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Quality Improvement Projects

Our residents feel the benefits of mentoring by program director  Smita Bakhai, MD, MPH, FACP . She and her mentees have received numerous awards and honors for quality improvement (QI) projects. 

If you’re eager to work with a supportive mentor on meaningful QI projects, you’ve come to the right program. 

Here’s a sampling of QI projects, mentored by Bakhai, completed over the years:

• “Strategies to address Healthcare Disparity in Colorectal Cancer Screening (CRC)” Quality improvement project, selected as Board of Regents Scientific Excellence Award, semifinalist at American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) annual meeting, 2022, poster presentation by 3rd year IM/PM resident, June 16, 2022, Denver, CO Role: Primary Investigator and mentor

January 2022

• “Improving access to community support for suicidal patients, post hospital discharge,” oral poster presentation by two 3rd year psychiatry residents at American Psychiatry Association (APA)  Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 21-25, 2022, abstract accepted. Role: Primary Investigator and mentor

September 2021

• Improving Warfarin Safety During Clinic Merger Amid COVID-19 Quality improvement project, NY American College of Physician (ACP) 2nd place winner, in the Resident/Fellow and Medical Student Quality Patient Safety and Advocacy Category, virtual poster presentation by 4th year IM/PM Resident Role: Mentor and Primary Investigator
• “Multi-faceted Strategies to address the barriers to Health Care Disparity in Colorectal Cancer Screening (CRC)”: Quality Improvement Project, winner of social justice and equity award, 3rd year Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine Resident, received $2,000 award,  GME, UB Role: Primary Investigator and Mentor
• “Increasing Rate of Attendance to First Outpatient Mental Health Appointment Post Hospital Discharge after Suicidal Ideation,” Quality improvement project, winner of the Evan Calkins, MD, community-Based Research Fellowship award, Second year residents in Department of Psychiatry, received $2,200 award, UB Role: Primary Investigator and Mentor
• Improving breast cancer screening rates in primary care safety-net clinic: Quality improvement project, 1st place winner, Graduate Medical Education Award, Oral poster presentation by 3rd year resident at 2nd Annual “virtual” Celebration of Scholarship, University at Buffalo (UB) Role: Primary Investigator and mentor 
• “Optimization of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure in Safety-Net Primary Care Clinic: Quality Improvement Project” selected as an honorable mention recipient of Gage award in 2019 by America’s Essential Hospitals VITAL2019, annual conference, poster presentation by PI. Listed in abstracts guide and posted online America’s Essential Hospitals. Role: Primary Investigator and mentor
• “Improving Hepatitis C Screening and Diagnosis in Baby Boomers in Safety-Net Primary Care Clinic: Quality Improvement Project" selected as remarkable project by America’s Essential Hospitals VITAL2019. Listed in abstracts guide and posted online America’s Essential Hospitals Role: Primary Investigator and mentor
• “Improving Blood Pressure Control by Optimization of Guideline Directed Therapy for Hypertension in Primary Care Setting: Quality improvement project,” selected as Honorable Mention for the Evan Calkins, MD, Community-Based  Research Fellowship award, first year resident, received $500 award, UB Role: Primary Investigator and Mentor
• “Optimization of Diabetes Care by Implementing Patient Education Initiatives and Evidence-Based Guidelines in a Safety Net Primary Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project” selected as Honorable Mention for the Evan Calkins, MD Community-Based Research Fellowship award, first year resident received $250 award, UB Role: Primary Investigator and Mentor
• “Improving Colorectal Cancer screening rates with the introduction of fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in a primary care safety-net clinic: Quality Improvement Project,” selected as remarkable project, America’s Essential Hospitals VITAL2018. Listed in abstracts guide and posted online America’s Essential Hospitals Role: Primary Investigator and mentor
• “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure Optimization in a Primary Care Setting: Quality Improvement Project,” 1st place winner, Graduate Medical Education Award, Oral poster presentation by 3rd year resident at Scholarly Exchange Day, University at Buffalo (UB) Role: Primary Investigator and mentor
• “Improving PPI Prescribing Practices in an Academic Safety-Net Primary Care Clinic: Quality improvement project,” selected as Honorable Mention for the Evan Calkins, MD Community-Based Research Fellowship award, first year resident received $500 award, UB Role: Primary Investigator and Mentor

October 2017

• “Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates with the Introduction of Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in a Primary Care Safety-Net Clinic: Quality Improvement Project.” NY American College of Physician (ACP) 2nd place winner, in the Resident/Fellow and Medical Student Quality, Patient Safety and Advocacy Category: Oral poster presentation by first year resident, Staten Island, NY Role: Primary Investigator and mentor
• “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure Optimization in a Primary Care Setting: Quality Improvement Project,” NYACP 1st place winner in the Resident/Fellow Quality, Advocacy and Public Policy Category: Oral poster presentation by 3rd year resident, NYACP Chapter’s Annual Scientific Meeting poster competition in Rochester, New York Role: Primary Investigator and mentor

October 2016

• “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure Optimization in a Primary Care Setting,” winner of Graduate Medical Education, UB, QI award $3,000.00 Role: Primary Investigator and mentor for residents
• “Treatment and Screening for Albuminuria in Hypertensive Diabetics in a Primary Care Safety-Net Clinic,” winner of Graduate Medical Education, University of Buffalo, QI award $ 3,000 Role: Primary Investigator and mentor for residents
• “Improving rates of spirometry for diagnosis and treatment of COPD in primary care, Academic Safety-Net clinic,” winner of Graduate Medical Education, UB, QI award $3,000 Role: Primary Investigator and mentor for residents

November 2016

• “Increase the use of ASCVD Risk Calculator for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in a Primary Care Clinic: Quality Improvement Project,” NYACP 1st place winner in the Resident/Fellow Quality, Advocacy and Public Policy Category. Poster presentation by second year resident, New York, NY Role: Primary Investigator and mentor
• “Improving OSA screening in hypertensive patients with STOP-BANG questionnaire in a Primary Care Clinic: Quality Improvement Project,” NYACP 2nd place winner, in the Resident/Fellow and Medical Student Quality, Patient Safety and Advocacy Category, Oral Poster presentation by second year resident, New York, NY Role: Primary Investigator and mentor

Research Topics & Ideas: Healthcare

100+ Healthcare Research Topic Ideas To Fast-Track Your Project

Finding and choosing a strong research topic is the critical first step when it comes to crafting a high-quality dissertation, thesis or research project. If you’ve landed on this post, chances are you’re looking for a healthcare-related research topic , but aren’t sure where to start. Here, we’ll explore a variety of healthcare-related research ideas and topic thought-starters across a range of healthcare fields, including allopathic and alternative medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, optometry, pharmacology and public health.

NB – This is just the start…

The topic ideation and evaluation process has multiple steps . In this post, we’ll kickstart the process by sharing some research topic ideas within the healthcare domain. This is the starting point, but to develop a well-defined research topic, you’ll need to identify a clear and convincing research gap , along with a well-justified plan of action to fill that gap.

If you’re new to the oftentimes perplexing world of research, or if this is your first time undertaking a formal academic research project, be sure to check out our free dissertation mini-course. In it, we cover the process of writing a dissertation or thesis from start to end. Be sure to also sign up for our free webinar that explores how to find a high-quality research topic.

Overview: Healthcare Research Topics

• Allopathic medicine
• Alternative /complementary medicine
• Veterinary medicine
• Physical therapy/ rehab
• Optometry and ophthalmology
• Pharmacy and pharmacology
• Public health
• Examples of healthcare-related dissertations

Allopathic (Conventional) Medicine

• The effectiveness of telemedicine in remote elderly patient care
• The impact of stress on the immune system of cancer patients
• The effects of a plant-based diet on chronic diseases such as diabetes
• The use of AI in early cancer diagnosis and treatment
• The role of the gut microbiome in mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety
• The efficacy of mindfulness meditation in reducing chronic pain: A systematic review
• The benefits and drawbacks of electronic health records in a developing country
• The effects of environmental pollution on breast milk quality
• The use of personalized medicine in treating genetic disorders
• The impact of social determinants of health on chronic diseases in Asia
• The role of high-intensity interval training in improving cardiovascular health
• The efficacy of using probiotics for gut health in pregnant women
• The impact of poor sleep on the treatment of chronic illnesses
• The role of inflammation in the development of chronic diseases such as lupus
• The effectiveness of physiotherapy in pain control post-surgery

Topics & Ideas: Alternative Medicine

• The benefits of herbal medicine in treating young asthma patients
• The use of acupuncture in treating infertility in women over 40 years of age
• The effectiveness of homoeopathy in treating mental health disorders: A systematic review
• The role of aromatherapy in reducing stress and anxiety post-surgery
• The impact of mindfulness meditation on reducing high blood pressure
• The use of chiropractic therapy in treating back pain of pregnant women
• The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine such as Shun-Qi-Tong-Xie (SQTX) in treating digestive disorders in China
• The impact of yoga on physical and mental health in adolescents
• The benefits of hydrotherapy in treating musculoskeletal disorders such as tendinitis
• The role of Reiki in promoting healing and relaxation post birth
• The effectiveness of naturopathy in treating skin conditions such as eczema
• The use of deep tissue massage therapy in reducing chronic pain in amputees
• The impact of tai chi on the treatment of anxiety and depression
• The benefits of reflexology in treating stress, anxiety and chronic fatigue
• The role of acupuncture in the prophylactic management of headaches and migraines

Topics & Ideas: Dentistry

• The impact of sugar consumption on the oral health of infants
• The use of digital dentistry in improving patient care: A systematic review
• The efficacy of orthodontic treatments in correcting bite problems in adults
• The role of dental hygiene in preventing gum disease in patients with dental bridges
• The impact of smoking on oral health and tobacco cessation support from UK dentists
• The benefits of dental implants in restoring missing teeth in adolescents
• The use of lasers in dental procedures such as root canals
• The efficacy of root canal treatment using high-frequency electric pulses in saving infected teeth
• The role of fluoride in promoting remineralization and slowing down demineralization
• The impact of stress-induced reflux on oral health
• The benefits of dental crowns in restoring damaged teeth in elderly patients
• The use of sedation dentistry in managing dental anxiety in children
• The efficacy of teeth whitening treatments in improving dental aesthetics in patients with braces
• The role of orthodontic appliances in improving well-being
• The impact of periodontal disease on overall health and chronic illnesses

Tops & Ideas: Veterinary Medicine

• The impact of nutrition on broiler chicken production
• The role of vaccines in disease prevention in horses
• The importance of parasite control in animal health in piggeries
• The impact of animal behaviour on welfare in the dairy industry
• The effects of environmental pollution on the health of cattle
• The role of veterinary technology such as MRI in animal care
• The importance of pain management in post-surgery health outcomes
• The impact of genetics on animal health and disease in layer chickens
• The effectiveness of alternative therapies in veterinary medicine: A systematic review
• The role of veterinary medicine in public health: A case study of the COVID-19 pandemic
• The impact of climate change on animal health and infectious diseases in animals
• The importance of animal welfare in veterinary medicine and sustainable agriculture
• The effects of the human-animal bond on canine health
• The role of veterinary medicine in conservation efforts: A case study of Rhinoceros poaching in Africa
• The impact of veterinary research of new vaccines on animal health

Topics & Ideas: Physical Therapy/Rehab

• The efficacy of aquatic therapy in improving joint mobility and strength in polio patients
• The impact of telerehabilitation on patient outcomes in Germany
• The effect of kinesiotaping on reducing knee pain and improving function in individuals with chronic pain
• A comparison of manual therapy and yoga exercise therapy in the management of low back pain
• The use of wearable technology in physical rehabilitation and the impact on patient adherence to a rehabilitation plan
• The impact of mindfulness-based interventions in physical therapy in adolescents
• The effects of resistance training on individuals with Parkinson’s disease
• The role of hydrotherapy in the management of fibromyalgia
• The impact of cognitive-behavioural therapy in physical rehabilitation for individuals with chronic pain
• The use of virtual reality in physical rehabilitation of sports injuries
• The effects of electrical stimulation on muscle function and strength in athletes
• The role of physical therapy in the management of stroke recovery: A systematic review
• The impact of pilates on mental health in individuals with depression
• The use of thermal modalities in physical therapy and its effectiveness in reducing pain and inflammation
• The effect of strength training on balance and gait in elderly patients

Topics & Ideas: Optometry & Opthalmology

• The impact of screen time on the vision and ocular health of children under the age of 5
• The effects of blue light exposure from digital devices on ocular health
• The role of dietary interventions, such as the intake of whole grains, in the management of age-related macular degeneration
• The use of telemedicine in optometry and ophthalmology in the UK
• The impact of myopia control interventions on African American children’s vision
• The use of contact lenses in the management of dry eye syndrome: different treatment options
• The effects of visual rehabilitation in individuals with traumatic brain injury
• The role of low vision rehabilitation in individuals with age-related vision loss: challenges and solutions
• The impact of environmental air pollution on ocular health
• The effectiveness of orthokeratology in myopia control compared to contact lenses
• The role of dietary supplements, such as omega-3 fatty acids, in ocular health
• The effects of ultraviolet radiation exposure from tanning beds on ocular health
• The impact of computer vision syndrome on long-term visual function
• The use of novel diagnostic tools in optometry and ophthalmology in developing countries
• The effects of virtual reality on visual perception and ocular health: an examination of dry eye syndrome and neurologic symptoms

