Our Student Projects
2021-2022 MSN Capstone Projects
- Promoting Nursing Student Engagement Through Simulation
- Decreasing Nursing Turnover: A Relationship Based Approach
- Utilizing Peer-to-Peer Education to Reduce Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries
- Increasing Physician Efficiency Through Electronic Health Record Workflow Optimization
- Simulation Debriefing Methods to Facilitate Clinical Decision-Making
- Preventing Readmission with Evidence-Based Discharge Teaching
- Impacting Clinical Nurse Burnout
- Standard Diabetes Education for School Nurses
- Evidence-based Practice to Drive Improvement in Nurse and Physician Communication
- Critical Care Education Program to Improve the Confidence of New PACU Nurses
- A Leann Approach to Healthcare Supplies: Improving Nursing Efficiency & Satisfaction
2020-2021 MSN Capstone Projects
- Nurse Residency Program: A Strategy for New Nurse Retention
- Lifting the Load: Application of Cognitive Load Theory in Nursing Education Instructional Strategies for Nurse Educators
- Promoting Resilience among Healthcare Workers through a Conceptual Framework for Employee Onboarding
- Improving Patient Satisfaction with Nurse Leadership Rounds
- Peer Mentoring to Reduce Nursing Student Stress and Anxiety During Clinical Experience
- Providing Standardized Diabetes Education Tools to Home Healthcare Nurses
- Improving Staff Satisfaction and Decreasing Turnover in an Intensive Care Unit Through the Use of Meaningful Recognition Strategies
- Enhancing Staff Engagement
- Enhancing the New Graduate Nurse Onboarding Program to Improve Retention
- The Development of Ambulatory Nurse Competencies
- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Bolstering Interprofessional Collaboration to Promote Staff Cohesion and Improve Patient Outcomes
- Development and Implementation of a Stroke Audit Tool to Increase Compliance with Stroke Core Measures
- Improving Outcomes for Patients Having Total Knee and Hip Replacement Surgery
- Utilizing Virtual Simulation in Response to COVID-19 to Enhance Student learning Outcomes
- Effectiveness of Structured Debriefing Protocols for High Fidelity Simulation
- Retention, Recruitment, and New Graduate Nurses
- Impacting Safe Sleep Through Telephonic Outreach
- Initiating Nurse Residency Programs to Increase Nurse Retention
- Nursing Education on Autism Spectrum Disorder: Incorporating Evidence Based Research into Formal Teaching Instruction
- Increased Virtual Care to Improve Staff Satisfaction
- Fostering Communication in Nursing Students: Importance, Implications, and Initiatives
- Simulation Boot Camp with Senior Nursing Students to Enhance Critical Thinking and Self-Confidence: A Quality Improvement Project
- Bullying Against Novice Nurses in the Workplace
2019-2020 MSN Capstone Projects
- Teaming: Success to Employee Engagement
- Utilizing Acuity as a Guide in Ambulatory Care Management
- QI Implementation
- Improving Pain Management
- Improving Communication
- Testing and Evaluation in Specialty Nursing
- Implementation of Infusion Interoperability
2018-2019 MSN Capstone Projects
- Development and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Bowel and Bladder Education Program to Improve Confidence in Rehabilitation Nurses’ Clinical Practice
- Student Nurse Retention and Dosage Calculation Remediation
- Implementation of Success Strategies for First-Year Nursing Students in an Associate Degree Nursing Program to Increase Retention
- Real Time Coordination to Successfully Manage Diabetes
- Closing the Readmission Gap with Project RED
- Hospice in Hospital Settings: How to Do It Well
- Decreasing Patient Wait Times to Increase Patient Satisfaction
- The Use of Continuous Bedside Pressure Mapping Technology to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
- Improving the No-Show Problem in Outpatient Care
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Mentoring Program to Improve Retention and Patient Satisfaction
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Implementation of a Standardized Admission Process: Collaborating to Achieve Optimal Patient Satisfaction at UPMC St. Margaret
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Infusion Interoperability to Improve Medication Safety
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De-escalation Training to Effectively Manage Workplace Violence
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Purposeful Hourly Rounding
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The Value of Using Teach-Back to Educate Our Patients
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Reducing HAPIs in the Trauma ICU Evidence-based Project
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Staff Satisfaction and Span of Control
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Reducing Heparin Infusion Errors
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Reducing Surgical Site Infections in Gastrointestinal Surgery Patients Utilizing an Evidence-Based Practice Wound Closing Bundle
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Improving Interdepartmental Handoff: Face-to-Face Each Time
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Nurse Leadership Succession Planning
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The Effect of ‘Stay Interviews’ on Nurses’ Intention to Stay
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Implementation of a Nurse-Driven Call Center to Improve Emergency Department Throughput
2017-2018 MSN Capstone Projects
- Best Practices in Case Management: Navigating a New World
- Capacity Management and Patient Throughput
- Collaborative Interprofessional Teamwork: An Administrative Technique to Improve
- Documentation Compliance
- Discharge Process Improvement
- Depression and Suicidal Ideation Policy Review
- Electronic Self-Scheduling in Hospital Nursing
- Fall Reduction and Prevention
- Hiring for Retention
- Implementing a Nurse-Led Internal Jugular Access Program
- Implementing the ABCDE Bundle in Critical Care
- Implementing the Teach-Back for Patient Education to Reduce Heart Failure
- Improving KCCQ Completion Rates in Patients One Year Post-TAVR
- Intranasal Naloxone and Opioid Overdose: A Hospital Protocol
- Managing Surgical Site Infections Using the 5S Organizational Tool
- Mentorship of Nurse Leaders
- Nurse Handoff and Bedside Safety Check
- Preventing Missed Doses of Prophylactic Anticoagulation
- Support for Parents of Pediatric Patients with Bone Marrow Transplantation
- The Utilization of Rewards and Recognition to Improve Nurse Engagement
- Worksite Wellness Clinics: To Improve Employee Engagement, Health and Satisfaction
- Suicide Prevention in the Inpatient Setting
- Teaching Faculty Debriefing Techniques
- Increasing Patient Safety Through Use of a Patient-Controlled
- Analgesia Capnography Monitoring Program
