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Father Engagement In Family Home Visiting, Alicia F. Ugarte-Delrio

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Family home visiting programs provide antepartum and parenting support to families identified as "high-risk" to promote healthy parenting habits and behaviors that result in positive health outcomes for the child and the family as a whole. However, home visiting programs rarely include fathers as integral participants in services despite fathers' critical role in the family.

Purpose: This project aims to support public health nurses in serving fathers in family home visiting services by developing and implementing an infrastructure for working with fathers.

Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework used to guide this project was the FamilyCentered Care Theory.

Methods: Six …

Development And Implementation Of A Peer Supporter Program, Gregory D. Veenendaal

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

A large academic medical center was experiencing higher than national benchmark voluntary turnover rates and lower than national benchmark employee engagement results. Additionally, this medical center’s goal was to improve the culture of safety within the organization while ensuring a just culture and an adequate support structure existed for its employees. A gap was identified in the intermediary support structure for this medical center’s employees –the lack of a peer supporter program. Departments representing a majority of clinical care at this medical center were included in the development and implementation of this peer supporter program. The goal of this program …