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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
The Health Commons: A Journey Into Metis, Kathleen M. Clark
The Health Commons: A Journey Into Metis, Kathleen M. Clark
Theses and Graduate Projects
The importance of doctorate prepared transcultural nurses to be immersed in local communities is crucial in order to gain understanding into cultural practices and health disparities while building relationships across cultural barriers. With the current changes in health care, the emphasis on community engagement is coming to the forefront. It is crucial that advanced practice nurses be involved with these changes in ensure that the community is involved with the creation of these projects and that changes originate as a grassroots effort. The importance of relationship building and mutuality are vital in components of working with local communities. This project …
Safe And Effective Use Of Aromatherapy For Postoperative Nausea, Kristen M. Haack
Safe And Effective Use Of Aromatherapy For Postoperative Nausea, Kristen M. Haack
Theses and Graduate Projects
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Heart Nursing Care Model, Jennifer M. Harden
Heart Nursing Care Model, Jennifer M. Harden
Theses and Graduate Projects
The role of the hematology ambulatory registered nurse (HARN) is currently disorganized at a large Midwestern clinic. Cumently the HARN is responsible for telephone care, lab results, prescription refills, patient education, submitting forms, and helping patients with miscellaneous items. The HARN is pulled in several directions throughout the day. With healthcare reimbursement changing, there is a growing need for HARNs to be utilized to one's fullest potential and licensure. The purpose of this project is to create a new model of nursing care, which will further enhance the HARN role. Jean Watson's Philosophy and Science of Caring provides a framework …
Empowering Home Care Nurses To Begin End-Of-Life Conversations, Angela Oujiri
Empowering Home Care Nurses To Begin End-Of-Life Conversations, Angela Oujiri
Theses and Graduate Projects
In the United States, some people find the discussion of death and dying a difficult topic to discuss. This difficulty has often delayed conversations about goals and wishes until very late in the healthcare journey. Delays come with a significant cost to both patients and the entire healthcare system. Palliative care is a special type of care meant to provide an extra layer of support to patients and families who are living with serious illness; however, the practice of such care encounters has many challenges for patients, families, physicians, and nurses. Home care nurses are instrumental in the delivery of …
A Healthy Work Schedule: Improving Dynamics For Nurses’ Health, Amy Schei
A Healthy Work Schedule: Improving Dynamics For Nurses’ Health, Amy Schei
Theses and Graduate Projects
Rotating shift work is an unavoidable, integral aspect of nursing at a large hospital in the Midwest; however, the fatigue involved in rotating shift work is avoidable. Research has shown how fatigue related to rotating shifts can impact nurses and ultimately affect patients. Fatigue caused by rotating shift work has been proven to decrease nurses’ levels of alertness and vigilance, which directly correlates to higher incidences of errors with patients. In addition, nurses who work rotating shifts have been proven to have problems with psycho-physical health, biological functions, and social relationships. It is through an understanding of the risks related …
Transforming The Preoperative Patient Education Experience, Hilary Joachim
Transforming The Preoperative Patient Education Experience, Hilary Joachim
Theses and Graduate Projects
In 2009 a large Midwestern healthcare institution introduced preoperative education classes for orthopedic patients undergoing joint replacement surgery to better prepare them for surgery and promote a timely discharge from the hospital. According to literature findings, preoperative patient education decreases patient anxiety, improves pain control, and decreases length of stay in the hospital. While length of stay for joint replacement patients within this healthcare instifution decreased, it was difficult to pinpoint the effect of the educational classes due to other simultaneous changes in postoperative orthopedic care, such as earlier mobilization of patients. Through an analysis of class attendance, it was …
Vaccinating Vulnerable Populations, Paula B. Mcnabb
Vaccinating Vulnerable Populations, Paula B. Mcnabb
Theses and Graduate Projects
Influenza vaccination rates for all minority groups in Minnesota are lower than rates for Caucasians of all age groups. Since 2006, a collaborative partnership called Minnesota Immunization Networking Initiative (MINI) has provided free influenza vaccinations in convenient and trusted community settings throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota in an attempt to address this health disparity. The literature highlights a number of barriers that negatively influence individuals' choices regarding acceptance of influenza vaccination but also highlights motivators, facilitators and processes that positively impact these decisions. Thirteen focus group interviews were conducted with individuals from the Ethiopian, Latino, Native American …
Advanced Practice Care Model In A Midwestern Allergy Clinic, Bernie Theobald
