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Improving Palliative Care Consult Volume Through an Educational Initiative with Hospitalists [Report]
(2021-11-15)In 2019, the Centers for Advanced Palliative Care (CAPC) reported that 12 million people in the United States (U.S.) were currently living with a chronic or life-limiting illness. This number is expected to increase to 63 ... -
QI Project: A School Nurse-Led Educational Initiative to Improve Parents’ Understanding of COVID-19 Quarantine Guidelines [Report]
(2021-11-16)Williamson County reported a total of 23, 414 cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID- 19) with an additional 233 cases the first week of January, and the positivity rate increased to 16.60% with Georgetown having the ...
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Increasing First Time Mothers’ Breastfeeding Confidence Using Post-Hospital Discharge Phone Support: A Quality Initiative [Report]
(2021-11-15)Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Breastfeeding Report Card, only 23.9% of infants in Texas are exclusively breastfed through six months of life (CDC, 2020). This statistic falls short of the Healthy ... -
Implementing a Specialty Nurse Residency Program to Improve Perianesthesia Nurse Confidence and Reduce Errors [Report]
(2021-11-16)Medical errors are the third most common cause of death in the United States (Markary & Daniel, 2016) and cost society approximately $20 billion a year (Rodziewicz et al., 2021). The purpose of this quality improvement ... -
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Explore Barriers Facing Associate Degreed Nurses Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree [Report]
(2021-11-16)In 2010, the Institute of Medicine recommended that 80% of nurses in the workforce be BSN-prepared by the year 2020 (IOM, 2010). As shown by multiple surveys, the United States did not meet this recommendation by the year ... -
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Explore Barriers Facing Associate Degreed Nurses Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree [Poster]
(2021-11-16)In 2010, the Institute of Medicine recommended that 80% of nurses in the workforce be BSN-prepared by the year 2020 (IOM, 2010). As shown by multiple surveys, the United States did not meet this recommendation by the ... -
QI Project: A School Nurse-Led Educational Initiative to Improve Parents’ Understanding of COVID-19 Quarantine Guidelines [Poster]
(2021-11-16)Williamson County reported a total of 23, 414 cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID- 19) with an additional 233 cases the first week of January, and the positivity rate increased to 16.60% with Georgetown having the ...
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Increasing First Time Mothers’ Breastfeeding Confidence Using Post-Hospital Discharge Phone Support: A Quality Initiative [Poster]
(2021-11-15)Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Breastfeeding Report Card, only 23.9% of infants in Texas are exclusively breastfed through six months of life (CDC, 2020). This statistic falls short of the ... -
Implementing a Specialty Nurse Residency Program to Improve Perianesthesia Nurse Confidence and Reduce Errors [Poster]
(2021-11-16)Medical errors are the third most common cause of death in the United States (Markary & Daniel, 2016) and cost society approximately $20 billion a year (Rodziewicz et al., 2021). The purpose of this quality improvement ... -
Improving Palliative Care Consult Volume Through an Educational Initiative with Hospitalists [Poster]
(2021-11-15)In 2019, the Centers for Advanced Palliative Care (CAPC) reported that 12 million people in the United States (U.S.) were currently living with a chronic or life-limiting illness. This number is expected to increase to ... -
Results Pending Unit: Improving Emergency Department Flow and Patient Satisfaction [Report]
(2019-12)Introduction: Overcrowding and boarding patients in the emergency departments (ED) leads to unacceptable patient care and staff productivity. When there is poor patient flow through the ED the following negative ...
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Results Pending Unit: Improving ED Flow and Patient Satisfaction [Poster]
(2019-12)Introduction: Emergency departments (ED) are often faced with long wait times and lengths of stay, which leads to unsatisfied patients. A Results Pending Unit can improve the ED workflow and lead to shorter wait ...
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Bedside Educational Tool: Improving Patient Education and Nursing Documentation [Poster]
(2019-12)Background: The aim of the Bedside Education Tool (BET) project was to increase patient discharge knowledge by expanding Krames© Patient Education (Krames) selections recorded in the Electronic Health Record ...
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Outcomes of Huddle Education for Titratable Sedating Medications
(2019-11)The purpose of this study was to investigate how implementing education for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nursing staff at a hospital in central Texas improved quality of patient care, as measured by the assessment, documentation, ... -
An Interprofessional Quality Incident Review Team: Effects on Reporting and Resolution
(2019-12)Background: Since the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report, To Err is Human, there has been increased focus on patient safety, to include use of incident reporting systems for gathering data to improve knowledge ...
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Quality Improvement: Outcomes of Huddle Education for Titratable Sedating Medications
(2019-11)Background: Nurses have a profound responsibility to act in the best interest of their patients. One way they care for their patients responsibly in the critical care setting is by routinely assessing and ...
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Bedside Educational Tool: Improving Patient Education and Nursing Documentation [Report]
(2019-12)Background: The purpose of the Bedside Educational Tool (BET) project was to increase patient discharge knowledge by expanding K.rames education selections recorded in the discharge and maintained in the Electronic ...
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Implementation of a Quality Incident Review Team: Effects on Reporting and Resolution
(2019-12)Background: Incident reporting systems (IRS) are used for gathering data to improve knowledge and decrease errors in the hospital. There is an established need for reporting, with available research focused on ...
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Personal Diabetes Questionnaire in the Primary Care Setting [Report]
(2019-05)Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic illness managed daily by patients themselves. Poorly controlled diabetes is associated with micro- and macrovascular complications leading to increased morbidity. The Personal ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Personal Diabetes Questionnaire in the Primary Care Setting [Poster]
(2019-05)Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic illness managed daily by patients themselves. Poorly controlled diabetes is associated with micro- and macrovascular complications leading to increased morbidity. The Personal ...
