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School Nursing Practice for the 21st Century: Assessing Scope of Practice in the Current Workforce
(Georgetown University, 2018)
School nurses play a vital role in the health and readiness to learn for the nation’s 56 million students. However, wide variation exists in school nursing practice across states and school districts, impacting the school ...
Integration of Survivorship Care Plans into Standard Care: A Quality Improvement Project
(Georgetown University, 2016)
American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer accredited programs are required to provide Survivorship Care Plans (SCPs) to cancer survivors after initial cancer treatment. A critical need exists to evaluate SCP ...
Exploration of the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Hospice
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Current literature indicates hospices are providing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with the participation of employees and/or volunteers as an adjunct to conventional medicine to assist in symptom management ...
Depression in primary care: Attitudes of novice advanced practice nurses
(Georgetown University, 2016)
The burden of depression across the globe is estimated to be a leading cause of disability. In the U.S., a considerable portion of mental healthcare is delivered in the primary care setting. Barriers to achieve best practices ...
MS PATIENTS’ SATISFACTION AND PERCEPTION OF PROVIDER TEAMWORK IN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINIC VERSUS STANDARD CARE
(Georgetown University, 2016)
There is a paucity of research exploring Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients’ perception of teamwork and satisfaction in multidisciplinary care models and no studies have evaluated the impact of a doctor of medicine (MD) ...
Prenatal Care in the United States: Perceptions of Resettled Bhutanese-Nepali Refugees
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The Bhutanese-Nepali community in the United States, estimated to be greater than 100,000, has been fleeing religious and ethnic persecution since the 1980s. Ohio ranks fifth in the United States in the number of resettled ...
Evaluation of a Staffing to Workload Tool in a Multispeciality Clinic Setting
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Increasing pressure to manage the cost of healthcare has resulted in shifting care towards ambulatory settings and is driving a focus on cost transparency. There are few nurse staffing to workload models developed for ...
Eliminating Routine Evaluation of Gastric Residuals in the NICU
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Although routine evaluation of gastric content was a former standard of care in neonatal nursing as a measure of feeding tolerance, recent studies demonstrate little evidence to support the practice. It delays the achievement ...
Optimizing Postpartum Care: Examining the Effects of Postpartum Care on Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Postpartum is a vulnerable period that calls for careful monitoring, support, and anticipatory guidance. More than half of pregnancy-related deaths occur postpartum, with substantial morbidity occurring in the early ...
The Effect of Stroke Metric Documentation Education on Stroke Metric Knowledge and Documentation Compliance
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Compliance with stroke metrics is positively associated with improved health outcomes for patients recovering from acute stroke. Accurate and thorough nursing documentation of stroke metrics during this critical period is ...