Browsing Nursing Doctoral Work by Issue Date
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Medical Respite Care for Fargo-Moorhead Homeless Population: A Needs Assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Homelessness continues to increase in the Fargo-Moorhead community, and little is known about the health needs of its chronically homeless population. An informal needs assessment completed in 2010 gathered feedback from ... -
Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol Use in College Students
(North Dakota State University, 2013)College students are recognized as a high-risk group for alcohol problems in the United States. Annually approximately 500,000 college students are unintentionally injured, and more than 1,700 college students die from ... -
Assessing North Dakota Nurse Practitioners' Knowledge of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Treatment Guidelines for Adult Cancer Pain
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The purpose of this project was to determine if access to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's guidelines on the treatment of adult cancer related pain increased nurse practitioner knowledge and utilization in ... -
Assessment of Obese Children within a Family-Based Intervention Pilot Study
(North Dakota State University, 2013)About one third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. Multiple comorbidities coincide with obesity affecting children physically and emotionally, which in turn impacts obese children’s quality of life. ... -
Implementing an Evidence-Based Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT) in a Nursing Home
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Literature substantiates that there is a relationship between poor oral health and cardiovascular risk, uncontrolled diabetes, aspiration pneumonia, poor nutritional status, and poor social life for the older adults, ... -
Cultural Awareness and Provider Based Care for Refugee Women
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This disquisitional aimed to improve the cultural education of nurse practitioner's (NP's) related to female refugee populations. The ultimate goal was to improve health care outcomes and decrease disparities for refugee ... -
�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 ... -
Skin Cancer Prevention in North Dakota Farmers and Ranchers
(North Dakota State University, 2013)It is widely known that skin cancer is a significant health concern. Studies show that farmers and ranchers are at increased risk of skin cancer, presumed to be secondary to the increased time they spend outdoors and their ... -
Improving Adolescent Friendly Healthcare Services: Implementing Comprehensive Psychosocial Histories into Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Adolescence is a unique period of rapid physical and psychosocial growth and development. Adolescents are most often physically healthy, but as a normal part of adolescent development the population commonly experiments ... -
Improving Care for Depression as Provided in the Family Practice Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This Dissertation is a synthesis of current literature and guidelines to develop the Simplified Prescribing Tool. The Simplified Prescribing Tool provides a guide to treating depression within the Family Practice discipline. ... -
Development of Prenatal Educational Library in the Somali Language for Family Healthcare
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of the project was to develop a library of culturally sensitive, and language specific prenatal educational materials for Somali women at Family HealthCare (FHC). The educational materials were provided in both ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Designing a Hypertension Management Program for Family Healthcare
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of the practice improvement project was to determine the hypertension management needs of the Family HealthCare (FHC) clinic in Fargo, ND by staff interviews, observation, and data review as well as to develop ... -
Development of Interprofessional Education Modules for Implementation into the Doctor of Nursing Practice Curriculum
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In today’s health care system, professionals must work together to achieve a common goal of improving patient care. Studies have shown that patients and families report lack of care coordination that result in repeat tests ... -
Development of an Algorithm for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Childhood obesity has become a national epidemic and children are diagnosed with co-morbidities once only associated with adults. Despite current interventions, children continue to exude poor diet and physical activity ... -
Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Family Practice: Caring for Children with ADHD
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this Practice Improvement Project was to promote evidence-based practice in caring for children ages 4-18 with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the family practice setting. The American ... -
Creation of Continuing Education Modules Addressing Leadership Development Components Applicable to Nurse Practitioners in the State of North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Effective leadership skills are a necessary element of successful Nurse Practitioner practice. Lack of leadership ability among Nurse Practitioners may lead to gaps in patient care, poorer outcomes, decreased patient ... -
New Referral Hepatitis C Protocol: The New Standard
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The Gastroenterology (GI) clinic at Sanford Health anticipates an increase in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) based on the 2012 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) screening recommendations. With a disproportionately ...