to its members' personal development and ultimately patients are well-established, professional association membership is declining among health professions, including nurse practitioners. Research is available on factors that influence registered nurs... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 219 |
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Feasibility Study for Wearable Appointment Reminders: Decreasing the Rate of Missed Appointments in Primary Care Clinics for Homeless Patients | Jackson, Andrea | 2017 | Missed appointments in primary care clinics have a negative impact on patient health, provider productivity, and clinic revenue. Typical ways of reducing missed appointments via email, texts, and phone calls are more difficult when serving homeless patients due to lack of access to telephones and mo... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 220 |
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Feasibility Study on Establishing a Nursing Policy Think Tank at the University of Utah College of Nursing: A Policy Paper | Kapsa, Christine | 2013 | This paper tells the cautionary tale of what happened when an overly ambitious doctoral project collided with structural and political realities in a college of nursing. The project as proposed would have undertaken a pilot feasibility study to explore the possibility of establishing a dedicated nur... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 221 |
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Fecal Incontinence Among Community-Dwelling Adults in the Primary Care Setting | Kitzmiller, Ellen | 2013 | The following scholarly project arose in response to recognition of a gap between currently available research on prevalence, screening, and treatment for fecal incontinence in the primary care setting, and current primary care practice. The purpose of this project is to improve health literacy on t... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 222 |
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Flight Paramedics Can Safely Administer Blood Products to Trauma Patients: Decreasing the Time to Blood Administration Improves Patient Outcomes | Foley, Jenifer | 2019 | Background and Objectives Early administration of blood products to trauma patients in the prehospital setting is associated with improved outcomes. Paramedics are vital components of many flight teams but do not receive education on blood administration in their education track. The literature indi... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 223 |
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Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group Development Utilized to Decrease Rates of Suicidal Ideation During Hospitalization | Staheli, Kendra | 2019 | Background: Suicide is a concerning problem. Suicidality is linked to avoidance of mental health problems such as rising depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation (SI). Psychotherapy and healthy coping skills can be used to lessen avoidance of mental health problems. There are limited therapeutic m... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 224 |
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Follow-Up Within a Large Midwifery Practice | German, Lindsey | 2013 | The purpose of this project was to evaluate a large faculty practice, BirthCare HealthCare (BCHC), to determine current processes of postpartum screening of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), involving the following steps: determine, through chart review, rates of postpartum screening f... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |
| 225 |
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Management in the Antepartum Setting | Blair, Teresa | 2013 | The aim of the project is to develop a plan for consistent, evidence-based clinical management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) using a multidisciplinary team approach in order to improve patient outcomes in the Birth Care Health Care setting. The goal is to assemble an algorithm of comprehens... | Graduate Nursing Project, Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP |