Antibiotic resistance is a global concern that costs the world thousands of lives and the United States billions of dollars annually in healthcare expenditures and missed work. One reason that providers prescribe ...

Asthma affects more than 300 million people across the globe. The financial burden impacts individuals and their families as well as communities and health care systems. Although asthma education is a fundamental ...

Heart failure is a public health concern within today’s healthcare system at both the national and local level. As the prevalence of heart failure continues to rise, interventions on improving patient outcomes, reducing ...

The purpose of this evidence-based project was to introduce a group visit model as a feasible intervention to improve diabetes outcomes. This quantitative quasi-experimental study looked at a convenience sample of five ...

Over 400,000 preterm infants are born each year and taken to the neonatal intensive care unit which presents a caustic and intimidating environment for parents who struggle to adapt to the parenting role in a roller ...

Toxic stress associated with adverse childhood experiences during childhood can have catastrophic lifelong neurobiological, social, and emotional effects and has been shown to decrease life expectancy up to 20 years. ...

Advance care planning and advance directives guide patients in remaining autonomous when considering and planning for future healthcare. Improving the regularity of advance care planning as a preventative measure and ...

Approximately 50% of antibiotics prescribed are not necessary, nevertheless in the United States among the many outpatient prescriptions, few are more widely prescribed than antibiotics. The inappropriate use of ...

Antibiotics have saved many lives since their discovery, but today, due to overuse, are becoming less effective. A portion of provider reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid is based on patient satisfaction. Because ...

Many pediatric primary care clinics fall short in providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services to adolescent patients resulting in missed opportunities for pregnancy prevention, delays in sexually ...

Hypertension is a global pandemic which can cause significant complications if left untreated. The silent symptom characteristics associated with hypertension create the urgency for disease management. The purpose of ...

In the United States, 30 million individuals are affected by type 2 diabetes, with all at risk for complications and decreased quality of life. Diabetic foot ulcers and amputations cost $4.9 billion annually in the ...

Faculty development has a number of benefits in academiaacademia. Specifically, in nurse anesthesia education, doctoral programs are required to provide faculty development for their clinical instructors. In order to ...

Chronic migraine is a primary headache disorder impacting approximately five million individuals in the United States. This condition is associated with significant individual and societal consequences, causing impaired ...

African American women are consistently diagnosed at later stages of breast and cervical cancer than Caucasian women, leading to increased morbidity and mortality rates. Although the mammogram and Papanikolaou (Pap) ...

Hypertension is a modifiable risk factor for serious chronic diseases including heart disease and stroke. Even with known benefits of hypertension management, only half of adults diagnosed have their blood pressure ...

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the principal causes of vision loss in middle-age and older adults worldwide. This quasi-experimental study examined the impact of patient diabetic retinopathy education and eye exam ...

Nearly half of all infants are introduced to solid food before the recommended age. The World Health Organization and American Academy of Pediatrics have established guidelines encouraging parents to delay solid food ...

The older adult population is growing, and is the largest utilizer of healthcare. Most older adults live independently within the community. Community-based health promotion programs benefit the maintenance of older adult health. Advanced practice...

Today, nearly 20.5% of young people of in America are overweight or obese, affecting roughly 12.7 million children and adolescents. The obesity trend has been shown to be a precursor not only to physiological ailments ...