Non-Sigma Group Participants: Recent submissions
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Executive Summary: Advanced Practice Provider Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program Planning
Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) currently offers an advanced practice provider (APP) fellowship program for general medical providers, but no such program has been offered by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral ... -
HIV/AIDS Awareness among First year Nursing Students in Four Nursing Schools in Guyana
In Guyana, many adolescents grow up in broken families and live in an environment where violence is pervasive. Inadequate knowledge about safe sex practices, poor attitudes towards sexual health and poverty are further ... -
The Effects of Implementing TeamSTEPPS® on Operating Room Staff Communication
Improving communication in the OR can lead to better patient outcomes. Tibbs and Moss (2014) pointed out that Joint Commission (JC) found over two-thirds of surgical adverse events were the result of poor communication and ... -
How High! Decreasing Blood Pressure in Men Aged 45-65 in Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Project
(2018-05-15)PURPOSE: Hypertension is a health issue that affects many people worldwide. The Memphis area has many people who have been diagnosed with hypertension and experience poor outcomes. A local Memphis primary care clinic allowed ... -
Hospital Acquired Hypo/Hyperglycemia: A Clinical Issue
(2018-04-02)Hypo- and hyperglycemia related to improper timing of mealtime insulin occurs frequently in the in-patient setting. The timing of mealtime insulin administration is affected by many variables such as blood glucose meter ... -
Effect of Clinical Pathway Implementation on Outpatient Wait Time to Urgent Specialty Appointment
(2018-03-02)Untoward wait time between a primary care referral and initial urgent specialty care appointment was identified during a root cause analysis at the project facility. Ambiguous role responsibilities and unclear referral ... -
A Clinical Practice Change: Enhancing the Efficacy of Pediatric Early Warning Systems
(2018-02-07)With a lack of adherence to documentation, assessment, and utilization of the Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) by pediatric staff nurses, there was a significant gap between clinical deterioration recognition and ... -
Utilization of Evidence-based Health Teaching by Providers to Improve Parents perception of Immunizations and Vaccine Schedules
(2017-12-22)Parental refusal or delay in administering vaccines for their children has become a public health concern, contributing to an increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. Informed decision-making is necessary for parents ... -
Pressure Ulcer Prevention: Innovation and Research Produce Positive Outcomes
(2017-12-07)Acquiring a pressure ulcer while in the hospital is a devastating outcome for the patient and their family. Pressure ulcer formation in the medical surgical patient population reflects a gap in practice because it is the ... -
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 ... -
A Process Evaluation of an Outpatient Palliative Care Program: A Quality Improvement Project
(2017-11-28)Palliative care has evolved from providing care for patients near end-of-life into a specialized discipline focused on addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of patients throughout the trajectory ... -
A Bilingual Diabetes Self-Management Education Program for Hispanic Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
(2017-11-27)The aim of this intervention was to determine whether diabetes self-management education will help Hispanics/Latinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus change unhealthy behaviors and effectively manage their disease. Healthcare ... -
Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing-based telephone Follow-up in Diabetes Management
(2017-11-27)Diabetes mellitus is a chronic complex disease requiring persistent self-management by patients and ongoing support from the providers. The outpatient diabetes clinic of a teaching hospital in the Midwest has 78.3% patients ... -
Interventions To Reduce Medication Errors
(2017-09-22)Medication errors are the most commonly identified errors occurring in every healthcare setting costing billions of dollars per year. They have the potential to cause death to a patient or increase hospital length of stay. ... -
A Correlation Between Pre-Admission Preparation and Same-Day Surgery Cancellations
(2017-09-22)Patients undergoing surgical procedures must have adequate surgical preparation for anesthesia, procedures, and post-operative care to avoid cancellation. The primary focus of this quality improvement project was to determine ... -
Multipronged Approach to Improve Diabetes Care Management in the Home Health Setting
(2017-09-22)New care delivery models and approaches to integrated care have emerged across the country to reduce health disparity, improve outcomes, and address care delivery fragmentation. Home health agencies (HHAs) and the millions ... -
Electronic Health Record Template Customization and the Impact on Nursing Satisfaction and Documentation Compliance
(2017-09-22)Documentation is a crucial component of safe and effective patient care. A priority for health care organizations is to ensure their electronic health record (EHR) systems are used safely and effectively. They should be ... -
Overutilization of CT Scans of the Brain in Nursing Home Patients Post Fall
(2017-09-21)Manuscript contains abstract -
The Effects of An Anticoagulation Program on Patient Compliance Following Total Joint Replacement
(2017-09-21)Patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery have shown the potential for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) ranging from 46% to 60% postoperatively. To avoid this risk, home rehabilitation is recommended, including nursing and/or ... -
Impact of Daily Electrocardiographic Electrode Changes upon Technical Related Cardiac Monitor Alarm Events
(2017-09-21)Alarm fatigue occurs when excessive alarms cause nurses to disregard alarms posing a significant patient safety threat. This quality improvement project utilized the plan-do-check-act approach to examine the impact of daily ...