Topics & Ideas: Pharmacy & Pharmacology

• The impact of medication adherence on patient outcomes in cystic fibrosis
• The use of personalized medicine in the management of chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease
• The effects of pharmacogenomics on drug response and toxicity in cancer patients
• The role of pharmacists in the management of chronic pain in primary care
• The impact of drug-drug interactions on patient mental health outcomes
• The use of telepharmacy in healthcare: Present status and future potential
• The effects of herbal and dietary supplements on drug efficacy and toxicity
• The role of pharmacists in the management of type 1 diabetes
• The impact of medication errors on patient outcomes and satisfaction
• The use of technology in medication management in the USA
• The effects of smoking on drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics: A case study of clozapine
• Leveraging the role of pharmacists in preventing and managing opioid use disorder
• The impact of the opioid epidemic on public health in a developing country
• The use of biosimilars in the management of the skin condition psoriasis
• The effects of the Affordable Care Act on medication utilization and patient outcomes in African Americans

Topics & Ideas: Public Health

• The impact of the built environment and urbanisation on physical activity and obesity
• The effects of food insecurity on health outcomes in Zimbabwe
• The role of community-based participatory research in addressing health disparities
• The impact of social determinants of health, such as racism, on population health
• The effects of heat waves on public health
• The role of telehealth in addressing healthcare access and equity in South America
• The impact of gun violence on public health in South Africa
• The effects of chlorofluorocarbons air pollution on respiratory health
• The role of public health interventions in reducing health disparities in the USA
• The impact of the United States Affordable Care Act on access to healthcare and health outcomes
• The effects of water insecurity on health outcomes in the Middle East
• The role of community health workers in addressing healthcare access and equity in low-income countries
• The impact of mass incarceration on public health and behavioural health of a community
• The effects of floods on public health and healthcare systems
• The role of social media in public health communication and behaviour change in adolescents

Examples: Healthcare Dissertation & Theses

While the ideas we’ve presented above are a decent starting point for finding a healthcare-related research topic, they are fairly generic and non-specific. So, it helps to look at actual dissertations and theses to see how this all comes together.

Below, we’ve included a selection of research projects from various healthcare-related degree programs to help refine your thinking. These are actual dissertations and theses, written as part of Master’s and PhD-level programs, so they can provide some useful insight as to what a research topic looks like in practice.

• Improving Follow-Up Care for Homeless Populations in North County San Diego (Sanchez, 2021)
• On the Incentives of Medicare’s Hospital Reimbursement and an Examination of Exchangeability (Elzinga, 2016)
• Managing the healthcare crisis: the career narratives of nurses (Krueger, 2021)
• Methods for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infection in pediatric haematology-oncology patients: A systematic literature review (Balkan, 2020)
• Farms in Healthcare: Enhancing Knowledge, Sharing, and Collaboration (Garramone, 2019)
• When machine learning meets healthcare: towards knowledge incorporation in multimodal healthcare analytics (Yuan, 2020)
• Integrated behavioural healthcare: The future of rural mental health (Fox, 2019)
• Healthcare service use patterns among autistic adults: A systematic review with narrative synthesis (Gilmore, 2021)
• Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Combatting Burnout and Compassionate Fatigue among Mental Health Caregivers (Lundquist, 2022)
• Transgender and gender-diverse people’s perceptions of gender-inclusive healthcare access and associated hope for the future (Wille, 2021)
• Efficient Neural Network Synthesis and Its Application in Smart Healthcare (Hassantabar, 2022)
• The Experience of Female Veterans and Health-Seeking Behaviors (Switzer, 2022)
• Machine learning applications towards risk prediction and cost forecasting in healthcare (Singh, 2022)
• Does Variation in the Nursing Home Inspection Process Explain Disparity in Regulatory Outcomes? (Fox, 2020)

Looking at these titles, you can probably pick up that the research topics here are quite specific and narrowly-focused , compared to the generic ones presented earlier. This is an important thing to keep in mind as you develop your own research topic. That is to say, to create a top-notch research topic, you must be precise and target a specific context with specific variables of interest . In other words, you need to identify a clear, well-justified research gap.

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As studies analyzing the networks and relational structures of research topics in academic fields emerge, studies that apply methods of network and relationship analysis, such as social network analysis (SNA), are drawing more attention. The purpose of this study is to explore the interaction of medical education subjects in the framework of complex systems theory using SNA and to analyze the trends in medical education.

The authors extracted keywords using Medical Subject Headings terms from 9,379 research articles (162,866 keywords) published in 1963–2015 in PubMed. They generated an occurrence frequency matrix, calculated relatedness using Weighted Jaccard Similarity, and analyzed and visualized the networks with Gephi software.

Newly emerging topics by period units were identified as historical trends, and 20 global-level topic clusters were obtained through network analysis. A time-series analysis led to the definition of five historical periods: the waking phase (1963–1975), the birth phase (1976–1990), the growth phase (1991–1996), the maturity phase (1997–2005), and the expansion phase (2006–2015).

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The study analyzed the trends in medical education research using SNA and analyzed their meaning using complex systems theory. During the 53-year period studied, medical education research has been subdivided and has expanded, improved, and changed along with shifts in society’s needs. By analyzing the trends in medical education using the conceptual framework of complex systems theory, the research team determined that medical education is forming a sense of the voluntary order within the field of medicine by interacting with social studies, philosophy, etc., and establishing legitimacy and originality.

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An ancient scholar, Aristotle, established the basis of predicate logic, which divides knowledge into the smallest units and expresses it by linking them together (Sung-ho H: Structure and emergence analyses of knowledge network based on the social network analysis (SNA) methods: Focused on chungcheong strategic industries, unpublished) [ 1 ]. Recent studies have begun to use social network analysis as a means to analyze the trends of studies and understand the knowledge systems of each field by analyzing previously researched results. Generally, the purpose of research trend analysis in a particular academic field is to comprehend the current state of research by examining the existing results and to present future research directions [ 2 ].

Research trend analysis has been conducted for articles published in representative journals in medical education (ME), and its results serve as fundamental measures for securing academic identity [ 3 , 4 ]. Analysis is being conducted from multiple angles to confirm this identity from a holistic perspective, and research methods analyzing the relationship through the application of SNA in research trend analysis are steadily increasing in the social studies field.

The study of trends in medical education analyzes the entire academic field or the subject of a particular academic field. There are studies taking quantitative approaches such as those analyzing the frequency of medical training in medical education [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. Other examples include studies that a) focused on the main subjects studied in medical education by analyzing common research topics in medical education from six journals [ 4 ], b) analyzed the co-topics occurring frequently in ME articles and the differences among journals’ publication of co-topics [ 9 ], c) focused on top-cited articles identified by keyword search [ 10 ], and d) focused on network analysis of the researchers in medical education [ 11 ]. In addition, analysis of unit subjects in specific academic fields, such as an analysis of the trends in research topics including a study on the geographical distribution of researchers whose works have published in major journals of medical education [ 12 ] and a study on the social relationships of medical students and the dispersion of their attitudes [ 13 ], have been conducted steadily each year.

These studies are meaningful in that they analyze the trends of medical education subjects from a macro perspective or study specific research topics from a micro perspective, thus enabling the analysis of the trends in medical education and its knowledge system. However, this method requires the collection and analysis of vast amounts of data, demanding considerable time and manpower for interpretation. In addition, it is highly likely that researchers rely on the knowledge, experience, and insight of experts during analysis [ 14 , 15 ]. In addition, the analysis has to be conducted by sorting the impactful keywords based on frequency [ 9 , 11 ] or citation factors [ 10 ] or through keyword analysis by topics [ 4 ]. However, such methods are limited in their ability to identify historical changes in the relationships between specific topics. SNA is a commonly accepted method for quantitatively and visually obtaining the overall structures of network connections.

As studies analyzing the networks and relational structures of research topics in academic fields emerge, studies that apply methods of network and relationship analysis, such as SNA, are drawing more attention [ 16 ]. General methods of analyzing research trends include using co-word analysis on keywords extracted from databases [ 10 , 11 ], co-citation analysis using the citation information of articles [ 12 ]. And there have also been studies on topics network analysis [ 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 ].

SNA is an actively utilized method that recognizes and interprets complex phenomena under micro units as an issue of order [ 17 ]. Exploring the interactions and qualitative changes in research topics in medical education according to the framework of complex systems theory will provide new answers regarding the knowledge network of medical education. Unlike previous quantitative studies on the issues in medical education, this paper aims to identify the phases of medical education distinguished by changing topics and explore the topics that emerge during the phases.

Therefore, the study utilizes SNA to investigate the interaction patterns among the issues in medical education by applying the framework of complex systems theory [ 18 ] and realistically contemplating the abstract knowledge network of medical education.

In order to grasp the features of research trends in the field of medical education, the study extracted social-network keywords connected to terms from the title and abstract of available articles in Medline. Mesh terms were used during the process of retrieving articles from Pubmed, and the keyword extraction was conducted through text analysis. The information used for the analysis in this paper includes the title, abstract, and publication year of the paper. Since MeSH terms are not attached to all of the papers to be analyzed in this study, the authors extracted the keywords using the TextRank algorithm from the text consisting of the title and abstract. The TextRank algorithm is advantageous in that it provides high performance without being influenced by the linguistic characteristics of the text to be analyzed (Mihalcea R, Tarau P: TextRank - bringing order into texts. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, unpublished). A more detailed analysis was conducted by collecting the articles for analysis. This analysis included 1) category-setting through analysis of keyword similarity, 2) performing content analysis on the keywords, 3) analyzing the resulting network, and 4) conducting a trend analysis.

In June 2015, we searched PubMed for articles indexed under the “medical” major topic whose titles or abstracts included the term “medical education.” Our query terms included related terms such as “medical learner,” “medical teacher,” “medical teaching,” “medical training,” “medical learning,” and “medical education.” In this stage, two researchers reviewed and evaluated the list of keywords. For all of the papers, the extracted keywords with the use of the TextRank Algorithm underwent a refining process by two researchers. During the refining process, in order to refine the keywords, we looked at the whole list, checked and summarized the thesaurus, exception list, and defined words that needed refinement, and conducted a re-analysis of keywords. For instance, the research team deleted numbers or keywords such as “the”, “% +/”, “% <”, “% ci -0/3”, “(99 m) tc” which make it difficult to draw out the meaning of a keyword before data analysis. They also considered singular and plural keywords, such as “cardiac problem” and “cardiac problems,” as synonyms. Moreover, abbreviations were normalized by controlling them with a list of synonyms.

Then, as the first stage in the data analysis, the team generated a frequency matrix sized 3,030X53 that consisted of the yearly frequency of all the terms and the year of publication of each article. Next, to sort out the terms, the team calculated the weighted value of the terms by applying the Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency (TF–IDF) formula used in the field of information search [ 19 ]. The weighted value W t,D was calculated using the formula below.

The tf(t,D) refers to the adjusted value of the sum of the frequencies of t of terms used in data collection using yearly frequency, and N from \( \mathit{\log}\left(\frac{\left|Y\right|}{\left|\left\{y\in Y:\right.\left.t\ appears\ in\ y\right\}\right|}\right) \) refers to the yearly range 53 {y ∈ Y: t appears in y}.

TF–IDF is a weighted value used in text mining, and it indicates how many times a certain word appears in a given document. The higher the value of TF-IDF, the greater its importance; this also means that the word appears often. Therefore, the value multiplies DF (Document Frequency) with IDF (Inverse Document Frequency), a reciprocal number. Since this value increases with the frequency of a specific word and decreases with the number of documents containing the word out of the total number of documents, it filters the words that appear often in most documents [ 20 ].

In order to quantitatively calculate the relationship between MeSH terms, the research team calculated the Weighted Jaccard Similarity [ 20 ].

That is, the relationship between the terms and t was calculated with the formula below, using the yearly frequency information from the frequency matrix.

Relatedness ( S ,  T ) = \( \frac{\sum_y mina\left({S}_y,{T}_y\right)}{\sum_y maxa\left({S}_y,{T}_y\right).} \)

Distributional Hypothesis [ 21 ] is the result of a study showing that when two words are used in the same context, these two words tend to have a similar meaning, and we assumed that there is a higher correlation between the two words if two keywords were used many times in the same year compared to the case where they were not. The science mapping principle dictates that the more related two elements are, the closer to each other they are positioned in a map [ 22 ]. This study based on the approach of distribution hypothesis and the science mapping principle for the correlation between words, the frequency value of each word’s annual appearance was used. The calculation method used in this study is a Weighted Jaccard similarity that used the appearance frequency of keywords. When using a Weighted Jaccard similarity, if two words are used together with high frequency in multiple years, they return a high similarity value.

