This collection houses DNP/DNAP Capstone Projects authored by students from the Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing at Samford University. The projects are in the format of poster presentations with formal abstracts. The posters were approved by Samford faculty, but did not go through a peer-review process prior to inclusion in this repository.
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DNP Capstone Projects
Increasing nurses' compliance with bedside shift report, Leigh Anne Puckett
Increasing the uptake of the human papillomavirus vaccine in adolescents, Melinda Hamlin
In safe hands: CPR education for adolescents, Megan Moore
Integration of a mobile mindfulness app on employee health processes in a virtual environment, Kimberly Richards and Ruth Ellen Yeager
Integration of palliative care practices in an emergency department: A standardized palliative care referral process, Andrea Brown
Intraoperative and postoperative analgesia in Nuss bar procedure, Carlie Copeland
Intraoperative echocardiography for pediatric cardiac surgery, Linsley Lloyd and Lisa Herbinger
Intraoperative methadone for postoperative pain in spine surgery, Nathaniel Cline
Intraoperative tranexamic acid for pediatric posterior spinal fusions, Hannah Coblentz and David Sanford
Introduction of care dependency scale: A pressure ulcer risk assessment tool in a long term facility, Nkeiruka Archinihu
Is melatonin a viable alternative to a benzodiazepine perioperatively?, Graham Herndon, Maria Ledbetter, and Terri Cahoon
Jehovah's Witnesses and perioperative blood management strategies, Anne Owusu and Lauren Barnes
Keeping heart failure patients in the "Loop": Creating a sustainable program, Rachel E. Phelps
Ketamine as a general anesthesia adjunct, Michaela Wilcox, Nancy Ann Westbrook, and Terri Cahoon
Ketamine's effect on postoperative remifentanil-induced hyperalgesia, Madeline Tisdale
Lactation support in pediatric primary care, Krista Tucker
Lifestyle counseling for uncontrolled hypertensive patients in an underserved health clinic, Jacqueline Taylor Averette
Magnesium sulfate effectiveness for ERAS Protocols, Camille Karst
Medication errors: Issues of concern to anesthesia providers, Mary Katherine Riggs and Nancy Westbrook
Methods of intra-operative airway exchange, Catherine Kinney and Lauren Barnes
Methods to achieve one-lung ventilation, Laura Starr Wagner
Methods to appropriately size pediatric endotracheal tubes, Laura Crump
Minimizing the environmental impact of anesthesia, Ann Marie Gieger
Modified early warning score tool kit: Multi-disciplinary implications for practice, Kelli Gilliland
Modified pectoral nerve block for unilateral mastectomy, Jessica Randall
