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Impact of Nurse Practitioner Practice Regulation on Access to Healthcare Services
(2014-09-26)
Nurse practitioner (NP) practice regulations vary from state to state across the United States. Despite strong evidence supporting the quality of care and satisfaction with care provided by NPs, restrictive regulations continue to limit the practice...
Improving Provider Comfort with the Assessment and Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Sexuality and optimal erectile function are essential aspects of holistic care. Healthcare
providers, however, do not routinely assess erectile function in male patients during the annual
wellness exam. Men are more ...
Multimodal Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning in Primary Care Medicare Patients
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Advance care planning is the guideline recommended process which encourages adults to
analyze values, identify goals, and articulate preferences for future medical care in order to
protect autonomy in the event of ...
Impact of a psychoeducational intervention on dementia caregiving
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-16)
(p < 0.001) and stress (p = 0.008). Caregiver competence was significantly correlated with stress (p = 0.046). Findings from this study provide empirical support that the Family Series Workshop may have positive effects on one's competency when...
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Pediatric Primary Care
(2017)
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 ...
Influences on contraceptive use among college women
(2015-05-19)
Background: An unintended pregnancy (UIP) occurs before an ideal time or is completely unwanted. In 2011, the rate of UIP in the United States was 49% of all pregnancies. Unintended pregnancies are expensive to society and ...
Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in African American Women After Multiple Interventions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
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) ...
Distress and Caregiver Appraisal in Pediatric Critical Care Unit Nurses when Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Distress, defined as anxiety, sorrow, and/or pain, among nurses is a pervasive
problem. When elevated or uncompensated, distress may contribute to deleterious
consequences for the nurse, patient outcomes, the nursing ...
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 ...
The development and psychometric testing of the shared decision-making instrument
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-18)
Immunizations are a primary prevention intervention to prevent communicable diseases. The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been available to females in the United States since June 2006. However, the receipt of the ...
Exploring the Impact of Structural Empowerment in Long-Term Care
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Nurses employed in long-term care settings have the highest rate to leave their positions within a
year compared to other healthcare workers. Ensuring workforce stability in long-term care is a
growing challenge for ...
Social Support and Smoking among Midwest LGBT Adults
(2014-09-30)
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations have smoking rates twice that of their heterosexual counterparts. To design effective outreach, prevention, and treatments for these individuals, a comprehensive ...
What is the BSN Student's Perception of Why a Nursing Course was Failed?
(2015-05-28)
were interviewed. Narrative inquiry, specifically storytelling, was used to ascertain the individual students’ perceptions of why a nursing course was failed and to identify any environmental factors that may have contributed to failing. Intrinsic...
Lateral Violence Response Training for Nursing Students
(2015-06-19)
Lateral violence among nurses is a pervasive problem contributing to deleterious
consequences for targets, work environments, patient outcomes, and the nursing profession.
Newly licensed nurses are at a disadvantage to ...
The Effects of Career Commitment, Distress, and Persistence on Academic Success among Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The ability of students, specifically in higher education environments, to persist is a
critical determinant of academic success. Student success is especially precarious within
programs of nursing, where curricula ...
Development and pilot test of a conscientization intervention for nurses who have experienced moral distress
(2019)
Nurses act as moral agents for patients and use their moral sensitivity to build trusting relationships to act in patients’ best interests. However, nurses also lack power in their place of employment due to inequality in ...
Oncology Patient Education by a Nurse Practitioner and Stress Reduction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1.7 million new cancer cases were
diagnosed in 2018. With a new diagnosis of cancer, patient education can be used to decrease
anxiety about the diagnosis and ...
The persistence scale for online education: development of a psychometric tool
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-25)
that the persistent student may be characterized as enjoying discussion, confident on passing, confidence in friendly interactions, believing that a challenging course will help achieve goals, looking forward to interactions, and not frequently upset by unexpected...
Cerebrovascular Accident Behavioral Modification Education for High-Risk Women
(2017)
Cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) continue to be one of the leading causes of disability and
death throughout the United States (U.S.). While both men and women are at risk for CVAs,
more women have CVAs each year than ...
The Effect of Motivational Interviewing on Stroke Risk in Adults
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, and there are physical, economic,
and emotional consequences for patients and their families. Finding effective ways to reduce risk
factors and prevent ...