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Evaluation of Extended Indwelling Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-05-16)
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to determine if revising the algorithm of extended dwell catheters (EDPIC) decrease central lines rates. The project evaluated outcomes post-implementation of EDPIC revised algorithm ...
Prevention of Aggressive and Violent Behavior with De-escalation Techniques by Non-clinical Staff in Community Health Settings
(2020-05-16)
Workplace violence is on the rise in health care settings and is a leading cause of death in health care workers. Violence is directed towards all members of the medical treatment team, not just providers who have been ...
Implementation of a Sepsis Resource Nurse in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-05-16)
Sample/Setting: The setting is the emergency department at a private, not-for-profit, teaching hospital with 80-90,000 emergency center visits annually. The sample included 312 total patient's presenting to the ED with ICD ...
Performance Improvement with Rapid Triage Implementation
(2020-05-15)
Objective: To modify a US emergency department’s front-end process with the goal of improving the door-to-provider time interval. The hospital employed a comprehensive data collection process at triage; the intent was to ...
Sleep Qualiity Intervention for Adolecents
(2020-05-09)
Sleep is a key component of health. Adolescents admitted to inpatient psychiatric hospitals are sleep deprived and struggle with insomnia related to significant life traumas and ongoing illness. The purpose of this project ...
Difficult Conversations: A Quality Improvement Project for Advance Care Planning in Primary Care
(2020-05-16)
Purpose: The purpose of this DNP project was to increase provider knowledge, skills, and attitudes about Advance Care Planning (ACP) and augment the number of ACP conversations between patients 65 and older, who had recently ...
Increasing Oncologist Notifications of Patient Admissions: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-12-12)
There is little research regarding improving and closing communication gaps between hospitalists and a patient’s primary oncologist. Oncology patients frequently develop long-standing relationships with their oncologists ...
Comparing STRONGkids to Current Practice: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-05-16)
Malnutrition is reported to be more prevalent in certain populations of pediatric inpatients, including children under 5 years of age, and children with chronic conditions such as heart failure and congenital heart disease. ...
Implementation of the Brief Fatigue Inventory for Cancer Patients: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-05-16)
Many cancer patients suffer from cancer related fatigue. Unquestionably the management of cancer related fatigue (CRF) is multifactorial and often requires a multidisciplinary team approach. Although guidelines for the ...
Implementation of a Small Baby Team to Improve Outcomes for Infants Less than 30 Weeks of Gestation
(2020-05-16)
Background: Although extremely low gestational age infants continue to have improved rates of survival, they have the greatest risk of morbidities for infants born prematurely. These infants also incur the greatest cost ...