Date of Award

Summer 7-26-2021

Document Type

Scholarly Project

Degree Name

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Department

Nursing

First Advisor

Theresa Pape, PhD, RN, CNOR-E, CNE

Second Advisor

Marla Weiss, DNP, FNP-C

Abstract

Practice Problem: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States; many of the deaths are preventable with early detection. Adherence rates for colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical test kits (FIT) was below the national benchmark at this facility.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: Among veterans 50 – 75 years old requiring average risk colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) seen in primary care at a veterans affairs healthcare system facility (P), how does the use of a multi-component intervention (I), compared to the usual care (C), affect the number of patients completing CRCS (O) over a period of 12 weeks (T)?

Evidence: Review of high-quality studies suggested a multi-component approach, including increasing provider awareness and increasing patient education and outreach, as the most effective approach to increase colorectal screening compliance.

Intervention: The multi-component intervention included a standardized CRCS nurse navigation process through standard work which included the teach-back method, patient outreach, and provider feedback.

Outcome: There were clinically significant improvements in adherence with returned FIT kits, follow up for abnormal FIT kits, and statistically significant improvements with nursing documentation of patient teaching. The number of patients overdue for CRCS decreased.

Conclusion: The multi-component CRCS screening intervention demonstrated significant improvements in the intervention clinics which is consistent with the body of evidence.

Comments

Scholarly project submitted to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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