Browsing General Submissions: DNP Capstones and Student Works by Sigma Chapters "Theta Tau"
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Evaluation of communication and teamwork implementing TeamSTEPPS for a medical-surgical unit
An assessment of a medical-surgical unit established that there were poor communication and teamwork practices. Consequently, an evidence-based practice change was implemented in which TeamSTEPPS 2.0 was utilized to address ... -
Hourly rounding and fall prevention: A change process
(5/9/2018)Falls are among the most common and serious problems facing older adult patients living in nursing homes. The focus of this project was to implement an hourly rounding fall prevention protocol in a nursing home that provides ... -
Implementation & evaluation of safe opioid prescribing guidelines for chronic non-cancer pain in primary care
Uptake of evidence-based guidelines varies among primary care providers when treating chronic non-cancer pain patients in managed primary care settings. This project aimed to determine the feasibility and compliance of the ... -
Implementing the '6th Vital Sign' into primary care
Background: Around the world, someone develops dementia every three seconds ("Dementia statistics | Alzheimer's disease international," 2015). Current evidence shows that in clinically healthy people, pathophysiological ... -
PrEP initiation in the primary care setting: An integrative review
Guideline-driven initiation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a safe and effective strategy for reducing the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Yet, PrEP initiation is generally inadequate allowing for a ... -
Reducing polypharmacy by improving the geriatric evaluation by utilizing the virtual video connect
The issue of polypharmacy in the geriatric population requires continual monitoring to reduce adverse patient outcomes, such as falls, drug interactions, and mortality. Over the years, several resources have been used to ... -
Systematic review of kangaroo care
This paper explores the research surrounding kangaroo care, also known as kangaroo mother care (KMC) or skin to skin contact (SSC). Kangaroo care consists of prolonged skin to skin contact, and usually breastfeeding if ... -
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 ...