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Increasing Nurse Awareness Of A Breastfeeding And Substance Use Disorder Guideline To Improve Rates Of Breast Milk And Skin To Skin Usage: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Makenna R. Black, Alexandria L. Tasket, Megan L. Young, Tracy L. Brewer
Increasing Nurse Awareness Of A Breastfeeding And Substance Use Disorder Guideline To Improve Rates Of Breast Milk And Skin To Skin Usage: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Makenna R. Black, Alexandria L. Tasket, Megan L. Young, Tracy L. Brewer
Graduate Publications and Other Selected Works - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) is related to opioid exposure in utero, and cases of NOWS have been increasing. In Tennessee in 2020, 824 newborns were born with NOWS. NOWS treatment involves pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment. Breastfeeding, a nonpharmacological treatment, decreases the need and length for pharmacological treatment, the length of stay, and NOWS symptoms. Skin-to-skin may also reduce symptoms of NOWS. This quality improvement (QI) project involved implementing an Opioid Use Disorder Toolkit from the Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care (TIPQC) and specifically educating staff nurses in a Women and Infant’s Department in a regional medical center on …
Pressure Injury Prevention: A Quality Improvement Project Utilizing Incontinence Care Education, Laura Renner, Pamela Hardesty
Pressure Injury Prevention: A Quality Improvement Project Utilizing Incontinence Care Education, Laura Renner, Pamela Hardesty
Graduate Publications and Other Selected Works - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Objective: Evaluate whether the initiation of incontinence care education can improve pressure injury knowledge by an average of 5% in post-test scores over 1 month. Design: Theoretical Framework: Lewin’s Three-Step Model for Planned Change and Evidence-Based Practice Improvement Model. Setting/Local Problem: A 20-bed acute care geriatric unit in a large metropolitan hospital in middle Tennessee with inappropriate use of incontinence management products. Participants: Nurses and nursing assistants employed at the project site. Intervention/Measurements: An educational tool was developed to improve knowledge on pressure injury prevention through incontinence management. A pre-test and post-test were conducted immediately before and after educational tool …
Increasing Advance Directive Rates In Primary Care: Implementation Of A Redesigned Form, Abbie Cheatham, Samereh Abdoli
Increasing Advance Directive Rates In Primary Care: Implementation Of A Redesigned Form, Abbie Cheatham, Samereh Abdoli
Graduate Publications and Other Selected Works - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Background: Less than half of individuals 65 and older have completed an advance directive despite evidence to their benefit. Lack of advance directives can have emotional and financial consequences for the family and individual. A major barrier to advance directive completion is the high literacy level most state sponsored forms are written at, with the average form written at a high school level. Methods: This quality improvement project was a three-month trial to increase the number of advance directive rates at a primary care clinic in the Knoxville area. Five Wishes, written at an 8th grade reading level was …