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An Active Surveillance and Referral Program to Ensure Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prophylaxis for the Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Population: A Quality Improvement Project
(2014-10-01)
Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death within the first year of life because of birth defects. Complications related to respiratory infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...
Academic-Practice Partnership in Public Health Nursing: Working with Families in a Village-Based Collaboration
(2014-07-01)
Objectives: The purpose of this program development and evaluation project was to promote healthy families and communities by creating academic-practice partnerships, educating BSN students and building family-nursing ...
Adolescent Suicide Prevention in a School Setting: Use of a Gatekeeper Program
(2014-11-01)
Suicide is a major public health problem. Nationally, suicide is the third leading cause of death for adolescents. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to initiate and evaluate a gatekeeper suicide-prevention ...
Comprehensive Aquapheresis Education to Enhance Nursing Knowledge and Confidence in Caring for the Heart Failure Patient
(2014-06-03)
Background: Because aquapheresis is a new and highly specialized treatment modality, many nursing curricula do not teach students how to operate and trouble-shoot its equipment. In order to bridge the gap between classroom ...
Hepatitis C Prevalence in a Native American Reservation Clinic: Impact of a Screening and Monitoring Program
(2014-06-03)
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to develop a comprehensive hepatitis C program in a rural Native American clinic in which no concrete screening or monitoring protocol exists.|Background: In the United States, ...
Evaluation of Cue-Based Oral Feeding Protocols for the Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
(2014-01-30)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of two feeding protocols. Both feeding protocols included the implementation of oral stimulation, the use of feeding readiness cues, and a quality of nippling ...
African American Heart Failure Patients’ Perspective on Palliative Care in the Outpatient Setting
(2014-06-03)
Background: Heart failure (HF) is a progressive, incurable, complex disease that limits both the physical and psychosocial qualities of life (Francis, Sonnenblick, Wilson Tang, & Poole-Wilson, 2008; Goldstein & Lynn, 2006). ...
A Health Coach Industrial Workplace Smoking Cessation Quality Improvement Program for Individuals
(2014-06-03)
This quality improvement program sought to institute a sustainable individual smoking cessation program in an urban, industrial workplace clinic. Smoking prevalence in adults in Nebraska greatly exceeds 12%, the goal ...
Chronic Heart Failure Management in Rural Primary Care
(2014-06-03)
Background: Heart failure has been identified as a diagnosis associated with significant morbidity and mortality with inconsistent outcomes. As of October 1st, 2012 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...
Development of a Nurse Managed Academic Health Clinic: A Model in Merging Education and Practice
(2014-05-21)
Developing nurse managed academic health clinics can address the call for expanded expert nursing care while providing an excellent clinical opportunity for both student and educator.|An extensive literature review was ...