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Early Home Visits By A Registered Nurse Care Manager With Heart Failure Patients, Dana Davis Blake
Early Home Visits By A Registered Nurse Care Manager With Heart Failure Patients, Dana Davis Blake
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
Strategies focused on 30 days in the life of a patient with heart failure will have limited impact on the burden that heart failure will have nationally or individually. The broader landscape of readmission risk underscores the need for a more comprehensive approach to heart failure management. Care management with a registered nurse demonstrated efficiently coordinate care. Home visits address the peaks of risk in the post-discharge transition and palliative phase while providing longitudinal support. The purpose of this study is to substantiate that early home visits and telephone followup with a registered nurse after discharge from the hospital will …
Cultural Bias Education Of Nursing Faculty, Frank Castelblanco
Cultural Bias Education Of Nursing Faculty, Frank Castelblanco
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
A cultural bias education seminar was presented to nursing faculty at a private university in Western North Carolina in an attempt to increase the level of cultural competence. Leininger's "Culture Care and Universality"; a nursing theory was used as the theoretical framework for the project and Campinha-Bacote's Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competency Among Healthcare Professionals, Revised (IAPCC-R) was employed to measure the pre- and post-cultural competence levels of the nursing faculty. The faculty voluntarily completed the pre-assessment, the seminar was completed and 17 participants completed the post assessment. The statistical findings illustrated an increase in total cultural …
The Effects Of A Care Delivery Model Change On Nursing Staff And Patient Satisfaction, Kathleen Gier
The Effects Of A Care Delivery Model Change On Nursing Staff And Patient Satisfaction, Kathleen Gier
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
Hospitals across the nation are faced with the challenge of providing high-quality, cost-effective patient care. The purpose of the research study, The Effects of a Care Delivery Model Change on Nursing Staff and Patient Satisfaction, was to examine the impact of implementing a team-approach care delivery model on defined outcomes of staff satisfaction and patient satisfaction. A quasi-experimental design study was utilized to examine the effects of implementing a team-approach care delivery model on a 33-bed Medical-Surgical unit. Prior to and after implementation of the new care delivery model, data were collected regarding patient and staff satisfaction. All nursing and …
Nurses' Perceptions Of Shared Medical Appointments, Kristin Monza
Nurses' Perceptions Of Shared Medical Appointments, Kristin Monza
Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects
With the increased economic burdens placed on Americans in recent years, the topic of healthcare has been in the forefront. As healthcare reform embraces the country, healthcare organizations are forced to re-examine their business structure more accurately to reflect the changing culture and patient population. The Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) is a model in the chronic disease setting, and many of the benefits and proficiencies have been studied but no studies have assessed nurse experiences or perceptions of SMAs. The purpose of this study was to determine the Registered Nurses's experience with and perception of SMAs. A descriptive exploratory design …