Doctor of Nursing Practice - Scholarly Projects | 2022
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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 ... -
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 ...
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