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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Public Health and Community Nursing"”.
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Implementing a Diabetic Education Program at Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii Kaua'i Community Health Center
… common among people with poor diabetes control and can result in debilitating conditions and increased clinical costs. In this aspect, implementing an evidence based diabetic program aims to explore how educational interventions can increase patients self-awareness regarding management of the …
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Prevention of HIV Mother-To-Child-Transmission in sub-Saharan Africa
… strategies are put into place. Globally, goals and initiatives have been set to combat this issue as well as speeding up the interventions and achieve possible transmission rates of levels less than 5% and total elimination of new infant HIV infections by 2015 (WHO, 2013 report on HIV). In 2011, …
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Reciprocity in Relationships Among Rural Nurses
… relationships among nurses are negative and hostile. However, nurse to nurse peer relationships in workplace environments are complicated and include many positive qualities, including the quality of reciprocity. Reciprocity is a concept that is not defined in nursing literature or …
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Intranasal Naloxone Adminstration Education
… on intranasal naloxone administration to healthcare providers in Lake County in order to educate patients, their families, peers, and members of their social network. Fatal opioid overdose rates from prescribed or illicit opioids are four times greater in Lake County than California. The …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… illness that requires early identification and quick interventions to improve patient outcomes. This quality improvement project includes a team of clinical nurse leader (CNL) students and gathering information on the nursing compliance of the sepsis protocol at a large metropolitan …
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Increasing HPV Awareness and 3-Dose Series Compliance Among the Female Population (Ages 11-26) in a Community Health Clinic
… goal of this project was to increase HPV 2nd and 3rd dose compliance rates by a combined 10% among the female adolescent population (ages 11-26). This was to be achieved by implementing EBP follow-up calls to not only schedule appointments but also to serve as a reminder for patients to come …
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The Use of a Programmed Textbook in Diabetic Patient Education
… filmstrip provided by the United States Public Health Service. The study was conducted in connection with the Los Angeles County General Hospital Metabolic Clinic and the White Memorial Hospital Lipid Clinic. A group of 37 patients who met the criteria of an I.Q. of at least 60, a reading …
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A Study of the Home-care Instruction Needs of Colostomy Patients
… One of the hospitals was a county hospital and the other was a private institution.</p> <p>Permission for the study was obtained from the administrative officer and the executive board of each institution. Information about patients was obtained from the clinical record of each patient …
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Social Determinants of Health and Health Confidence
… the relationship among social determinants of health (SDOH), select sociodemographics, and health confidence level in adults receiving care at an urgent care center.</p> <p><strong>Background/Rationale: </strong>To improve overall health and reduce health inequities during a global pandemic and …
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Patient Preference in Two Types of Colostomy Irrigations
… the two types of colostomy irrigation methods; and (3) to report the results of this study to medical personnel interested in advancements for colostomy irrigations. The population in this study consisted of colostomy patients who had irrigated on a regular basis with the bag technique for a …
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The Lived Experience of Afghan Women Refugees in Three Metropolitan Areas of the Southeastern US: A Phenomenological Study
… within their native countries or as asylees and refugees. Afghanistan, from 1980-2014, was the country with the largest number of outgoing refugees and it now ranks third in the world. At the opposite end of the continuum the United States remains the primary host country for refugees, …
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Lost in Translation
… preferred language. Plan time for the discharge and facilitate a calm quiet environment, such as the patient’s room with the door closed, if possible. Get the discharge instructions printed out in their preferred language and a set for yourself in English would be best so you are able to review …
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Identification of Needs in High Risk Prematures Significant to Public Health Nursing Follow-Up
… infants after discharge from the hospital and cited the important role that public nurses can play. It was hypothesized that there are needs of high risk premature infant significant to public health nursing follow-up.</p> <p>The descriptive survey method and an interview schedule was the …
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Motivating Factors in Completing Tetanus Immunization
… people who were given tetanus antitoxin who did and did not initiate and complete tetanus immunization and to find out why they did or did not do so. The subjects were patients from two hospitals who had been given tetanus antitoxin sometime between January 1, 1963, and October 15, 1963. These …
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The CNL as Information Manager
… improvement project was for an urban, safety net public hospital dedicated to ongoing medical and nursing education. The role of the clinical nurse leader was introduced to the comprehensive breast center radiology staff and physicians to support a new quality initiative to optimize screening for …
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RN Transition to Practice Program in the Primary Care and School Settings: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation
… declined. Since then the California Institute of Nursing and Health Care, along with funding from the Betty Moore Foundation, have developed RN transition programs. These programs were developed to increase skills, confidence, and experience among new RN graduates to promote their transition into …
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Factors that Malawian adolescents from co-educational secondary schools of Lilongwe and Mchinji identity as affecting their ability to discuss sexual issues
… the coeducational secondary schools of Lilongwe and Mchinji districts was surveyed. Their ages ranged from 14-18 years of age. The schools and participants were chosen using cluster-sampling and data were obtained via a questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised of demographic variables, sources …
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IMPLEMENTATION OF SBAR REPORTING IN THE ED
… of care between emergency department nurses and nurses reporting to physicians are given in many different formats with no continuity. It has been reported that 1,744 deaths and $1.7 billion in hospital costs related to miscommunications (CRICO Strategies, 2015). With the implementation of …
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Improving Patient Engagement Through Nurse-Led Blood Pressure Education and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
… this project is to increase patient engagement and self-efficacy through patient-centered blood pressure education and interdisciplinary collaboration. By January 2017, 95% of outpatient registered nurses will develop efficient communication and interdisciplinary collaboration skills for …
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