Clustering of keywords was calculated using the Markov Cluster(MCL) Algorithm [ 23 ], which is widely applied to weight graphs in the computer science field, after constructing a graph with the keyword as the node of the graph and the similarity between the keywords as the weight of the edge between the nodes.

The MCL algorithm is a simple yet useful algorithm that is used for sequence data clustering in the biotechnology field which can be expressed as a weight graph. Therefore, it can be understood that the keywords with a high frequency of simultaneous appearance are used in the same context and have a higher correlation than other words in the same year. That is to say, they return a high similarity value.

Data analysis and interpretation

In order to analyze the process of change in research topics in the medical education field, the study used the Frequency Matrix and the Weighted Jaccard Similarity and marked the times at which clear changes occurred, such as when new keywords rapidly emerged or diminished, using yearly similarities as cut-off points. The entire data collection process was separated into five phases based on the emergence of keywords, and each phase was analyzed using SNA. In order to conduct the network analysis, the input file for Gephi, a tool used in network analysis, was generated by calculating the relevance of terms for each phase using the methods mentioned above and representing the values as the relevance between nodes. The size of each node was expressed as the authority score obtained by the HITS (Hypertext Induced Topic Selection) algorithm of Gephi [ 24 ]. The authority score enabled the extraction of main research topics by using the mutual information between the nodes that comprised the network. Here, the authority score refers to the frequency of the reception of links [ 25 ].

The study used PubMed articles that were available for electronic search using MeSH terms in October 2015. From 1963, the year of the first publication related to medical education, to 2015, a total of 9,379 articles (with 162,866 keywords) on medical education were published in PubMed, with a slow increase over time and a rapid increase since the 2000s.

Category-setting through analysis of keyword similarity

Figure  1 shows the results of the analysis of keywords by year, arranged in three-year sections. In the graph, points at which similarity begins to increase after decreasing indicate a great increase in change in keywords; these were set as phase cut-off points.

Phase-setting by similarity

On the basis of the similarity analysis by year, phase 1 was set to range from 1963 to 1975; phase 2 from 1976 to 1990; phase 3 from 1991 to 1996; phase 4 from 1997 to 2005; and phase 5 from 2006 to 2015. The next subsection characterizes these phases by keyword (and the keywords by phase).

Content analysis in the key words

Figure  2 shows increases and decreases in the top 20 keywords newly appearing in each phase. Keywords newly emerging as research topics were as follows for each phase: From phase 1 to 2, “Internship and Residency,” “Medical Staff, Hospital,” and “Psychiatry;” from phase 2 to 3, “Problem-Based Learning,” “Program Development,” and “Health Care Reform;” from phase 3 to 4, “Internet,” “Evidence-Based Medicine,” and “Education, Distance;” and from phase 4 to 5, “Young Adult,” “Quality Improvement,” “General Practice,” “Patient Safety,” “Cultural Competency,” and “Self-Efficacy.”

Top20 new keywords for each phase

Analysis of the resulting network

To systematically understand research trends and changes in knowledge structure in medical education over time, this study analyzed connections between keywords using social network analysis.

Figure  3 shows a schematization of the network resulting from extraction of keywords with high connectivity and high weighted value for each phase. In all, 20 clusters were schematized.

Topic clusters in medical education

Topics in cluster 1, the largest group (comprising 19 nodes), are as follows: “Education, Medical, Graduate,” “Questionnaires,” “Clinical Competence,” and “Internship and Residency.” Cluster 2 is made up of eight nodes, under the following topics: “Middle Aged,” “Data Collection,” “Accreditation,” and “Problem-Based Learning.” Cluster 3 has seven nodes, under the following topics: “Communication,” “Career Choice,” and “Computer-Assisted Instruction.” Topics in cluster 4 are gathered around “Computer Simulation,” “Leadership,” and “User–Computer Interface.” In cluster 5, “Competency-Based Education” and “Professional Competence” are the topics, and cluster 6 mainly deals with “Adolescents,” “Fellowships and Scholarships,” and “Interview as Topic.”

Trend-watching: All five phases

Figure  4 shows the SNA over all five phases, with detailed topic networks for each phase given in the Additional files  1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 : Figures S1–S5. Phase 1 (1963–1975) showed lower connectedness among research topics compared to other phases, due to the difference in scale of article publication. Central keywords included “Education, Medical, Undergraduate,” “Curriculum,” “Male,” “Female,” and “Adult.” On the basis of these keywords, a subnetwork emerged, continuing up to phase 5. In phase 2 (1976–1990), connections between central keywords grew tighter, and new keywords appeared, including “Professional Competence,” “Attitude of Health Personnel,” and “Peer Review.” In phase 3 (1991–1996), connections among keywords such as “Clinical Competency,” “Educational Measurement,” and “Physician–Patient Relations” were enhanced. In phase 4 (1997–2005), the association of keywords with high connectedness became dual, and connections among keywords such as “Data Collection,” “Problem-Based Learning,” and “Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice” were enhanced. In phase 5 (2006–2015), the number and connectedness of keywords increased, and new keywords, such as “Computer-Assisted Instruction,” “Personal Staffing and Scheduling,” “User–Computer Interface,” “Professional Competency,” “Accreditation,” “Program Evaluation,” and “Educational Measurement,” appeared.

SNA of each historical phase of medical education

The study realistically contemplated the abstract knowledge network of medical education by identifying the network trends in medical education research topics through the use of SNA and investigating the use patterns in interactions by time. The study contains articles from the year when PubMed made it possible to electronically search for MeSH term in medical education articles, and coincidentally, this is consistent with Norman’s suggestion that a new generation of medical education has emerged [ 25 ].

The study identified five phases based on the changes in time indicated by clear differences in keyword similarities and identified newly derived keywords and networks in each phase. The clustering was conducted by deriving the keywords with high similarity using the appearance frequency values ​​of the two keywords and constructing a weighted graph based on the similarity between the keywords. This can be observed by clustering the sequences of the main keywords overall.

When the trend of the newly emerged keywords from five phases was analyzed, the keywords with the highest increase rates in all the phases, such as “Education,” “Medical,” “Humans,” “Curriculum,” “Continuing Medical Education,” and “Internship and Residency,” were similar to the keywords from a previous study by Lee K. [ 9 ]. Such repetition of research topics, as noted in the study by Eva K. W., probably occurs because studies in medical education are mostly observational [ 26 ].

In a similar study, Lee K. also analyzed the historical trends in medical publications in the field of medical education [ 9 ]. Even though the general trend appears similar, it did not distinguish the semantic unit that grasps the variations in the emergence of new keywords. Therefore, the study is meaningful in that it distinguishes between the phases by analyzing the interactions between medical education keywords using the complex systems framework.

Research in medical education has mostly been dominated by a positivist approach [ 26 ], and the emergence of new keywords with time represents the extent of the efforts being made to reflect social needs using the educational paradigm [ 27 ]. When the contents of topics that increased in a certain period or had newly emerged were analyzed, the first phase was characterized by important keywords being continuously mentioned in medical education, and new keywords such as “competency” or “accreditation” began to appear in the second phase. This could be due to the fact that the authentication program was formally declared in 1975 in order to improve the quality of medical education [ 28 ]. Considering that the top-cited articles in medical education began to contain reviews and research on competency since then, the studies seem to have been accumulated from this time [ 10 ]. Keywords that emerged in the third phase, such as “problem-based learning” and “computer communication networks” imply an increased interest in new education methods [ 4 ]. Keywords such as “competency-based assessments” and “outcome-based education,” which emerged in the fourth phase, represent the extension of research topics during the time period in which medical education became a topic of conversation [ 28 ]. Finally, the fifth phase is characterized by the emergence of keywords such as “quality improvement,” “patient safety,” “cultural competency,” and “self-efficacy,” which confirms that more research reflecting the trend is being conducted and realistic demands of medical education are being made. This period is also marked by increased interest in medical education and emphasis on the importance of evaluation, and thus, qualitative analysis and program evaluation were among the most important research topics (Fligstein N: Theoretical perspectives in medical education: past experience and future possibilities, unpublished). It appears that interest in quality improvement increased as social requirements for doctors gradually influenced educational institutions [ 27 , 29 , 30 ]. Therefore, various educational programs should be developed and evaluated with a focus on the effectiveness of medical education [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ].

After exploring the keywords used in medical education research using SNA from a macro perspective, the research team analyzed the research trends of each phase by historical flow. When a network is considered to be one ecosystem, it corresponds with the principle of complex systems, and from the perspective of interpreting the flow of the network, the complex systems logic is presented as a new alternative [ 35 ]. Recently, there have been a number of discussions on the need to explore the nature of knowledge networks using complex systems theory [ 17 ].

The study was able to identify the process of improving the academic field in medical education by analyzing keywords in separate phases. This effort can be considered as a method of knowledge formation clearly distinguished from those used in previous studies. An emergency refers to a disorderly situation that arises as a result of complex network structures and patterns, and the system of such an emergency can be referred to as a complex system [ 18 ]. Unlike the analysis of keyword emergence, the flow of the phases studied by SNA is quite similar to the changing trend in human societies or networks [ 36 ]. This implies that the research topics in medical education resemble the emergence phenomena, as used in the complex phenomena. In other words, when examining the timely flow of keywords related to medical education, it can be noted that the newly emerged keywords form a network by interacting with each other. This, like the coevolution phenomena presented by complex systems theory, shows a similar phenomenon in which keywords evolve as they interact. As such, it seems like the trend in topics by phases derived through medical education keyword analysis is a part of the change process suggested by complex systems theory. At the same time, a cycle in which new research topics emerge, interact, and evolve should be formed [ 30 , 37 ].

As the research team examined the research trends by phase, the features of each phase could be analyzed on the basis of complex systems theory: the waking phase (1963–1975), the birth phase (1976–1990), the growth phase (1991–1996), the maturity phase (1997–2005), and the expansion phase (2006–2015). And each name contained one the following meanings. The first period (1963–1975) is when keywords that served as central nodes for all the phases, such as “Education, Medical, Undergraduate” “Curriculum,” “Male,” “Female,” and “Adult,” appeared. This period forms the backbone of research in medical education, and shows the networks of basic levels. The second phase (1976–1990) is the period of the birth of medical education. The major keywords in the first phase focused on the subjects; however, the second phase is characterized by a focus on the keywords of properties, such as “Professional Competence,” “Attitudes of Health Personnel,” and “Peer Review.” In order for the subjects of medical education research to connect and be studied, it seems like the keywords representing the properties or characteristics should emerge and connect the subjects and foster the research. The third phase (1991–1996) was a period of growth for medical education, which is marked by the emergence of keywords in research methodology such as “Educational Measurement,” “Evaluation as Topic,” and “Questionnaire.” It appears that various methodologies have been tried in order to achieve qualitative improvement in subjects and properties. Ultimately, this seems to reflect the purpose of solving various problems in medical education, and it has been confirmed that suggested alternatives influenced and improved the academic field of medical education. The fourth phase (1997–2005) was a period of maturity, when keywords such as “Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice,” “Ethics and Medicine,” and “Physician-Patient Relations” emerged. These keywords reflect an increasing interest in selecting physician candidates with high morality, with an emphasis on ethical responsibilities in medical education. At the same time, the trend represents the extension of research topics from analysis of general education to quality management [ 27 ]. From this perspective, various educational keywords in performance and competency are being connected in this phase. This trend could imply that the influence of general citizens’ requirements of physicians could have had effects on the education sector as well. The fifth phase (2006–2015) was a period of expansion, and major keywords such as “Computer Assisted Instruction,” “Personal Staffing and Scheduling,” “User-Computer Interface,” “Professional Competency,” “Accreditation,” and “Program Evaluation” emerged. Unlike other keywords, medical education keywords have larger network connectivity from the fifth phase, forming true network structures. While the first three phases are marked by the emergence of new keywords, the fourth phase is characterized by network formation. The fifth phase is called the period of expansion because networks are becoming highly concentrated and forming new networks.

However, the study has some limitations. First of all, since it is a quantitative study using SNA, it focused on terms related to medical education in Medline without taking into consideration the articles published in medical education journals such as JAMA(Journal of the American Medical Association), BMJ(British Medical Journal), JAMA internal medicine, etc. Thus, compared to the studies conducted by Rotgans JI, Wolf E Hautz et al., and Tutarel O, some articles are not reflected in this study [ 4 , 11 , 12 ]. Secondly, as in many other studies, the research team could only search for articles published in English. Thirdly, co-word analysis, co-citation analysis, and bibliographic coupling are among the most commonly used content analysis methods in the field of bibliometrics [ 38 ]. Co-word analysis used in this study is a method of analyzing a pattern in which a pair of terms (phrases) used in text in a specific field are analyzed at the same time to reveal the knowledge structure of the field. In this paper, the corelation between two words is used by frequency of use of words in common by year using the approach of distribution hypothesis. However, in order to better comply with the context-based distribution hypothesis, a new method is needed to calculate semantic relations between two words in the future. Fourthly, since this is a quantitative study, there is a need for interdisciplinary research focusing on issues in sociology, economics, or ecology. At the same time, future studies could focus on the establishment of new theories from current effectiveness verification studies. Lastly, a great amount of time and manpower was required for data collection, classification, and interpretation, because of which the study could not implement additional keyword analysis within the last one year. This calls for the development of a new research methodology that can readily analyze recent trends through SNA.

