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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Innovative Pain Management Of The Post-Operative Patient, Debra Perry
Innovative Pain Management Of The Post-Operative Patient, Debra Perry
Theses and Graduate Projects
Medical/surgical patients post-operatively report significant pain and are not always satisfied with their pain management. Nurses on medical/surgical units frequently find themselves in a cycle of chasing after their patients' pain. Medical/surgical units historically rely heavily on pharmacological interventions to manage post-operative pain with little focus on non-pharmacological interventions. With the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an additional tool for care for medical/surgical nurses, they will be empowered to be proactive rather than reactive in post-operative pain management. This project develops an innovative post-operative pain management educational program that integrates Western medicine and CAM into the care …
Education And Opportuntty: Creating A Scholarship Program In Ecuador, Holly Hanson
Education And Opportuntty: Creating A Scholarship Program In Ecuador, Holly Hanson
Theses and Graduate Projects
Educating young women offers significant benefits to societies, including economic progress and improved health outcomes. Despite the benefit, many girls around the world lack access and opportunity to education. The Rochester, Minnesota 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Hands For Humanity, addresses this inequity through offering a college scholarship program for young Ecuadorian women living in Portoviejo, Manabi province, Ecuador. Hands For Humanity collaborates with Ecuadorian teachers and business leaders to select high-achieving students with a financial need. Currently there are six young women completing their college education with the help of the scholarship. Due to rising tuition costs and extended academic program …
The Bus Stops Here: Mobile Education Program, Katie Juskewitch
The Bus Stops Here: Mobile Education Program, Katie Juskewitch
Theses and Graduate Projects
Medical knowledge and technology are rapidly evolving. Nurses need to continuously adapt their practice to provide the best care for their patients and to meet the financial incentives being applied to hospitals. The need for continuous nursing education is apparent since healthcare continues to advance. A project to the develop an alternative method of continuing nursing education for hospital nurses called "bus stop education" was designed to optimize the retention of new knowledge by addressing the needs of the adult learner. The framework of a hands-on learning approach guided by Malcolm Knowles classic theory on andragogy of learning, Watson's theory …
Community Gardening And The Somali Immigrant Community, Sarah Sanford
Community Gardening And The Somali Immigrant Community, Sarah Sanford
Theses and Graduate Projects
Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are all common diagnoses within the Somali immigrant community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There is an opportunity for collaboration between graduate nursing sfudents at Augsburg College, which is a small inner-city college, the Health Commons, which is a drop-in health center staffed by nurses, and community members in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to address improvement in health, food choices, and socialization opporfunities for Somali immigrants. The purpose of this project is to develop relationships with Somali immigrant community members in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Augsburg College graduate nursing students, University of Minnesota Extension Office dieticians and master gardeners, and …
Nursing Leadership Team Orientation Program, Sheryl Capelle
Nursing Leadership Team Orientation Program, Sheryl Capelle
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nursing is a dynamic profession. Throughout the history of nursing, leaders have emerged. Some leaders have joined a nursing leadership team to provide care and support to the unit staff and patients. Developing a highly functioning leadership team comes through having a well-developed orientation plan. The nursing leadership team must learn, their roles and expectations from each other. This project explains nursing leadership teams and discusses the development of a new orientation program for the nursing leadership team. A conceptual model of a puzzle is used to describe how nursing leaders bring the ptzzle pieces of leading, caring and relationships …
The Malaika Project, Monicah M. Gikiri
The Malaika Project, Monicah M. Gikiri
Theses and Graduate Projects
Father involvement has been reported to have a positive relationship with children outcomes. The goal of this project is to empower young fathers by providing a safe home. The Malaika project will provide safe housing for young fathers age l8-21. Providing housing stability could potentially increase the parental involvement of the young father. The project was guided by Watson Theory of Caring and Culture of Safety Theory developed by Irihapeti Merenia Ramsden. This paper provides a guide on how these safe homes will be established. The project will discuss challenges that have been identified such as financing, IRS filings, and …
