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Decreasing Dementia Caregiver Burden: A Quality Improvement Intervention
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
A caregiver is defined as someone who offers care to another individual who is not capable of carrying out activities essential for daily living. The role of caregivers is often overlooked, but their contributions are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Assessment of Psychological Distress and Resilience among Nurse Practitioner Students
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Medical doctors and medical students experience increased prevalence of depression, anxiety, suicidality, suicide, stress, and burnout when compared to the general public. Along with suffering from increased rates of ...
A Data Analysis of the Predictive Risks for Readmission of Patients with Depression Post-Myocardial Infarction
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Depression is prevalent in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Past studies have found that one in five patients experience depression post-myocardial infarction (MI) (Osler et al., 2016; Thombs et al., 2006). ...
Cement Changes and their Effects on Shrinkage and Durability of Concrete
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
In this work, the effects of different cementitious combinations on drying shrinkage and durability of concrete are investigated. Shrinkage is caused due to loss of water from concrete due to evaporation. Cement paste is ...