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Increasing the HPV vaccination rate in a family practice: A quality improvement project
(2017-05-19)
The purpose of this DNP project was to identify barriers in a family practice setting to recommending the HPV vaccine and to use this information to develop a practice protocol to enhance the delivery of the vaccine ...
Primary care practitioners' guidelines in the treatment of chronic non cancer pain
(2017-07-12)
Nurse practitioners work in primary care more than any other specialty where they are faced with the difficult task of managing patients who present with chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP). Opioid medications are commonly ...
Utilizing evidence based practice to reduce hemoglobin A1c levels in primary care by increasing frequency of office visits
(2017-06-23)
Diabetes Mellitus is one of the leading chronic diseases in the United States as well as in the world. It is a disease that becomes progressively more difficult to manage as time goes by with each patient. It costs the ...
Implementation of a diabetes treatment algorithm in primary care for use in the adult Hispanic population
(2017-09-01)
Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (DM2) is a growing problem in the United States. Hispanic Americans have a higher prevalence of diabetes than Non-Hispanic Whites and suffer from more severe complications of the disease. Although ...
Use of point of care testing to affect clinician treatment decisions for patients with diabetes
(2017-11-28)
This process improvement initiative implemented a policy for medical assistants (MAs) to perform and record point of care (POC) glucose test results in the electronic medical record (EMR), for all patients with diabetes ...
Implementing a diabetic foot care program in a primary care clinic
(2017-06-01)
Diabetes mellitus is a disease that can result in serious microvascular and macrovascular complications if hyperglycemia is not adequately controlled. These complications include a number of lower extremity problems ...