Browsing General Submissions: DNP Capstones and Student Works by Title
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National institutes of health stroke scale certification improved assessment and care of veterans: A quality improvement project
(2016-12-13)This pilot project sought to fill the gap in practice that included a lack of early recognition, assessment skills and practice guidelines for the care of stroke patients, improving patient care and hand off communication. ... -
Needs assessment and mentor program development for a Midwestern university
An estimated 1.13 million new registered nurses are needed to fill new jobs and replace retiring nurses from 2012-2022. However, the nurse faculty shortage is a primary barrier to expanding the nursing workforce over the ... -
Needs assessment and mentor program development for Sinclair School of Nursing
An estimated 1.13 million new registered nurses are needed to fill new jobs and replace retiring nurses from 2012-2022. However, the nurse faculty shortage is a primary barrier to expanding the nursing workforce over the ... -
Nurse Educator Retention: A Progressive Toolkit to Promote Career Empowerment
(8/30/2017)Nurse faculty within the US and globally suffer a shortage of numbers. Nurse faculty employment is projected a need of over 90,000 positions by 2022 to meet the demands of educating licensed registered nurses. The recruitment ... -
A nurse practitioner driven, split-flow emergency department intake system
(9/21/2017)As hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the United States face an increased patient volume, challenges emerge to provide effective patient care. This quality improvement project addresses the gaps in ED patient ... -
A Nurse Residency Model for Rural and Community Hospitals' Making a Difference in Graduate Nurse Turnover Rates
(2016-02-04)Vulnerability of new graduate registered nurses (NGRN) requires organizational support when transitioning to a professional role. Varner and Leeds (2012) show 83% of NGRNs are employed in hospitals, and 50% plan on changing ... -
Nursing practice model
(2015-07-02)For a small contemporary hospital, the need for nursing model and employee satisfaction improvement is dire for maintaining service prominence. Addressing and facilitating the immersion of a theory based self-developed ... -
Nursing students’ perceptions and satisfaction of their clinical learning environment during community health nursing placements at dispensaries
The health system is becoming increasingly community based and wellness focused to keep people healthy rather than treating them after a problem has been aroused. The population at large is more aware of health issues and ... -
Nursing students’ perceptions of student-to-faculty and faculty-to-student incivility in the online learning environment
Throughout this research, incivility in nursing education has been examined, with a specific focus on the online environment. Incivility in nursing education has been widely researched in the traditional classroom, but ... -
Nutrition education content in nurse practitioner curricula: What are Michigan NP's learning about nutrition?
(2016-05-27)Background and Purpose: Unhealthy diets are linked to common chronic diseases in the U.S. and Michigan. Healthy People 2020 calls for more nutrition counseling in primary care office visits. The last known survey of nutrition ... -
The nutrition prescription: Guideline development for nutrition education in graduate nursing curriculum
Background: Research describes nutrition education as “paramount” in reducing morbidity and mortality. There is a significant gap between current nutrition taught in graduate health science programs and the 25 ... -
An obstetrical emergency management quality improvement project
(2015-10-22)Obstetrical emergencies occur in approximately 5% of births necessitating immediate interventions to prevent catastrophic consequences. A knowledge deficit specific to obstetrical emergencies was the impetus for this ... -
Online education for nurses to implement active listening akills when caring for patients with a spinal cord injury: A quality improvement project
Displaying empathy through active listening skills is critical in preventing worsening depression in individuals who have experienced a Spinal Cord Injury. Approximately 11 to 37% of patients with an SCI may develop ... -
Operating room traffic and surgical site infections: A quality improvement project
The gap in practice was the excessive movement through the sub-sterile doors of the operating room. The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses Guidelines for perioperative practice (2018) was used to guide the ... -
Overcoming barriers and increasing confidence of providers and nurses in addressing overweight and obesity
(2016-09-22)The purpose of this DNP project was to improve weight loss management by decreasing barriers and increasing health care provider and nurse confidence in addressing overweight and obesity with patients. The project took ... -
Overutilization of CT Scans of the Brain in Nursing Home Patients Post Fall
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Patient's impact on antibiotics prescription for viral infections
(2016-01-28)The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a patient educational intervention on the rates of desire for antibiotics for viral upper respiratory infections. A quasi-experimental design with a ... -
A patient-centered approach to fall prevention
In 2019, a rural hospital in South Texas reported 102 incidents of patient falls. Although below the corporate fall rate benchmark of 2.2/1000 patient days, the hospital recognized that it was clinically significant and ... -
Pause with Paws: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Animal Visitation Program at a Small Vermont University
(2017-09-12)This evidence-based practice change pilot project explored college student perceptions of the efficacy of an animal visitation program (AVP) toward reducing perceived stress. Using a quantitative, longitudinal pre- and ... -
Pediatric cardiac transplant: Quality of life of urban families
(2016-05-31)Introduction: To describe quality of life (QoL) of pediatric cardiac transplant recipients and caregivers in an urban setting, to examine differences in QoL between recipients and caregivers, and to determine ...