Browsing by Subject "Quality Improvement"
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Chronic Heart Failure Management in Rural Primary Care
(2014)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) ... -
Comparing STRONGkids to Current Practice: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020)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. ... -
Development of a Preceptor Program for Staff Nurses in an Emergency Department: A Collaborative Hospital-based Quality Improvement Project
(2013)Background: Preceptors are expected to foster a successful “transition to practice” for novice nurses and new hires. Preceptor education has been shown to increase retention of novice nurses. The goal of the project was ... -
Diabetes Quality Improvement Project in a Nurse Practitioner Led Safety Net Clinic Utilizing the Chronic Care Model
(2012)Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to create a sustainable QI program for type 2 diabetes utilizing the Chronic Care Model (CCM) in a small nurse practitioner led safety net clinic. The Health ... -
Difficult Conversations: A Quality Improvement Project for Advance Care Planning in Primary Care
(2020)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 ... -
Evaluation of a Standardized Anxiety Screening Tool
(2019)Primary care providers (PCP) see patients with a wide variety of diseases and disorders. Mental health disorders are commonly identified and diagnosed by the PCP in the outpatient setting. The clinic of interest routinely ... -
Evaluation of Extended Indwelling Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020)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 ... -
Implementation of a Quality Improvement Project to Improve Provider Adherence to the American Diabetic Association Standards of Care
(2015)Purpose: The purpose of this pilot quality improvement project was to develop, implement, and evaluate a tracking tool to improve provider adherence and documentation to the American Diabetic Association (ADA) Standards ... -
Implementation of a Sepsis Resource Nurse in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020)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 ... -
Implementation of a Small Baby Team to Improve Outcomes for Infants Less than 30 Weeks of Gestation
(2020)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 ... -
Implementation of the Brief Fatigue Inventory for Cancer Patients: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020)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 ... -
Implementing a Comprehensive Screening Tool in the Management of COPD in Primary Care
(2020)Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement a comprehensive screening tool in the management of COPD and to determine the utilization rate of spirometry testing in the diagnosis of COPD in ... -
Increasing Oncologist Notifications of Patient Admissions: A Quality Improvement Project
(2020)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 ... -
Integrating CAPC Communication Curriculum into Medical Residents’ ICU Education to Improve Primary Palliative Care Communication Skills
(2019)Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement palliative care communication education into medical residents’ ICU rotations.|Background: Approximately 540,000, or over 20%, of patient deaths in ... -
Nursing Competencies in Pediatric Exercise Testing
(2018)This project was created to implement standardized nursing competencies and education for registered nurses in the pediatric exercise stress laboratory. Pediatric exercise stress tests are increasing throughout the United ... -
Performance Improvement with Rapid Triage Implementation
(2020)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 ... -
Prevention of Aggressive and Violent Behavior with De-escalation Techniques by Non-clinical Staff in Community Health Settings
(2020)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 ... -
Primary Care Quality Improvement Pilot Study: Overweight and Obesity Management – Utilization of Motivational Interviewing within the 5As Framework
(2014)Objectives: Utilize motivational interviewing within the 5As framework to promote nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight and create a provider toolkit on overweight and obesity management of patients age 18 and ... -
Quality Improvement Project on Pediatric Asthma Management in the Primary Care Setting
(2019)Pediatric asthma is the most common lower respiratory disease in children (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2018). Although national guidelines and standards for care have been developed, implementation of these standards ... -
Sleep Qualiity Intervention for Adolecents
(2020)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 ...