Doctor of Nursing Practice scholarly projects

Scholar: Lyndsay Goss

Project Title: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Screening Tool for Children for Detection of Developmental, Behavioral and Family Issues

Purpose: Children are a vulnerable population who are at risk for a variety of developmental, behavioral and family concerns. Early intervention leads to improved outcomes. By implementing the comprehensive evidence-based screening tool the Survey of Well-being for Young Children, within a Federally Qualified Health Center, outcomes for these children may be improved through early intervention.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/207/

Scholar: Adedoyin Adepoju

Project Title: Implementation of Trauma Informed Care in a Primary Care Setting Using the Adverse Childhood Experience as a Screening Tool

Purpose: The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) is a screening tool that can be utilized to survey adult patients for childhood traumas.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/209/

Scholar: Beriline Akwe

Project Title: Serious Mental Illness and the Continuum of Cancer Care

Purpose: To provide community mental health care clinicians with knowledge and skills to effectively function in the key role as care coordinators in the clinical-community relationship in efforts to assist persons with serious mental illness access effective, efficient, safe, timely, equitable and person-centered care across the continuum of cancer care.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/246/

Scholar: Sara Anderson

Project Title: Food Safety and Risk of Foodborne Illness at a Food Center Extension: Toolkit for Front-line Volunteers

Purpose: To educate front-line volunteers at a local food center regarding food safety.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/240/

Scholar: Jessica Bardina and Jean DeMartinis

Project Title: A Resource to Guide Clinicians for Patients with Severe Mental Illness and Anosognosia: Anosognosia Mental Illness Screening and Intervention Strategies (AMISS) Toolkit ©

Purpose: The aim of this Integrative Review (IR) was to garner the best evidence to develop a Toolkit and a presentation to educate clinicians about anosognosia in mental illness, including screening tools for the symptom, and interventions for practice.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/227/

Scholar: Elise Buckley

Project Title: Discharge Education for Pediatric Post-Operative Pain after Spinal Surgery

Purpose: To standardize discharge teaching by developing an educational video for caregivers on how to manage their child's post-operative pain after spinal surgery.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/233/

Scholar: Aimee Bullett-Smith and Jacqueline Krzanik

Project Title: Increasing Sexual Protection Barrier Use in the College Setting Through Offering Free Sexual Protection Barriers

Purpose: This was a program evaluation of the Barrier Express, which offers free and confidential access to sexual protection barriers.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/218/

Scholar: Brittany Canfield

Project Title: Health Literacy Universal Precautions: A Quality Improvement Project to Promote Effective Use of Clear, Plain Language Communication Within Primary Care

Purpose: To implement clear, plain language communications, or health literacy universal precautions, within a primary care office.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/237/

Scholar: Jennifer Caraballo

Project Title: Cultural Communication For New Nurse Residents: K.I.N.D. Communication Toolkit

Purpose: To develop a toolkit for healthcare staff to use as educational material to facilitate for cultural communication and cultural humility.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/236/

Scholar: Samantha Charles

Project Title: A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Stigma and Increase Awareness of Resources to Decrease Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Care for Nurses

Purpose: To decrease the barriers and stigma related to accessing mental health care among acute care registered nurses.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/221/

Scholar: Tena Chau

Project Title: Improving Cultural Competency among Healthcare Providers Working with Refugee Patients

Purpose: To complete a quality improvement project to evaluate if an educational intervention based on a specific model would lead to increased level of cultural competence among healthcare providers.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/210/

Scholar: Rebecca Chevalier

Project Title: Routine Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in the College-Aged Population: A Quality Improvement Project for University Health Services Staff

Purpose: To engage University Health Services (UHS) staff to use a routine SBI protocol with the Audit-C on all students that entered UHS and based on risk profile, if necessary, staff performed a brief educational intervention.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/241/

Scholar: Liz Catherine S. Cory

Project Title: Increasing Health Literacy throughg NoteAid Translational Tool in Nursing

Purpose: To educate nurses on the availability of NoteAid as a natural language translation system that can help increase their comprehension of electronic health records through participant evaluation, and how it can improve quality of care in transition of care process.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/208/

