Nursing Doctoral Work: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Assessing the Health Needs of Women Reentering the Community After Incarceration
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This dissertation work, guided by the social ecological model, sought to assess the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health needs of women reentering the community after incarceration from the perspective of the ... -
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 ... -
Screening for Skin Cancer in Primary Care: Implementation of Dermoscopy
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Skin cancer affects millions of individuals each year. Cutaneous malignant melanoma, which only accounts for a small portion of all skin cancers, is the most serious and is associated with the highest mortality. Education ... -
Increasing Awareness and Knowledge About Ovarian Cancer to Enhance Health Outcomes of Women
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S. and kills approximately 14,000 women each year (Nezhat et al., 2015). Survival increases with early diagnosis; the five-year survival rate ... -
Implementing a Comprehensive Diabetes and Depression Program at Family Health Care
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The purpose of this project was to improve outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes and depression at a federally qualified healthcare center (FQHC) primary care clinic by creating and implementing a functional, sustainable ... -
Addressing Lyme Disease: An Educational Module for Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Since its identification over 40 years ago, Lyme disease has continually spread, and the number of cases have significantly increased in the northeastern and northcentral United States. The Center for Disease Control and ... -
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 ... -
Screening for Bipolar Disorder in the Primary Care Setting Using the Mood Disorder Questionnaire
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The majority of patients who have mental health needs are seen by their primary care provider (PCP) for treatment. In 2014, an estimated 6.6% of adults in the United States met diagnostic criteria for a major depressive ... -
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 ... -
Chronic Pain Management: Implementing Best Practice Strategies
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The purpose of this project was to improve the monitoring of chronic pain patients at a rural primary care clinic by creating and implementing a chronic pain flow sheet and pain visit template within the electronic health ... -
Improving Resident Assistants Knowledge about Eating Disorders on a College Campus
(North Dakota State University, 2016)As many as 30 million people in the United States have struggled with an eating disorder (National Eating Disorder Association [NEDA], n.d.). Anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED) ... -
Prescription Drug Abuse: Implementing an Evidence-Based Pain Management Protocol
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Prescription drug abuse is an intentional misuse of a prescribed drug for recreational or other purposes that was not intended by the prescriber of the drug. Since 2012, fatalities from opioid overdoses have risen to ... -
Increasing LARC Utilization through Standardized Contraception Education
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Reducing unintended pregnancy is an important goal for any woman of childbearing age and optimizing contraceptive effectiveness should be a priority for healthcare providers serving this population. One subset of this ... -
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 ... -
Increasing Provider Awareness and Knowledge about Preconception Care to Women of Reproductive Age
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Infant morbidity and mortality are important indicators of the overall health of a nation. The United States ranks 26th among 29 developed countries, with an infant mortality rate of 6.1 per 1,000 live births (MacDorman, ... -
Screening for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Rural Farmers
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is one of the most common occupational health diseases. Noise-induced hearing loss is also the second most common occupational illness or injury in the United States today (Centers for ...