Breast Milk For Preterm Infants: A Nursing Education Program, Lynn Root
Breast Milk For Preterm Infants: A Nursing Education Program, Lynn Root
Theses and Graduate Projects
The incidence and duration of breast milk feedings for preterm infants, via gavage, bottle and/or breast, is less than that of full-term infants despite scientific-based benefits of breast milk for preterm infants. Maternal-neonatal nurses play a critical role in supporting mothers of preterm infants and promoting breast milk for this population. However, when caring for the mother-preterm dyad, the maternal-neonatal nurse may encounter several barriers in the promotion of breast milk. It has been identified that one of the major barriers to the initiation and maintenance of lactation in mothers of preterm infants is the inconsistent information and lack of …
Quiet Please: Our Patients Are Healing!, Evie Pochardt
Quiet Please: Our Patients Are Healing!, Evie Pochardt
Theses and Graduate Projects
Patients are under a significant amount of stress during their hospitalization. Noise is an environmental stressor which is found at increasing levels in hospitals and is a primary annoyance for patients. This environmental pollutant can impair a patient's rest, sleep, and ultimately affect healing. Unwanted noise has been shown to cause sleep disturbance, impair wound healing, trigger hormones affecting the cardiovascular system, immune system, and metabolism as well as perception of pain. Intermittent noises such as those from infusion pumps, monitor alarms, and pagers are the most disturbing. Nightingale believed that unnecessary noise was harmful to the patient's healing; it …
Advocacy For The Perioperative Patient, Patricia R. Ballinger
Advocacy For The Perioperative Patient, Patricia R. Ballinger
Theses and Graduate Projects
Thousands of surgeries and procedures happen daily. Patients place their lives and well-being in the hands of the surgical team. The operating room is a high risk environment and unfortunately, errors can occur resulting in harm and even death. Each surgical team member has a role and responsibilities during the surgical case. One main role of the perioperative nurse is patient advocacy and patient safety. However, this role can be impeded due to hierarchy and the operating room culture. Identifying the perioperative nurse's role and responsibility relating to patient advocacy will provide directions in the perioperative nurse's daily practice. An …
Shift To Shift Report: Improving Handoffs In Care In The Nicu, Karen Martin
Shift To Shift Report: Improving Handoffs In Care In The Nicu, Karen Martin
Theses and Graduate Projects
Shift to shift report in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an interaction between nurses to share patient information and prepare the next caregiver to provide safe, high quality care to their vulnerable patients. An examination of the research identifies that there are multiple factors that can have a negative effect on the shift to shift report or handoff, creating the potential to not only harm the patient, but create dissatisfaction for both nurses and families as well. The purpose of this project is to create a new shift report process based on the work of theorist Jean Watson …
Creating A Healing Environment In The Operating Room By Reducing Noise, Emily Grimshaw
Creating A Healing Environment In The Operating Room By Reducing Noise, Emily Grimshaw
Theses and Graduate Projects
The operating room can be a very noisy environment. Noise in this setting can affect patient's physiologically as well as psychologically and it can also affect operating room staff. The review of the literafure shows the effects noise in the operating room has on patients and staff. Patients can become tachycardic and hypertensive due to the exposure to increased noise in the operating room while staff concentration can be impeded as well. The creation of a noise reduction program for the operating room will create a healing environment. The healing environment will help both patients and operating room staff, Patients …
Proposal Of A Caring Companion Program For Emotional And Spiritual Wellness, Lori A. Larson
Proposal Of A Caring Companion Program For Emotional And Spiritual Wellness, Lori A. Larson
Theses and Graduate Projects
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2013), Americans frequently struggle with more than one, if not several, health care conditions impacting their quality of life. Literature review substantiates the need for emotional support for patients impacting hope and emotional wellness. Caregivers may suffer a physical impact from caregiving and also psychological impact from worry and fatigue (Pinquart and Sorenson, 2003). Caregiver strain is common but it often goes unrecognized, which can lead to poor health outcomes for caregivers (Honea et al, 2008). In addition, nurses are at high risk for compassion fatigue, comparing nurses to 'first …
Patient-Family Centered Advisory Council For The Emergency Department, Kelly Sanocki
