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Improving Outcomes For Sexual Assault Patients In Alignment With Hiv Npep Clinical Guidelines, Maria Dahlke, Rachel Kanz
Improving Outcomes For Sexual Assault Patients In Alignment With Hiv Npep Clinical Guidelines, Maria Dahlke, Rachel Kanz
Nursing DNP Projects
Purpose and Rationale
The purpose of this project is to improve the follow-up care given to adult patients, 18 years and older, who require human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (nPEP) treatment after a sexual assault. The goal is to determine if organizational alignment with HIV nPEP clinical guidelines through staff education improves medication adherence for adult sexual assault patients. Currently, sexual assault survivors have the lowest medication adherence rate to HIV nPEP among those at risk for HIV.
Synthesis of Evidence
The evidence supports the standardization of care for sexual assault patients' individual needs. Educating health care professionals …
Caring Calls: A Weekly Phone Call Intervention And The Correlation With Loneliness In Rural Dwelling Adults, Abigail Jumbeck, Jennifer Timm, Mieca Valen, Chris Malone
Caring Calls: A Weekly Phone Call Intervention And The Correlation With Loneliness In Rural Dwelling Adults, Abigail Jumbeck, Jennifer Timm, Mieca Valen, Chris Malone
Nursing DNP Projects
Purpose: This pilot study’s aim was to examine the impact of weekly phone calls from interprofessional students on loneliness in rural dwelling adults.
Design: A pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design was utilized.
Setting: The intervention was based in southeastern Minnesota, although the participants could have lived anywhere. Zoom for Healthcare © was utilized, and students were able to make the phone calls from their homes, therefore, no travel was necessary.
Subjects: The subjects were rural dwelling adults (over the age 18 years old).
Intervention: Interprofessional students made weekly social phone calls to rural dwelling adults over ten weeks.
Measures: The …