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A Strategy For Standardizing Stimulant And Benzodiazepine Management For Advanced Nursing Practice And Drug Safety, Michael Iheukwu Agugo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Nursing Students Applying Active Teaching And Learning To Develop Clinical Judgment Skills, Charlene Lindsay Jones

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Motivation And Leadership Development Among Federal Nurse Leaders, Sarah Davis-Arnold

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Determinants Of Extended Postanesthesia Care Unit Stay, Jonathan Vaughn

Nursing Publications

Frustration is a common emotion felt by up to 70% of workers in high-stress environments.1 As a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, I can attest to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) as being a high-stress environment. The PACU Registered Nurses and staff provide expert care to postoperative patients. The PACU offers postoperative patients a safe recovery from anesthesia through monitoring and stabilization, as well as pain and symptom management through prevention and early intervention. It prepares patients for timely discharge or transfer.2 At times, some patients may experience adverse effects in the PACU, resulting in a longer than 90-minute length of …

Advance Care Planning In Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Khanh H. Thai

Student Theses

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is essential in achieving goal-concordant care for patients with metastatic lung cancer (MLC), yet it remains underutilized.

Local problem: Despite its benefits, ACP has been inconsistently integrated into outpatient oncology settings, and a baseline evaluation at the project site revealed that only 11% of patients with MLC had ACP documented in the outpatient care clinic.

Methods: This Quality Improvement initiative implemented a formal, Nurse Practitioner (NP)-led intervention into routine oncology care. Using a quasi-experimental nonrandomized design, 13 eligible patients diagnosed with MLC without prior ACP documentation were enrolled in a four-week study. These participants were …

The Effectiveness Of Online Recovery Meetings Among Inpatients With Substance Use Disorders, Lorna Kalesnick Rn

Nurse Residency

In hospitalized patients with alcoholism and substance use disorder, does participation in online recovery meetings during inpatient stay, compared with standard care without online meetings, reduce relapse and hospital readmission rates ninety days after discharge?

The Use Of Pressure-Mapping Technology To Decrease Pressure Injury Prevalence, Acadia Morse Bsn, Rn

Nurse Residency

Does the use of pressure-mapping, as compared to a standard repositioning schedule, decrease the rate of pressure injuries in acute care patients at a high risk of skin breakdown?

The Healthcare Transition Experiences Of Emerging Adults With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Leslie Noojin Pitts

ETDs from 2020-2029

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of disorders characterized by enzyme deficiencies impairing adrenal hormone production and requiring lifelong management. Individuals with CAH experience increased morbidity and mortality due to the underlying condition, steroid exposure, and inadequate preventative care. Despite clinical guidelines recommending a structured healthcare transition (HCT), little is known about the HCT experiences of emerging adults with CAH. Understanding these experiences is critical for identifying practice gaps and developing interventions to improve health outcomes. This qualitative descriptive study explored the HCT experiences, challenges, and outcomes of emerging adults with CAH, as guided by the refined Social Ecological …

Practice With Purpose: The Pediatric Ng/Og Tube Safety Hierarchy, Caitlin Roush, Christine Hajovsky, Delaney Dewolf, Elizabeth Hernandez, Giselle Daclan, Jay Barber, Kris Noel, Kristen Dickey, Lynde Craig, Madeline Herrera, Margaret Willenburg, Mckenzie Pedigo, Melynda Olguin, Myesha Vines, Rhianna Brard, Teresa Wynee

Practice With Purpose

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Co-Designed Interventions Package For Enhancing Women's Resilience In Reproductive And Child Health Through Income-Generating Associations: A Human-Centered Design Study In Tanzania, Kahabi Isangula, Aminieli Itaeli Usiri, Eunice Pallangyo

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Background: Maternal and under-five mortality remain major public health concerns in many low- and middle-income countries, including Tanzania. Despite their widespread use in strengthening economic resilience, income-generating associations (IGAs) have not fully utilized their potential as platforms for addressing reproductive and child health (RCH) challenges.

Objective: This study aimed to co-design an intervention package with women participating in income-generating associations to enhance their preparedness and resilience in addressing RCH challenges in Tanzania.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive study guided by a Human-Centered Design (HCD) framework was conducted in the Arusha and Shinyanga regions of Tanzania. The study followed …

Exploring Occupational Exposures And Health Risks Among Long-Haul Truck Drivers: Tobacco Smoke, Cara Harris

ETDs from 2020-2029

Long-haul truck drivers (LHTDs) are exposed to a range of occupational hazards and stressors that threaten their health and well-being. These include, but are not limited to, irregular sleep patterns, fatigue, and chronic exposure to diesel engine exhaust (DEE) and tobacco smoke in the confined spaces of truck cabins. Smoking tobacco cigarettes is often used as a coping mechanism for occupational stressors and nicotine dependence, contributing to a high smoking rate among LHTDs (51%) compared to the general population (19%). Collectively, exposure to DEE and tobacco smoke may have a synergistic effect, increasing LHTD’s risk for lung cancer and other …

Development Of An Oncology Clinical Research Complexity And Acuity Score For Outpatient Treatment By Visit, Shannon Hoffman

All Poster Presentations

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The Impact On Nurses' Knowledge And Confidence Of Simulation With Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Infusion, Rachael Crickman, Shannon Williams, Heather Bissmeyer, Frances Chu, Cara Gallegos

All Poster Presentations

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Where Housing And Healthcare Meet: Ed Utilization Through On-Site Nursing And Fmr Collaboration, Bennett Gosiker, Tara Ahmadi, Bessie Liu, Naeemah Munir, Viet Nguyen, Carrie B Rubenstein

All Poster Presentations

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Impact Of Gum Chewing On Postoperative Ileus Following Open Heart Surgery At Swedish Cherry Hill, Jacinta Smith

All Podium Presentations

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Innovating Cauti Prevention: The Cauti Café And Multidisciplinary Catheter Stewardship At The Bedside, Erik Enquist, Jennifer Neal, Naz Akhavan, Harnishad Binner

All Podium Presentations

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Birth Satisfaction, As Measured By The Birth Satisfaction Scale–Revised (Bss-R), And Its Role In Predicting Breastfeeding Duration, Maternal-Infant Attachment, And Postpartum Depression, Molly Parker

University Honors Theses

Birth satisfaction has been consistently associated with improved maternal outcomes such as reduced postpartum depression (PPD), stronger maternal-infant attachment, and longer breastfeeding duration. However, the extent to which birth satisfaction independently predicts these outcomes remains unclear. This study examined whether birth satisfaction, as measured by the Birth Satisfaction Scale–Revised (BSS-R), predicts postpartum depression, maternal-infant attachment, and breastfeeding duration in a longitudinal cohort.

Data were drawn from the Prenatal Environmental And Child Health (PEACH) study. Birth satisfaction was assessed at 12 months postpartum using the BSS-R. Postpartum depression was measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), maternal-infant attachment using the …

New Graduate Nurses' Experiences Of Leaving The Emergency Department, Gemma John

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Nurses' Perspectives On Caring For Critically Ill Children During A Measles Outbreak: A Case Report, Nicole Roehrig

All Podium Presentations

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Quality Improvement: Referral Algorithm For Team-Based Care Of Blood Pressure Control, Hai-Yen Tang, Elise Gibson

All Podium Presentations

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