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Doctor of Nursing Practice Final Project Abstract

Practice Project abstracts from 2024-current.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program prepares clinical scholars recognized for outstanding leadership and innovation to apply their talents and expertise to delivery of evidence-based patient- and population-centered care that improves systems of care and positively influences patient outcomes. The program focuses on inter-professional collaboration and development of the kinds of competencies in quality improvement and safety that lead to enhanced outcomes for patients, families, providers, and organizations.

Submissions from 2026 2026

Improving the Screening of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women: A Quality Improvement Project in a Primary Care Setting, Confidence Ndukwe

Submissions from 2024 2024

A Comprehensive Community Awareness Website to Increase Screening Colonoscopy Rates Among Adults in Flower Mound, TX, Alexandra Biltz

Addressing Medication Adherence Barriers in Hispanics Diagnosed with Diabetes Type II, Solmayra Solis

Decreasing Compassion Fatigue in Inpatient Nurses Using Debriefing and Group Care Program, Hanh Nguyen

Enhancing Discharge Process for Home IV Milrinone Patients With Advanced Heart Failure, Kaitlyn Bauer

Implementation of a Peer Mentorship Process within a Nurse Fellowship Program (Critical Care), Laura Douglas

Implementation of a Prior Authorization Process for Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) Initiative of HIV and PrEP Patients to Improve Financial Health of the Organization, Erica Miller

Implementation of a Standardized Process to Increase Referrals to the Tobacco Quitline in an Underserved General Oncology Cancer Survivorship Clinic, Kristyn-Mae Rosales

Implementation of Peer Mentorship Process Within a Nurse Fellowship Program, Julie Edwards

Implementing a Nurse-Driven Wellness Program for Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Raheemat Adekanmbi

Implementing a Two-Nurse Indwelling Urinary Catheter Insertion Process with a Checklist to Decrease Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit, Alexa Austin

Improving Outcomes in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder Through The Utilization of The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Screening Tool in a Mental Health Setting., Murielle Nankeu

Improving Patient Engagement Post-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using the Systematic Introduction of a Cardiac Rehabilitation Bundle in a Community Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project, Rebecca Vela

Incorporation of Sleep Promotion Measures into a Medically Supervised Weight Management Program, Enitan Pecku

Reducing Hemoglobin A1C Using Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (Dsmes) for Hispanic Adults in a Primary Care Setting, Gita Gyawali Sedai

Use of a Shared Decision-Making Approach to Improve Blood Pressure Readings in a Hispanic Population with Hypertension, Narayani Koirala

Using an American Sign Language Video Intervention to Improve Advance Care Planning Engagement Among Deaf Adults, Colleen Ann Manning DNP, APRN, FNP-C

Submissions from 2023 2023

Decreasing Skin Infections in High School Wrestlers, Adrienne Villarreal Mathews

The Effectiveness of Implementing Nurse-Driven Mobility Protocol To Reduce Los, Delirium and Ventilator Days, Sajani Abraham