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Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Theses and Dissertations
Introduction: Death occurs frequently in emergency departments (EDs). Obstacles present in EDs can make providing end-of-life (EOL) care stressful and challenging for emergency nurses. Although death is common in EDs, there is a paucity of research regarding ED design as an obstacle to EOL care. The purpose of this study was to identify emergency nurses experiences and recommendations regarding ways ED designs negatively or positively impacted EOL care for dying patients and their families. Methods: At 25-item questionnaire regarding ED design and EOL care was sent to a geographically dispersed, national random sample of 500 emergency nurses. Inclusion criteria were …
Housing Status, Patient Characteristics, And Ed Utilization Associated With Medication Prescribing At Ed Discharge Among Homeless And Nonhomeless Adults In Urban Hospitals In The United States, Lauren Cox
Theses and Dissertations
This cross-sectional study used a weighted sample of ED visits contained in the 2010-2015 years of the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey-Emergency Department (NHAMCS-ED) dataset. The purpose of this study was to: 1) identify differences in predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics, and ED use and medication prescribing characteristics between homeless and nonhomeless ED users; 2) assess the association between housing status and medication prescribing at ED discharge, and identify variables contributing to the disparity in medication prescribing between homeless and nonhomeless ED users; and 3) assess the predisposing, enabling, need, and ED use characteristics that predict medication prescribing at ED …
Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Emergency Nurses' Department Design Recommendations For Improved End-Of-Life Care, Elise Megan Corbett
Theses and Dissertations
Introduction: Death occurs frequently in emergency departments (EDs). Obstacles present in EDs can make providing end-of-life (EOL) care stressful and challenging for emergency nurses. Although death is common in EDs, there is a paucity of research regarding ED design as an obstacle to EOL care. The purpose of this study was to identify emergency nurses experiences and recommendations regarding ways ED designs negatively or positively impacted EOL care for dying patients and their families. Methods: At 25-item questionnaire regarding ED design and EOL care was sent to a geographically dispersed, national random sample of 500 emergency nurses. Inclusion criteria were …
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs And Opioid Poisoning: Evaluating The Impact Of Prescriber Use Mandates On Prescription Opioid Poisoning Emergency Department Visits, Sarah Almanie
Theses and Dissertations
Introduction: Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are one strategy established to curb the prescription opioid abuse epidemic. Prescriber use mandates has emerged as a promising practice to increase PDMPs impact on prescription opioid abuse; however, evidence of its effectiveness has not yet been established. Kentucky was the first state to implement comprehensive prescriber use mandates in July 2012.
Objective: To assess the relationship between prescriber use mandates policy and emergency department (ED) visits related to prescription opioid poisoning among adults in Kentucky and
North Carolina. Secondary aim: to evaluate the economic impact of prescriber use mandates in Kentucky.
Methods: A …