Browsing Doctor of Nursing Practice Final Document Projects by Issue Date
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Nurse Retention in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Hlahol, Melanie ( 2021-08 )New graduate retention within intensive care units is startlingly low. The purpose of this DNP project was to evaluate current retention programs from the perspective of current new nurses, probe responses to elicit specific ... -
PRE-SURGICAL HUDDLE AND EFFICIENCIES IN THE PERIOPERATIVE SETTING
Krumm, Alice ( 2021-05 )Delays in surgery have a significant and compounding impact to OR efficiencies resulting in unused operating room time representing missed revenue generating opportunities. Delays can prolong the duration of a surgical ... -
The Implementation of Post-Gastrostomy Tube Nursing Management Using Evidence-based Practice Guidelines: Assessing a Practice Change for Nursing Knowledge Retention, Confidence and Practice Change Feasibility
Clark, Aubrey ( 2021-05 )A lack of universally implemented evidence-based practice (EBP) guidelines were found in the inpatient setting at a moderate-sized Southwest Florida hospital for the daily nursing care management of newly placed percutaneous ... -
Implementation of a 10-year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Registry on an Integrated Assertive Community Treatment Team
Nelson, Nicolas ( 2021-05 )Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) than the general population due to medication side effects, social determinants of health, and SMI symptoms, yet screening for ... -
Mindfulness-Based Intervention Help New to Practice Nurses Cope with Stress: An Evidence-Based Practice Project
Palermo, Jeanette ( 2021-05 )Occupational stress is a safety concern, affecting individual and organizational performance. Nurses at an academic medical center steadily reported increased stress scores over a year-long nurse residency program (NRP). ... -
An Advanced Practice Nursing Protocol for the Standardization of Evidence-Based Heart Failure Education in the Primary Care Setting: A DNP Quality Improvement Project
Yaeger, Kristen ( 2021-05 )Problem: Thousands of Americans are diagnosed with and affected by heart failure, a chronic disease that is characterized by periods of exacerbations and remissions. Provision of effective and understandable education about ... -
Improving Cardiovascular Care for Women through Implicit Bias Awareness as a Quality Improvement Process
Sergakis, Rosemary ( 2021-05 )Background: Female patients with a cardiovascular crisis are at risk of facing care disparity due to implicit bias by clinical providers in the emergency department (ED). Aims: To (1) evaluate and compare the effects ... -
Automating Inventory Management in an Operating Room: Improving Nurse Workload and Efficiency
Rocchio, Betty Jo ( 2021-05 )Preference cards have been the mainstay of operating room (OR) inventory management processes but add to nurse workload and increase costs by introducing variability into supply management processes. The purpose of this ... -
Nurse Documentation Burden for Patients Undergoing Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: A Quality Improvement Project
Gonzalez, Kathleen ( 2021-05 )Healthcare has transitioned from volume-based to value-based care, leading healthcare organizations to develop strategies to improve quality metrics while decreasing overall costs. The shift from inpatient to outpatient ... -
Latent Tuberculosis (LTBI): Improving Compliance
Schuetz, Tonya ( 2021-05 )Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) has made its way to the forefront in tuberculosis (TB) care. It is estimated that between 9.6-14.9 million people in the U.S. have LTBI. The high prevalence rate of LTBI in the U. S. ... -
Evidence-based Standardization of Postoperative Pain Management Guidelines at a Critical Access Hospital: Implementation and Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Project
Seale, Kevin R. ( 2021-05 )Given the current healthcare climate regarding prescription drug use and the evolving opioid epidemic, prescribing practitioners, nurses, and patients alike struggle with how best to address postoperative pain management. ... -
Creating a Walk-in Refill Clinic Implementation Plan at a Rural Federally Qualified Healthcare Center
Grey, Derrick ( 2021-05 )Literature on access to mental health treatment indicates that persons living in rural, medically underserved areas show a visible and disproportionate lack of services. A second problem in psychiatry is appointment ... -
Evaluation of a Mentorship Pilot Program within an Established Oncology Fellowship for Advanced-Practice Providers
Krogg, Victoria ( 2021-05 )The role of the nurse practitioner (NP) is expanding apace with the increasing complexity of the healthcare system. Nurse practitioners have challenging role expectations and many novice NPs report feeling underprepared. ... -
Combating Oncology Nurse Burnout: An Evidence-Based Program to Nurture Resilience
McMahon, Diana ( 2021-05 )Caring for complex and terminally ill oncology patients is physically and emotionally demanding. This literature documents a high prevalence of burnout in oncology nurses. Burnout negatively affects the nurse, patient ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Reduced Inpatient Provider Discontinuity on Patient Outcomes: Readmissions, Satisfaction and Length of Stay
Reddens, Kaamilya ( 2021-05 )BACKGROUND: Continuity of care has inevitably been associated with improved patient outcomes. However, the percentage of hospitalized patients receiving care from one primary provider declined from 70.7% in 1996 to ... -
Reducing Emergency Department Visits in Patients Receiving Anti-Neoplastic Therapy
Moore, Penny ( 2021-05 )The incidence of cancer increases annually with associated increases in frequency of therapies. Improvements have been made toward symptom management, yet symptoms requiring healthcare support remain prevalent. Patients ... -
Evaluation of TeamSTEPPS® Intensive Care Unit Communication Quality Improvement Project
Scurria, Andrea ( 2021-05 )Ineffective communication among teams is the leading cause of medical errors in the United States. At one cancer specific Midwest academic medical center, there was no budgeted training focused on front line staff communication ... -
Wrong-Site Surgery Prevention
Prephan, LuAnn ( 2021-05 )Wrong-site surgery events are a significant problem for surgical departments, causing devastating physical and psychological harm to patients. Additionally, there is a negative impact to the financial performance and ... -
Workplace Mindfulness Program in an Outpatient Health Care Setting
Brozyna, Bridget ( 2021-05 )Research supports providing a workplace mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program can improve employee's health and work engagement, and in turn improve patient care outcomes. The purpose of this project was to ... -
Improving Communication with Families during Procedures with the Use of the EASE Application
O'Neill, Katherine ( 2021-05 )Congenital heart disease patients undergoing cardiac catheterizations are in a procedure and away from their families for 3-6 hours on average. The intraprocedural period causes anxiety for the patient's families. Providing ...