Scholar: Rachel Cox

Project Title: Contraceptive Education Module Intervention

Purpose: This intervention sought to increase women's contraceptive knowledge, correct use of their chosen birth control methods, and the number of women using birth control through the evidence-based interactive computer-based education.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/222/

Scholar: Caitlin Crowley

Project Title: An Educational Intervention to Improve Healthcare Provider Confidence and Utilization of the Teach-Back Method When Providing Patient Education on Inhaler Technique

Purpose: To increase healthcare providers' ability and confidence to teach and assess inhaler technique among asthma and COPD patients.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/244/

Scholar: Kathleen Dalton

Project Title: Enhancing Cultural Humility for Sexual and Gender Minorities within an Inpatient Mental Health Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project

Purpose: To enhance cultural humility among healthcare professionals in a mental health hospital to promote inclusivity especially as it pertains to sexual and gender minorities.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/219/

Scholar: Bonnie Daniels

Project Title: Quantitative Blood Loss Interventions to Improve Assessment of Post-partum Hemorrhage

Purpose: To increase accuracy of blood loss measurements in scheduled cesarean sections to initiate mass transfusion protocols faster and more efficiently.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/220/

Scholar: Iselande Desyr

Project Title: Reducing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections through Staff Education and Best Practice Guidelines

Purpose: This quality improvement project focused on reducing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections through staff education and current best-practice guidelines.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/211/

Scholar: Heidi Doreau

Project Title: Improving Osteoporosis Screening Rates in a Primary Care Practice

Purpose: To improve bone density screening rates in a primary care practice by inviting patients at greatest risk of osteoporosis to schedule dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans without a provider order.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/234/

Scholar: Angelica Ferrazzi

Project Title: In Beers We Trust: Using Deprescribing Tools to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy in Adults > 65

Purpose: To empower clinicians to deprescribe current medications that are inappropriate, as well as reduce the rate of newly prescribed potentially inappropriate medications among patients > 65 in the primary care setting by establishing a multi-modal educational intervention.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/215/

Scholar: Joy Garmaise-Yee

Project Title: Implementation of an Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Reducing Stress amongst Undergraduate Nursing Students

Purpose: A pilot educational mindfulness-based intervention was implemented online amongst undergraduate nursing students to decrease stress and increase mindfulness.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/216/

Scholar: Carolynn Hastie

Project Title: Self-Management of Chronic Pain

Purpose: To address this gap in self-management strategies through an evidence-based educational intervention.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/250/

Scholar: Kristen Hickey

Project Title: Educating Health Care Providers on the Benefits of Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences in Children and Adolescents

Purpose: To provide education to health care providers regarding the impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental health outcomes because health care providers are in an ideal position to screen, detect and intervene for adverse childhood experiences in their patients and to improve their knowledge and skills to implement an adverse childhood experiences screening tool in their practice.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/230/

Scholar: Alina Kendrick

Project Title: Peer Support to Reduce Vicarious Trauma in Mental Health Providers

Purpose: This quality improvement project was implemented with six mental health providers engaged in weekly peer support sessions led by the DNP student over a six week timeframe. Topics discussed included education on vicarious trauma, client case vignettes, and mindfulness around the treatment of vicariou trauma.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/231/

Scholar: Ainat Koren

Project Title: School-based Telemental Health and Family Psychoeducation: A Program Evaluation

Purpose: To evaluate an innovative Telemental Health model offering timely social/behavioral health support for children/families' mental health services in rural Massachusetts.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/238/

Scholar: Patricia Lunardi

Project Title: Improving Insomnia with Digital Cognitive Behavioral Theory in Patients with Diabetes

Purpose: To implement Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in adult patients with diabetes mellitus and examine whether it alleviated their insomnia symptoms using the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index tool.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/245/

Scholar: Abdonne Mbouadeu

Project Title: Improving Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Community Health Settings: Training and Evaluation

Purpose: To assess the impact of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (ASBI) training on nursing staff knowledge, attitude, and confidence and to make ASBI a routine and systematic practice.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/214/