As this shows, medical education research has focused not only on medical knowledge and practice (content) but also on research topics related to education theory as a social science (pedagogy) [ 31 , 39 ]. Hence, for the development of medical education, a relevant community of work in related social science fields is also needed, and this work, from all disciplines, needs to be pursued in an integrated, interdisciplinary fashion, with fields and studies reflecting each other’s requirements and assumptions. In this way, a new and unique kind of medical education will develop, which will be crucial for the future of the field.

The study reinterpreted the changes in medical education using the complex systems theory, a mechanism in which various factors influence each other and collide into an order while forming a causal relationship. This confirmed that a unique legitimacy of medical education is being formed. Research in medical education is continuously improving and keeping pace with numerous social changes. Therefore, as educational and sociological theories integrate in the field of medicine, the medical education sector is expected to achieve independent development in the future.

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Journal of the American Medical Association; BMJ: British Medical Journal

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Delivering valuable independent medical education programmes

In the next instalment in EPG Health’s HCP engagement series, Abhi Chakravorty looks at medical education’s new trajectory and how to build programmes that are credible, engaging and impactful.

In these times of turmoil there are some reassuring constants when it comes to independent medical education (IME), which continues to be appreciated by healthcare professionals (HCPs) for offering fair and balanced information.

But all is not entirely static with IME. The pandemic has wrought some significant changes to live events, driving acceleration in online education (read more about how COVID-19 has changed medical meetings in the first part of the HCP engagement series).

As new learning configurations are needed for the emerging ‘new normal’ environment, pharma companies need to focus on both the constant considerations for delivering effective medical education and the need to respond to new patterns of HCP content consumption.

Ensuring credible, independence and trusted medical education

One of those constants is the importance of IME programmes. HCPs themselves say they are a great way for pharma companies to earn trust, by supporting information and advice that is fair and balanced and will ultimately improve patient care and outcomes.

Working with a third-party that is viewed as a valued partner by HCPs is one of the most important ways to bolster the credibility of, and trust in, the IME that pharma supports. Fairly or not, learning resources directly created by a pharma company often carry an inherent perception of not being without bias, and so might not be viewed as an entirely trusted source.

Internally produced pharma content can also present another challenge, with its tendency to getting bogged down in regulatory and compliance processes. The rules are absolutely necessary to help protect patient safety, but from a process point of view they are not necessarily something that pharma companies are well set up to deal with.

Consequently, despite the high esteem in which IME is held, only 12% of pharma surveyed by EPG Health in 2019 viewed it as a focus for them. Yet IME is something that third-party partners are perfectly set up to assist with, offering a wealth of expertise and speed of execution for work that can allow pharma companies to focus their energies on brand led exercises.

Read examples of three IME programmes delivered through COVID-19

Evolving the format of IME to meet HCPs’ digital demands

HCPs actively look for IME and, in order to keep their continuing professional development (CPD) up to date, they’re swayed towards accredited learning. For obvious reasons, face-to-face accredited events have had to take a bit of a backseat during the COVID-19 pandemic. And, as we move to the ‘new normal’, there will be an increase in demand for accredited IME in the form of virtual and hybrid meetings as well as other forms of online learning.

If they are to respond to this emerging trend, pharma companies should be looking for partners that are credible and can draw on experience and results from established audiences with specific specialties, roles and geographies. Then they need to have an iron-clad approach to delivering value so that HCPs are clear how a programme will improve their clinical practice and help their patients.

To do this it’s crucial to pick the right types and formats for programmes based on the evolving ways HCPs are choosing to learn. Although different HCPs learn in different ways, we’ve long noticed that visual content, such as infographics and videos, trumps written content. Now, podcasts’ audio-only approach is seeing it draw level with videos in terms of engagement, with both video and podcasts providing valuable opportunities for HCPs to consolidate their learning.

Read how an independent podcast series added value and credibility to a pharma sponsored platform

Read how a medical congress roundtable was chunked into a series of video e-learning modules

We know that IME is HCPs’ preferred type of learning and for years has been trending towards online sources.

In our pre-pandemic study, HCPs cited independent medical websites as their preferred source of clinical practice information, with 72% visiting them on a weekly basis, compared to just 21% for pharma’s own educational websites.

We’ve since conducted follow-up research on pharma-HCP engagement and education, including independent medical education, and this confirms that the higher demand for independent, online sources will continue. (It will be published in November 2021.)

As the healthcare world’s digital transformation continues, pharma’s challenge is to support medical education programmes that are as relevant and engaging as possible by meeting HCPs’ needs according to source, channel, content and format.

• Read three case studies on providing credible, unique, relevant, engaging and impactful medical education, while maintaining high compliance standards

More from EPG Health’s HCP engagement series

• Medical meetings post-COVID – key lessons for pharma
• Developing case-based content to engage HCPs
• Leveraging multichannel and multimedia in HCP education

About the author

About EPG Health

EPG Health is the publisher of Medthority ( www.medthority.com ), an independent patient management and treatment decision support tool for healthcare professionals.

Easing the discovery and consumption of valuable medical education, EPG Health supports a personalised experience and better outcomes for all stakeholders. A bespoke and integrated toolset helps pharmaceutical companies to reach and engage target audiences with key educational messages while measuring the outcomes.

For more information visit  www.epghealth.com

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List of 500 Plus Nursing Capstone Project Ideas to Consider as a nursing Student

In most nursing schools, you might be required to work on a capstone project, often known as a senior capstone. It is usually a prerequisite for your final course in a degree program that requires its completion. Most nursing students prefer undertaking a capstone nursing course.

A capstone project is an individualized research project on a specific nursing topic of your professional or personal interest. It is usually completed within between 4 to 12 weeks, depending on the nursing school and the program you are pursuing. It is usually part of a project-based nursing capstone course that runs within a selected duration and is led by a capstone instructor. The first step of writing a capstone is choosing a topic that focuses on the quality improvement process, procedure, or policy and creating a nursing capstone project proposal/nursing project proposal or presentation.

A standard nursing capstone project is between 20 to 100 pages, but that depends on the institutional requirements and the preference of your capstone instructor. It is a chance to show what you have learned, enhance your professional development, specialize in your nursing career, and investigate/solve community-related health issues. The capstone project paper is based on evidence-based practice (EBP) project , which makes it necessary to follow the PICO format . Therefore, the first step is choosing the topic when doing the capstone at BSN, MSN, or DNP level.

This guide is about the first step, specifically to help you choose a good and manageable topic for your nursing capstone project. Cognizant that selecting a topic depends on the area of specialization that you are interested in (Family nursing, forensic nursing, informatics, pediatrics, nursing administration and management, nursing education, or public health, etc.), we have categorized the ideas and topics into nursing specialties to make it easier for you to brainstorm and choose a good topic for your nursing capstone paper.

General Nursing Capstone Ideas

• Patient-controlled fluid restriction monitoring
• The effects of tai chi on cardiovascular risk factors of hypertension, BMI, anxiety, depression, quality of life, and its safety and feasibility
• Exercise to improve cancer-related fatigue
• CPM machine protocol for knee replacements
• Managing hypertension with lifestyle modifications
• Self-engagement to decrease blood pressure readings and reduce non-compliance
• The application of the ABCDE bundle in ICU
• Controlled donation after circulatory death
• Effectiveness of using virtual reality in oncology settings
• Impacts of the clinically aligned pain assessment tool (CAPA) on pain management
• The influence of "deliberate practice" on skill competency
• Consequences of massage therapy for agitation in dementia
• Impact of virtual simulation on knowledge transfer
• Increased discharge compliance through mental health follow-up
• Impacts of early mobilization
• Impacts of bedside shift reports on patient safety
• Effects of physical activity and patient education on rheumatoid arthritis
• Benefits of non-physician-led hypertension management
• Reducing the rates of use of emergency departments by homeless and at-risk homeless through screening
• Improving discharge timeliness and patient outcomes
• Role of Nurses in policymaking
• Video education on fever to empower and educate caregivers
• Protecting the health and safety of nurses working with at-risk populations

Forensic Nursing Capstone Project Ideas

Forensic nursing is a very lucrative area of specialization in nursing. If you consider specializing in forensic nursing to become a Nurse Death Investigator (NDI), sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE), legal nurse consultant, forensic psychiatry nurse, correctional nurse consultant, forensic nurse educator, or forensic nurse examiner, consider these topics and ideas for your capstone. It is not exhaustive but gives you an upper hand when selecting a suitable topic for your forensic nursing capstone project. If you are looking for nursing ebp project ideas related to forensic nursing, check out these:

• Impacts of forensic nurses in preventing intimate partner violence
• Role of forensic nurses in developing community interventions to prevent elderly abuse and neglect
• Coordinated community response as a strategy to address elderly abuse
• Role of forensic nurses in identifying and preventing sexual abuse in pediatric emergency departments
• Does Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training affect the attitudes of Emergency Department nurses toward sexual assault survivors?
• How sexual assault nurse examiners practice trauma-informed care
• Roles of forensic outpatient nurses
• Use of simulation in training forensic nurses
• Attitudes of forensic nurses working at psychiatric facilities
• Benefits of incorporating forensic nurses as part of the multidisciplinary teams in psychiatric health facilities
• Importance of forensic nurse research
• Collaboration between forensic nurses and law enforcement agencies
• Implementation of sexual assault services in a clinic setting
• Effects of an emotional education program on prisoners
• Occupational injuries and workplace violence among forensic nurses
• Stress and burnout among forensic nurses working in mental health facilities
• Role of forensic nurses in examining medical error
• Role of forensic nurse examiner in patient education for victims of sexual assault
• The rhetoric of therapy in forensic psychiatric nursing
• Evaluation of a Standardized Patient Simulation on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Knowledge and Confidence On Intimate Partner Violence
• Evidence-based practice in forensic mental health nursing
• Standards of practice for forensic mental health nurses
• Innovative assessments for retention of sexual assault nurse examiners
• Collection and preservation of evidence by forensic nurses
• Compassion fatigue among pediatric forensic nurse examiners
• Investigating chronic traumatic encephalopathy among national football league players
• Nurses and Medicolegal Death Investigation
• Strategies for documenting evidence used by forensic nurses
• Forensic nurses as expert witnesses in courts of law
• Role of forensic nurses in research in correctional facilities
• Causes and consequences of forensic nurse shortage
• Ethical issues encountered by forensic nurses in correctional facilities
• De-escalation and limit-setting in forensic mental health units
• How forensic nurses can prevent human and organ trafficking
• Risk factors for domestic minor sex trafficking in the United States
• Mental illness as a vulnerability for sexual assault
• Cardiovascular risk factors among prisoners
• Establishing the therapeutic relationship between a forensic nurse and a patient
• Benefits of a holistic approach to training forensic nurse examiners
• Impacts of trauma-informed care training on the competency and confidence of forensic nurses
• Forensic nursing interventions with patients with personality disorder
• A forensic nurse's perspective of trauma-informed care approaches to medico legal death investigation
• How forensic nurses handle families and loved ones of those who succumb in emergency departments
• Forensic nurses and human rights abuse
• Responsibilities of forensic nurses
• SANE vs. non-SANE forensic nurses
• Required skills for forensic psychiatric nurse
• Veracity for children in pediatric forensics
• Strategies for screening children for abuse and neglect
• Trauma-Informed Care Education in Baccalaureate Nursing Curricula in the United States
• Understanding nonfatal strangulation
• Role of forensic nurses in advocating for pregnant women in correctional facilities
• The professional identity of prison nurses
• Role of education and continuous professional development in strengthening the science of forensic nursing
• Stress and burnout in forensic health nursing
• Using telehealth for sexual assault forensic examinations
• Promoting professional quality of life and resiliency in sexual assault nurse examiners
• Child labor trafficking essentials for forensic nurses
• Sexual assault nurse examiner forensic examinations for immigrant victims

You can find more topics concerning forensic nursing from Topics by Science.gov

Critical Care Nursing Capstone Project Ideas

Critical care nursing, also called intensive care nursing , is a domain of nursing practice that deals with seriously ill patients. If you are interested in pursuing critical care/ICU nursing, you can focus your capstone project on a related topic. Here are some ideas for critical nursing or ICU nursing capstone project.

