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Creating Restful Environments: Applying Evidenced-Based Interventions To Increase The Patients Perceptions Of Room Quietness At Night, Timothy Marks Jan 2020

Creating Restful Environments: Applying Evidenced-Based Interventions To Increase The Patients Perceptions Of Room Quietness At Night, Timothy Marks

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

Florence Nightingale first described the detrimental effects of noise on patients as an element nurses could control. Hospitalized patients who sleep in the hospital are at risk for poor periods of rest from unwanted noise in the care environment. This Doctor of Nursing Practice Project will assess interventions aimed at increasing the patient’s perception of quietness around the care environment at night for a pilot population. Swanson’s Theory of Caring will be utilized as a framework for the project. Outcomes of nursing interventions were reviewed for the improved patient perception of the care environment at night and resultant health outcomes. …


Effects Of Alarms In Fall Prevention In Older Adults, Hillary Newlin, Erika Samuelsen Jan 2015

Effects Of Alarms In Fall Prevention In Older Adults, Hillary Newlin, Erika Samuelsen

Nursing Student Work

No abstract provided.


Use Of Bed/Chair Alarms In Skilled Nursing Facilities For Reduction Of Patient Falls, Nicole Werner, Juliana Wilson Jan 2015

Use Of Bed/Chair Alarms In Skilled Nursing Facilities For Reduction Of Patient Falls, Nicole Werner, Juliana Wilson

Nursing Student Work

No abstract provided.


Impact Of Staffing On Falls In Acute Care Facilities, Christopher Gurunian, John Ripple Jan 2015

Impact Of Staffing On Falls In Acute Care Facilities, Christopher Gurunian, John Ripple

Nursing Student Work

No abstract provided.


Music Therapy Effects On Dementia, Aimee Fernback, Amy Shubert Jan 2015

Music Therapy Effects On Dementia, Aimee Fernback, Amy Shubert

Nursing Student Work

No abstract provided.


Betsy: A Case Study Of A Client With Down's Syndrome And Dementia, Cheryl D. Schlamb, Christine D. Moriconi Jan 2014

Betsy: A Case Study Of A Client With Down's Syndrome And Dementia, Cheryl D. Schlamb, Christine D. Moriconi

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Artificial Nutrition, Advance Directives And End Of Life In Nursing Homes, Cheryl Ann Monturo Jan 2011

Artificial Nutrition, Advance Directives And End Of Life In Nursing Homes, Cheryl Ann Monturo

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.