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Improving Role Transition, Recruitment, & Retention Through A Structured APRN Orientation Program
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) are leaving hospital-based organizations within
their first year of practice due to unforeseen challenges, role confusion, inadequate support, and
fragmented onboarding ...
Interprofessional Simulaton Among Healthcare Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Communication Self-Efficacy
(2020)
Medical errors that result in adverse and sentinel events are linked to ineffective communication between providers and members of the healthcare team. Healthcare organizations have enacted multiple strategies to lower the ...
Improving Nursing Student Resilience Using Online Simulation and Resilience-Based Content in a Pediatric Course
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
New graduate nurse’s job satisfaction rates persistently decrease at six months post-graduation. Nursing schools are implementing resilience into their curriculum to prepare future nurses to be resilient in their careers. ...
Nursing Faculty Perspectives Regarding the Effectiveness of Prelicensure Nursing Education
(2020)
New graduate registered nurse unreadiness for professional practice is a growing, critical global issue that threatens public safety. While research has associated this academic under-preparation to preventable medical ...
Nursing Student Perceptions of the Effects of Interprofessional Communication and Teamwork on Time to Rescue
(2020)
Simulation has been used in healthcare and other industries for many years. Advances in technology have made simulation a feasible teaching/learning pedagogy for undergraduate nursing students. Healthcare delivery continues ...
Physical Activity and Medication Adherence to Decrease Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States with about 800,000 strokes per year
and is a significant cause of adult disability. About 15% of all strokes are attributed to atrial
fibrillation. Moderate ...
Online DASH Diet Education to Reduce Blood Pressure in Primary Care Patients
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Hypertension is widespread among Americans and can lead to serious conditions such as
myocardial infarction, stroke, renal failure, and potentially death if not diagnosed and treated
appropriately. Non-pharmacological ...
Faculty Mentoring Effects on Retention Rates and Job Satisfaction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
As the predicted nursing shortage emerges, an immediate intervention to expand the nursing
faculty workforce within the undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs is
essential. This evidence-based quality ...
Enhance Transition Care for Medically Complex Adolescents
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Medically complex adolescents with spina bifida and shunted hydrocephalus are living into
adulthood and requiring healthcare as adults. For effective neurosurgical care to continue from a
pediatric practice to an adult ...
Implementation and Evaluation of the Success of a Direct Primary Care Model
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Due to rising health care costs, limited access to primary care, and primary care provider
shortages, new health care models need to be implemented to reduce costs, improve outcomes,
increase access, and encourage more ...
Shared Medical Appointments to Improve Self-Care Actions in the Adult Heart Failure Patient
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Heart failure affects about 5.7 million people in the United States and is the leading cause of
hospitalizations of people over 65 years of age. In 2010, the CDC estimated that heart failure
costs the nation $30.7 ...
Provision of Telelactation Support to Improve Breastfeeding Outcome
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Breastfeeding is a valuable infant feeding method that offers many preventative health benefits
to mothers and infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization
provide recommendations ...
Effects of Education on Medication Adherence and Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Adults
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
Hypertension affects many United States adults and is a modifiable risk factor of heart disease,
the leading cause of death in the United States. Low medication adherence rates are associated
with poor blood pressure ...
A randomized feasibility and acceptability study comparing modes of parenting education delivery for young fathers
(2020)
Limited research and reliance on maternal reports of father involvement in caregiving provides an inadequate understanding of adolescent fatherhood. Despite improved outcomes for infants and adolescent mothers when adolescent ...
Atrial Fibrillation Patient Education: An Evidence-Based Project
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in the healthcare setting. As of 2010,
there were 33.5 million Americans living with atrial fibrillation in the United States. It is a
chronic condition that requires ...
Exploring school nurse workload through the lived experiences of school nurses caring for students kindergarten through fifth grade
(2020)
School nurses support the needs of healthy students, those with chronic diseases, all from diverse racial and ethnic groups. Current nurse-to-student ratios, or caseloads, do not fully capture the extent of their work. The ...
Improving Student Confidence in Communication: A Simulation Intervention
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
Communication skills are a vital part of nursing practice. After graduation, many new nurses
identify professional communication skills as inadequate in their nursing education. The final
clinical capstone experience ...
The relationship between staff nurses' perceptions of nurse manager caring behaviors and patient experience: A correlational study
(2020)
Background. The Institute of Medicine claimed that effective nursing leadership is essential to fulfilling the vision of nurses as full partners with other healthcare professionals. Nursing leadership education is often ...
Stress-Management for Undergraduate Nursing Students to Increase Success Rates
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Stress and anxiety among nursing students can interfere with learning and academic
performance. Anxiety is predominantly caused by school and personal life imbalance, financial
difficulty, as well as exams and issues ...
The Nursing Workaround: Development of a Pyschometric Instrument
(2021)
The development of nursing workarounds is a significant concern for healthcare organizations with the potential to have longstanding consequences to patient safety. Although numerous studies have been published about ...