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The Dedicated Education Unit: Increasing Capacity And Confidence, Heather Marie Van Housen
The Dedicated Education Unit: Increasing Capacity And Confidence, Heather Marie Van Housen
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: In the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2020 annual survey, nursing schools turned away 66,274 entry-level applications to baccalaureate nursing programs in the United States due to a faculty shortage and clinical placement sites (AACN, 2021).
Local Problem: Hospitals need more qualified nurses to meet community needs. The need for clinical faculty and additional clinical placement sites disrupts the workforce pipeline through local nursing schools. A new approach to clinical education is needed to prepare more students for the growing complexities of independent nursing practice.
Methods: Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) implementation to expand pre-licensure nursing student clinical …
Preparing Nurses In Management Positions For Bedside Care During Times Of Crisis, Trevor Murray
Preparing Nurses In Management Positions For Bedside Care During Times Of Crisis, Trevor Murray
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase perceived self-efficacy in performing bedside skills among nurse leaders. As the demand for nurses increased, these leaders anticipated a direct role in providing patient care in the event of a patient surge due to COVID-19.
Problem
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant, hospital nursing leaders were and still are concerned with the challenge of providing enough competent nurses to deliver care. The DNP project prepared nurses who work in leadership roles to take or assist in taking a patient assignment.
Methods
Nurse leaders attended a skills lab …
Creating A Pipeline To Increase Diversity In Executive Leadership Positions, Trarina Harris
Creating A Pipeline To Increase Diversity In Executive Leadership Positions, Trarina Harris
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: Minority nurse leader presence at the executive leadership level is suboptimal, with insufficient pathways to increase representation. The lack of diversity in executive leadership threatens efforts to improve patient care and reduce disparities (Jerome Harris, 2021).
Local Problem: Practices to increase the diversity of executive nurse leaders at a pediatric medical center have had very little to no impact. Frontline nurses and nurse executives are not racially or ethnically representative of the increasingly minority patient populations served.
Context: As a commitment to increasing workforce diversity, the medical center developed an executive-level Racial Equity Taskforce, which aligned with the …
Evidenced Based Asthma Education Intervention For Adults In A Primary Care Setting Using Self Management Guidlines, Jeanette Toro-Linnehan
Evidenced Based Asthma Education Intervention For Adults In A Primary Care Setting Using Self Management Guidlines, Jeanette Toro-Linnehan
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Using the standard of treatment for asthma developed by the expert panel reports from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute allows a clear roadmap to patient centered control(National Heart Lung And Blood Institute, 2007). A focus on proper diagnosis and control of a patient’s asthma, using self-management tools that will allow the patient to partner with their primary care provider is crucial to successful control of this disease (Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, 2010). In order to achieve this, educational interventions on control and reduction of exacerbations was taught in a primary care practice/medical home under the direction of …