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Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening in Primary Care
(2023-05-09)Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACES) are associated with poor mental and physical childhood outcomes. ACES are an important health topic with lack of awareness and education in the pediatric population. The ... -
An Analysis of College Students’ Nutrition Practices
(2022-04-21)Poor nutrition is associated with half of the leading causes of death for adults and has influenced the alarming obesity rates. Negative nutrition practices and knowledge are at the forefront of this issue and are often ... -
Analyzing Psychosocial Distress Screenings: A Quality Improvement Project that Modifies the Frequency of Screenings
(2022-04-28)Background/Purpose: Distress is a multifactorial unpleasant experience that can interfere with the patients’ ability to cope with cancer. Research has recognized the effectiveness of interventions in the ability to reduce ... -
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. -
ASCVD Screening for Adults at Risk for Stroke: Primary Care Integration
(2023-05-02)Background: Strokes impact patients both mentally and physically, yet some patients are unaware of their risk factors and severity of their medical conditions. As the number of patients who suffer from a stroke continues ... -
Assessing for Suicide Risk in Pediatrics
(2023-04)Background: Due to the increased risk of suicide related to the COVID-19 pandemic, suicide risk should be assessed routinely in the pediatric population using the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) toolkit in a primary ... -
Assessing Social Determinants of Health to Improve the Quality of Life in the Adult Day Care Health Center Participants
(2022-05-05)The purpose of this quality improvement mixed methods design is to provide facilitators at an adult urban daycare health center with a toolkit to screen clients for SDOH and QOL among the adult clients ages 18 years and ... -
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Screening in the Primary Care Setting
(2023-04-27)Problem: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the leading cause of death for all people residing in the United States. Early detection of CVD through formal screenings ... -
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, ... -
Bringing the Student's Life into the Classroom? Genesis, Scientific Status and Development of the »Lifeworld-oriented Didactics« for Children and Youth with Emotional, Social, and Behavioral Needs
(2019-08)The model »Lifeworld-oriented Didactics« (in German: »Lebensweltorientierte Didaktik«) has been developed by Joachim Broecher, through his own educational practice as a classroom teacher during the 1990s while teaching in ... -
Caldwell County 2022 Community Health Assessment
(2023-05-12)The Community Health Assessment, also known as the CHA, is a North Carolina requirement of local county health departments. The CHA is implemented every four years by local health departments to identify, collect, analyze, ... -
Catalogue of Lenoir College, Hickory, North Carolina. 1891-1892.
(1892)This college catalogue is one of the earliest--and possibly the very earliest--catalogue for what is now known as Lenoir-Rhyne University (founded 1891). It names the trustees, faculty, and students at "Lenoir College" and ... -
CINAHL Ultimate
(The Charleston Advisor, 2022-11-15)The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Ultimate is a subscription aggregate health and allied health sciences database available exclusively from EBSCO. CINAHL Ultimate is the premier product ... -
A Comparison of Recruitment Outcomes Using an Alternate Clinical Trial Recruitment Script for Lifestyle Intervention for the Treatment of Diabetes (LIFT)
(2022-05)Background Despite noble advancements in clinical research recruitment. Ethnic minorities continue to be disproportionately represented. Identifying variables that contribute to increased participation in such trials can ... -
Cypress Resume
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Dana Foundation
(2020-06-01)A review is presented of website located at "https://www. dana.org/." of Dana Foundation which offers information on neuroscience, and brain research. -
Depression in Diabetes: Utilizing a Depression Management Algorithm in Primary Care
(2022-05-04)Background: Patients with diabetes are more prone to depression because of the debilitating nature of coping with a chronic disease long term (Polacsek et al., 2021). Screening for depression in this population is critical ... -
Developing a Multifaceted Fall Prevention Strategy in the Emergency Department
(2022-05-05)Abstract Despite systemwide efforts to reduce patient falls, this problem continues to be a significant patient safety concern in the emergency department. The ED is a high acuity, fast-paced, crowded and unpredictable ... -
Developing an ED Discharge Team to Incorporate the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit in a Rural Emergency Department
(2022-05-05)Background: The 72-hour return rate represents an important quality indicator and benchmark for Emergency Department (ED) care to determine if high quality and safe care is being delivered at a particular facility. The RED ...