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Addressing Cervical Cancer Disparities Among American Indian Women: Implementing an Educational Module for Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Many minority populations throughout the United States experience significant cancer-related disparities affecting their quality of life. American Indians represent one group of individuals who experience significant ...
Looking Beyond the Question ‘Do You Feel Safe at Home?': What Healthcare Providers Need to Know to Identify, Support, and Appropriately Refer Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The purpose of this practice improvement project was to educate healthcare providers about Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The World Health Organization (WHO) (2014) created a clinical handbook for healthcare providers. ...
Nursing Student Stress
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Nursing students experience multiple stressors as they are expected to apply theoretical learning and develop critical thinking skills while in the professional environment. Perceived overwhelming negative stressors can ...
Eating Disorder Screening, Evaluation, and Referral in the Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Nearly one person out of 20 is at risk of developing an eating disorder in his or her lifetime. Young teens and young adults are at the greatest risk of developing an eating disorder, as peak onset is between the ages of ...
Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol Use in College Students
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
College students are recognized as a high-risk group for alcohol problems in the United States. Annually approximately 500,000 college students are unintentionally injured, and more than 1,700 college students die from ...
Prescription Drug Abuse: Implementing an Evidence-Based Pain Management Protocol
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Prescription drug abuse is an intentional misuse of a prescribed drug for recreational or other purposes that was not intended by the prescriber of the drug. Since 2012, fatalities from opioid overdoses have risen to ...
The Impact of Simulation Experiences on Nursing Student’s Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Previous research has shown that high fidelity simulation experiences impact the satisfaction and self-confidence of nursing students. The purpose of the study was to examine the student satisfaction and self-confidence ...
Stochastic Optimization of Sustainable Industrial Symbiosis Based Hybrid Generation Bioethanol Supply Chains
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Bioethanol is becoming increasingly attractive for the reasons of energy security, diversity, and sustainability. As a result, the use of bioethanol for transportation purposes has been encouraged extensively. However, ...
Optimization Models for Scheduling and Rescheduling Elective Surgery Patients Under the Constraint of Downstream Units
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Healthcare is a unique industry in terms of the associated requirements and services provided to patients. Currently, healthcare industry is facing challenges of reducing the cost and improving the quality and accessibility ...
Two Data Mining Applications for Predicting Pre-Diabetes
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this study, the performance of Logistic Regression and Decision Tree modeling is compared by using SAS Enterprise Miner for predicting pre-diabetes in US population by using several of the common factors from the type ...