Scholar: Sarah McNulty

Project Title: Considering Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder as a Differential Diagnosis in the Psychiatric Population: An Educational Intervention Project

Purpose: To provide evidenced based education to mental health professionals for the assessment and treatment of PMDD in order to help improve the quality of life for patient’s living with this disorder.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/228/

Scholar: Robin Mills-Humphreys

Project Title: Improving Intimate Partner Violence Screening Practices among Postpartum Nurses

Purpose:  To enhance knowledge of Intimate Partner Violence for postpartum nurses.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/247/

Scholar: Sarah Minton

Project Title: Adolescent Mental Health Training for Middle School Educators

Purpose:  To utilize an evidence-based training, the “Teacher Knowledge Update Guide” from TeenMentalHealth.org to train middle school educators on the signs and symptoms of mental health conditions in the adolescent population with the intent to increase awareness, knowledge, and confidence level within the educators.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/249/

Scholar: Matthew Moore

Project Title: Epidural Education for Parturients Using a Video Teaching Tool

Purpose: To show evidence of the benefits for the use of an obstetric anesthesia video during the education process and to devise a plan for the implementation of video-assisted education during anesthesia consultation to help improve patient knowledge and satisfaction prior to labor and delivery.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/248/

Scholar: Alexandra Moylan

Project Title: School-Based Suicide Awareness and Prevention Education for Licensed School Personnel

Purpose: To reduce the gap in practice by providing in-person suicide awareness and prevention education to nurses of a western Massachusetts school district

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/229/

Scholar: Chigoziri Ojuka

Project Title: Management of Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans: Increasing Knowledge Using a Culturally Tailored Diabetes Education Program

Purpose:  To implement a culturally tailored diabetes education program with the goal of increasing participants’ knowledge and management of their disease.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/212/

Scholar: Alfred Owusu-Ansah

Project Title: Implementation of Pressure Injury Prevention in a Long-Term Care Facility

Purpose: To reduce the pressure injury incidence rate at the project site by 50% within a period of six months.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/224/

Scholar: Ian Penn

Project Title: Evaluation of the Impact of a Nurse Practitioner (NP) Residency Program on a Selected New NP Graduate in an Outpatient Clinic in Massachusetts

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a newlylaunched primary care nurse practitioner residency program on a selected new NP graduate (hereafter called the ‘resident’) at an independent, outpatient, primary care office.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/232/

Scholar: Iwona Prabucka-davis

Project Title: Heart Failure: Effective Collaboration and Education to Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations

Purpose: To decrease hospital readmissions for HF exacerbations in the primary care setting through improving practitioner and patient adherence to the current HF treatment guidelines.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/217/

Scholar: Erika Ryan

Project Title: A Quality Improvement Project Educating Behavioral Health Clinicians on the Utility of the READMIT Clinical Index to Predict Risk of Psychiatric Re-Hospitalization of Adults

Purpose: To present the current evidence around the READMIT clinical risk index to identify adults who may be at risk for early psychiatric readmission to community based behavioral health clinicians.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/223/

Scholar: Georgianna R. Shea

Project Title: An Evaluation of 'Diabetes Day' Using Implementation Science to Improve Support for Families of Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Purpose: To evaluate the process of planning, implementation and evaluation of Diabetes Day to improve family participation and attendance.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/239/

Scholar: Matt Thompson

Project Title: Reducing Restraints through Patient Involvement in Care Plans

Purpose:  To promote collaborative care through the attainment of provider knowledge of best practices to prevent and reduce restraint use at three group homes in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/213/

Scholar: Khadijah Tuitt

Project Title:KIND Communication: An Educational Intervention to Raise Nurse Resident's Awareness Towards Decreasing Implicit Bias through Effective Communication Strategies

Purpose: To educate nurse residents on the use of the Kinesics, Inclusive, Non-biased and Deliverable KIND, Communications technique to decrease biases during interactions.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/243/

Scholar: Michelle Viveiros

Project Title: Nurse-delivered Standardized Chemotherapy Education Intervention to Reduce Distress among Older Adults in an Outpatient Setting

Purpose: To explore the effect of a nurse-delivered, enhanced education intervention on distress among older adults receiving chemotherapy in an outpatient setting.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/242/

Scholar: Rachel Weitz

Project Title: Clinical Assessment of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder in the Prepubescent Population

Purpose:  To present the current evidence around the diagnosis of PBD before adolescent onset and to summarize best practice guidelines from an ethical and theoretical perspective (Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory of Human Development).

