Seeing Through the Shadows: A Strategy to Improve Postpartum Depression Screening Practices.

The pilgrimage of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project was to bring postpartum depression (PPD) out of the shadows and into the light. A gap existed in a postpartum ambulatory setting with the screening, detection, and treatment of PPD. A quality improvement project with an evidence-based standard of care for PPD screening was implemented with every postpartum patient.

DNP-Authored Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals 2012-2018.

Background: The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) nurse is recognized as a practice scholar in nursing and leadership; moreover, the volume of published scholarship from DNP authors is expanding.

Purpose: The aim of this research was to quantify and analyze DNP-authored peer-reviewed journal publications from 2012 through 2018.

Methods: This was a descriptive analysis of DNP graduate publications found in the WorldCat database from 2012 through 2018.

THE IMPACT OF LUMBOPELVIC CONTROL ON OVERHEAD PERFORMANCE AND SHOULDER INJURY IN OVERHEAD ATHLETES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Background: The lumbopelvic region is utilized in almost all functional tasks and has been proposed to provide dynamic stability to distal extremities.

Purpose: To systematically evaluate the current literature that examined the effect of lumbopelvic control on overhead performance and shoulder injury in overhead athletes.

Study Design: Systematic Review.

Identification of chlamydia in cervical smears by immunofluorescence: technic, sensitivity, and specificity.

Immunofluorescent staining was compared to cell culture for the diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in the female genital tract. By culture, the incidence in the 496 patients in the study was 12.3%.

Sensitivity and specificity of the Papanicolaou-stained cervical smear in the diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infection.

Two hundred young women had simultaneously prepared cultures for Chlamydia trachomatis and cervical smears; they also completed a questionnaire. Twelve of the chlamydial cultures were positive. There was poor correlation between the culture results and the cytologic morphology or symptoms.