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A Health Literacy Alogirthm Impact on Readmissions and Patient Satisfaction

Whitaker, Emily

The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to explore the relationship between health literacy levels and readmission rates and patient satisfaction scores. The medical-surgical unit in the studied community ...

Inpatient Falls Prevention: Closing the Gap Between Research and Clinical Practice

Oien, Angela D.

Inpatient falls have been a long-standing problem within health care around the world. The purpose of this project was to reduce inpatient falls through a standardized selection of multifactorial individualized nursing ...

Bioidentical Hormone Therapy: A Look at Standard of Practice, Attitudes, and Knowledge

Stanton, Mauricia

Traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is considered the gold standard for management of hormonal deficits. The findings generated by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials concluded in July 2002 revealed health ...

Developing a Global Education Program to Increase Empowerment for Frontline Nurse Leaders

Abel, Sarah E.; Madigan, Elizabeth

Poster file will be attached to this record in the near future. Frontline Leaders (FLs) or charge nurses (CNs) are pivotal in managing patient throughput, staffing ratios, responding to patient and family concerns, ...

Development of a multidsiplinary team to prevent peristomal hernia

Bauer, Carole; Angeline, Sharon; Syed, Sameena

Topic: Peristomal hernia (PH) is a pervasive, costly, and distressing problem for persons living with permanent ostomies. Prevalence rates vary greatly ranging from 20% to 78% of patients. Persons with PH experience ...

Using Facebook as an Asynchronous Learning Environment for Students in an Associate-Degree Nursing Program - A Pilot Study

Belnap, Jessica

Nursing educators are tasked with communicating and relaying information to a demographic of students that have changed over the recent years, the non-traditional student. One avenue of communication in which both students ...

Improving Patient Outcomes in Nurse-Placed Vascular Access Devices

Campos, Cheryl L.

A lack of standardized practice in IV placement and inconsistent availability of advanced-skilled vascular access nurses was identified at an approximately 275-bed hospital. To address the gap in practice, a performance ...

Ideal nursing workflows to support the development of information technology solutions

Englebright, Jane

An understanding of workflows is fundamental to designing information technology solutions to advance patient care, as these solutions must integrate into the workflow. As a precursor to developing a clinical documentation ...

Increasing Teamwork and Collaboration Through an Asynchronous Educational Activity

Howard, Matthew S.; Embree, Jennifer L.

ATTACHED FILE: Abstract-only. Poster will be added to record at later date. Incivility and bullying in nursing is a widespread issue. In hectic and stressful environments, such as academic medical centers, harassment ...