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Using impact asthma echo to influence physician self-efficacy and guideline adherence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Asthma ECHO influence primary care provider self-efficacy? How does engagement in the learning activities of Impact Asthma ECHO promote clinical guideline adherence? Participants included 19 Primary Care providers participating in Impact Asthma ECHO via...
Pharmacogenetic Testing to Reduce Depression and Anxiety in Adults Treated with Low-Dose Lithium
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)
effectively decreases depression and anxiety in adults with a risk allele on CACNA1C genotypes. The study design was correlational. Fifty patients were treated at a nurse practitioner-owned clinic specializing in psychiatric services in Prairie Village, Kansas...
Transforming the ethical behavior of clinicians through pedagogical innovation: sensemaking as a means to promote ethical practice in the face of moral ambiguity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Even though there is evidence to suggest that teaching normative ethical theory has limited influence on the ethical behavior of clinicians, typical pedagogy in clinical ethics continues to focus on adherence to professional duties...
Nursing professional development in ambulatory care: what is it?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners play an important role in ensuring the quality and safety of nursing care and in guiding nurses through practice transitions. In recent years, an increasing number of ...
Reducing Gender Binarism in Primary Care through Gender Diversity Education
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)
Primary care providers rarely receive formal educational content on gender diversity. However,
as gender diverse persons compose close to 1.5 million individuals in the United States
population, primary care providers ...
Evaluation of Heart Failure-Related Self-Care Levels with Implementation of Personalized Education Sessions in Adults: An Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Project
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)
failure patients. The sample size included three adult female community-dwelling heart failure patients. The project setting was an outpatient heart failure clinic in Olathe, Kansas. The outcomes measured were the pre- and post-self-care levels...
Differences of instructor presence levels in predominately online versus predominately not online courses within the community college setting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
not online course. Instructor presence was examined using the Community of Inquiry framework. The Community of Inquiry is a framework used to examine social, teaching and cognitive presence and the impact of such. Data was gathered from two courses...
Treatment-Resistant Depression Diagnosis in the Outpatient Behavioral Health Setting
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)
participation in the survey was voluntary and included any medication-prescribing clinician working in the outpatient behavioral health clinic. This data was analyzed to create an educational offering for clinicians in the outpatient setting regarding...
Using photo-elicitation to explore challenges and creativity in self-managing breast cancer-related lymphedema and work by U.S. Hispanic/Latina survivors : a case study approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
population; 2) provide the lived community, families, and healthcare professionals with a glimpse of the survivorship experience; and 3) communicate cultural beliefs and health behaviors that may support effective survivorship care for a lifetime....
Signal detection for pediatric patient deterioration in simulation with nursing students : a mixed methods study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
When nurses delay or fail to detect the signals of clinically significant changes during the early stages of disease complication or patient deterioration, it is known as a failure to rescue (FTR). Pediatric patients in the hospital are at risk...
Communication at the end-of-life among advanced cancer patients in Ghana: what patients have to say
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Individuals with life-limiting illnesses require information and good communication throughout their illness. Effective end-of-life communication (EOLC) improves patients' understanding of their condition, care, and treatment ...
Assessing the effects of a novel intervention for antiretroviral medication adherence
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
and social support for adherence). Data for this secondary data analysis comes from Project MOTIV8 and was collected at baseline, week 24, and week 48. Participants were recruited from six outpatient clinics and stratified by ART experience and clinic. Data...
Patient Engagement in Advance Care Planning in Primary Care
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)
Advance care planning is a process that allows individuals to define their preferences and goals
for future medical care through a series of behaviors and actions. Early advance care planning
allows patients time to ...
The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical framework of alcohol use disorder: a translational systematic review of reviews
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Modern nosologies (e.g., ICD-11, DSM-5) for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and dependence prioritize reliability and clinical presentation over etiology, resulting in a diagnosis that is not always strongly grounded in basic theory and research. Within...
Intentions to Eat a Healthy Diet: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior in an African American Faith-Based Population
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Diabetes and heart disease are two major health concerns for African Americans, who tend to have worse nutritional intake than Whites. Black churches, which serve primarily African Americans, are influential institutions ...
Staff nurses' antimicrobial stewardship practices and performance confidence relative to patient safety culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Current antimicrobial stewardship guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest staff nurses play a key role in the stewardship process. The American Nurses Association (ANA) supports the CDC ...
Practice-based evidence research design for lymphedema management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
of these treatments were not well studied. The aims of this dissertation were to: (1) describe the treatment code documentation as part of the PBE process and to evaluate the accuracy of treatment code documentation by LPTs in Maccabi; (2) examine the known...
Retention of new graduates to their first professional role: perceptions of those that have stayed
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
There is an inability to retain new graduate nurses in their initial positions.
Patricia Benner (1984) developed the From Novice to Expert Theory of nurse
development outlining the nurses’ transition through the developmental ...
AI-driven techniques for enhanced efficiency in psychiatry clinical scheduling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] In recent times, psychiatry clinics are constantly facing late patient arrivals. Patient unpunctuality significantly affects the use of resources and patient waiting times, among other quality indicators. Consequences...
A mixed-methods research predicting intentions and perceptions about intimate partner violence screening among nursing students and nurse educators in Thailand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
. The quantitative study was recruited by nursing students who were in the last years of nursing program and passed at least one nursing clinical practice course. The qualitative study, there were nursing students and nurse educators. The inclusion criteria were...