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Pink Goes Red For A Day: Is Your Heart Healthy?, Quierra W. Jones
Pink Goes Red For A Day: Is Your Heart Healthy?, Quierra W. Jones
Honors College Theses
There is a major lack of public health education among college aged students at many colleges and universities across the country. Even further, many minority college students are unfamiliar with one of the most life-threatening health issues that affect them the most: heart health. As a nursing student and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., I strive to uphold our “service to all mankind” motto and also educate the public about important heart health matters. On February 4, 2014, I presented a program through my sorority entitled Pink Goes Red for a Day in which I educated the primarily …
Sternal Precautions: Is It Necessary To Restrict Our Patients?, Lauren Belyea
Sternal Precautions: Is It Necessary To Restrict Our Patients?, Lauren Belyea
Honors College Theses
This paper is based on the inquiry about the effects of sternal precautions as part of a patient’s recovery following a sternotomy. It is important to explore this because nurses should always be asking themselves “why am I doing what I am doing with my patients?” “Which of my practices are evidence based and which do not have any evidence to support them?” (MeInyk, 2009). If sternal precautions are indeed overly restrictive and preventing patients from achieving the best possible recovery outcomes, it is the job of the nurse and other healthcare providers to make changes to the current practice.