Patient-Family Centered Advisory Council For The Emergency Department, Kelly Sanocki
Theses and Graduate Projects
Issues such as overcrowding and long wait times in the ED cause an increase in patient frustration and dissatisfaction, which may lower hospital satisfaction scores,, and reimbursement. This project proposes the implementation of a Patient-Family Advisory Council (PFAC) in the Emergency Department (ED) setting in a large urban hospital. The addition of a PFAC will offer patients and family members a voice in their care, as they work collaboratively with various healthcare providers to improve patient care, patient safety, and overall satisfaction. The addition of Watson's Caring theory will serve as the theoretical framework for the PFAC since it is …
Rn Study Coordinator: The Role And Education, Karlyn E. Pierson
Rn Study Coordinator: The Role And Education, Karlyn E. Pierson
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nurses have been identified as having the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct and lead research studies. An educational foundation in research regulations, study management, and patient interactions would enable a registered nurse (RN) study coordinator to represent the nursing profession well through skills acquired to perform the job with efficiency and confidence. The purpose of this project is to create an educational module that highlights the importance of defining the role of the RN study coordinator and provides foundational research knowledge to assist with the transition into the role within a Thoracic Surgery Clinical Research Unit. A literature review …
Intentional Rounding On A General Surgical Unit, Lisa M. Patterson
Intentional Rounding On A General Surgical Unit, Lisa M. Patterson
Theses and Graduate Projects
Patient safety for the hospitalized patient is a coneern. Hospitalized patients are affected by pain management issues, a risk of falling, and the potential to develop pressure ulcers. Research has shown that by reducing these events, patients report increased satisfaction which ultimately increases hospital reimbursements, not to mention cost avoidance. Intentional rounding is a nursing best practice designed to anticipate patient care needs and improve patient safety. A project to implement intentional rounding on a general surgical unit provided a leadership opportunity for a Masters of Nursing student to plan, implement, and evaluate a nursing unit quality initiative using Watson's …
Communication Metaphor Of Patient Prognosis In The Spirit Of Hope, Dory Hanks
Communication Metaphor Of Patient Prognosis In The Spirit Of Hope, Dory Hanks
Theses and Graduate Projects
Prognosis for terminally ill patients is intended to serve the purpose of educating patients on the expected clinical outcome of their illness. This information is generally communicated to a patient by their primary physician when options for fufiher treattnent or "cure" are limited. Learning a prognosis may be helpful to some patients, while burdensome to others. A review of the literature reveals many barriers to effective communication of prognosis. The purpose of this project is to develop a metaphor for enhanced communication of prognosis to be used by hospice nurses that incorporates a caring perspective on living with hope during …
Influenza Vaccination: An Educational Module For Health Care Workers, Lisa A. Hogan
Influenza Vaccination: An Educational Module For Health Care Workers, Lisa A. Hogan
Theses and Graduate Projects
The seasonal influenza virus continues to have a significant impact on the health of hundreds of thousands of individuals in the United States each year, despite the availability of a vaccine shown to be effective at reducing both illness and death. All Health Care Workers (HCWs) at a large Midwestern medical center must make a choice whether to receive the yearly influenza vaccine or not, and approximately 5,000 HCWs chose to decline the vaccine in 20l2. Reasons given for these declinations included fears about vaccine safety and effectiveness, as well as misperceptions about vaccine side effects and the intended recipients. …
Feeding The Homeless Through Collaboration: A Proposal For Consideration, Valetta M. Johnson Massaquoi
Feeding The Homeless Through Collaboration: A Proposal For Consideration, Valetta M. Johnson Massaquoi
Theses and Graduate Projects
The homeless are faced with many challenges of adverse nutritional deficiencies that predispose them to several illnesses commonly associated with the lack of adequate nutrition and the frequent utilizations of health care resources. Provision of nutritious food for the homeless can help decrease the prevalence of these identifiable markers and can be accomplished by u collaborative effort. The purpose of this project is to describe a collaboration between Regions Hospital and the Dorothy Day Center to provide supplemental nutrition for the homeless. Leininger's culture care diversity and universality theory along with culture care accommodation/negotiation are used as a theoretical framework …
Promotion Of Mental Health Wellness Among Second Generation Immigrants In The Cedar Riverside Neighborhood, Caroline Abenakyo