• Impacts of critical incident stress debriefing for nurses in acute care departments
• Strategies to address stress and burnout among critical care nursing staff
• Role of critical care nurses in palliative care
• Nursing interventions to prevent central line bloodstream infection (CLABSI) in the ICU settings
• Benefits of SNF infection prevention online training on CLABSI prevention
• The role of law and policy in addressing healthcare-associated infections in critical care
• Impact of needleless connector change frequency on central line-associated bloodstream infection rate
• Effects of surveillance of hospital-acquired CLABSI in pediatric NICU
• Impacts of CLABSI on length of stay and readmission in ICU
• Using Nurse-Driven Protocols to Eliminate Routine Gastric Residual Volume Measurements
• Implementing a standardized communication tool in an intensive care unit
• Decreasing 30-day readmission rates in patients with heart failure
• Strategies for assessing discomfort in critically ill patients
• Increasing nurses' knowledge of and self-confidence with family presence during pediatric resuscitation
• The link between perceived and actual risk assessment by ICU nurses and the use of catheters
• How critical care nurses can prevent blood contamination during transfusion
• Risk factors and preventive measures for pressure ulcers among patients in critical care units
• Factors Leading to critical nurses shortage in the USA
• Compassion fatigue among ICU nurses and strategies to prevent it
• Pain assessment by critical care nurses through physical and physiological monitoring
• The use of CDSS in decision-making within the ICU
• Critical Nurses' education and Competencies in the USA
• Impacts of nurse-patient Ratio on patient safety and Outcomes in critical care units
• Prevalence of nurse burnout syndrome among ICU nurses
• Strategies to help critical nurses achieve excellence
• Collaborative decision-making between ICU nurses and patients in end-of-life care
• Attitudes of critical care nurses on terminally ill patients
• Hand hygiene adherence among critical care nurses
• How critical care nurses can leverage big data and AI to improve safety and outcomes
• Strategies to optimize intubation in the ICU
• The link between ICU staffing and patient outcomes
• Quality improvement strategies for neonatal ICU
• The application of telemedicine in ICU settings
• Strategies to optimize mechanical ventilation in the neonatal ICU
• Patient education strategies for children with adult patients in the ICU
• ICU nurses assist patients in making the DNR orders
• Payment Structure and morale among ICU nurses
• Challenges experienced by ICU nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Intensive care nurses' knowledge and practice on endotracheal suctioning of the intubated patient
• Benefits of promoting shared decision-making in the ICU
• Intensive care nurses' experiences and perceptions of delirium and delirium care.
• Reasons why nurses should have empathy with newborn families in neonatal ICU
• Nurses' Perceptions of Telemedicine Adoption in the Intensive Care Unit
• Importance of allowing ICU nurses to grieve when patients die
• The perceptions and attitudes of ICU nurses on the use of ICU diaries
• The experiences of new nurses in ICU units
• Strategies ICU nurses use to screen delirium among ICU patients
• Impacts of brownout on ICU nurses
• Attitudes of ICU nurses on caring for patients with mental illness
• Impacts of hemodynamic monitoring training for ICU nurses on patient safety and outcomes
• Readiness of novice nurses to practice in ICU
• Nurses' experiences of caring for patients during a prolonged critical illness
• Oral practices for ICU nurses
• Caring for non-sedated mechanically ventilated patients: Attitudes of ICU nurses
• Knowledge and practice of physical restraints in ICU

Nursing Education Topics and Ideas

Nursing education is a vast area. You can never run out of ideas to explore in your nursing education capstone. Here are some potential rn to bsn capstone project ideas to consider:

• The impacts of the Nurse Residency Program
• Undergraduate pediatric nursing education: Issues, challenges, and recommendations
• How mentorship post-residency affects the experiences of new graduates transitioning from novice to competent
• Benefits of mindful meditation for nursing students
• A new leadership development model for nursing education
• Evidence-based practice and quality improvement in nursing education
• Role of stakeholder engagement in nursing education
• Strategies to improve nurse to patient ratio through nursing education
• Use of simulation in nursing education
• Effectiveness of a venous thromboembolism course using flipped classroom with nursing students
• Perceptions of the use of reflective learning journals in online graduate nursing education
• Effects of nursing education on students' pain management knowledge
• Cultural competencies for graduate nursing education
• Implications of virtual reality and augmented reality in nursing education
• The use of gamification in education with digital badges
• Strategies to dismantle racism and disparities in nursing education
• Importance of teaching reflective practice among nursing students
• Arts-based inquiry in nursing education
• Supporting the integrative health care curriculum in schools of nursing
• Educational pathways to becoming a registered nurse
• Strategies to make nursing education lucrative for the millennial generation
• How educators can influence the success of nursing students
• Philosophical perspectives of nursing education
• Use of social media and technology in nursing education
• Should nurses stay longer in college?
• Faculty shortage in nursing schools
• Impacts of the scarcity of clinical experiences on the competency of new nurses
• The gap between education and practice and the nursing staff shortage
• Benefits of integrating climate change topics in nursing curricula
• Impacts of problem-based learning models in nursing schools
• Benefits of promoting multicultural nursing education
• Integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion topics into an undergraduate nursing research course
• Benefits of nurses having a personal philosophy in nursing school
• Using active simulation to enhance the learning of nursing ethics

You can also consider topics related to mental health issues or mentally ill patients. The goal is to find the best topic to stand out among the nursing capstone projects submitted to your professor. 

Health Promotion Ideas for Capstone Projects

• Implementing community cooking courses to prevent nutritional knowledge deficit
• Promoting the use of honey in diabetes foot ulcer management
• Application of the health belief model in tailoring nursing interventions to prevent adolescent smoking
• Using an educational program based on the health belief model to improve the preventive behaviors of nurses against cardiovascular diseases
• Factors affecting health promotion activities by nurses
• Attitudes of registered nurses and midwives toward health promotion targeting obese patients
• Attitudes of Nurses towards health Promotion
• Role of Nurses in health promotion and Disease prevention
• Health promotion strategies to reduce smoking among nurse practitioners
• Roles of Nurses in preventive care
• Impacts of nursing advocacy on health promotion
• Role of advanced practice nurse in health promotion
• Healthy lifestyle behaviors and health promotion attitudes in preregistered nurses
• Practical approaches to health promotion in nursing
• Translating social ecological theory into guidelines for community health promotion
• Health promotion strategies that work best with indigenous populations
• Ethical dilemmas in health promotion by nurses
• Strategies to promote mental health promotion in psychiatric facilities

Nursing Shortage and Burnout Topics and Ideas for Capstone

• Benefits of having an official mentoring program on nursing retention and job satisfaction
• Impacts of burnout and fatigue on patient outcomes
• Results of implementing patient acuity tool on nurse satisfaction
• Effects of meaningful recognition on med-surgical unit's staff satisfaction and retention
• Benefits of compassion fatigue education on oncology nurses

Women's Health Topics and Ideas for Capstone

• Benefits of early screening for postpartum depression
• Impacts of patient education on reducing postpartum depression
• Breastfeeding and consumption of sweetened foods
• Challenges facing women with disabilities in exclusive breastfeeding
• Relationship between the mental health of the mother and the outcomes of a pregnancy
• Promoting physical activity and healthy lifestyles among women
• Helping women address the challenges that come with menopause: perspectives of a nurse
• Long-term effects of preeclampsia on mother and neonate
• Strategies to prevent preeclampsia
• Preeclampsia screening within healthcare facilities
• Diagnosis and management of atypical preeclampsia-eclampsia
• Cardiovascular Sequels During and After Preeclampsia
• Impacts of superimposed preeclampsia on women
• Preeclampsia and maternal risk of breast cancer
• Nursing care approach for women with preeclampsia and eclampsia
• Administration of NSAIDs during pregnancy and the initiation of lactation
• Diagnosis and management of fetal alcohol syndrome
• Educating women on the dangers of consuming alcohol when pregnant
• Sexual dysfunction in women with alcohol dependence syndrome
• Impacts of female genital mutilation on the reproductive health of women
• Assessment and prevention of postpartum depression among pregnant women
• Etiology and consequences of postpartum depression
• Use of oxytocin in the management of postpartum depression
• Postpartum depression and breastfeeding efficacy
• Diagnosis and treatment of cytomegalovirus during pregnancy
• Relaxation techniques for pain management during labor
• Benefits of multiple-micronutrient supplementation for women during pregnancy
• Methods of milk expression for lactating women
• Effects of disorder eating on the fertility of women
• Hypertension disorders of pregnancy
• Implementation of the maternal-fetal triage index to improve obstetric triage
• Strategies to prevent obstetric hemorrhage
• Childbirth experiences of women with an autism spectrum disorder in acute care settings

Pediatrics Topics and Ideas for Capstone

• Efficacy of using music therapy in NICU
• Pain and Sedation Scales in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Impacts of skin-to-skin contact as a method for body warmth for infants with low birth weight
• How to maintain normothermia among newly born infants
• Effects of very early skin-to-skin contact on the success of breastfeeding
• Chest-to-back skin-to-skin contact in regulating body temperature for preterm babies
• Early intervention to achieve thermal balance in term neonates
• Benefits of infant massage for infants and parents in the NICU

Patient Falls Topics and Ideas for Capstone

Patient falls management is another excellent area to consider for your capstone. You should inquire into some of the best strategies to solve patient falls associated with mortality and morbidity. Reducing falls is an indicator of quality improvement in healthcare settings. Here are some ideas and topics to get you started:

• Impact of Hourly Rounding on Fall Rates
• Evidence-based fall management strategies for patients aging in place
• Nursing-led interventions to prevent falls in clinical settings
• A multifactorial approach to fall management in healthcare settings
• Impacts of patient education on fall rates
• Multi-professional team approach in fall management
• Use of telehealth to assess and address fall risk among elderly patients
• Fall risk assessment and patient safety
• Evaluation and management of fall risk in primary care settings
• The link between polypharmacy and fall rates among older adults
• Rates of falls and hospital readmissions among the older adults
• Utilizing technology to prevent falls in healthcare settings
• Benefits of patient-centered fall prevention toolkit in reducing falls and injuries among patients
• Fall Prevention Decision-Making of Acute Care Registered Nurses
• Occupational therapy falls prevention interventions for community-dwelling older adults
• Multifactorial falls prevention programs for older adults presenting to the emergency department with a fall
• Fall prevention strategies for Emergency departments
• The effectiveness of exercise for fall prevention in nursing home residents
• Role of physical therapists and aromatherapy for fall prevention in older people
• Use of radar and sensor technology to prevent falls in primary care settings
• Use of alarms to prevent falls on medical-surgical floors
• Applying bed exit alarms to prevent falls
• Using bathroom safety constructions to prevent elderly falls
• Application of intelligent socks system to reduce falls in clinical settings
• Addressing the nutritional needs of elderly patients to prevent falls
• Using smartphones to detect and prevent falls in homes and hospitals
• Use of robots in fall management

Patient Education Capstone Project Ideas

• Impacts of polypharmacy teaching in reducing adverse effects at an acute setting
• Benefits of patient education in promoting healthy lifestyles
• Patient education and reduced falls within home settings
• Impacts of using social media to facilitate patient education
• Role of patient-centered education in improving adherence and outcomes of patients in long-term care facilities
• Patient education in wound management and outcomes
• Impact of patient education on utilization of nonpharmacological modalities for persistent pain management
• Patient education and self-care management practices
• Benefits of patient education in medical rehabilitation
• Therapeutic patient education and outcomes in heart failure patients
• Benefits of multi-professional approach in diabetes patient education
• The benefits and challenges of providing patient education digitally
• Factors affecting patient education in healthcare settings
• Using healthcare information infrastructure to deliver education to patients with chronic conditions
• Impacts of using electronic health records to facilitate education for patients in rural areas
• The Effects of Tailored Diabetic Education in the Patient with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Emergency Nursing Topics and Ideas for Capstone

If you are struggling to develop a perfect topic for your capstone project and are interested in emergency nursing, you can consider these capstone ideas and topics. Emergency nurse practitioners often face many challenges, including workplace incivility, lateral violence, bullying, brownout, stress, and high workload, which is a great place to start. You can also address their roles in emergency preparedness and management. Here are some ideas:

