Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · September 1, 2026
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate is a widely used plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride medical devices and products such as intravenous tubing, blood bags, and respiratory supports. Despite the functionality and low cost, its ubiquitous use is responsible for signi ...
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Journal articleJournal of advanced nursing · April 2026
AimTo describe interventions to mitigate weight bias among practicing healthcare providers and examine their effectiveness.DesignAn integrative review.MethodsThe framework of Whittemore and Knafl (2005) was utilised to identify a ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · March 1, 2026
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Journal articleAdvances in simulation (London, England) · March 2026
BACKGROUND: Climate‑driven disasters are increasing in frequency and severity, creating prolonged recovery periods and widening existing health inequities. As extreme weather events intensify, healthcare professionals must be prepared to mitigate risks, ad ...
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Journal articleThe journal for nurse practitioners : JNP · January 2026
We aimed to determine nationally representative differences in annual hazard-specific disaster preparedness training by health care provider shortage area (HPSA), practice rurality, patient population, and racial identity. Weighted estimates were generated ...
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Journal articleFront Public Health · 2026
PURPOSE: Managing the health impacts of climate change will require the coordinated expertise of all health professions. Therefore, trainees and practitioners need to learn about climate change and its health impacts in an interprofessional setting. Accord ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · November 1, 2025
The well-being of populations is increasingly threatened by global environmental changes. Two major public health crises, climate change and type 2 diabetes (T2D), pose compounding risks to public health and economic sustainability. Climate change is one o ...
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Journal articleJournal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · October 2025
PurposeThis quality improvement project aimed to improve postoperative handoff communication between anesthesia providers and neuroscience intensive care unit nurses by developing and implementing a standardized postoperative handoff checklist for ...
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Journal articleTransfusion · August 2025
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have called for the implementation of provider reeducation efforts to improve massive transfusion protocol adherence. OBJECTIVE: This quality improvement project implemented an educational module designed to increase anesthesia ...
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Journal articleArch Rehabil Res Clin Transl · December 2023
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether age, mobility level, and change in mobility level across the first 3 physical rehabilitation sessions associate with clinical outcomes of patients who are critically ill. DESIGN: Retrospective, observational cohort study. SE ...
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Journal articleMilitary medicine · August 2023
IntroductionExtensive efforts have been directed toward developing an effective vaccine to fight against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, hesitancy to receive COVID-19 vaccinations has become detrimental to overcoming the COVID-19 ...
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Journal articleJournal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · August 2023
PurposeAppropriate preoperative screening techniques are needed to safely provide anesthesia to increasing numbers of cannabis using surgical patients.DesignThis was a quasi-experimental quality improvement project.MethodsPreoper ...
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Journal articleCreative nursing · May 2023
Translating evidence-based practices (EBPs) and quality improvement (QI) initiatives to the bedside is a significant need among hospitals and outpatient settings to improve the provision of quality nursing care. However, health-care systems continue to str ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · March 1, 2023
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a common and generally well-understood medical condition in urgent and acute care centers. There are numerous conditions that have similar presentations to DKA but are better served with different treatment modalities. This a ...
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Journal articleCritical care nurse · February 2023
BackgroundCardiothoracic surgery patients have an increased risk for aspiration and may require enteral access for nutrition.Local problemIn a cardiothoracic intensive care unit, feeding start times were delayed because of scheduling conf ...
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Journal articleAmerican journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · July 2022
BackgroundRepositioning patients at regular intervals is the standard of care for pressure injury prevention, yet compliance with routine repositioning schedules can be hard to achieve in busy critical care environments. Cueing technology may help ...
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Journal articleAdv Skin Wound Care · June 1, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical effectiveness of three nursing-home-wide repositioning intervals (2-, 3-, or 4-hour) without compromising pressure injury (PrI) incidence in 4 weeks. METHODS: An embedded pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial ...
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Journal articleAdvances in skin & wound care · May 2022
ObjectiveTo determine movement patterns of nursing home residents, specifically those with dementia or obesity, to improve repositioning approaches to pressure injury (PrI) prevention.MethodsA descriptive exploratory study was conducted u ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2022
Dementia is a serious and costly illness. Early identification of cognitive impairment provides opportunity for earlier intervention, and there is growing evidence suggesting that early intervention may help delay the onset of dementia. There is limited co ...
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Journal articleCritical care nurse · April 2022
BackgroundDocumentation presents an overwhelming burden to bedside clinical nurses. Nurses must manually enter several hundred data points into electronic health record flow sheets, taking time from direct patient care and introducing opportunity ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · February 1, 2022
Dementia is a devastating illness with increasing prevalence, possibly due to the pervasiveness of untreated modifiable risk factors. While early identification and treatment can improve outcomes, few standardized screening protocols exist. Primary care is ...
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Journal articlePublic health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · July 2021
More than 80 percent of African American women struggle with overweight and obesity. We implemented a 5-week physical activity intervention using Facebook™ and pedometers with African American women. Twenty-seven African American women participated in a si ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · June 1, 2021
This quality improvement project used the resources of a multidisciplinary setting (health care providers, dietitians, and psychotherapists) to improve the treatment of patients diagnosed with obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2). This approach ...