Advanced Practice Care Model In A Midwestern Allergy Clinic, Bernie Theobald
Theses and Graduate Projects
Health care organizations are creating innovative patient care models to deal with the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act has led to reduced revenue for healthcare organizations and placed an impetus on quality. For healthcare providers to continue to practice, they must change their model of care. An allergy clinic in a large Midwestern healthcare organization created a care model which capitalizes on the unique skillset that nurses possess. Nurses in the care model contact the patient before their visit, assess patient needs, and follow-up with the patient in a post- consult nurse visit. The care …
Preparing Nurses For Medical Emergencies: Developing A Collaborative Mock Code Training Program, Joseph Heaser
Preparing Nurses For Medical Emergencies: Developing A Collaborative Mock Code Training Program, Joseph Heaser
Theses and Graduate Projects
Medical emergencies are stresstul and anxiety producing situations that require quick and precise action. As first responders in the hospital setting, nurses are often responsible for initiating resuscitative efforts until additional help arrives. Positive patient outcomes are dependent on the nurses' ability to quickly and accurately utilize basic life support (BLS) and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) to deliver the care needed during the critical first few minutes following cardiac arrest. It is very difficult for nursing staff to maintain emergency medical response skills and knowledge when they are only required to practice them once a year for their annual …
Reducing Anxiety In Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Patients Using Reiki, Robyn Ait Ali
Reducing Anxiety In Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Patients Using Reiki, Robyn Ait Ali
Theses and Graduate Projects
Reiki, meaning universal life force energy, facilitates the flow of energy that travels naturally in and around the body. Blockages in energy flow create disease and or pain in the body; the Reiki practitioner facilitates the removal of blockages which allows for healing and restoration of balance. Anxiety in children undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) manifests itself across all body systems and effects the care they receive during hospitalization. Children are open to the concept of energetic healing therefore, the use of Reiki for children undergoing BMT to reduce anxiety, facilitate relaxation, and ease pain makes sense. The introduction of …
Advance Directives Educational Program For Nurses, Rose R. Pappas
Advance Directives Educational Program For Nurses, Rose R. Pappas
Theses and Graduate Projects
Advance directives (AD) are legal documents outlining a patient's preferences for treatment at the end of life. AD allow people to communicate their end-of-life (EOL) decisions about medical care to family, friends, and health care professionals in the event that they are unable to make those decisions themselves. Many nurses observe patients and their families waiting until the patient is at the end of their life before they initiate an AD. With the current rate of aging baby boomers in the United States, AD would appear to be a phenomeron that should be encouraged. Assisting patients with completion of AD …
Nursing Bedside Shift Report: A Best Care Practice, Heather Gleason
Nursing Bedside Shift Report: A Best Care Practice, Heather Gleason
Theses and Graduate Projects
For healthcare organizations, patient safety and satisfaction are major priorities and are impacted by many different professional disciplines. Nurses can influence this greatly through the relationships built with patients and the information provided to them regarding care while in the hospital. Communication errors are the leading cause of sentinel events for patients, reiterating the importance of having a safe transfer of care between nurses at shift change. Bedside shift report not only creates transparency of patient information but results in improved patient safety and hospital satisfaction scores. Completing nursing shift report at the bedside promotes patients' and families' contribution to …
Interprofessional Collaboration, Amy L. Brabec
Interprofessional Collaboration, Amy L. Brabec
Theses and Graduate Projects
The World Health Organization emphasizes the importance of interprofessional collaboration, which occurs when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, caregivers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care. As the blood and marrow transplant (BMT) practice continues to grow at a large Midwestern hospital, the need for improved interprofessional collaboration between the hospital-based nurses and the mrse coordinators in the outpatient clinic was apparent. Using Newman's theoretical framework of nurse-patient relationship, person-environment interaction, and rurses being fully present, the BMT partnership group was formed. An interdisciplinary group consisting of the hospital-based nurses and …
Utilizing Watson's Theory Of Caring To Develop A Palliative Care Proposal For Olmsted Medical Center, Tammie Johnson
Utilizing Watson's Theory Of Caring To Develop A Palliative Care Proposal For Olmsted Medical Center, Tammie Johnson
Theses and Graduate Projects
