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Sleep Hygiene Analysis & Education Module for Nursing Students
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
There is a research gap regarding college nursing student sleep habits and education compared to general college and medical students; nursing students are at high risk for poor sleep hygiene and impaired sleep quality due ...
Implementation of a Diabetes-Related Distress Scale in a Primary Care Clinic
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Individuals with diabetes face many multifaceted issues when integrating their plan of care into their daily lives, which can become burdensome and lead to inadequate diabetes control. Due to the persistent demands of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diabetes Education Among American Indians on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: Improving Educational Interventions in the School Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Minority populations such as American Indians (AIs) in the United States experience large-scale healthcare related disparities when compared with non-minority citizens. Diabetes can affect all races and ethnicities across ...
Improving Hepatitis C Screening Rates in a Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is the most common blood borne infection in the United States and frequently develops into a chronic disease, which can lead to serious health complications including liver damage, cirrhosis, cancer, ...
Screening Adolescent Females for Eating Disorders in Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
In recent decades, there has been an increased focus on the idealization of thinness and the pressure and expectancy to be thin, which contributes to a rising number of individuals that experience severe body dissatisfaction ...
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 ...
Assessing Burnout and Resiliency Among Nurse Practitioners
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
The topic of burnout among medical doctors (MDs) has depicted a strong correlation to MD education and career with burnout, ultimately causing negative psychological and physical outcomes. Research has shown that resilience ...
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 ...