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Journal articleCritical care nurse · April 2021
BackgroundCatheter-associated urinary tract infections are the second most common health care-associated infections, occurring most frequently in intensive care units. These infections negatively affect patient outcomes and health care costs.L ...
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Journal articleGeriatr Nurs · 2021
Falls in older adults are common and interventions to reduce associated morbidity and mortality remain difficult to implement. This quality improvement project evaluated On the Move, a new clinic designed to provide tailored recommendations to reduce falls ...
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Journal articleGerontology & geriatric medicine · January 2021
Background: Nursing home (NH) residents are at high-risk for pressure injuries (PrIs), and those living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) are at even greater risk. Understanding how nursing staff approach repositioning remains cr ...
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Journal articleDimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN · July 2020
BackgroundThe European Association for Cardio Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons endorse Cardiac Surgical Unit-Advanced Life Support, a protocol designed specifically for cardiothoracic surgical patients who suffer postoperative ...
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Journal articleClinical nurse specialist CNS · July 2020
Purpose/aimsPredatory journals, characterized by poor editorial practices and questionable peer review, constitute a threat to academic literature. Citations to predatory journals in reviews of research potentially weaken the strength of these rev ...
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Journal articleWound management & prevention · July 2020
Dementia contributes to the development of pressure injuries (PrIs).PurposeThis study describes the real-time body positions of 2 nursing home (NH) residents, residing in the United States and living with dementia, to inform development of PrI pre ...
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Journal articleWound management & prevention · May 2020
Obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥30 kg/m2) can have a profound influence on the likelihood of developing a pressure injury (PrI); little is known about the movement behaviors (movement frequency, body position frequency, and position duration) of obese indi ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · April 1, 2018
This quality improvement project standardized screening and treatment of overweight and obese pediatric patients at a community health center and the application of a treatment algorithm. Providers demonstrated an increase in knowledge and reported increas ...
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Journal articleJournal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · September 2017
The professional designation as Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) is the highest professional designation for any nurse practitioner (NP). The Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) operate the FAA ...
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Journal articleJ Nurse Pract · January 2017
The nurse practitioner plays a key role in monitoring and improving physical activity and function of older adults. Physical activity is an essential component of care management for all older adults, even those who are frail with multimorbidities. All phy ...
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Journal articleNurse educator · January 2016
Nurse educators are uniquely positioned to improve obesity-related attitudes and beliefs among prelicensure nursing students. A bariatric sensitivity intervention using 6 trigger films with facilitated debriefing was designed and delivered to 70 first-seme ...
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Journal articleJournal of nursing care quality · July 2014
The modified early warning system (MEWS) is a scoring rubric used to detect the earliest signs of a change in a patient's condition. This mixed-methods study used pre- and postintervention data to describe the impact of the MEWS on the frequency of rapid r ...
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Journal articleClinical Simulation in Nursing · January 1, 2014
Background: Administration of vasopressors in patients with septic shock can be a difficult skill for nurses to learn. Simulation-based learning (SBL) may be a useful tool for improving nurses' self-efficacy and skill performance in this context. Methods: ...
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Journal articleBariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care · June 1, 2012
Epidemic levels of obesity in the United States have created a ripple effect throughout healthcare. Healthcare organizations have taken great strides to address obesity-related issues such as sensitivity training and adjustments to the environment of care. ...
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Journal articleJournal of aging and health · February 2011
ObjectiveTo promote healthy aging in older nursing home (NH) residents, it is important to identify factors that impact functional performance. Using the Disablement Process Model, it was hypothesized that variables from all levels of the model wo ...
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Journal articleWestern journal of nursing research · June 2010
Anemia is often an unrecognized and/or undertreated diagnosis in older adults. Failure to diagnose anemia leads to delayed treatment and thus delayed relief of symptoms. Given the potentially significant impact of anemia on cardiovascular disease and physi ...
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Journal articleClinical nursing research · May 2010
The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to describe the prevalence and treatment of anemia and test the impact of anemia on physical and psychosocial outcomes at baseline and following restorative care interventions. A total of 451 residents from 1 ...
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Journal articleJournal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners · January 2010
PurposeTo provide the advanced practice nurse (APN) information on the prevalence and causes of anemia in elderly nursing home (NH) residents, in order to affect diagnostic and management strategies that may help improve physical function and mobi ...
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Journal articleAACN advanced critical care · January 2007
Diarrhea is one of many symptoms that may complicate the hospitalization of a critically ill patient. Diarrhea is caused by a variety of etiologies; identifying the etiology aids in the appropriate selection of interventions. Care of the patient with diarr ...
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Journal articleAACN clinical issues · October 2004
Illness and injury are physiologic stressors that alter the body's metabolic and energy demands. Approximately 30 to 55% of hospitalized patients have evidence of malnutrition, which makes nutrition screening and assessment an integral part of the evaluati ...
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Journal articleAACN clinical issues · August 1997
The incidence of acute and chronic diarrhea in hospitalized adults ranges widely. This variation has been attributed to subjective definitions of diarrhea and to use of imprecise measurement methods. The differential diagnosis of diarrhea is broad, ranging ...
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