Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Final Projects
The Doctor of Nursing Practice Final Projects collection contains the completed works of students from the DNP Program at Arizona State University's College of Nursing and Health Innovation. These projects are the culminating product of the curricula and demonstrate clinical scholarship.
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- Creators: Corcoran, Abigail T.
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The landscape of healthcare is changing. All health providers in varying disciplines and roles must collaborate and function in teams for effective patient and care outcomes to take place. Collaborative practice starts in the academic environment through adoption of Interprofessional Education (IPE). Fostering IPE increases learner confidence and communication but requires a team-based approach to eliminate known learner barriers. These barriers include attitude toward collaboration, role delineation, team development and patient delivery and outcome. While IPE opportunities and activities can be looked at as unique, developing structured curricular standards can be applied to all IPE experiences. Healthcare Participants (HCP’s) (N=15) from two organizational settings participated in an online IPE experience using best practice IPE interventions and structured design formatting focusing on older adults. The course consisted of an online pre learning activity followed by one online session to work as teams on case studies alongside mentorship guidance. The previously validated and reliable ICCAS and RIPLS survey tools were used to measure outcomes of readiness for IPE and professional development. Though no statistically significant changes were noted on the dependent variables, there was clinical significance found in professional development.
ContributorsFlom-Racoma, Kehart (Author) / Uriri-Glover, Johannah (Thesis advisor) / Arizona State University. College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation (Contributor)
Created2021-05-03
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Capturing and presenting high-quality data can be challenging for free clinics due to lack of resources and technology avoidance. If free clinics are unable to present impactful data to current and potential donors, this may limit funding and restrict care provided to underserved and vulnerable populations. The following is a quality improvement project which addresses utilization of information systems within a free clinic. For one month, volunteer providers completed appointment summary forms for each patient seen in the clinic. Electronic form submissions (E=110) were compared to paper form submissions (P=196), with quality of data determined by form completeness scores. Welch’s t-test was used to determine statistical significance between electronic and paper form completeness scores (E=9.7, P=8.5) (p < .001). Findings suggest that utilization of electronic data collection tools within a free clinic produce more complete and accurate data. Barriers associated with technology utilization in this under-resourced environment were substantial. Findings related to overcoming some of these barriers may be useful for future exploration of health information technology utilization in under-resourced and technology avoidant settings. Results warrant future investigation of the relationship between quality of free clinic data, information management systems, provider willingness to utilize technology and funding opportunities in free clinics.
ContributorsCorcoran, Abigail T. (Author) / Thrall, Charlotte (Thesis advisor) / Arizona State University. College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation (Contributor)
Created2021-04-24