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Provider Education on Melanoma and Implementation of Risk Based Melanoma Screen in a New Rural Primary Care Setting
(2020-05-16)
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was the implementation of a risk-based melanoma screen in a new rural primary care setting.|Background: Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United ...
Implementation and Evaluation of a Feeding Assessment Tool in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(2020-05-16)
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to develop and evaluate a feeding tolerance tool used in preterm neonates to eliminate the practice of routine gastric residual aspiration, prior to gavage ...
Implementation of Pediatric Cardiac Shunt Dependent Precautions to Increase Nursing Knowledge and Improve Patient Outcomes
(2020-05-16)
Children born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) require multistage surgical palliations to compensate for their undeveloped left ventricle and associated sequelae. The first palliative surgery has the highest ...
Comparison of Blood Culture Contamination Rates and CLABSIs Following Implementation of CVC Needleless Connector Changes According to Manufacturer’s Guidelines
(2020-05-16)
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to determine whether changing the needleless connectors on central venous catheters (CVC) per manufacturer recommendations affects CLABSI and blood culture contamination rates for ...
Implementation of a Standardized Feeding Protocol to Decrease the Risk of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in the NICU
(2020-05-16)
Purpose. The purpose of this quality improvement project is to minimize provider variability and modifiable risk factors associated with necrotizing enterocolitis [NEC] through the implementation of an evidence-based ...
Plasma Rich Platelets Protocol for Androgenetic Alopecia: Development, Implementation and Evaluation: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-08-13)
Abstract
The purpose of this DNP project was to develop and implement a new protocol for the extraction and implementation of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for the use in clinical practice to restore hair loss related to ...
Improving Rapid Response Team Utilization to Prevent Cardiopulmonary Arrest Outside of the Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020-08-15)
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate nurse perceptions of the RRT utilizing the RRT Facilitators and Barriers Survey (Astroth et al., 2017) and educate nursing staff on early detection ...
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 ...
Optimization of Nutrition for Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
(2020-05-16)
Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants experience delayed postnatal growth and suboptimal weight gain. Additional calories and supplements are used to achieve better growth. When receiving full enteral feeds of human ...
A framework: building and implementeing a NP post-graduate fellowship program
(2020-05-16)
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop & implement a post-graduate NP fellowship program in Integrative Care.
Background: A training gap exists for the new NP transitioning to clinical practice. Taylor, ...