Promotion Of Mental Health Wellness Among Second Generation Immigrants In The Cedar Riverside Neighborhood, Caroline Abenakyo
Theses and Graduate Projects
Effects of the stigma associated with mental health illness among immigrant populations are exacerbated by challenges like language barrier, poverty and low education status. Immigrant children and teenagers are more vulnerable to compromised mental health wellness due to their dependence upon adults and their critical developmental stages. The purpose of this project is to explore the collaborative effort between health care professionals, law enforcement, community leaders and volunteers in the development of a nursing based support group for East African immigrant parents to promote mental health wellness for second generation immigrants in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Madeleine Leininger's Theory of …
Integrating Mindfulness Meditation Into Undergraduate Nursing Curricula, Michelle Yankowiak
Integrating Mindfulness Meditation Into Undergraduate Nursing Curricula, Michelle Yankowiak
Theses and Graduate Projects
Stress and anxiety impact the lives of undergraduate nursing students. Learning how to cope with the stressful demands of nursing school is essential for student success. Watson's caring and healing philosophy notes that learning to care for self is foundational in learning to care for others. Literature also reports that nursing programs across the country are lacking instruction on alternative therapies as a self-care method. A need to integrate self-care into curricula was identified by personal knowing as a nursing clinical instructor and through a self-care questionnaire to undergraduate obstetric nursing students. The integration of mindfulness meditation, as a means …
Who Do You Think You Are? And Who Would You Like To Become?, Sandra Koeller
Who Do You Think You Are? And Who Would You Like To Become?, Sandra Koeller
Theses and Graduate Projects
Ultimately -y goal would be to enhance staff satisfaction to the point of better retention of nursing assistants on my floor. I thought this would also assist in improving RN satisfaction, as there would be solid, reliable assistive staff on the floor. Research of the literature shows staff retention has a direct impact on patient satisfaction as well. The constant cycle of replacing staff is costly to the organization and diminishes satisfaction to all staff as they become trapped in the endless cycle of training new staff in. Patient quality of care suffers, as newly trained staff needs time to …
A Standardized Wound Care Nursing Education Program, Craig Cardel
A Standardized Wound Care Nursing Education Program, Craig Cardel
Theses and Graduate Projects
Patients with vascular wounds are medically complex and require registered nurses (RNs) with specialized education in vascular disease and vascular wound care to assess and freat their wounds. A standardized vascular wound nursing education program was developed for RNs at affiliate regional clinics to provide specialized education on types of vascular wounds, co-morbid diseases associated with vascular wounds, diagnostic procedr:res used to diagnose vascular diseases, treatments to improve vasculature to the wound, debridement of wounds, and wound care products used to treat the wound and promote healing. An interactive nursing education progrirm containing three nursing education modules was created for …
Picc Education For The Discharging Patient, Angela S. Lowrie
Picc Education For The Discharging Patient, Angela S. Lowrie
Theses and Graduate Projects
Individualized education, regarding peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) care, should be provided by nurses to patients who are being discharged with PICCs in order to help patients achieve optimal outcomes. Without proper PICC care, patients are at risk for acquiring a catheter-related bloodstream infection or multiple attempts at venous access which can lead to venous depletion. At a large Midwestern medical center, all maintenance care for PICCs was being transitioned from the unit nurse to the PICC nurse, which created an opportunity to expand the part of the nurse educator role to the PICC nurse. The purpose of this project …
Floattng Through Uncharted Waters, Amanda Moscatelli
Floattng Through Uncharted Waters, Amanda Moscatelli
Theses and Graduate Projects
The act of floating or flexible staffing is a cost effective way to maintain nursing staffing levels through times of shortages and surplus. While the financial and patient care benefits are abundant, the culture of floating tends to be negative. Nurses cite difficulty adapting to a changed environment, caring for different patient populations, and working with different staff members as the most difficult and anxiety provoking aspects of floating. Although nurses at a large Midwest medical center frequently float across a number of nursing units, they receive no formal education on the practice of floating. Introduction of an online floating …
Reviving The Dream: Giving Form To A Faith-Based Holistic Clinic At An Urban Lutheran Church, Kathy Leu
