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Improving Care and Outcomes for Patients Receiving Titratable Vasopressors Medications: A Quality Improvement Project
(2022)The Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines (Dellinger, 2013) recommend that vasopressors be used to stabilize hypotensive patients unresponsive to volume resuscitation. Vasopressors are an integral part of hemodynamic ... -
The Implementation of an Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of Polypharmacy in the Geriatric Population: A Quality Improvement Project
(2022-07)Aim: The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of evidence-based polypharmacy guidelines in managing polypharmacy and deprescribing. Geriatric patients are at high risk for polypharmacy and increasing their ... -
Dance activities to support mental health in adolescents in the high school setting
(2022)After 21 years of teaching high school and seeing the increasingly common presence of mental health issues in students, the author arrives at this project to investigate the use of dance to support mental health in ... -
I see you: Dance as behavioral intervention for middle school students
(2022)This research project outlines the creation of five movement/dance activities for use as behavioral intervention strategies in a middle school classroom. The author builds this pedagogical project on concepts and theories ... -
Spatial Design Strategies for Competitive High School and Collegiate Dance Team Routines
(2022)Kristianna Hogan’s research entitled “Spatial Design Strategies for Competitive High School and Collegiate Dance Team Routines” discusses what spatial design strategies dance team coaches might use in an effort to improve ... -
Dance is Second Nature: Movement for Movements—Dance Activism for Transformation, Environmental, and Eco-Dance Æffects
(2022)Site-specific dance may be the intersection of dance education and outdoor education, and screendance may further interconnect them with 21st-century skills. The research has called the author to provide substance showing ... -
Creating a summative grading rubric and feedback form to promote progression in dance at the middle school level
(2022)This paper examines published research in assessments, rubrics and educational frameworks to support the creation of a “summative grading rubric” for middle school dance educators. The hope is that this rubric would then ... -
Creating Peak Experiences: Contemporary Dance Student-Centered Practices for use in a Studio Setting
(2022)This research investigates holistic and student centered teaching practices for use in a contemporary dance studio setting. With examination of published literature in the area of dance curriculum, general education ... -
"But I Don't Dance!": Building a Cross-Curricular Integration Workshop for K-12 Educators
(2022)The author arrives at this project in an effort to ease intimidation expressed by fellow K-12 educators regarding cross-curricular integration of dance in their classroom practices. These feelings of intimidation, paired ... -
The Impact of a Nurse Practitioner-Led Targeted Intervention Guideline to Prevent 30-Day Readmissions Among High-Risk Heart Failure Patients: A Health Care Outcomes Project
(2022-06-20)Heart failure (HF) is a chronic disease in which the heart muscle cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's blood and oxygen requirements. HF is a leading cause of hospitalization and readmissions in the United States, ... -
An Evaluation of the Utilization of Telehealth for Patients with Hypertension- A Quality Improvement Project
(2022-06-20)Background and purpose: Hypertension is the contributing cause of death for nearly half a million people living in the United States each year. Although this condition increases an individual’s risk of stroke, heart attack, ... -
Increasing Patient Participation with Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care: An Evidence-Based Improvement Initiative
(2022-06-20)Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC), although lethal, is preventable. Most CRC begins as adenomas that slowly grow over 10–20 years; therefore, the mainstay for CRC is early detection and removal of precancerous polyps. ... -
Evaluation of an Evidence-based Algorithm for Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure: A Quality Improvement Project
(2022-01-20)Background: The past decade, and particularly the past few years, there has been an increased focus on early recognition and responding to deteriorating hospitalized patients. One emerging approach gaining support is the ... -
Improving Cervical Cancer Screening Rates and Utilization of Evidence-Based Treatment Guidelines at a Rural Primary Care Clinic
(2022-05-09)Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease; one of every four deaths in the United States is due to cancer (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). Cervical ... -
Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of Immune-Mediated Diarrhea/Colitis
(2022-03-29)Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States as well as in Texas. The introduction of Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has been extremely promising for cancer treatment in the last decade. Immune-mediated ... -
A1c Point of Care Testing with Type II Diabetes Patients to Increase Patient Engagement and Improve Glycemic Control
(2021)Background: Diabetes is at the forefront of chronic disease management. As the 7th leading cause of death in the United States, 34.2 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, and 95% have type 2 diabetes. Uncontrolled ... -
Interdisciplinary Approach to Oral Care among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Quality Improvement Project
(2021)The DNP project focused on the need to optimize the care provided to patients diagnosed with T2DM receiving care in a medical clinic in southeastern Texas. The project inquiry question: In adult (18-65 years of age) ... -
Suffrage in Texas Expanded (SITE) Teaching Tool
(2021)The recent film Citizens at Last (Schiesari 2021) is a strong starting point for discussing suffrage in Texas, but it mainly features white women activists. This teaching tool will focus on creating a more thorough picture ... -
Managing patients with diabetes distress: A quality improvement project
(2021-07)The burdensome chronic disease of diabetes mellitus causes a significant emotional impact called “diabetes distress” leading to poor outcomes in patients. The importance of identifying and managing diabetes distress is ... -
Implementation of Sleep Apnea Screening: A Practice Improvement Project
(2021)"Patients and healthcare professionals often neglect sleep apnea symptoms. The clinical team identified the need for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) screening in the local cardiology clinic patients. Outpatient clinics provide ...
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