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Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Collaboration with Public Health and Primary Care to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Rural North Dakota Community
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in the nation (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017a). Recommendations are to screen adults, ages 50-75 years (United States ...
Comparison of Burnout and Empowerment Between New Graduate and Experienced Nurses Employed in Acute Care
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The nursing profession is expected to experience massive staff shortages due to experienced nurses reaching retirement and new nurses leaving the profession related to feelings of burnout. This study describes quantitative ...
Midwest Medical Center Employee Perceptions of Workplace Breastfeeding Experiences
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The privilege of motherhood establishes additional temporary occupational needs for women who choose to breastfeed an infant and continue full time employment. The purpose of the study was to assess the holistic needs of ...
Understanding Provider Knowledge and Awareness About Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Unplanned pregnancies have individual, familial, and societal consequences and continue to occur in the United States with over two million women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy each year (GI, 2016). Long-acting ...
Screening for Skin Cancer in Primary Care: Implementation of Dermoscopy
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Skin cancer affects millions of individuals each year. Cutaneous malignant melanoma, which only accounts for a small portion of all skin cancers, is the most serious and is associated with the highest mortality. Education ...
Teamwork During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitations at a Rural Minnesota Hospital
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Cardiac arrest is a major public health problem affecting thousands of individuals each
year in both out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings (Sutton, Nadkarni, & Abella, 2012). In 2012
nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital ...
Vulnerability Assessment of Interdependent Power and Communications Networks under Varying Level of Interdependency
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Maintaining a continuous and robust supply of power could be challenging task, because power networks depend on proper communication to coordinate and schedule supply, as well as recognize and mitigate failures; communication ...
Diabetes Self-Management Education Service at a Rural Minnesota Health Clinic
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
In 2015, there were an estimated 30.3 million Americans living with diabetes, and 95% of them were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017b). Patients living in rural America ...
Standardized Postpartum Depression Screening and Treatment
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Postpartum depression affects 7 to 20% of women in the first year after giving birth. Unfortunately, over 50% of women experiencing postpartum depression go untreated due to lack of detection, placing the woman and child ...
Development of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: A Case Study
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
New graduate advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) face multiple challenges when entering an autonomous practice, including challenges acquiring clinical competency, gaining clinical knowledge regarding their specialty ...