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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"staff education"”.
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Staff Education: Nutrition Education in the Intellectually /Developmentally Disabled Community
<p>The objective of my project is to develop staff education regarding a nutrition initiative developed to address the 44% obesity rate among clients in our care. My target population is direct care staff working in the Intellectually/Developmentally Disabled (IDD) community, and high functioning …
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In Search of Minerva's Owl: Canada’s Army and Staff Education (1946-1995)
… the curriculum utilized by the Canadian Army Staff College and the Canadian Forces College to educate the Canadian Army staff officer in conducting warfare within theatres of war. This body of knowledge was analogous to what today comprises the operational level of war. It is a structured …
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Enhancing Emergency Department Response to Human Trafficking through Staff Education and Training
… and advocate. Providing these RNs with targeted education on HT can change the current practice gap and improve ED response. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project is to increase Emergency Department (ED) clinical nurses' knowledge of recognizing signs of human trafficking (HT) …
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Optimizing Treatment for Depression: Integrating TMS and Ketamine Through Provider and Clinical Staff Education
… (DNP) project aimed to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention created to improve mental health care providers, nurses, and other clinical staff's knowledge of the combined use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and ketamine for treating treatment-resistant depression (TRD). TRD …
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Medical Staff Education Improves Patient Education through the Use of Technology in a Predominantly Spanish Speaking Population: A Quality Improvement Project
… use of tablets/screens overall among the medical staff at the WGGCC. Using the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle, there was a two-fold increase use of tablets/screens by the medical staff during the data collection period.
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"Call Before You Fall"
… established fall prevention measures by nursing staff. The aim of this project was to increase awareness and knowledge of patients related to fall prevention and staff education to improve reliability of implementation actions to reduce falls. Data was collected over a three-month period and new …
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Implementation and Evaluation of an Oral Hygiene Program in Long-Term Care
… standardized practices are employed. Studies of staff education programs, trained oral hygiene aides, and dental hygienists working within LTC, have linked regular oral hygiene practices to decreased pneumonia rates. While these studies make the connection between good oral hygiene and reducing …
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Outpatient Medication Error Improvement
… administration process and involve all staff within 6 months</p> <p>In the microsystem consisting of 14 family practice and urgent care clinics, there is not a standard process based on evidence based practices for medication administration. With and estimated of 400-600 medications …
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Infection Control: Reducing Hospital Acquired Central Line Bloodstream Infections
… each phase. Overall implementation consisted of staff education and emphasis on central line maintenance compliance.</p>
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Fall Reduction with Nursing Interventions
… and surgical patients. The focus of the nursing staff education using handouts, brochures, and poster will be based on the results from pre and post intervention audits. The goal of this fall reduction project is to have the nursing staff learn, review, and apply fall prevention interventions for …
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Improving Preadmission Testing Nurses' Knowledge of Aortic Stenosis and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
… was to reduce gaps in nursing knowledge through staff education. Guided by the CNL theme of educator and information manager, the goals were to increase PreAdmission Testing (PAT) nurses’ knowledge of severe/critical aortic stenosis (AS), transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure …
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Improving Oral Care Practices and Aspiration Risk Assessment to Mitigate Risk of Hospital Acquired Pneumnia
… Transitional Care Unit (TCU) with a mixed skill staff. The theme of the project is risk reduction with improved patient outcomes and cost reduction as reasons for implementation. Fourteen cases of HAP were reported in the last 5 quarters which accounts for 48% of all in-patient acquired …
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Developing Ostomy Educational Tools To Decrease Hospital Length Of Stay
… quality improvement project “Developing Ostomy Educational Tools To Decrease Hospital Length Of Stay” is aimed at reducing length of stay (LOS) for patients undergoing elective ostomy surgery from the current twelve days (Kirkland-Kyhn, 2017), to less than five days. Methods included use of a …
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Assessment of Falls Protocol Use on Medical-Surgical Units
… in the physical environment, inadequate staff education, insufficient patient supervision, unsafe staffing ratios, and/or lack of healthcare leadership.</p> <p>The purpose of this project was to study the trends relating to patient falls and falls risk prevention on two medical-surgical …
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VAP Prevention in the CTICU
… educated and role-modeled best practices to the staff, and conducted audit rounds to monitor compliance with VAP prevention guidelines. These audits successfully identified the deficits that required corrective action, and as a result, no reported cases of VAP in 2015 have occurred. Moving …
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Implementation of a Warming Intervention Protocol to Prevent Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia in the Ambulatory Surgical Setting
… environment such as ambulatory surgery and staff education about using the protocol. A needs assessment at the project’s setting revealed a 68% normothermia rate. It was the goal of the project to reach a normothermia rate of 90%, as benchmarked by the Center of Medicare and Medicaid …
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Reducing IV Infiltrates in the Neonatal Population
… be made. Other methods that were used included staff education and training on proper infiltrate grading, documentation and IV management.</p> <p><strong> </strong>March’s data shows a total of 32 infiltrates including: twelve grade 1, five grade 2, fourteen grade 3 and one grade 1, showing that …
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The role of the head teacher in Saudi primary schools
… through acquisition of resources), their role in staff development, relationships with staff, education authorities, parents and the wider community, power sharing, budget management and freedom to initiate changes. Quantitative data were collected from head teachers, deputy heads and teachers …
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Modifying a Family Centered Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Care Program for Mothers and Infants
… A mixed-methods approach was used to identify staff priorities to fill knowledge gaps related to working with mothers with OUD and caring for infants with NAS. Qualitative methods included semi-structured, in-depth interviews with NICU staff (n=12) and (n=2) mothers who participated in the NICU …
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Reduce the incidence of Pressure Ulcer in the Rehabilitation unit
… pressure ulcer reduction brochures, along with staff education, reduces the incidence of pressure ulcers in the rehabilitation unit. The CNL Internship Project aims to improve patient care by reducing the incidence of pressure ulcers by 50 percent in the rehabilitation unit by the end of March …
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