The Doctoral Degree concentrations at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing are created for registered nurses who have earned their BSN and are interested in pursuing advanced leadership roles in nursing practice and research positions in academia, as well as in the research departments of leading health institutions and hospitals.
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) has six concentrations:
- Nurse Anesthesia
- Health Systems Executive Nurse Leadership
- Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- Family Nurse Practitioner
- Post MSN DNP
As part of the DNP requirements, all graduate students must complete a scholarly project to demonstrate knowledge and scholarship skills within the academic focus. The project focuses on practice, health policy or the health system and the goal is on quality improvement. The elements of the DNP project include planning, implementation, and evaluation. All students must then disseminate the outcomes and results to the public. You can find more information about the program on the website: Doctoral Degree | BJC Goldfarb School of Nursing.
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Student Project Collection contains papers produced by the students dating from 2023.
Submissions from 2024
Implementation of a Standardized Handoff Reference Tool from the Intensive Care Unit to the Operating Room, Sophia Agbomah and Stacie Summers
Reducing Unsecured Medications in Anesthetizing Area, Christine Bergesch and Kate Manuel
Improving Anesthesia Clinicians’ Knowledge and Confidence When Selecting Prophylactic Antimicrobials for Patients on Concomitant Antimicrobial Therapy, Garry Gregson and Emily Shands
Assessing Workflow in the Postanesthesia Care Unit, Laura McGrath and Emma Vierod
Propofol Disposal in the Operating Room: Addressing the Practice Knowledge Gap, Samantha Trulove and Audreau Conley
Submissions from 2023
Education Aimed to Increase Train-of-Four Ratio Use, Frank Bougher
Implementation of Endotracheal Tube Cuff Manometry in the Operating Room: A Quality Improvement Project, Emily Davenport, Jennifer Stephan, and Paul Winson
Addressing Barriers to Anesthesia Clinicians Utilization of the Perioperative Glycemic Management Guideline in Adult Surgical Patients with Diabetes at a Level 1 Midwestern Trauma Center, Neil Frydrych and Meghan Marshall
Educating Perioperative Nurses on Preventing Hypothermia in Surgical Patients, Bethany Geisler
Gastric Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Robert Graham
Anesthesia Provider Education on the Adherence to the Fourth Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting, Christine Johnson
Standardizing Intraoperative Handoffs amongst Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Mallory Light
Anesthesia Provider’s Use and Perception of Emergency Cognitive Aids, Katie Mette
Addressing the Gaps: Pain Management, Multimodal Analgesia, and CRNA Education, Hunter Niemeyer
Screening Patients for Physical Frailty in the Preoperative Phase, Sean V. Pottenger and Amanuel Gebeyehu
Evaluation of Provider Adherence to an Intraoperative Glucose Monitoring Guideline at a Midwestern Academic Hospital, Lauren Schoolfield and Taylor Crittenden
Noise Reduction in the Obstetric Operating Room, Maddy Schroeder and Meghan Woodham
Efficacy of a Mixed Methods Training Program for Transthoracic Echocardiography, Britni Tharp
Improving Small-Volume Antibiotic Administration for Surgical Prophylaxis, Benjamin Thomas