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/235/

Scholar: Amber Whitehill

Project Title: Educating Nurse Practitioners on the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in the Practice Setting

Purpose: To increase the awareness, knowledge, and comfort level of nurse practitioners in relation to the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/225/

Scholar: Peter Ameck

Project Title: Using Smartphone Technology to Enhance Self-Management Support in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care

Purpose: To explore the possibility of using smartphone technology to help adults with T2DM better manage this chronic disease in a primary care clinic in New England.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/190/

Scholar: Lisa Coenen

Project Title: A Public Health Initiative to Support the Development of a Trauma Informed Care Culture in a Community Organization that Provides Services to Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to transfer knowledge to a newly created TIC work group on the use of an existing TIC system implementation tool to plan, develop, and measure the level of TIC systems culture in their community organization.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/202/

Scholar: Kaneisha Deburgo

Project Title: Stress Relieving Lavender Aromatherapy for Inpatient Nurses

Purpose: The purpose of this DNP project was to decrease the stress levels of inpatient nurses by implementing lavender essential oil aromatherapy as a self-care initiative.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/180/

Scholar: Deanna Dubay

Project Title: Simulation-Based Mental Health Nursing Education

Purpose: Provide a simulation-based mental health nursing education experience to pre-licensure nursing students prior to participating in a mental health clinical rotation to reduce anxiety and increase confidence in therapeutic communication and care of the patient with mental health needs.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/194/

Scholar: Angela S. Faro

Project Title: Implementing a Yoga-Based Stress Reduction Quality Improvement Project for Hypertensive Patients in Primary Care

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to assist in the recognition of stress as a modifiable risk factor in hypertensive adults using a stress screening and yoga-based intervention to improve quality care and health outcomes at a primary care facility.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/188/

Scholar: Juliet Marcia Farrell

Project Title: Self-Management of Dyspnea in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients

Purpose: To implement an evidence-based educational program to assist COPD patients in self-management of dyspnea.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/200/

Scholar: Catrina Graham

Project Title: Screening for Trauma in the Foster Care Community

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to assist in the development of a clinic that specializes in the delivery of primary care to the foster care community, with a focus on screening and assessment for the experience of trauma.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/196/

Scholar: Kristina Kelley

Project Title: Timely Transitioning to Hospice: A Needs Assessment with a PACE Program to Improve End of Life Care

Purpose: To perform a needs assessment to gain understanding of the barriers to effective transitions to hospice and to provide education aimed at addressing those barriers.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/191/

Scholar: Eunice Kowalczyk

Project Title: Improving Mental Healthcare for Older Adults: Community Based Screening for Social and Emotional Loneliness and Major Depressive Disorder

Purpose: The goal of this quality improvement (QI) project was to implement a community-based screening intervention to identify community-dwelling older adults at risk for or suffering from MDD, and facilitate further evaluation and care.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/189/

Scholar: Cassandra Lipa

Project Title: Suicide Education to Support Caregivers in their Abilities to Care for Suicidal Individuals

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to provide caregivers with a suicide toolkit that encompasses basic education, approaches to supporting a loved one who is suicidal, and community resources on prevention.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/178/

Scholar: Angelo C. Mabasa

Project Title: De Novo Cancer Monitoring for Adult Heart Transplant Patients to Improve Early Detection and Intervention

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to examine the effectiveness of multiple follow-up phone calls after clinic visits as an intervention to enhance compliance with cancer surveillance in adult heart transplant recipients.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/195/

Scholar: Angela McGraw

Project Title: Increasing Staff Knowledge and Screening Practices for Adverse Childhood Experiences in Primary Care

