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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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Dissertation: Growth of a Teacher Garden: A Research Evaluation Study of the Creative Options Partnership in Education (COPE).
(2004)This qualitative single case study examined a school-university partnership program known as the Creative Options Partnership in Education (COPE). The purpose of the study was to understand the emergent qualities of the ... -
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 ... -
Encouraging Nurse Autonomy Through Skills Validation to Increase Dysphagia Screenings in Adults
(2022-04)Globally as well as in the United States, dysphagia is a prevalent problem (Abu-Snieneh & Saleh, 2018; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2020). Nurses primarily assess dysphagia risks and implement initial ... -
Engaging Students With College-Level Texts
(2010)This is a presentation provided at the Appalachian College Association Summit in October of 2010 in Abingdon, Virginia. A version of it was presented in 2006 to teachers at the NC Dept. of Juvenile Justice, Corrections in ... -
Evaluating the Impacts of COVID-19 Stay at Home Orders on the Physical, Mental, and Social Wellbeing in Participants in YMCA SilverSneakers Programming
(2021-10)North Carolina Executive Orders placed in March 2020 encouraged families and individuals to stay in their homes and to only leave their homes to perform essential services for survival and work. This Executive Order ... -
Examining the effects of mindful coloring to reduce stress and anxiety in college students
(2022-05-03)Research identifies considerable prevalence of stress among the college-aged population, requiring the need of effective coping strategies. The present research experiment investigated the effect of mindfulness coloring ...