Browsing Graduate Theses, Projects, and Dissertations by Title
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Effectiveness of an Educational Program on the Reduction of Urinary Tract Infections in Long Term Care Residents
(2023-05-26)Problem: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common, costly, yet preventable problem among residents in long-term care. Unlicensed staff are the primary caregivers of residents in long-term care and can implement strategies ... -
Effectiveness of Education on the Use of a Functional Capacity Tool in Corrections
(2023-05-08)ackground: There is little to no education provided about how to use an assessment tool used in determining the functional capacity of an incarcerated person in the State Prison system of North Carolina. This assessment, ... -
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, ... -
Goal Setting to Facilitate Provider Management of Pediatric Obesity
(2023-05-09)Increasing pediatric obesity rates suggests the need to assess barriers to effective treatment strategies. Primary care providers (PCPs) report low confidence levels to effectively deliver recommended behavior modifications ... -
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 Alabama Parenting Questionnaire to Evaluate for Disruptive Behaviors in Children and Address with Positive Parenting Tips
(2023-04-24)Background: Disruptive behaviors such as consistent difficulty controlling one’s actions, vindictive, aggression towards other students, faculty, siblings, and or parents, disregard for rules, resentful, spiteful or ... -
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 Smoking History Documentation & Lung Cancer Screening in a Primary Care Clinic
(2022-03)Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States (Rajupet et al., 2017). The US Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) recommends annual screening for lung cancer with low dose ... -
Improving T2DM Outcomes in Primary Care
(2022-04-01)Background: In the United States (US), over 34 million Americans have diabetes mellitus and 90% -95% of these individuals have Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021). In ... -
Improving the Identification of Undiagnosed Diabetes in Primary Care
(2023-05-04)Background: Over 30 million Americans suffer from diabetes, and over 80 million Americans suffer from prediabetes and is underdiagnosed within the United States. Early identification for diabetes conditions, such as using ... -
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 ... -
Improving Vaping Knowledge Among Teens Through A School-Based Prevention Program
(2023-05-02)Background: The youth vaping epidemic has been a significant growing public health concern over recent years. Since 2014 teens and young adults have chosen e-cigarettes, also known vaping, as the primary method for inhaling ...