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project is to increase the identification of ACE among adult clients in a primary care clinic in Saint John New Brunswick Canada, through the delivery of an education session for the health care team members and patient screening for ACE.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/181/

Scholar: Masayo Nishiyama

Project Title: Quality Improvement: Intimate Partner Violence Screen in Nurse Home Visit Program

Purpose: This quality improvement project addressed the lack of an evidence-based IPV training and protocol in a nurse home visit program.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/193/

Scholar: Carolyn L. Noyes

Project Title: Human Trafficking Recognition and Response Training for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners in New Hampshire Emergency Departments

Purpose: In the state of New Hampshire, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) work exclusively in emergency departments responding to concerns of sexual assault and domestic violence. SANEs are trained through a state-run program called the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. This training has room for growth to include recognition and response to victims of human trafficking.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/182/

Scholar: Sharada Paudel

Project Title: Prevention and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Diseases (GERD) and Peptic Ulcer Diseases (PUD's) among Bhutanese Refugees Utilizing Personalized Patient Education

Purpose: This DNP Project utilized individualized patient education to help improve knowledge on prevention and management of GERD to decrease exacerbations.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/183/

Scholar: Emily Rymland

Project Title: HIV Education and Empowerment: A Program for the Women of Kiryabicooli, Uganda

Purpose: The goal of this Quality Improvement project is to educate women with children under 13 years old about the facts of HIV, in the hopes that with that knowledge they can take action to decrease their own infection rates as well as their children’s.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/201/

Scholar: Wendy Sergeant

Project Title: Utilizing Motivational Interviewing to Encourage Weight Loss in Primary Care

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to educate nurse practitioners (NPs) and nurses (RNs) to promote healthy changes in obese individuals using the principles of Motivational interviewing (MI).

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/184/

Scholar: Vladimir Sher

Project Title: Incorporating Complementary Alternative Methods in the Management of Chronic Pain into a Primary Care Practice in New York

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project/evidence-based practice intervention was to review concepts related to pain and analyze the current use of music and massage CAM therapies in a primary care setting.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/186/

Scholar: Irene Smith

Project Title: Reduction in Postoperative Infections Using Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Guidelines: A Quality Improvement Project

Purpose: This quality improvement project focused on four SCIP measures and their effectiveness in reducing post operative infections in lower extremity total joint surgery.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/187/

Scholar: Renia Smith

Project Title: Improving Depression Screening for Adolescents in a Primary Care Setting in Texas

Purpose: This quality improvement project included the implementation of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-A) for Adolescents and protocol with referral to in-house counseling and/or a mental-health specialist for treatment in a pediatric primary care clinic in Texas.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/197/

Scholar: Nkechi Ukomado

Project Title: Reducing 30-Day Heart Failure Readmission among Elderly Population in Long-term Care

Purpose: The goal of this quality improvement project is to reduce the 30-day readmission rate of heart failure patients 60 years and older in a long-term care setting in Texas by using an evidence-based transitional readiness discharge checklist for heart failure.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/179/

Scholar: Svetlana Valkovska

Project Title: Implementing a Protocol to Monitor Cardiometabolic Syndrome in Patients Prescribed Atypical Antipsychotics

Purpose: The goal of this quality improvement project was to 1) implement a metabolic screening protocol based on ADA and APA guidelines for patients admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital who were treated with second-generation antipsychotics and 2) increase healthcare personnel awareness of metabolic monitoring guidelines and metabolic syndrome.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/200/

Scholar: Brenda Vigue

Project Title: Migrating Prescription Opioid Risk: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

Purpose: This quality improvement (QI) project for improved PDMP utilization employed a pre-post survey design in a random sample of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Arizona.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/198/

Scholar: Cassandra Zacke

Project Title: The Implementation of a Faith-Based Heart Healthy Education Program for Latinos in Miami

Purpose: This project was a four-week faith-based educational intervention for Latinos meeting weekly at a faith-based organization in Miami-Dade Florida. Classes focused on cardiovascular disease prevention and risk reduction and included PowerPoint presentations, fotonovellas, and interactive activities offered in English and Spanish.

Scholarworks Link: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nursing_dnp_capstone/185/