Browsing Graduate Theses, Projects, and Dissertations by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Utilization of Ketorolac for Pain Control During Nephrostomy and Nephroureteral Stent Exchange: A Quality Improvement Study
(2021-08)Patients with nephrostomy/nephroureteral stents undergo exchange procedures every six to eight weeks to maintain patency. This procedure is commonly performed with moderate sedation using opioid medications. These medications ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Undergraduate Nursing Education: Culturally Competent Care Coordination for a Vulnerable Population
(2021-08-11)Background: Educating undergraduate nursing students to perform care coordination and practice with cultural competence are important considerations for nursing programs. Method: This project, designed to enhance undergraduate ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Weight Loss Programs: Impact on the Obesity Epidemic
(2022-01)With an increasing prevalence of obesity there are a growing number of programs and methods for weight loss. There are many approaches to medically supervised weight loss, ranging from changes to diet and exercise to ... -
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 ... -
Increasing Patient Compliance with the Recommended Plan of Care for Pregnant Women with Gestational or Type 2 Diabetes
(2022-03)The goal of this project was to determine if the implementation of a diabetes in pregnancy care plan appointment improves patient compliance to visits with diabetes educators in an obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) office. ... -
mHealth Strategy for Adult Primary Care Weight Management
(2022-04)Obesity contributes to higher healthcare costs and risk for disease. Obesity management is labor and resource intensive in the primary care setting, requiring patient education, reeducation, and frequent clinician assessment ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An Integrated Pediatric Primary Care Model to Address Trauma, Inequities and Health Disparities
(2022-04-28)Background: Toxic stress in the form of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and unmet social determinants of health (SDoH) are prevalent issues in the pediatric population and remain a cause of concern. Evidence reveals ... -
School-Based Initiative for Early Recognition of Depression Among Middle School Students
(2022-04-28)The purpose of this project is to determine if a Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 is useful in identifying, evaluating, and lowering depression in middle school students. Nurses will administer the Patient Health ... -
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 ...