• Solutions and strategies to address Emergency Department overcrowding
• Causes and consequences of emergency room overcrowding
• Nurse-led strategies to prevent emergency room overcrowding
• Evidence-based approaches to address ED overcrowding
• Challenges for patient onboarding in the ED
• Use of technology and data modeling to address ED overcrowding
• Use of RFID technology to reduce ED overcrowding
• Application of telemedicine in addressing ER overcrowding
• Innovations to reduce demand and crowding in emergency care
• The use of wearable tech to address overcrowding in the ER
• Strategies to improve access to ER in rural areas
• Role of ER nurses in disaster management
• Factors affecting emergency nurses' perceptions of the triage systems
• Attitudes and skills of ER nurses in triage decision-making
• Perceptions of ER nurses in the assessment of the risk of emerging infectious disease in ED
• Role of ER nurses in disease surveillance
• Role of ER Nurses in disease outbreaks
• Strategies to prevent ER nurses from burnout and stress
• Addressing compassion satisfaction and fatigue among ER nurses
• Benefits of cultural competence training for ER nurses
• Feelings and emotions of ER nurses related to dying and death of patients
• Factors causing high turnover among emergency room nurses
• Pediatric pain management strategies that ER nurses managing pediatric patients use
• Strategies to address work fatigue and musculoskeletal disorders among ER nurses
• Strategies to improve communication skills among ER nurses and other healthcare practitioners in the ED
• Enhancing systems thinking for undergraduate nursing students using Friday night at the ER
• How ER nurses can apply nursing theories when caring for patients
• The impact of reflective journaling and diaries for ER nurses
• Perceptions and attitudes of ER nurses on teamwork in ED
• Causes of occupational stress among ER nurses
• Factors affecting radiation protection behaviors among ER nurses
• How ER nurses provide care to patients with self-harm
• Impacts of incivility, bullying, and workplace violence on effectiveness and performance of ER nurses
• Strategies to foster collegiality and civility
• Impacts of educational intervention through online training on incivility among ER nurses
• Lateral violence among ER nurses
• Interventions to reduce the risk of violence toward emergency department staff
• The emergency nurse's perception of incivility in the workplace
• Impacts of cognitive rehearsal training for ER nurses on confronting bullying and lateral violence
• Importance of implementing a psychiatric triage algorithm
• Use of simulation-based emergency to train ER nurses on responding to emergency situations
• Benefits of using emergency nursing competency scale for school nurses
• The lived experiences of ER nurses encountering patients with mental illness in prehospital emergency care
• Knowledge and practice of nursing students regarding bioterrorism and emergency preparedness
• Impacts of continuous competency assessment and education for ER nurses
• Emergency nurses' knowledge, attitude, and perceived barriers regarding pain Management in Resource-Limited Settings
• Effect of problem-based learning on severity classification agreement by triage nurses
• Effects of a standardized patient-based simulation in anaphylactic shock management for new graduate ER nurses
• Emergency Room nurses' perceptions of leadership, teamwork, turnover intention and patient safety
• Attitudes of ER nurses towards patient safety
• Factors affecting patient satisfaction in nurse-led triage in ED
• ER Nurses' experience with emergency room psychiatry services
• Impacts of CPR training for ER nurses on patient outcomes
• Nurses' attitudes to supporting people who are suicidal in emergency departments

Telemetry Capstone Ideas and Topics

• Improving cardiac telemetry use
• Improving Quiet-at-Night on a telemetry unit
• Reducing Cardiac Telemetry Alarm Fatigue
• Impacts of alarm fatigues on patient safety
• Evaluation of Telemetry Utilization in Medical-Surgical Unit
• Customizing Physiologic Alarms in the Emergency Department
• Impacts of default order set settings on telemetry ordering
• Strategies for transitioning Novice Nurses to Expert Nurses in Progressive Telemetry Care
• Preventing stress and burnout among nurses in the telemetry unit
• Strategies to optimize the use of telemetry in nursing training
• Is simulation efficient for telemetry nurse trainees?
• An Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Cardiac Telemetry Alarm Fatigue.
• Physiologic monitoring alarm load on medical/surgical floors of a community hospital.
• Impacts of alarm management program on alarm fatigue among telemetry and ICU RNs
• Benefits of customizing physiologic alarms in ED
• Effect of a Nurse-Managed Telemetry Discontinuation Protocol on Monitoring Duration, Alarm Frequency, and Adverse Patient Events
• Impacts of introducing patient-customized monitoring bundle in decreasing alarm fatigue in ICU
• Alternative strategies for cardiac alarm management on telemetry units
• Role of monitor watchers in decreasing alarm burden of nurses
• Stress and burnout among telemetry nurses

Geriatrics/Gerontology Topics and Ideas for Capstone

• Perspectives of nursing students undertaking a practicum at a gerontology facility on their experience
• Geriatric assessment in daily oncology practice for nurses and allied health care professionals
• Hospital nurses' perception of the geriatric nurse practice environment
• Use of a screening tool and primary health care gerontology nurse specialist for high-needs older people
• Competency and skills of nurses practicing in elderly homes
• Assessing the perceptions and attitudes among geriatric resource nurses
• Attitudes of nurses on physical restraint for hospitalized elderly people
• Role of geriatric nurses in addressing falls among elderly patients
• Strategies to reduce restraint use for older adults in acute care
• Strategies to care for elderly patients with schizophrenia and dementia
• Addressing the nutritional needs of elderly adults who are homeless through a community nursing center
• Strategies to promote physical activity among the elderly patients
• How to improve the quality of life of elderly adults who are veterans
• Caring for elderly adults with cerebrovascular accidents
• Burnout and stress among registered nurses working in nursing homes
• Addressing social isolation and loneliness among elderly patients
• The application of robots in dementia care
• Benefits of administering vitamin C supplements to elderly adults
• Impacts of tai chi and yoga on improving the health of elderly patients
• Nonpharmacological interventions to improve sleep patterns among elderly patients
• Effectiveness of geriatric nurses getting trained in dementia care
• Use of social media to reduce depression among elderly adults
• Role of community health nurses in addressing osteoporosis among the elderly populations

To find more topics you can search for nursing capstone project examples pdf online and peer-reviewed nursing journals. You can be inspired to choose a unique, memorable, and manageable topic.

Final Remarks!

For topics on nursing informatics, check out our exclusive blog article, where we share a list of nursing informatics topics that you can choose for your capstone project.

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Top Healthcare Project Ideas for Students and Freshers

Recruiters in any industry prefer professionals with exposure to practical knowledge. When it comes to the healthcare sector, this is just as crucial. As a healthcare professional, you need to have hands-on experience through projects and projects in your portfolio must be very relevant.

Here, we have listed the top healthcare projects for students in this article so you can get to work on them right away. You can master them after taking top healthcare management courses and certifications . So, let’s explore some of the top healthcare project ideas for students and freshers.

Top Healthcare Projects for Students

Here are some of the top healthcare project topics that students and freshers can develop to create a top portfolio.

1. Blockchain-based Record System

The first healthcare project in this list is based on blockchain. The doctor can analyse a patient's present illnesses with the aid of their medical history, which is quite important. However, it can be difficult to store and access the medical records of many patients. A patient's life could be in danger due to a small storage error This is where this project on health comes in. The blockchain comes into play here which can be ideal for medical project ideas. Blockchain enables the development of decentralised systems, in which no single authority is in charge of data recording or storage. Instead, a large number of people are in charge of the process, and everything is tracked in a ledger. For healthcare organisations, with these hospital improvement ideas, you can develop a blockchain-based record-keeping system where patients can safely store their medical histories. For security purposes, access to medical records will be restricted without the patient's key.

But it can also be project topics for medical students Accessing such information is necessarily made much simpler by a decentralised storage system. So, this is one of the best healthcare projects for students.

2. Automated Monitoring System of Advanced Medical Products

There are several uses for the Internet of Things (IoT) in the medical field. This is one of the top healthcare project ideas for you if you want to research IoT with medicine. You would have to develop a system for automatically checking the medical supplies utilised in a hospital or clinic for this project.

The product would be examined by the system to see if it adheres to the necessary method or not. It ought to be able to verify the following data and prove to be medical project topics.

• Has the medication gone bad?
• Does the medication conform to the recommended dosage?

For individuals with prior Internet of Things experience, a project on health is a good fit.

3. Pressure Monitoring System for Reducing Pressure Damage

For people who are interested in medical technology, this initiative is appealing. In these kinds of hospital improvement ideas, you would have to develop a blood pressure monitoring system that would warn the patient and, if necessary, their doctor.

As the saying goes, "prevention is better than cure," such a solution can assist individuals in taking the appropriate preventive steps. Patients and doctors should use resources and money more effectively. Thus, this is one of the best healthcare project topics that a student can take to contribute to society.

4. Tracking Solution For the Logistics in a Hospital in Real-Time

Here is a great option when it comes to hospital improvement ideas. Given that they must simultaneously manage a huge number of patients and resources, this research focuses on large hospitals and clinics. A hospital's main area of concern is resource management.

Traditional resource management systems are prone to mistakes made by people and communication breakdowns, which causes a lot of disruptions. A logistics solution can be developed to help the hospital administrator effectively manage the facility's resources.

Additionally, these project topics on health would enable them to keep tabs on the whereabouts and schedules of various patients, enabling them to assign workers to various departments as necessary. Human error and communication breakdowns will be less likely with the use of digital logistics management solutions.

Thus, this makes it one of the best research topics in hospital administration related to health care projects.

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5. Understanding the Benefits of Telepsychiatry

This is one of the health project ideas. In India, the mental health sector is quite underwhelming. As many people are not even aware of the significance of good mental health, there is an opportunity for improvement. Hence this course and become a topic related to medical projects for students.

It's critical to create solutions that are scalable and effective in a population-heavy nation like India. In this project, you would develop a system that enables video chats between psychiatrists and their patients. You would research the benefits of telepsychiatry for this nation and how to spread awareness of it. It is unquestionably among the top healthcare project ideas for beginners.

6. Efficient Alternative to an Ambulance

According to a BBC report, more than 2 lakh people have already died in traffic accidents in India. A delayed ambulance was the cause of about 30% of these fatalities. And that is not all—according to estimates from the Government of India, more than half of heart attack patients arrive at the hospital 400 minutes after their incident. This is one of the most crucial research topics in hospital administration. Developing such health care related projects can help you contribute to your career and society.

Ambulances are a serious issue in India. You can suggest a resolution to this problem in these types of project topics on health. For instance, you might suggest an alternative to hospital-run ambulances that operates independently of Uber. For the ambulance to prioritize the patients appropriately, you can additionally add the capability of defining the problem.

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7. Schedule Tracking and Communication Solution

These health care projects are ideal for students studying healthcare management and are best suited for hospitals and major clinics. In hospitals with residents, it is necessary to track each patient's care and medication, which might be difficult to do. A digital solution that tracks and manages each patient's schedule for the hospital might be developed. The hospital will be more productive as a result, and the attending physicians and nurses will be able to provide better care for the patients. If you want to add the feature of information sharing among the employees so that if a timetable change arises, one staff member can alert the others, you can spice up the project.

8. Identifying Bottlenecks in Secondary Care Through Electronic Data

This is one of the health project ideas. Secondary care describes specialist care and assistance provided to patients who are referred to another facility for professional care. Both elective and emergency care are included in this health care project titles. For a hospital to operate efficiently, secondary care patients must be managed well. This is one of the most effective healthcare management project topics up for the task.

You can create a method to improve secondary care administration through the use of health economics and electronic data management. Prioritizing and resolving the various secondary care management bottlenecks would be the main goal of the solution. This is one of the top health care related project ideas for you if you want to go into healthcare management.

9. Using Rapid Access Multidisciplinary Palliative Assessment to Improve Cancer Patient Experience

This is one of the health project ideas. The goal of interdisciplinary palliative care is to improve patient's quality of life while treating complex and life-threatening illnesses. Through various strategies, it seeks to lessen the suffering of people who are suffering from severe illnesses.

You can develop a method that enables oncologists and palliative care professionals to enhance the standard of living for cancer patients. You would research the value of palliative care and how oncology uses it in this type of health care projects topic.

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10. AI-Based Staffing Solution

One of the best healthcare projects for students, this AI-based project can take care of the issue of staffing. Nursing staff and other employees must be found and hired by staffing companies for hospitals and clinics. The staffing company typically handles the procedure very inefficiently and fails to locate all the necessary professionals promptly. A hospital's ability to operate effectively can suffer greatly from a staffing shortage.

To solve this issue, you can develop an AI-based solution. Hospitals and clinics would be able to contact qualified candidates thanks to the solution. You can save both sides a ton of time by cutting out the intermediary. This project was perfectly inspired by a solution that Cerebro has created.

11. Medication Management Tool

This is one of the health care project ideas. A patient may find it difficult to manage their many medications, especially if they are taking them for several different conditions. This is one of the best research topics in hospital administration to solve this dilemma. The challenge of remembering each medication's regimen comes first. Then, they need to control how much of each prescription they take and order more before one of them runs out. The patient's health can suffer greatly if a dose is missed.

You can develop a digital tool to assist folks in managing their medicines. They would need to input their various medications and their dosing schedules into the tool for healthcare projects. The total will then remind users to buy extra medication by reminding them when it is time for their dosage and tracking how many doses they have already taken.

12. Multidisciplinary Cow’s Milk Allergy Management Solution

Did you know that over 60% of Indians cannot tolerate lactose? The inability to digest milk sugars is referred to as lactose intolerance. Lactase, which our bodies use to break down the components of milk, becomes inactive when levels are low.

Since cow's milk is a popular beverage in India, you can create this interdisciplinary solution to assist those who are intolerant or allergic to cow's milk. Patients would benefit from the diagnosis and treatment, and it would raise awareness of the issue. Thus, this is one of the best healthcare project ideas for those who want to make a genuine contribution to the food science industry.

13. Electronic Visit Verification For Fraud Reduction

The last one on the list of health project topics is one of the best healthcare projects for students focusing on ensuring security. Fraud is one of the main issues with in-home care. Frequently, the caregiver would promise to be there but would come up late or not at all. Such fraud has grown to be a serious issue, particularly when the sufferer lives alone.

