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Increasing New Orienting Emergency Department Nurses' Awareness Of Mass Casualty Incident Emergency Preparedness And Disaster Response Core Competencies To Improve Mass Casualty Incident Response, Christopher C. Deramo Ii Aug 2020

Increasing New Orienting Emergency Department Nurses' Awareness Of Mass Casualty Incident Emergency Preparedness And Disaster Response Core Competencies To Improve Mass Casualty Incident Response, Christopher C. Deramo Ii

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Mass casualty incidents (MCI) impose a substantial threat to healthcare. Despite the increasing frequency of MCIs many healthcare organizations and nursing programs do not adequately prepare nurses to be effective responders during an MCI. This evidence-based practice pilot project was purposed to increase new orienting emergency department nurses’ confidence and ability to effectively respond to an MCI. This project involved implementing an MCI educational program consisting of a disaster nursing framework to educate new orienting emergency department nurses on emergency preparedness and disaster response core competencies. The project leader utilized a quasi-experimental design to collect data pre- and post-intervention utilizing …


Improving The Practice Model In A Military Clinic, Kristina Marie Zuccarelli Oct 2018

Improving The Practice Model In A Military Clinic, Kristina Marie Zuccarelli

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Military members and their families face numerous stressors due to the unique lifestyle of this career (Lester, 2011). The occupational impact on these members creates a highly stressful and physically demanding environment with low morale, chronic medical complaints, and poor mental health for these individuals. This project incorporated the current patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model and fused it with the operational medical model for all the active duty members in this unit. The combination of models allowed the provider to have a better understanding of the population’s needs. By embedding in the units, the provider developed a team approach to …


Perceived Knowledge And Perceptions Of Palliative Care Among Advanced Practice Cardiac Providers, Jordan Vance Sep 2017

Perceived Knowledge And Perceptions Of Palliative Care Among Advanced Practice Cardiac Providers, Jordan Vance

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Providers of healthcare have continued to focus on addressing patients’ chronic health outcomes. When understanding how to manage chronic disease, there remains many opportunities in facilitation of better management. With such a wide range of individuals who suffer with a chronic condition, better management to address this population is essential. Palliative care aids in accomplishing this task. It was seen that there was a lack of education in relation to palliative care, with perceptions that continued to be a barrier to the utilization of the service. Due to the lack in education, the strongest barrier to palliative care service utilization …