Browsing General Submissions: DNP Capstones and Student Works by Research Approach "N/A"
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Peer feedback in nursing students: A concept analysis
Peer feedback is a valuable tool in the nursing skills lab for improving student performance, learning, and self-reflection. Peer feedback has been demonstrated to improve student satisfaction and academic performance when ... -
Perinatal bereavement immersion for nurses providing care to women who miscarry in the emergency department
(2017-02-07)Purpose: To demonstrate that perinatal bereavement immersion for emergency department nurses increases knowledge and confidence in providing bereavement care to women who miscarry. Design and Methods: The quality improvement ... -
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 ... -
Problem solving through simulation & scripts
A nursing learning model was developed to assist students, nurses and nurse educators in their understanding of the diverse ways that content and skills can be learned. During the development of the model, it became clear ... -
A quality improvement project: Job satisfaction of nurses in home health care
(2016-10-18)Purpose: The purpose of the quality improvement project was to explore if a formal preceptorship orientation program would minimize the low job satisfaction rate of registered nurses at a home health agency. Design: The ... -
Safe use of opioids in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea
Define obstructive sleep apnea. Identify prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea. Review the literature related to the use of opioids in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea. List best practices for the use of opioids ... -
Smoking cessation counseling training for WIC nurses
(2017-11-30)Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. An estimated 40 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2012), furthermore, nearly seventy percent ... -
Social isolation in long term care: Improving assessment and decision-making skills
(2017-08-30)The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effect of a quality improvement project with a multicomponent intervention on assessment and decision-making skills for healthcare professionals who are responsible for the ... -
Teaching critical thinking with problem-based learning
(2016-11-30)Critical thinking (CT) capabilities are crucial for the contemporary nurse and vital for the delivery of safe patient care. As health care and technology continue to evolve, so must the teaching methods used by ... -
Treating depression and sleep impairment to improve pain levels and quality of life for patients with sickle cell disease: A quality improvement project
(2017-05-19)Background: Vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) pain is both an acute and chronic factor for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Acute, recurrent, and unrelenting pain is often joined by other affective disorders that ... -
Utilizing a team-based approach to improve hypertension management in a medical home practice
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of heart disease in the United States. Currently, there are about 80 million Americans who have a diagnosis of hypertension. As the rates of patients diagnosed with hypertension ... -
Utilizing technology to improve patient comprehension
(2017-06-23)Background: Patient comprehension of discharge instructions is a cornerstone for successful health care. If healthy outcomes are to be achieved, patients need to comprehend discharge instructions given by the healthcare ... -
Vitamin D clinical relevance in the recovery from traumatic brain injury among the military population
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) still remains a difficult disorder to treat. TBI has been associated to chronic neuroinflammation and a high risk for neurodegenerative disorders. Since 2001 between ten to twenty ... -
What Influences Nursing Students to Desire to Work in Geriatrics
The geriatric population is growing rapidly. Geriatric education in nursing school curriculum is vital. Undergraduate nursing students need to be educated about the multifaceted care of the older adult as well as experiencing ...