An electronic visit verification system that tracks the caregiver's whereabouts can be created. They won't be able to misrepresent their location this way. Such software has become widely used by businesses to manage their workforce. Through these types of health related project topics, you may accomplish the same thing.

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We sincerely hope that our list of healthcare project ideas was useful. You can learn more about your skills and weaknesses by working on health projects for students. Thus, you will be aware of the qualities to emphasize and the areas for development before possible employers. So, choose 1 -2 healthcare projects for students and build an awesome portfolio.

Now that you have gone through some of the best health improvement ideas, continue to scroll to see more options for projects on health! Investigate and choose the finest among the best health project ideas.

Frequently Asked Question (FAQs)

Healthcare administration is very crucial everywhere, and hence one of the most important healthcare project ideas. With top healthcare project for students, you can build a top portfolio and plenty of chances to advance in healthcare management.

The healthcare sector will never be affected by issues like population income, climate change, or other things that may cause other industries to impede. So, by taking top healthcare projects for students you can become a skilled professional.

The best colleges that offer you a degree in health management in India are: Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai,  University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, and more. These colleges will have healthcare related projects courses for the candidates.

A healthcare manager can anticipate a salary that typically falls between Rs. 10 and 15 lakhs. If you can build a top portfolio and resume after developing health related project ideas.

A graduation and postgraduate degree in the subject of healthcare management is required of anyone interested in pursuing healthcare management as a career. It is suggested that you enrol in one or more further online diploma or certificate programmes to improve your skills to increase your career prospects and pay.

Switzerland, Australia, and the United States are some of the top countries that offer high salaries after the students participate in health care project ideas.

A healthcare manager looks at the bigger picture, (facilities and level of service) A healthcare administrator handles day-to-day tasks including focusing on the individual department, keeping budgets, and hiring the necessary people.

No. These hospital improvement ideas are ideal for students of health care management as well as for graduates.

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Questions related to Health Care Management

Hello aspirant,

After completing the GNM course, you are qualified to enroll for the MBA (hospital management courses), as the GNM course is regarded as being comparable to graduation. The applicant must have earned their diploma with a strong academic record in order to enroll for the MBA program.

For MBA admissions, you must take one of the entry exams listed below:

• CAT- Common Admission Test MAT- Management Aptitude Test XAT- XLRI Aptitude Test FMS- Faculty of Management Studies Entrance Test GMAT- Graduate Management Aptitude Test IGNOU OPENMAT IIFT

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Hi aspirant...!

Hope you're doing great...!

So, with regard of you're query. If you have at least 50% in your graduation class and at least one to two years of experience in it, you can apply for a postgraduate diploma in health care and management after earning a BSc in medicine.

The following are the eligibility requirements for PG Health Care and Management:

Students with an MBBS, BAMS, BDS, BEMS, B. PT, or B. OT degree who have completed their studies with a minimum grade point average of 50% are eligible.

Students with degrees in BMM, B. Com, B. Sc, BA, or biomedical engineering who have at least a 50 percent grade point average and one to two years of experience are eligible to apply.

Graduates of the General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) diploma program may also enroll for this course if they have 50 percent of the required marks and five consecutive

years working in the healthcare sector. The candidates must have experience that was gained in the years immediately before to the start of the program, and they must be employed at the time that they apply for the course.

Further, you can click the link below to learn more about the PG health care and management in detail:

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Hey bright thinker!!

Its a great effort to show your interest towards MBA in Healthcare Management course, in India there is AIHMS scholarship for M.B.A in Healthcare Management students offering a hefty sum of amount, in foreign countries there is availability of Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) Scholarship Award or Albert. W. Dent Scholarship or there are scholarship in Germany known as DAAD Scholarship for Fully funded MBA courses.

Hope it helps you!!

Hello Payal,

Best MBA in Health Care Management Colleges in India along with their fees structure is given below.

1. Dr BR Ambedkar Open University

Total Course Fees: Rs. 2,40,000

2. K J Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai

Total Course Fees: Rs. 1,868,876

3. Ahalia School of Management, Palakkad

Total Course Fees: Rs. 2,50,000

4. Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi

Total Course Fees: Rs. 8,75,000

5. CT University, Ludhiana

Total Course Fees: Rs. 2,02,000

To get more information about MBA in Health Care Management Colleges in India go through below mentioned link.

https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-mba-in-health-care-management-colleges-in-india

Coming to Scholarship, it is difficult to say about it because Scholarship eligibility varies from State to State. Mostly States offers Scholarship for some reservation Category candidates.

I hope this information helps you.

All The Best!!

hello there

Here I have listed below the list of  health care management colleges

• KJ SIMSR - K J Somaiya Institute of Management
• School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
• Dr BR Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
• Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
• HITS Chennai - Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
• MITSOM Pune - MIT School of Management
• Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune
• Integral University, Lucknow
• Manipal University (MAHE) - Manipal Academy of Higher Education
• KSOM Bhubaneswar - KIIT School of Management
• Sharda University, Greater Noida

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If you are intrigued by the programming world and are interested in developing communications networks then a career as database architect may be a good option for you. Data architect roles and responsibilities include building design models for data communication networks. Wide Area Networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs), and intranets are included in the database networks. It is expected that database architects will have in-depth knowledge of a company's business to develop a network to fulfil the requirements of the organisation. Stay tuned as we look at the larger picture and give you more information on what is db architecture, why you should pursue database architecture, what to expect from such a degree and what your job opportunities will be after graduation. Here, we will be discussing how to become a data architect. Students can visit NIT Trichy , IIT Kharagpur , JMI New Delhi . 

Remote Sensing Technician

Individuals who opt for a career as a remote sensing technician possess unique personalities. Remote sensing analysts seem to be rational human beings, they are strong, independent, persistent, sincere, realistic and resourceful. Some of them are analytical as well, which means they are intelligent, introspective and inquisitive. 

Remote sensing scientists use remote sensing technology to support scientists in fields such as community planning, flight planning or the management of natural resources. Analysing data collected from aircraft, satellites or ground-based platforms using statistical analysis software, image analysis software or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a significant part of their work. Do you want to learn how to become remote sensing technician? There's no need to be concerned; we've devised a simple remote sensing technician career path for you. Scroll through the pages and read.

Budget Analyst

Budget analysis, in a nutshell, entails thoroughly analyzing the details of a financial budget. The budget analysis aims to better understand and manage revenue. Budget analysts assist in the achievement of financial targets, the preservation of profitability, and the pursuit of long-term growth for a business. Budget analysts generally have a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a closely related field. Knowledge of Financial Management is of prime importance in this career.

Underwriter

An underwriter is a person who assesses and evaluates the risk of insurance in his or her field like mortgage, loan, health policy, investment, and so on and so forth. The underwriter career path does involve risks as analysing the risks means finding out if there is a way for the insurance underwriter jobs to recover the money from its clients. If the risk turns out to be too much for the company then in the future it is an underwriter who will be held accountable for it. Therefore, one must carry out his or her job with a lot of attention and diligence.

Finance Executive

Product manager.

A Product Manager is a professional responsible for product planning and marketing. He or she manages the product throughout the Product Life Cycle, gathering and prioritising the product. A product manager job description includes defining the product vision and working closely with team members of other departments to deliver winning products.  

Operations Manager

Individuals in the operations manager jobs are responsible for ensuring the efficiency of each department to acquire its optimal goal. They plan the use of resources and distribution of materials. The operations manager's job description includes managing budgets, negotiating contracts, and performing administrative tasks.

Stock Analyst

Individuals who opt for a career as a stock analyst examine the company's investments makes decisions and keep track of financial securities. The nature of such investments will differ from one business to the next. Individuals in the stock analyst career use data mining to forecast a company's profits and revenues, advise clients on whether to buy or sell, participate in seminars, and discussing financial matters with executives and evaluate annual reports.

A Researcher is a professional who is responsible for collecting data and information by reviewing the literature and conducting experiments and surveys. He or she uses various methodological processes to provide accurate data and information that is utilised by academicians and other industry professionals. Here, we will discuss what is a researcher, the researcher's salary, types of researchers.

Welding Engineer

Welding Engineer Job Description: A Welding Engineer work involves managing welding projects and supervising welding teams. He or she is responsible for reviewing welding procedures, processes and documentation. A career as Welding Engineer involves conducting failure analyses and causes on welding issues. 

Transportation Planner

A career as Transportation Planner requires technical application of science and technology in engineering, particularly the concepts, equipment and technologies involved in the production of products and services. In fields like land use, infrastructure review, ecological standards and street design, he or she considers issues of health, environment and performance. A Transportation Planner assigns resources for implementing and designing programmes. He or she is responsible for assessing needs, preparing plans and forecasts and compliance with regulations.

Environmental Engineer

Individuals who opt for a career as an environmental engineer are construction professionals who utilise the skills and knowledge of biology, soil science, chemistry and the concept of engineering to design and develop projects that serve as solutions to various environmental problems. 

Safety Manager

A Safety Manager is a professional responsible for employee’s safety at work. He or she plans, implements and oversees the company’s employee safety. A Safety Manager ensures compliance and adherence to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) guidelines.

Conservation Architect

A Conservation Architect is a professional responsible for conserving and restoring buildings or monuments having a historic value. He or she applies techniques to document and stabilise the object’s state without any further damage. A Conservation Architect restores the monuments and heritage buildings to bring them back to their original state.

Structural Engineer

A Structural Engineer designs buildings, bridges, and other related structures. He or she analyzes the structures and makes sure the structures are strong enough to be used by the people. A career as a Structural Engineer requires working in the construction process. It comes under the civil engineering discipline. A Structure Engineer creates structural models with the help of computer-aided design software. 

Highway Engineer

Highway Engineer Job Description:  A Highway Engineer is a civil engineer who specialises in planning and building thousands of miles of roads that support connectivity and allow transportation across the country. He or she ensures that traffic management schemes are effectively planned concerning economic sustainability and successful implementation.

Field Surveyor

Are you searching for a Field Surveyor Job Description? A Field Surveyor is a professional responsible for conducting field surveys for various places or geographical conditions. He or she collects the required data and information as per the instructions given by senior officials. 

Orthotist and Prosthetist

Orthotists and Prosthetists are professionals who provide aid to patients with disabilities. They fix them to artificial limbs (prosthetics) and help them to regain stability. There are times when people lose their limbs in an accident. In some other occasions, they are born without a limb or orthopaedic impairment. Orthotists and prosthetists play a crucial role in their lives with fixing them to assistive devices and provide mobility.

Pathologist

A career in pathology in India is filled with several responsibilities as it is a medical branch and affects human lives. The demand for pathologists has been increasing over the past few years as people are getting more aware of different diseases. Not only that, but an increase in population and lifestyle changes have also contributed to the increase in a pathologist’s demand. The pathology careers provide an extremely huge number of opportunities and if you want to be a part of the medical field you can consider being a pathologist. If you want to know more about a career in pathology in India then continue reading this article.

Veterinary Doctor

Speech therapist, gynaecologist.

Gynaecology can be defined as the study of the female body. The job outlook for gynaecology is excellent since there is evergreen demand for one because of their responsibility of dealing with not only women’s health but also fertility and pregnancy issues. Although most women prefer to have a women obstetrician gynaecologist as their doctor, men also explore a career as a gynaecologist and there are ample amounts of male doctors in the field who are gynaecologists and aid women during delivery and childbirth. 

Audiologist

The audiologist career involves audiology professionals who are responsible to treat hearing loss and proactively preventing the relevant damage. Individuals who opt for a career as an audiologist use various testing strategies with the aim to determine if someone has a normal sensitivity to sounds or not. After the identification of hearing loss, a hearing doctor is required to determine which sections of the hearing are affected, to what extent they are affected, and where the wound causing the hearing loss is found. As soon as the hearing loss is identified, the patients are provided with recommendations for interventions and rehabilitation such as hearing aids, cochlear implants, and appropriate medical referrals. While audiology is a branch of science that studies and researches hearing, balance, and related disorders.

An oncologist is a specialised doctor responsible for providing medical care to patients diagnosed with cancer. He or she uses several therapies to control the cancer and its effect on the human body such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy and biopsy. An oncologist designs a treatment plan based on a pathology report after diagnosing the type of cancer and where it is spreading inside the body.

Are you searching for an ‘Anatomist job description’? An Anatomist is a research professional who applies the laws of biological science to determine the ability of bodies of various living organisms including animals and humans to regenerate the damaged or destroyed organs. If you want to know what does an anatomist do, then read the entire article, where we will answer all your questions.

For an individual who opts for a career as an actor, the primary responsibility is to completely speak to the character he or she is playing and to persuade the crowd that the character is genuine by connecting with them and bringing them into the story. This applies to significant roles and littler parts, as all roles join to make an effective creation. Here in this article, we will discuss how to become an actor in India, actor exams, actor salary in India, and actor jobs. 

