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Psychosocial Consequences Of Diagnosed Malignant Melanoma, Savanna Eve Smallwood-Corcoran, Mary Johnson, Lindsay Frazier

Graduate Publications and Other Selected Works - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

BACKGROUND: Psychosocial consequences frequently accompany the diagnosis of malignant melanoma (MM), such as fear, anxiety, burden, and distress. Patients are not receiving the proper psychiatric care needed to address the psychosocial consequences they are experiencing. Patients diagnosed with MM have expressed a lack of assessment and supportive care by providers to address psychosocial consequences they are experiencing.

LOCAL PROBLEM: The setting for the quality improvement project was a private dermatology clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee. There was no standard procedure for anxiety screening at the site. Comparable to published studies, there is a lack of procedures for screening patients …

Mentorship In Retail Health - A Quality Improvement Project Initiative, Judith Thigpen

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

BACKGROUND: Nurse practitioners (NPs) practicing in retail health face issues that complicate provision of care including isolation, lack of support staff, and non-clinical administrative and business duties. To address this, a national retail health company implemented a mentorship program for newly graduated, newly hired NPs. This quality improvement project will facilitate the implementation and evaluation of this mentorship program in one of the company’s regions in Georgia.

AVAILABLE KNOWLEDGE: Literature suggests that NPs believe that a mentor can help contribute to professional development, counter stress and anxiety, provide support, increase job satisfaction, and guide in critical decision making.

AIMS: 1. …

Organizational Learning In A College Of Nursing: A Learning History, Bret Lyman, Lisa A. Cowan, Hannah C. Hoyt

Faculty Publications

Background: College of nursing leaders can foster organizational learning as a means of achieving their desired organizational outcomes. Organizational learning has not previously been studied in colleges of nursing, leaving college administrators and faculty little guidance as they strive to improve outcomes in their own colleges.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to discover new insights related to organizational learning in a college of nursing.

Design: The learning history method was used to document and describe organizational learning in a college of nursing.

Setting: This study was conducted with a college of nursing situated in a private, religious-based university …

Organizational Improvement Readiness Assessment (Oira) Tool Evaluation, Leslie Hough Falk

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Research shows that despite an increase in the number of organizational improvement initiatives there is a lack of consistent, sustained outcomes. Organizations struggle with how to reliably and accurately measure their readiness to drive and sustain outcomes. A search of the literature failed to identify a comprehensive, evidence-based tool that has been developed or evaluated to assess organizational improvement readiness. The objective of this project was to evaluate a newly developed Organizational Improvement Readiness Assessment (OIRA) Tool.

Project Design: Guided by two theoretical models, Delphi-Based Systems Architecting Framework (DB-SAF) and the Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Model, a 3-round, modified …

Hospital Nursing Research Program: Partnership Of Service And Academia, Patricia Ravert, Katreena Collette Merrill

Faculty Publications

Hospitals in a nonprofit mountain west corporation conducted a gap analysis to determine readiness for Magnet Recognition. Major gaps included nursing research and availability of consultation and resources for research. Based on the findings, the development of a dynamic research program promoting nursing research and evidence-based practice within hospitals was undertaken. A nursing research council was reestablished with representatives from service and academia. A literature review and analysis of corporate/academia resources were completed. The plan called for a nursing research coordinator position and development of a research budget. Academia continues to be represented on the hospital institutional review board. A …