Browsing Nursing Doctoral Work by Title
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Easing the Transition: Needs Assessment and Seminar Development for Novice Advanced Practice Clinicians in Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Healthcare is moving away from the traditional primary care physician model to meet changing patient care needs, with increasing utilization of clinicians beyond the primary care physician, including nurse practitioners ... -
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 ... -
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: Youth Prevention and Cessation Discussions by Primary Care Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Youth use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has increased over the last several years, necessitating proactive steps by primary care providers (PCP) including discussing ENDS health effects with youth and ... -
Emergency Care Education for Advanced Practice Providers in Rural Critical Access Hospitals
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Providing high quality and safe emergency care to patients in rural communities has become a complex and challenging problem. In the face of workforce shortages in emergency medicine, advanced practice providers (APPs) ... -
Emergency Care Skills Preparedness of Rural Minnesota Nurse Practitioners
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Many rural hospitals rely on family nurse practitioners (FNPs) to provide care in rural health care facilities. With a shortage of medical doctors, FNPs are frequently working independently to fill the need often covering ... -
Emergency Care Skills Preparedness of Rural Nurse Practitioners
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In the rural setting, emergencies present as high stress situations and can have significant consequences for the patient, family, provider, and hospital staff involved. Many rural hospitals rely heavily on nurse practitioners ... -
Emergency Skill Competency Among Rural North Dakota Nurse Practitioners
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Many people with medical emergencies in rural areas would go untreated without the presence of critical access hospitals. Nurse Practitioners employed as rural healthcare providers commonly assume the roles of primary care ... -
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness of Rural Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Healthcare systems have a legal and moral duty to provide competent care to all consumers whom seek treatment even when natural disasters, terrorism events, pandemics, widespread chemical/radiologic exposure and other ... -
Enhancing Health Professionals' Cultural Competence of Gender and Sexual Minority Health
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community continues to experience worse health outcomes than their heterosexual counterparts. Inequities in health care include low health insurance rates, high rates of ... -
Enhancing Resilience and Self-Efficacy through COPE: Rural High School Seniors
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Background: Adolescence is a particularly stressful time during an individual’s life. It is vital that adolescents have access to mental health resources. A confidential program was offered in a school setting, a vital ... -
Enhancing the Orientation Process for Nurse Practitioners Entering Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Novice nurse practitioners (NNPs) face many challenges when transitioning to practice, which include, but are not limited to, time management, interprofessional relationships, role ambiguity, transition shock, inconsistent ... -
Essential Oil Education for Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Patient use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been increasing in the United States for a variety of reasons. Many patients perceive CAM as easier to understand, natural, and safer than conventional medicine. ... -
Evaluating an Evidence-Based Prevention Program Delivered by Primary-Care Providers and In-Home Nurse Visits: The Period of Purple Crying, an Abusive Head-Trauma Prevention Program
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is an abusive head injury where an infant is submitted to severe, repetitive acceleration-deceleration forces with or without blunt impact to the head (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ... -
The Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Problem
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Fruit and vegetable consumption is an essential component of a healthy diet and one of the most modifiable risk factors for chronic disease. Only a small percentage of the world’s population consumes the recommended amount ... -
Healthcare Provider Education for Recognizing and Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Human trafficking has increasing prevalence in the United States (U.S.) with an estimated 1.6 million people trafficked at any time. Healthcare systems are one of the most critical access points for identifying and recognizing ... -
HPV Immunization: Reducing Missed Opportunities through Enhanced Provider Knowledge and Communication Strategies
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The purpose of the project was to increase healthcare professionals’ knowledge regarding HPV, the vaccine, and communication strategies to improve vaccine acceptance. In addition, the purpose was to increase healthcare ... -
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Barriers: A College-Based Intervention for Students to Increase Knowledge, Vaccine Intent, and Vaccine Uptake
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The purpose of this disquisition was to determine knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and barriers of college-age students at North Dakota State University (NDSU) related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) and the vaccine used ... -
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Barriers: An Educational Intervention for Male College Students to Increase Knowledge, Vaccine Intent, and Vaccine Uptake
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. When the virus does not spontaneously resolve, HPV infections can develop into papillomas or cancers (CDC, 2020d). While ... -
�I Am Aids�: Bridging the Gap
(North Dakota State University, 2013)It is estimated that between 252,000 and 312,000 people in the United States are unaware that they are infected with HIV/AIDS and are unaware of their risk for HIV/AIDS transmission to other people (Morbidity and Mortality ... -
Identification of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Type 1 diabetes is a life-long chronic condition that typically presents in childhood, and approximately 193,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have either Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. Additionally, approximately ...