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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 ...
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) ...
Neonatal Nurses' Perception of Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(2014-07-30)
Family involvement is an important part of care for the infant within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Neonatal nurses recognize the importance of family-centered care (FCC), but need further education in this ...
Follow-Up after Heart Failure Hospitalization: Attendance and Effects of Timing and Provider Type on Readmission Rates
(2014-01-30)
Objective: The purposes of this study were to: a.) determine differences in demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical variables of adult patients with heart failure that attend follow-up and those who do not and to: b.) to ...
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 ...
Implementation of a POLST Pilot Project
(2014-05-21)
The number of aging persons in the United States is rapidly rising, as is the number of persons with chronic and terminal illnesses. Discussions regarding advance care planning are imperative to ensure that one's wishes ...