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Improving Adolescent Asthma Management Using a Smart Phone Application
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Asthma is a common condition in adolescence and finding a way to optimize asthma care
management is a priority in primary care. The purpose of this project was to introduce an
electronic asthma action plan using a ...
Infusing Geropsychiatric Nursing Content into Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Curricula: Challenges and Solutions
(2016-05)
By the year 2050, approximately 83 million Americans will be over age 65. Studies have found today’s healthcare providers unprepared to meet the complex healthcare needs of an aging society. Educational institutions must ...
Toxic Stress Education for Pediatric Practitioners to Improve Health Outcomes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
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. ...
Health Literacy Provider Training and Patient Satisfaction
(2017)
Ninety million Americans lack the health literacy skills required to adequately manage their
health while healthcare professionals lack the formal training to appropriately address the needs
of low health literate ...
Reducing Outpatient Antibiotic Resistance: A Quasi-Experimental Study
(2017)
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 ...
Incorporating a Rapid Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
As patients age, the complexity of their care increases and the likelihood of developing geriatric
syndromes becomes greater. Identification and documentation of geriatric syndromes can be a
helpful first step to ...
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 aim of this transcendental...
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 ...
The Effects of Risk Stratifying Patients with the Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP-R) on Aberrant Drug-Taking Behavior in the Primary Care Population
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
As the opioid epidemic continues to negatively affect morbidity and mortality in the United
States, providers must implement risk reduction strategies when prescribing opioids. Evidence
suggests that risk screening ...
Decreasing Stress Through Education for Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Individuals with Dementia
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
People with dementia experience a decline in mental ability that interferes with daily life. The
behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia affect the majority of individuals suffering
from dementia and cause ...
A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational exploration of perceived stress, quality of life, and family functioning in parents of a child with congenital heart disease: The PinCHeD Study
(2020)
only one CBP surgery (n = 14, Mdn = 17.00, IQR = 7). Having a child with CHD and abnormal brain imaging negatively influenced many aspects of their parents’ quality of life and family functioning (p < 0.05): physical function (r(58) = -0.296, p = 0.02...
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 ...
The relationship of career commitment and social determinants of academic achievement on perceived academic persistence among undergraduate nursing students
(2021)
Examining why a student leaves a nursing program, voluntarily or involuntarily, after successfully meeting competitive admission criteria is an important area of research. The ability to persist in higher education, and ...
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 ...
Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Nursing Students in Providing Culturally Competent End-of-Life Care to LGBTQ+ Patients
(2022)
Nurses represent the largest group of health care professionals in the United States and spend more time with patients at the end-of-life (EOL) than any other health care professionals. Often, the quality of EOL nursing ...
CHamorus' Narratives and Perceptions of Historical Trauma and Contemporary Health in Guam
(2021)
Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma ...