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Aromatherapy: Reducing Anxiety and Nausea in the Perioperative Setting
(2021-05-03)The aim of this project is to educate care providers in the use of aromatherapy to reduce the symptoms of nausea and/or anxiety in the perioperative setting and introduce protocols for the documentation of aromatherapy use. -
Bridging the Gap in Knowledge Deficit in Type-2 Diabetes among Hmong Americans
(2021-08)The Hmong from Laos are among the most recent groups to seek refuge in the United States, with Catawba County of North Carolina becoming home to the fourth-largest Hmong resettlement. However, in adopting the western ... -
Bringing the Clinic Home Through Technology: A Quality Improvement Project
(2021)Background: According to the Centers for Disease Control (2019), childhood obesity affects more than 13.7 million children in the United States. Childhood obesity can lead to chronic illness and early mortality. Unfortunately, ... -
Electronic Health Record Template Improves Quality and Delivery of Healthcare for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
(2021-03-22)The goal of this project was to determine if a primary care-based quality improvement project could enhance provider documentation reflecting national guidelines of care through the use of a charting template and improve ... -
A Faith-Based Healthcare Intervention to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
(2021-03-18)The goal of this quality improvement project was to determine if a nurse practitioner could utilize virtual, faith-based spiritual resources for socially isolated older adults to reduce loneliness and improve their quality ... -
Global Initiative of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Primary Care Integration
(2021)Problem: COPD is a public health challenge and accounts for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Management of COPD in primary care is inconsistent and known factors are inconsistent use of COPD terminology, ... -
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevention Program: An Initiative to Improve Gardasil Vaccination Rates Ages 26-45 Years
(2021-05)Recent changes to Gardasil vaccination guidelines have created a need to improve provider and patient education related to Human Papillomavirus (HPV), as well as the implementation of tools to increase HPV vaccination ... -
Identification of Opioid Overdose Risk in Primary Care
(2021)Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates an average of 41 deaths per day resulting from opioid use. Identification of patients at risk of overdose or opioid induced respiratory depression ... -
Implementation of a Program to Screen for the Social Determinants of Health in Primary Care
(2021)The goal of this quality improvement project was to integrate and evaluate the screening of social determinants of health into a primary care practice and incorporate the screenings into the electronical health record. ... -
Implementation of the Seattle Heart Failure Model In a Specialty Cardiology Clinic
(2021-08)Background: Due to the increasing complexity of caring for heart failure patients and identifying those patients that are in need of palliative care referrals or advanced therapies, an order set was created to guide the ... -
Improving Identification of Prediabetes and Undiagnosed Diabetes in Primary Care
(2021-04-29)84.1 million Americans over 18 have prediabetes, with 88.4% of those individuals remaining undiagnosed. Early diagnosis and treatment of prediabetes can prevent or deter Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The American Diabetes ... -
Improving the Screening for Substance Use Disorders in Emergency Department Patients: A Quality Improvement Project
(2021-05)This quality improvement project aimed to connect emergency department (ED) patients with substance use disorders (SUD) to community resources for assistance with treatment options. This was achieved by promoting the ... -
Increasing Screening for the Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
(2021-05-05)The purpose of this project is to determine if a contraceptive screening tool utilized by care providers in a primary care practice would increase patient selection of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) as a ... -
Measuring Diversity of Opinion in Public Library Collections
(University of Chicago Press, 1995-01)This study was intended to develop a method for measuring diversity of opinion in public library collections and to test the method in selected Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) libraries. The method was broadly conceived ... -
Motivational Interviewing to Improve Provider Outcomes in Treating Childhood Obesity
(2021)Background: Childhood obesity has become a public health crisis, straining the healthcare system. Top healthcare organizations have identified pediatric primary care providers as pivotal in treating and addressing childhood ... -
Nursing Stroke Education Pathway (NSEP): A Quality Improvement Project to Enhance Documentation Accuracy and Compliance
(2021)Quality improvement project determining if the system change of implementation of the Nursing Stroke Education Pathway (NSEP) in the electronic health record improved nurse adherence with use of pathway and increased nurse ... -
Picture of Me: Life-Story Work Made Accessible
(2021-05-03)Aim: The goal of this project was to determine if a dementia-focused quality improvement (QI) project entitled Picture of Me (POM) could increase direct care providers’ (DCPs) knowledge about individual residents and if ... -
Preoperative Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening using the DOISNORE Survey: A Quality Improvement Project in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
(2021)This is a quality improvement project conducted in an ambulatory surgery center. The purpose of this project was to increase adherence to preoperative sleep apnea screening guidelines. Preadmission nurses received an ... -
A Primary Care Initiative to Reduce Falls Among Community Dwelling Senior Adults
(2021-05)A program based on the Centers for disease Control and Prevention's STEADI initiative was introduced into a small rural primary care center to reduce the risk and sequelae of falls among senior adult patients. The program ... -
Program TESA - Human Trafficking: Education, Screening and Action
(2021-08-20)Human trafficking in the United States and worldwide is a growing problem. Millions of men, women and children are victims of human trafficking each year. Victims of human trafficking are often vulnerable due to a number ...