Browsing Graduate Theses, Projects, and Dissertations by Title
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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 'My Birth Control' Tool
(2022-04-18)To evaluate the effect of the My Birth Control tool on patient provider and staff satisfaction of contraceptive counseling Methods The provider in a women s health clinic in Western North Carolina offered the My Birth ... -
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 ...