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Opioids: A Reason for Concern
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The opioid epidemic has drawn increasing attention as opioid prescribing rates and opioid related deaths continue to rise. Opioid prescribing by health care providers has quadrupled over the past 18 years and is directly ...
Developing and Implementing an Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patient and Sleep Study Patient Education Video in a Sleep Medicine Clinic
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Patient education is the catalyst to raise patient competence in self-care and health management and may be the most important action performed by healthcare providers as they seek to empower patients towards better health ...
Implementation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test to Improve Practice in a Rural Primary Care Clinic
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of the project was to improve patient care and the clinical practice at the Barnesville Area Clinic (BAC) by introducing the providers to a guided method of evidence-based alcohol screening and brief intervention ...
Study on the Relationship between Process Plan and Resource Requirement in Additive Manufacturing
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Resource consumption in additive manufacturing (AM) is often tied with the physical attribute of the fabricated part. Thus, optimizing the processes plan for minimum part fabrication resource requirement is a matter of ...
Implementing Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments into Bemidji Dialysis
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST) is changing the way we approach the end of life. POLST is a tool used to have conversations about end-of-life planning that includes patients, patient's families, and ...
Addressing Advance Directive in Rural Primary Care North Dakota: Implementing a Tool for Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Advance directives are legal documents developed as a tool to allow patients to express their wishes and allow healthcare providers to educate and converse with their patients on disease prognosis and management. Advance ...
Primary Care Resource and Referral Guide for Children 4-11 Years of Age with ADHD
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The practice-improvement project (PIP) assessed five family nurse practitioners and one
pediatrician regarding the use and evaluation of a community treatment guideline packet.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ...
Three Essays on Waterborne Transportation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This dissertation introduces three different topics on waterborne transportation. River transportation is a very important alternative for freight shipments in some countries. A significant portion of United States ...
A Concussion Toolkit Educational Session: Promoting Evidence-Based Management of Youth Concussion in a Rural Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Concussions are a form of mild traumatic brain injury, yet the potential short-term and long-term adverse effects are anything but mild. Concussions, especially if left undiagnosed or untreated, can adversely affect a ...
Organizing Transit in Small Urban and Rural Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The justification of government support of rural transit on the basis of the presence of increasing returns to scale and the most efficient regional organization of transit is investigated. Returns to density, size, and ...