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Increasing Physical Activity In Hispanic Adults To Reduce Complications Of Type 2 Diabetes, Linda C. Valenzuela
Increasing Physical Activity In Hispanic Adults To Reduce Complications Of Type 2 Diabetes, Linda C. Valenzuela
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Problem Description: Adults in the United States do not exercise sufficiently to meet the specifications outlined in the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s (2018) Healthy People 2020 aims to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity among all population groups in the United States. However, statistics from the U.S. Office of Minority Health (2014) indicate that Hispanics are twice as likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes as non-Hispanic whites. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report in 2015, …
Diabetes Shared Medical Appointment: An Evidence-Based Innovation Project, Mohamed Bojang
Diabetes Shared Medical Appointment: An Evidence-Based Innovation Project, Mohamed Bojang
DNP Final Reports
The purpose of the evidence-based practice innovation project (EPIP) is to address uncontrolled diabetes by implementing an evidence-based shared medical appointment (SMA) intervention which based on the body of the evidence will help improve diabetes outcomes. A pilot implementation and retrospective chart review were conducted. Data was collected on outcome indicators such as blood pressure, lipid values, body mass index, A1C, and knowledge. The results of a pilot SMA implementation revealed that patients who participated in the weekly SMA saw an improvement in post-mean values compared to pre-mean values. Mean A1c dropped to 7.0% from 7.11%; systolic blood pressure improved …
Complete Care Model Impact On Glycemic Control In California State Prisons, Diane M. O’Laughlin
Complete Care Model Impact On Glycemic Control In California State Prisons, Diane M. O’Laughlin
Doctoral Projects
The Complete Care Model (CCM) is a health care delivery model based on the well-studied and internationally validated chronic care theory. Since the integration of the chronic care theory into California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) patient care in 2008, steady improvement in health care related mortality has been seen, and there have been no unavoidable health care related deaths in CDCR since 2012 (Gransee, 2018). However glycemic control in CDCR diabetic patients has made no statistically significant change since the implementation of the CCM in 2015 when comparing the two years before and the two years after implementation …