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Assessment Of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Incidence And Identification Of Other Correlating Risk Factors In Patients Admitted Through The Emergency Department, Hannah Young
DNP Projects
PURPOSE: The purpose of this project was to measure adherence rates to the current alcohol use screening process, and identification of correlations of alcohol use and outcomes in patients admitted to Norton Hospital, via the emergency department.
METHODS: The study design is a retrospective descriptive evaluation, of adherence to the current alcohol use screening process, and associations among age, gender, ethnicity, length of stay, number of ICU days, restraint use days, level of care at admission (ICU, TCU, LLM/tele, MS), incidence of AWS/DTs, and activation of the CIWA protocol among the adult inpatient population of Norton Hospital’s downtown campus, admitted …
Evaluation Of Self-Efficacy And Confidence Levels Among Newly Graduated Nurses Exposed To An End-Of-Life Simulation: A Comparison Study, Catherine Edwards
Evaluation Of Self-Efficacy And Confidence Levels Among Newly Graduated Nurses Exposed To An End-Of-Life Simulation: A Comparison Study, Catherine Edwards
DNP Projects
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to compare self-efficacy and confidence levels among a cohort of newly graduated nurses (defined as nurses who have had no nursing experience and are participating in a new graduate nursing residency) who will participate in an EOL simulation with another cohort of nurses who have been practicing for a year or more, but have not participated in an end-of-life simulation.
Methods: The study included two parts. The first portion included a pre and post-test evaluation of an end-of-life (EOL) simulation intervention with newly graduated nurses (Group One, n= 22), as part of their …