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Barriers to New Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Novice Nurse Practitioners (NPs) face many challenges in the first few years of practice. A novice NP was defined as a NP who has practiced for two years or less. The focus of this practice improvement project was to ...
Multi-Objective Optimal Phasor Measurement Units Placement in Power Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The extensive development of power networks has increased the requirements for robust, reliable and secure monitoring and control techniques based on the concept of Wide Area Measurement System (WAMS). Phasor Measurement ...
Lived Experiences of Stigma: Nurses Who Work in Abortion Clinics
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The profession of nursing is respected and trustworthy, but certain nursing specialty fields are looked at less favorably than others. Abortion nursing can be highly stigmatized because of society’s ethical, religious, and ...
Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale: Implementation in a Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic, highly prevalent, neurodevelopment disorder in children, which often persists into adulthood. A gap exists among healthcare providers' knowledge of adult ADHD ...
COPE: Evaluation of a School-Based Intervention to Improve the Overall Mental Health, Resiliency, and Social-Emotional Development of Rural North Dakota Adolescent Youth
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Approximately one in every four to five adolescent youth are affected by anxiety or depression yet fewer than 25% of adolescent youth are getting the mental health treatment they need (Foy, 2010). Without the ability to ...
Colorectal Cancer: Improving Screening Compliance with the Utilization of FIT-DNA (Cologuard)
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States (U.S.), but with the appropriate screening processes, this staggering fact can change (CDC, 2018). Routine CRC screening is one of ...
Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and aspirin is a well-known medication strongly associated with CVD prevention. Aspirin has undeniable benefits in the role of ...
Evacuation Trees with Contraflow and Divergence Considerations
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
In this thesis, we investigate how to evacuate people using the available road transportation network efficiently. To successfully do that, we need to design evacuation model that is fast, safe, and seamless. We enable the ...
Experimental Study of the Temperature Profile of a Gaussian Type Heat Distribution
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
In research aimed at studying the laser microwelding of thermoplastic materials, two theoretical heat flow models were studied by Dr. Grewell. In the surface temperature profile based on the Gaussian type distributed heat ...
Improving Stroke Care and Patient Outcomes in a Rural Minnesota Hospital
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Approximately 795,000 Americans suffer from a stroke each year which results in about 25% of these patients dying, and 15–30% remain permanently disabled. The direct and indirect costs of stroke care exceed $73 billion ...