Senior Nursing Projects Cover Health Needs of the Community
Knowing how to discern a health-related need, then deciding how to address
it is an important part of nursing. Fourth-year students at Georgia Baptist
College of Nursing of Mercer University will present their senior projects from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, April 23, at the College Center, 274 Boulevard
N.E., Atlanta. The poster presentations are open to the public.
Among the subjects covered in this year's poster presentations are communicating
medical situations with non-English-speaking patients and educating students
about health-related issues from backpack safety to the importance of hand washing.
Some projects include the development of a pamphlet or guide such as "A Family
and Visitors Guide to Isolation in the Intensive Care Unit" and "Developing
a Teaching Tool for Adult Patients with Type II Diabetes in a Family Practice
Setting."
"These projects require students to select an audience, conduct a needs assessment,
implement the project, develop a poster presentation on their findings, then
explain those findings to the faculty," explained JoEllen Dattilo, R.N., Ph.D.,
assistant dean for the Undergraduate Program at the College of Nursing. "Many
projects in previous years have been selected as educational tools by local
hospitals and health care organizations and some have been published in professional
journals."
Before the projects are opened to the public, the nursing students must make
a presentation on their projects before the nursing faculty. "The students have
to be able to discuss all the steps they have taken, their findings and how
they would improve on the project the next time," explain Dattilo. "These senior
projects demonstrate how a student can evaluate a situation and develop an approach
to addressing the need. It is part of the lifelong learning skills that nurses
must have."
For more information about these senior projects, call the Georgia Baptist
College of Nursing of Mercer University at 678-547-6733.
Student Senior Projects
Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University
- Jennifer Althen "Improving Explanations to Customers with a Focus on Discharge
Teaching"
- Jeanine Austin "Developing an English/Spanish Translation Booklet for a
Labor & Delivery Unit"
- Erin Billmeyer "The Cost of Smoking"
- Brenda Boland "Preventing the Spread of Germs in the Preschooler"
- April Callaway "Stress Management for Nurses"
- Kelly Carter "Ambulatory Care Unit Reference Book"
- Jennifer Dalton "A Family and Visitors Guide to Isolation in the Intensive
Care Unit"
- Inga Dennis "Hand Washing: The Easiest Way to Decrease the Spread of Germs"
- Wendy Freeman "A Spanish Language Aid for the Labor and Delivery Nurse"
- Tamika Graham "Management of Second Stage Labor"
- Katherine Guth "Universal Precautions in the Classroom"
- Julie Haag "Educating First-Grade Students on Hand Washing"
- Renee Hagan "A Drug and Alcohol Intervention Program for Elementary School
Students"
- Taris Hammons "Blood Culture Contamination and Collection"
- Elizabeth Hardin "Oncologic Emergencies"
- Sandy Harper "Teaching Appropriate Handwashing Techniques to Employees of
a Child Day Care Center"
- Carol Hill "Initiating a Patient Assistance Drug Program at Gwinnett Community
Clinic"
- Angela Hurt "High Blood Pressure Prevention in African-American Adults"
- Kristy Jackson "Promoting Nutrition in School Aged Children"
- Carey Kemp "Healthy Women, Healthy Hearts"
- Amanda Lavalle "Prevention of Skin Breakdown and Promotion of Wound Healing:
Standardizing Nursing Practices of Neonatal Skin Care"
- Madeleine Lemmo "Nutrition: Teaching Teens Healthy Food Choices"
- Cynthia Lister "Prostate Cancer Awareness"
- Molly McDonald "Assessment and Reassessment of Pain in the Children's Emergency
Department"
- Gina Maday "Teaching Children to Make Better Food Choices"
- Connie Masters "Alcohol and Teens"
- Crystal (Niki) Mixon "Early Beginnings in Breast Cancer"
- Crystal Mosely "Developing a Teaching Tool for Adult Patients with Type
II Diabetes in a Family Practice Setting"
- Robbie Mosley "Emergency Department Staff Nurse In-service Education Program:
Principal Management and Treatments for Ingestion of 'Georgia Home Boy' Ð
Gamma Hydoxyburate"
- Gina Neville "Blood Pressure Screening for Senior Adults"
- Candace Parker "Perinatal Loss"
- Catherine B. Piper "Breast Cancer Awareness"
- Karen Pixley "Helmet Safety"
- Gina Prather "Teaching Emergency Department Personnel Proper Blood Culture
Collection Technique "
- Laura Reeves "Medication Administration in Private Pre-school"
- Mary Ellen Ragsdale "Aspirating Blood: A Nursing Approach to Increased Knowledge
on Occluded VAP Devices"
- Jennifer Rhodes "The Importance of Nutrition in Children with Cancer"
- Crystal Rodgers "The Importance of Pain Management while on a Neuromuscular
Blocking Agent"
- Allene Russell "Reducing the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Post-menopausal
Women"
- Roza Saitlin "Health Education for Russian Seniors"
- Lisa Shaw "Teaching Adolescents Backpack Safety"
- Antoinette Sims "Skin Assessment and Breakdown Prevention in the Critically
Ill Adult"
- Kathryn Small "Education for Seniors about Hypertension"
- Roxanne Steele "Parasites and Traveling Abroad"
- Ngina Thompson "Prevention Strategies for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
in Teens"
- Vickie Washington "Breast Self-Examinations for African-American Women"
- Tara Wilbanks "Developing a Form for Vital Patient Information"
- Tricia Williamson "Presenting the Need for an Automatic External Defibrillator
in an Occupational Health Setting."
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