Gestational Weight Gain (GWG) is a clinical inquiry focused on prenatal provider health promotion skills.  MI is a patient-provider collaborative approach used to elicit and strengthen the patient's own motivation to change ...

Literature indicates that lack of education, lack of access, fear, and behavioral risk factors contribute to lower breast and cervical cancer screening rates in lesbian, bi-sexual and gender non-conforming individuals. ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a common disease of older adults with a survival rate that rivals many forms of cancer (Mamas et al., 2017). This disease affects 1 in 100 individuals over the age of 65, or approximately ...

Urgent care centers (UCCs) are not required to be certified or accredited in any state, however, accreditation is an essential measure of healthcare quality and shows outside endorsement of meeting set quality and safety ...

This program development and evaluation paper discusses the impact of an outreach pilot project targeting patients with uncontrolled hypertension in the completion of recommended care. Program evaluation findings suggest ...

The overall purpose/goal of the evaluation is to utilize pathways to have decreased length of stay, resulting in lower cost, and improved patient satisfactory scores. Streamlined the joint care center, organizing the team ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021), HPV is considered the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection in the United States, making it a very relevant and prevalent health concern of our ...

Dementia-specific Advance Care Planning (ACP) can help to reduce the burdens of providing care to those diagnosed with dementia. Does the implementation of a dementia-specific ACP tool help increase knowledge and decision-maker ...

Eighty-six million American adults (more than one out of three) have prediabetes and nine out of ten patients are not aware that they are at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)(CDC,2014; CDC,2016).

Hypertension is one of the most prepotent chronic diseases in the United States. It affects one-third of the population over 20 years of age (Findlow, Basalik, Dulin, Tapp, & Kuhn, 2013). According to the Center for Disease ...