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Mentorship In Retail Health - A Quality Improvement Project Initiative, Judith Thigpen
Mentorship In Retail Health - A Quality Improvement Project Initiative, Judith Thigpen
Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects
BACKGROUND: Nurse practitioners (NPs) practicing in retail health face issues that complicate provision of care including isolation, lack of support staff, and non-clinical administrative and business duties. To address this, a national retail health company implemented a mentorship program for newly graduated, newly hired NPs. This quality improvement project will facilitate the implementation and evaluation of this mentorship program in one of the company’s regions in Georgia.
AVAILABLE KNOWLEDGE: Literature suggests that NPs believe that a mentor can help contribute to professional development, counter stress and anxiety, provide support, increase job satisfaction, and guide in critical decision making.
AIMS: 1. …
Implementation Of Delirium Bundle On A Hospital Medical/Surgical Unit To Help Decrease The Prevalence Of Delirium, Sanusi Mohammed
Implementation Of Delirium Bundle On A Hospital Medical/Surgical Unit To Help Decrease The Prevalence Of Delirium, Sanusi Mohammed
Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects
Description of the Problem: Delirium is defined as a constellation of symptoms that includes disturbance in attention or awareness, change in cognition, language and perceptual disturbances that develops over a short period of time. Delirium mostly affects adult patients with risk factors including history of dementia, early cognitive impairment, dehydration, and infections. This quality improvement project was implemented on one hospital unit at a large tertiary hospital in the Boston area. This unit has one highest rate of delirium in the entire hospital system. Delirium is associated with high rate of morbidity and mortality. Also, this syndrome leads to longer …