Palliative care is aimed at alleviating the suffering of patients with serious or chronic illnesses. Literature examined to determine the needs of seriously or chronically ill patients and their farnilies found patients to have physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs while coping with their illness. In addition, patients' family needed support in physical care of their loved ones, as well as information and psychosocial needs for themselves. The purpose of this project is to develop a proposal for an inpatient palliative care program for Olmsted Medical Center's (OMC's) consideration, Watson's Theory of Caring was utilized in the development of a palliative …
A Support Group Proposal For Women Seeking Fertility Treatment, Emily Jazdzewski
A Support Group Proposal For Women Seeking Fertility Treatment, Emily Jazdzewski
Theses and Graduate Projects
lnfertility is the inability to conceive a pregnancy. Not being able to conceive or carry a child is a devastating reality for many women. Infertility causes both physical and emotional stress that can make it difficult to cope. A literature search revealed the need for a support group for fertility patients to share their journey to decrease the incidence of depression and anxiety. A proposal to develop a support group supported by a Reproductive Endocrinology Department will be explored. The proposal will describe benefits of a support group, integrating cognitive behavioral therapy and relaxation and Mindfulness techniques to promote self-soothing …
Holistic Understanding, Bridget Burness
Holistic Understanding, Bridget Burness
Theses and Graduate Projects
In 2007, the Association of American Retired People (AARP) published its Funeral and Burial Planners survey key findings that revealed 12 percent were interested in green burial and that practitioners should provide education on environmentally friendly options to this audience. Nurses are currently knowledgeable about Advance Care Directives (ACD) for cessation of care. To gain a better understanding of nurses' attitudes toward green burial, a plan to create a holistic nurse-learning circle was developed to discuss the Funeral Rule, pre-burial planning for green funerals and flameless cremation, and the importance of collaborating with funeral directors. To facilitate this group, a …
Trauma Resource Nurse: A Leadership Role In A Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, Claudia Hines
Trauma Resource Nurse: A Leadership Role In A Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, Claudia Hines
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nurses in a pediatric emergency department are accustomed to caring for critically ill and injured children. Pediatric trauma requires nurses to have a high level of expertise. However, along with this expertise, nurses need to demonstrate strong leadership skills to be an effective partner in the trauma team. Attaining a pediatric level I trauma designation by the American College of Surgeons generated uncertainty in emergency nurses' perceptions of their ability to care for trauma patients. Emergency departments within trauma centers have recognized the need for specialized nursing programs or nursing roles in the care of trauma. Nursing leadership competencies, interprofessional …
Reiki For Pain Control, Jeffrey L. Burt
Reiki For Pain Control, Jeffrey L. Burt
Theses and Graduate Projects
Hemodialysis is a procedure used to remove waste products and electrolytes from the bloodstream when the kidneys are no longer working. In addition to removing waste products and unwanted electrolytes, the process also removes some medications as well; 60% of the most commonly used analgesics are removed during dialysis. For renal patients who experience chronic pain as a result of their illness, this is a serious problem. Dialysis patient are held to the same medication regulations regarding frequency and dosing as the general hospital population, leaving them without pain coverage for longer periods of time. The introduction of a complimentary …
Hepatitis B Serology Testing: An Educational Module For Nurses In Outpatient Dialysis, Kristi Hanson
Hepatitis B Serology Testing: An Educational Module For Nurses In Outpatient Dialysis, Kristi Hanson
Theses and Graduate Projects
For nurses in outpatient dialysis, an accidental needle stick could result in contracting the Hepatitis B virus. It is recommended that all individuals receive the series of three Hepatitis B vaccinations. To determine if immunity is developed as a result of the vaccinations, Hepatitis B serology testing is performed and a positive antibody and titer level above 10 mIU/mL is indicative of immunity. Without awareness of their personal Hepatitis B serology, nurses working with Hepatitis B positive patients in the outpatient dialysis setting lack knowledge to protect their health. The implementation of an educational module, influenced by Knowles' principles of …
Trauma Informed Nursing Care For Women Who Are Marginalized: An Educational Workshop, Jenna Fadlalla
Trauma Informed Nursing Care For Women Who Are Marginalized: An Educational Workshop, Jenna Fadlalla
Theses and Graduate Projects
Traumatic events profoundly affect both the physical and emotional health of a woman who endures the event. Gender, socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in rates of trauma exist showing that women who are marginalized are at a higher risk for trauma. Nurses are privileged to provide care for these women in their greatest times of need, yet despite the intimate relationship between nurses and their patients, trauma is a topic that remains largely unaddressed by the field of nursing. Because trauma can have such a profound effect on health, it is essential for nurses of all specialties and at all …
