Browsing General Submissions: DNP Capstones and Student Works by Title
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Undergraduate sorority students' perceptions of current body size, ideal body size, eating habits, and the relation to body image dissatisfaction
(2016-12-21)Disordered eating patterns and body discontent are widespread in Western society, especially among young women. Many adopt the “thin ideal,” a belief that women should have very slender bodies with small ... -
The use of laughter yoga to decrease stress and improve coping in nursing students
(2015-01-21)Nursing students experience stress from many different facets. Stress has a negative impact on academic performance and cognition. Research shows the positive effects mirthful laughter has on psychological and physiological ... -
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 ... -
The use of simulation to facilitate a successful transition from classroom to initial clinical experience
(3/8/2016)Background/Significance of problem: As a practice profession, the clinical learning experience is an essential component of nursing education. Despite the importance of clinical education, students often describe the initial ... -
Use of standardized processes to achieve optimal pre-surgical Skin asepsis
(2017-04-21)Surgical site infections are a significant threat to patient safety, they increase patient mortality and morbidity, and increase health care expenditures. A pre-surgical protocol that implements two applications of ... -
The use of tailored interventions to prevent falls: A quality improvement project in the telemetry unit
Every year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients fall in hospitals with 30 to 50 percent resulting in injury. In Texas, the fall rate in adult patients is 33.9 percent, and in one teaching hospital in ... -
Using education to overcome vaccine hesitancy in people who inject drugs
The influenza virus requires vaccination for the world to have some control of the spread of the disease. People who inject drugs are just as likely to reject the influenza vaccine as the rest of the population but are at ... -
Using Facebook as an asynchronous learning environment for students in an associate-degree nursing program - A pilot study
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 ... -
Using the Thai-Human Papilloma Virus Belief Scale to tailor messages to eligible women: A text message intervention
(5/23/2014)Women ages 18 to 26 have the highest prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) disease in the United States as well as worldwide, and in particular, women ages 20 to 24 years (Taylor, Hariri, Sternberg, Dunne & Markowitz, ... -
The utilization of an alarm elimination fall prevention program
(2017-02-23)A typical nursing home with 100 beds reports 100-200 falls each year (CDC, 2015). It is common to see the utilization of personal alarms in nursing homes to prevent falls, although there is no evidence to support the idea ... -
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 ... -
Utilization of evidence-based telehealth for routine follow-up visits in a VA outpatient clinic
Telehealth is a growing alternate/adjunctive setting for health care delivery and with its rapid growth it is important to make sure telehealth is not only convenient but is meeting the needs of the patients. The question ... -
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 an order set in a computerized provider entry system to increase speech pathology referrals in adult head and neck cancer patients
(6/26/2018)Introduction. Treatment of head and neck cancers may include radiation therapy and side effects will result in swallowing difficulties that can lead to feeding tube use, malnutrition, and reductions in quality of life. ... -
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 ... -
Utilizing home health service to decrease rehospitalizations
Rehospitalizations is a national problem and is not safe for the frail elderly who have ongoing management of multiple chronic conditions. To address rehospitalization rates that were above the state and national average, ... -
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 ... -
Vaccine hesitancy in people who inject drugs
The influenza virus requires vaccination for the world to have some control of the spread of the disease. People who inject drugs are just as likely to reject the influenza vaccine as the rest of the population but are ... -
Validating defining characteristics of nursing diagnosis: Excessive fluid volume
(9/18/2015)An evaluatory study to validate the defining characteristics of NANDA nursing diagnosis ‘excessive fluid volume’ amongst pre-hemodialysis patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease in a selected hospital, ... -
Validating nursing diagnosis: Impaired physical mobility
(10/2/2015)Validation studies are important for advancing evidence based nursing practice. In our study, we validated defining characteristics of NANDA nursing diagnosis of Impaired Physical Mobility in Total knee replacement patients. ...