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2017 Pathway Award® winner: UHCC employs Pathway to Excellence® standards and technology to facilitate safe, face-to-face hand-offs
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018-06)The American Nurses Credentialing Center partners with sponsor Cerner to annually confer the $25,000 Pathway Award® to a Pathway to Excellence®-designated organization that demonstrates innovation and technology to enhance ... -
Adolescent sex trafficking screening tool in an emergency department
Sexual trafficking (ST) is prevalent in the United States and Alabama (Polaris, 2019). According to U.S. law, any person under the age of 18 who is induced to perform a commercial sex act is a victim of ST regardless of ... -
Anesthesia implications of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 receptor agonist
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) were traditionally utilized as second-line therapy in the type II diabetic population in conjunction with exercise and diet modifications when metformin was either ... -
Anesthetic management for patients prescribed GLP-1 agonists
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists (RA) have become popular medications over the last several years for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular risk reduction, and most recently for weight ... -
Barriers to publication: Improving health and wellness through open dissemination
Professional dissemination and publications of current healthcare knowledge with cutting-edge research are essential to ensure wellness and public health internationally. Unfortunately, these scholarship collaborations ... -
Barriers to video laryngoscopy in low-middle incomes countries
The patient in this case study presented to a rural surgical clinic in Guatemala for surgery with characteristics of a probable difficult airway. In the United States, anesthesia providers will often use a video laryngoscope ... -
Best practice tool kit for implementation of a patient education program for congestive heart failure education
Problem: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a challenging health concern and generates a multitude of issues including increased mortality rates and hospital readmission rates, and drastically decreases the quality of lives ... -
Catheter-guided nasotracheal intubation and incidence of trauma
The presented case study details a 17-year-old patient undergoing a dental procedure requiring nasotracheal intubation (NTI). A red rubber catheter was utilized to assist with endotracheal tube placement. The ... -
Creating a web-based empathy education tool for nursing
Oncology nurses face many challenges in our current healthcare system. Some of the most noticeable include an increase in medication errors, escalating costs, and a lack of healthcare provider compassion. When patients ... -
Dexmedetomidine for treatment of preoperative anxiety in adults
Dexmedetomidine has been proven to be a useful treatment for preoperative anxiety in the pediatric population. Dexmedetomidine could be an ideal treatment for the adult surgical patient and could specifically have an impact ... -
Direct versus video laryngoscopy in infants
In infants undergoing elective surgery, does the use of video laryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy increase the success rate of first-pass intubation? -
The effect of implementing a cultural change toolkit on burnout among emergency nurses
Burnout continues to be a significant problem that negatively affects healthcare providers, especially nursing staff in acute care settings, such as the emergency department. Burnout is the state and experience of continued ... -
Effectiveness of virtual reality for anxiolysis in pediatrics
In children ages, 5 to 14 years old, does the use of VR programs preoperatively effectively reduce preoperative anxiety and the incidence of emergence delirium compared to patients who receive oral midazolam? -
Emergency department bedside handoff report for increased communication and patient experience: A quality improvement health program
Background: With increased emphasis placed on patient experience scores within hospital emergency departments (ED), communication between clinicians and patients has been identified as an area for improvement. Described ... -
The high obesity program on weight for adults: Integrative review
Introduction: This integrative review is a call to action for all responsible stakeholders to consider implementing an evidence-based intervention to mitigate adult obesity. This review explored the High Obesity Program ... -
Hypotension management in patients with pulmonary hypertension
The patient in the case study presents with diagnosed pulmonary hypertension (PH). Patients experiencing daily hypoxia from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have similar pulmonary vascular remodeling found in pulmonary ... -
The impact of breathing retraining education on adults with asthma for improving quality of life, symptom control and reducing short-acting beta-agonist inhaler use in a primary care setting
Quality of life related to asthma is negatively impacted when asthma is uncontrolled, which is characterized by frequent symptoms and rescue inhaler use which lead to limitations in normal daily activities. The goals of ... -
Implementing a restorative yoga therapy to reduce anxiety and improve quality of life among patients with breast cancer
Maintaining psychological health is an important component of a patient’s well-being throughout breast cancer treatment. Anxiety and quality of life are two common indicators of psychological health. Restorative yoga ... -
Improving interventions on cardiovascular disease and diet: A policy incentive analysis
Introduction: Various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) can be catastrophic and can lead to irreversible outcomes. There are limited, improved regulations on awareness of primordial and primary preventions that may decrease ... -
Improving the implementation of the CDC guidelines of the HPV immunization
The purpose of this planned quality improvement project is to improve the implementation of the CDC guidelines of standard of care regarding the HPV immunization. This will increase the immunization rate of the HPV vaccination ...