Healthy Choice, Healthy Life, Dawn M. Sanderman
Healthy Choice, Healthy Life, Dawn M. Sanderman
Theses and Graduate Projects
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, unhealthy eating and inactivity cause any where from 310,000 to 580,000 deaths every year. How and what a child eats today will have a significant impact on his/her health throughout adolescence and adulthood. Consuming nutritious foods helps children grow, develop, do well academically and also prevents health issues, such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes, nutrient deficiencies and poor bone health. A project to empower middle school children to make healthy food choices was designed. An after school educational “Health Fair” was created using the theoretical framework of Watson’s Theory of …
Advanced Practice Care Model In A Midwestern Allergy Clinic, Bernie Theobald
Advanced Practice Care Model In A Midwestern Allergy Clinic, Bernie Theobald
Theses and Graduate Projects
Health care organizations are creating innovative patient care models to deal with the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act has led to reduced revenue for healthcare organizations and placed an impetus on quality. For healthcare providers to continue to practice, they must change their model of care. An allergy clinic in a large Midwestern healthcare organization created acare model which capitalizes on the unique skillset that nurses possess. Nurses in the care model contact the patient before their visit, assess patient needs, and follow-up with the patient in a post-consult nurse visit. The care model has …
Creation Of Care Coordination Team, Linda Peterson
Creation Of Care Coordination Team, Linda Peterson
Theses and Graduate Projects
Healthcare in the United States is fragmented and costly. Care coordination positively impacts healthcare cost and quality in healthcare systems. Case managers, social workers, and community health workers create health care teams in a health care home model. A team approach, formed by relationships built from collaboration, communication, and application of Complexity Theory, produces these outcomes. Relational coordination based on shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect creates the framework from which to establish a team. Watson's Caring Science theory provides the conceptual framework to support the connectedness that occurs within a team approach. Creating a collaborative team of case …
Diabetic Assessment In A Wound Care Clinic, Laura Dooley
Diabetic Assessment In A Wound Care Clinic, Laura Dooley
Theses and Graduate Projects
The number of people with diabetes in the United States is continuing to grow at an alarming rate. Over 23 million people in the United States are affected with the disease and it is estimated that the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the United States is increasing by 1 million people annually. It is essential that nurses working in all capacities help with the prevention and management of this disease. lssues surrounding adequate patient self-management of the disease are identified as smoking, glycemic control, diabetes education, footcare, and financial concerns. An algorithm for diabetes assessment was developed to …
Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Project: Developing A Nursing Based Support Group For Kenyan Women In Minneapolis, Jackline Ikobe
Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Project: Developing A Nursing Based Support Group For Kenyan Women In Minneapolis, Jackline Ikobe
Theses and Graduate Projects
In recent years, the Kenyan community living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has had many cases of violence that have resulted in death or injury to the women and their children. Domestic violence is especially difficult because it disrupts every aspect of the victim's well-being. Many women experience repeated victimization because of the difficulty in leaving their abusive relationships. A woman's ability to disclose abuse and receive emotional support is critical to her survival. Implementing a nursing based support group for Kenyan women living in Minneapolis, who are victims of domestic violence, will empower them to understand the effects of living in …
Development Of An Education Module On Conflict Resolution For Charge Nurses, Robert H. Petersson
Development Of An Education Module On Conflict Resolution For Charge Nurses, Robert H. Petersson
Theses and Graduate Projects
A healthy work environment is essential for providing safe and efficient care for patients. When nurses avoid conflict on a patient care unit they create an unhealthy work environment by leaving problems unresolved. Avoiding conflict is common due to the perception that conflict is a negative outcome of dysfunctional relationships. In reality, conflict is a normal part of human interactions that stimulates individuals to adapt to the diversity that surrounds them. Increasing charge nurses‟ understanding of interpersonal conflict and improving their skills of constructive conflict resolution, supports the creation and maintaining of a healthy work environment. An education module titled …