Reviving The Dream: Giving Form To A Faith-Based Holistic Clinic At An Urban Lutheran Church, Kathy Leu
Theses and Graduate Projects
To be able to live full, productive lives, all people can benefit from having a consistent, unified team of health care providers who offer emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual support at one health care center. Historically, churches have been involved in health care, and the Christian faith has been integral in holistic healing. Today, the spiritual component of health is often missing in clinic settings. This project will lay the foundation for the establishment of a faith-based holistic clinic in a large charismatic urban Lutheran church. Utilizing Leininger's Culture Care Theory, the transcultural nurse, a key member of the holistic …
Leading The Way To Comprehensive And Compassionate Care Of Bariatric Patients, Wendy Kay Grimshaw
Leading The Way To Comprehensive And Compassionate Care Of Bariatric Patients, Wendy Kay Grimshaw
Theses and Graduate Projects
The past several decades have seen drastic increases in obesity worldwide. The United States (U.S.) is one of the leading countries for obese populations and has seen an even greater increase in its morbidly obese population, referred to as bariatric in the health care community. Many health care facilities designed to care for normal weight patients find themselves grappling to provide care for bariatric patients in facilities not built to accommodate their size. Widespread bias against obese patients, gaps in proper space and equipment, and knowledge deficits related to care needs and co-morbidities specific to the bariatric patient population need …
Support Of The Informal Kinship Care Family, Emily J. Hansen
Support Of The Informal Kinship Care Family, Emily J. Hansen
Theses and Graduate Projects
Most children cannot imagine living without their parents; for some though, because of social instability, substance abuse, or parental neglect, life apart from their parents is the reality. When these children are cared for by a relative or a close family friend without the involvement of a child welfare agency, the family that is created is known as an informal kinship care family. Because of the fluid nature of these families, little is known about them, leaving this group disadvantaged and neglected by the health care community. After a review of the existing literature, observation of informal kinship care families, …
Self-Care For Native American People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Creative Approach To Enhance Their Well-Being, Manuela Przybyszewska-Wosiek
Self-Care For Native American People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Creative Approach To Enhance Their Well-Being, Manuela Przybyszewska-Wosiek
Theses and Graduate Projects
The development of culturally congruent visual resources on self-care in type 2 diabetes is a culturally appropriate method to provide education to the Native American patients. In particular, the creation of a series of illustrations on foot care is needed. Guided by Leininger's Culture Care Theory and the Sunrise Enabler, materials on foot care are developed through the convergence of emic (generic) and etic (professional) knowledge. Orem's Theory of Self-Care and the Native American perspectives are used to integrate concepts pertaining to self-care. This project supports the enhancement of health literacy as a component of health communication - a goal …
Creating A Culture Change Through A Unit-Based Coaching Model For Improved Effectiveness Of A Safe Patient Handling Program, Nancy Kirchner
Creating A Culture Change Through A Unit-Based Coaching Model For Improved Effectiveness Of A Safe Patient Handling Program, Nancy Kirchner
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nurses have one of the highest work-related musculoskeletal injury rates of any profession. Much research has been done to define the high-risk nature of patient handling and further to describe the necessary components of a Safe Patient Handling (SPH) program. Despite the evidence and the purchase of equipment, overall musculoskeletal injury rates remain high among nurses and nursing assistants in the United States. New strategies are needed to incorporate safe patient handling into everyday practices of healthcare providers to create a culture of safety. The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a SPH unit-based coaching metaphor and …
Community Engagement In The Prevention Of Teenage Suicide, Janet M. Benz
Community Engagement In The Prevention Of Teenage Suicide, Janet M. Benz
Theses and Graduate Projects
Adolescent suicide is a serious problem. Worldwide suicide is the tenth leading cause of death for all people (World Health Organization, 2002) and in the United States suicide is the third leading cause of death for teenagers (Centers for Disease Control, 2010). Minnesota, however, fares worse than the rest of the country, where suicide is the second leading cause of death for those 15 to 34 years of age (Minnesota Department of Health,2009). Suicide does not discriminate as it happens to people of wealth, those who live in poverty, people of all ethnic backgrounds, people from all walks of life …