Individuals who opt for a career as acrobats create and direct original routines for themselves, in addition to developing interpretations of existing routines. The work of circus acrobats can be seen in a variety of performance settings, including circus, reality shows, sports events like the Olympics, movies and commercials. Individuals who opt for a career as acrobats must be prepared to face rejections and intermittent periods of work. The creativity of acrobats may extend to other aspects of the performance. For example, acrobats in the circus may work with gym trainers, celebrities or collaborate with other professionals to enhance such performance elements as costume and or maybe at the teaching end of the career.

Video Game Designer

Career as a video game designer is filled with excitement as well as responsibilities. A video game designer is someone who is involved in the process of creating a game from day one. He or she is responsible for fulfilling duties like designing the character of the game, the several levels involved, plot, art and similar other elements. Individuals who opt for a career as a video game designer may also write the codes for the game using different programming languages.

Depending on the video game designer job description and experience they may also have to lead a team and do the early testing of the game in order to suggest changes and find loopholes.

Radio Jockey

Radio Jockey is an exciting, promising career and a great challenge for music lovers. If you are really interested in a career as radio jockey, then it is very important for an RJ to have an automatic, fun, and friendly personality. If you want to get a job done in this field, a strong command of the language and a good voice are always good things. Apart from this, in order to be a good radio jockey, you will also listen to good radio jockeys so that you can understand their style and later make your own by practicing.

A career as radio jockey has a lot to offer to deserving candidates. If you want to know more about a career as radio jockey, and how to become a radio jockey then continue reading the article.

Choreographer

The word “choreography" actually comes from Greek words that mean “dance writing." Individuals who opt for a career as a choreographer create and direct original dances, in addition to developing interpretations of existing dances. A Choreographer dances and utilises his or her creativity in other aspects of dance performance. For example, he or she may work with the music director to select music or collaborate with other famous choreographers to enhance such performance elements as lighting, costume and set design.

Social Media Manager

A career as social media manager involves implementing the company’s or brand’s marketing plan across all social media channels. Social media managers help in building or improving a brand’s or a company’s website traffic, build brand awareness, create and implement marketing and brand strategy. Social media managers are key to important social communication as well.

Photographer

Photography is considered both a science and an art, an artistic means of expression in which the camera replaces the pen. In a career as a photographer, an individual is hired to capture the moments of public and private events, such as press conferences or weddings, or may also work inside a studio, where people go to get their picture clicked. Photography is divided into many streams each generating numerous career opportunities in photography. With the boom in advertising, media, and the fashion industry, photography has emerged as a lucrative and thrilling career option for many Indian youths.

An individual who is pursuing a career as a producer is responsible for managing the business aspects of production. They are involved in each aspect of production from its inception to deception. Famous movie producers review the script, recommend changes and visualise the story. 

They are responsible for overseeing the finance involved in the project and distributing the film for broadcasting on various platforms. A career as a producer is quite fulfilling as well as exhaustive in terms of playing different roles in order for a production to be successful. Famous movie producers are responsible for hiring creative and technical personnel on contract basis.

Copy Writer

In a career as a copywriter, one has to consult with the client and understand the brief well. A career as a copywriter has a lot to offer to deserving candidates. Several new mediums of advertising are opening therefore making it a lucrative career choice. Students can pursue various copywriter courses such as Journalism , Advertising , Marketing Management . Here, we have discussed how to become a freelance copywriter, copywriter career path, how to become a copywriter in India, and copywriting career outlook. 

In a career as a vlogger, one generally works for himself or herself. However, once an individual has gained viewership there are several brands and companies that approach them for paid collaboration. It is one of those fields where an individual can earn well while following his or her passion. 

Ever since internet costs got reduced the viewership for these types of content has increased on a large scale. Therefore, a career as a vlogger has a lot to offer. If you want to know more about the Vlogger eligibility, roles and responsibilities then continue reading the article. 

For publishing books, newspapers, magazines and digital material, editorial and commercial strategies are set by publishers. Individuals in publishing career paths make choices about the markets their businesses will reach and the type of content that their audience will be served. Individuals in book publisher careers collaborate with editorial staff, designers, authors, and freelance contributors who develop and manage the creation of content.

Careers in journalism are filled with excitement as well as responsibilities. One cannot afford to miss out on the details. As it is the small details that provide insights into a story. Depending on those insights a journalist goes about writing a news article. A journalism career can be stressful at times but if you are someone who is passionate about it then it is the right choice for you. If you want to know more about the media field and journalist career then continue reading this article.

Individuals in the editor career path is an unsung hero of the news industry who polishes the language of the news stories provided by stringers, reporters, copywriters and content writers and also news agencies. Individuals who opt for a career as an editor make it more persuasive, concise and clear for readers. In this article, we will discuss the details of the editor's career path such as how to become an editor in India, editor salary in India and editor skills and qualities.

Individuals who opt for a career as a reporter may often be at work on national holidays and festivities. He or she pitches various story ideas and covers news stories in risky situations. Students can pursue a BMC (Bachelor of Mass Communication) , B.M.M. (Bachelor of Mass Media) , or  MAJMC (MA in Journalism and Mass Communication) to become a reporter. While we sit at home reporters travel to locations to collect information that carries a news value.  

Corporate Executive

Are you searching for a Corporate Executive job description? A Corporate Executive role comes with administrative duties. He or she provides support to the leadership of the organisation. A Corporate Executive fulfils the business purpose and ensures its financial stability. In this article, we are going to discuss how to become corporate executive.

Multimedia Specialist

A multimedia specialist is a media professional who creates, audio, videos, graphic image files, computer animations for multimedia applications. He or she is responsible for planning, producing, and maintaining websites and applications. 

Quality Controller

A quality controller plays a crucial role in an organisation. He or she is responsible for performing quality checks on manufactured products. He or she identifies the defects in a product and rejects the product. 

A quality controller records detailed information about products with defects and sends it to the supervisor or plant manager to take necessary actions to improve the production process.

Production Manager

A QA Lead is in charge of the QA Team. The role of QA Lead comes with the responsibility of assessing services and products in order to determine that he or she meets the quality standards. He or she develops, implements and manages test plans. 

Process Development Engineer

The Process Development Engineers design, implement, manufacture, mine, and other production systems using technical knowledge and expertise in the industry. They use computer modeling software to test technologies and machinery. An individual who is opting career as Process Development Engineer is responsible for developing cost-effective and efficient processes. They also monitor the production process and ensure it functions smoothly and efficiently.

AWS Solution Architect

An AWS Solution Architect is someone who specializes in developing and implementing cloud computing systems. He or she has a good understanding of the various aspects of cloud computing and can confidently deploy and manage their systems. He or she troubleshoots the issues and evaluates the risk from the third party. 

Azure Administrator

An Azure Administrator is a professional responsible for implementing, monitoring, and maintaining Azure Solutions. He or she manages cloud infrastructure service instances and various cloud servers as well as sets up public and private cloud systems. 

Computer Programmer

Careers in computer programming primarily refer to the systematic act of writing code and moreover include wider computer science areas. The word 'programmer' or 'coder' has entered into practice with the growing number of newly self-taught tech enthusiasts. Computer programming careers involve the use of designs created by software developers and engineers and transforming them into commands that can be implemented by computers. These commands result in regular usage of social media sites, word-processing applications and browsers.

Information Security Manager

Individuals in the information security manager career path involves in overseeing and controlling all aspects of computer security. The IT security manager job description includes planning and carrying out security measures to protect the business data and information from corruption, theft, unauthorised access, and deliberate attack 

ITSM Manager

Automation test engineer.

An Automation Test Engineer job involves executing automated test scripts. He or she identifies the project’s problems and troubleshoots them. The role involves documenting the defect using management tools. He or she works with the application team in order to resolve any issues arising during the testing process. 

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To help North Dakota communities address the top health needs identified through their Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), models and examples are listed on this page as potential resources. Not all ideas listed will apply or be practical for all communities; rather it is a list of ideas that could be modified to fit your needs, or serve as a springboard for new ideas.

These ideas are not evidence-based best practices. Rather, they serve as additional qualitative data and can act as conversation starters to help think of activities that may have worked in other rural settings in North Dakota. For more information on evidence-based practices, check out County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, "What Works For Health." It may be helpful to look at those and then cross-reference to these ideas for what is feasible in a rural context.

If you are looking for funding resources for implementation, view the Center for Rural Health's State Office of Rural Health Grants page, and Rural Health Information Hub's Rural Funding & Opportunities .

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• Access to needed equipment/facility update
• Aging population services
• Attracting & retaining young families
• Chronic disease management
• Concerns of low customer service & quality of care
• Cost and adequacy of health insurance
• Elevated level of uninsured adults
• Elevated rate of adult smoking
• Elevated level of excessive drinking/alcohol use
• Emphasis on wellness, education & prevention
• Healthcare workforce shortages (physicians, visiting specialists, healthcare professionals)
• Financial viability of hospital
• Higher costs of healthcare for consumers
• Lack of affordable housing
• Lack of collaboration with community
• Lack of daycare

Maintaining EMS

• Marketing/Promotion of hospital services
• Mental health (including substance abuse)
• Not enough jobs with livable wages
• Obesity & physical inactivity
• Sexually transmitted infections/spreadable disease
• Traffic safety & elevated motor vehicle crash death rate

Access to Needed Equipment/Facility Update

• Acquire new or updated equipment (i.e. CT scanner)
• Publicize when new equipment has been purchased to explain how it is beneficial to community
• Update website to include information about new equipment and technology acquisitions

Aging Population Services

• Promote public transportation services
• Offer mobile screening services so seniors don't have to leave their home
• Offer Meals on Wheels
• Find support and services through the Rural Aging Action Network
• Guide to Medicare Benefits

Attracting & Retaining Young Families

• Develop hospital sponsored day care opportunities for staff and community members
• Develop and offer health and wellness programs
• Collaborate with other community organizations such as the school to offer health education programs and exercise equipment.
• Promote Bismarck-Mandan Young Professionals Network
• Market and promote the rural community culture – feeling of safety (low crime), strong education systems, active faith community, strong and vital health sector, lower cost of living
• Contact North Dakota Department of Commerce for economic development ideas
• Create leadership opportunities for community members in their 20's and 30's – hospital board, community health task force, membership and chairing a committee
• Develop a community job site wellness program – contact North Dakota Department of Health & Human Services and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
• Fund (with other community organizations) a health career scholarship program with an obligation to return to the community for service for a specified period of time.
• Consider State Office of Rural Health Grants to address a number of ideas for both the community but also a regional network to address common issues.
• Anti-Bullying Guidebook
• Bullying By the Numbers
• Bullying Prevention Guide and Resources
• Form cancer support groups for patients and caregivers
• Promote online support groups though Cancers Survivors Network sponsored by American Cancer Society
• Promote skin cancer awareness at local events
• Form a Knitting for Charity group to knit hats and blankets for chemotherapy patients

Chronic Disease Management

• Provide space and equipment for fitness center
• Offer mobile diabetic screenings in community
• Organize a community event related to physical activity and/or nutrition, such as walk/run-a-thon, healthy food potluck, etc.
• Organize speaker for community Senior Group to raise awareness of diabetes, serve a healthy meal, and distribute healthy eating recipes
• Institute a wellness page on hospital website
• Implement comprehensive, sustainable wellness and disease management program based on improving baseline health numbers (e.g., weight, BMI, body composition, cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure) through evidence-based practices, shared medical appointments, and a health coach
• Implement health coach program in which coaches work with patients on self-management skills, nutrition counseling, etc. during the four-week period following hospital or clinic discharge; through either telemedicine or home visits

Concerns of Low Customer Service & Quality of Care

• Provide comment box in waiting room to allow for anonymous customer feedback
• Ensure a clean and quiet waiting room with updated magazines
• Hold employee trainings on confidentiality

Cost and Adequacy of Health Insurance

• Promote open enrollment of Marketplace
• Promote North Dakota Department of Health & Human Services website for financial assistance and healthcare coverage application
• Launch marketing campaign to increase access and awareness of Marketplace and other options such as sponsoring education, articles in the paper, interviews on radio

Elevated Level of Uninsured Adults

• Hire financial service counselor who can educate patients about insurance policies
• Hire a Medicaid Expansion Navigator
• Post requirements of Affordable Care Act on hospital website, along with resources relating to meeting those requirements
• Distribute flyers in clinic about requirements of Affordable Care Act
• Organize a speaker for senior groups or other community clubs about the requirements of the Affordable Care Act

Elevated Rate of Adult Smoking

• Use social media to advertise availability of smoking cessation assistance
• Promote nicotine replacement therapies in hospital waiting rooms
• Set up tobacco prevention booth and give cessation presentations at oil field/business health fairs
• Place information about quitting at “man camps”
• Display visual representation of healthy vs. diseased lung at high school
• Create smoke-free environments through policy changes

Elevated Level of Excessive Drinking/Alcohol Use

• Partner with Safe Communities Program for beer goggle simulation and reaction simulation
• Develop public service announcement and videos of real alcohol- related accidents from own communities
• Collaborate with student groups to produce video/media campaign to educate that “buzzed driving is drunk driving”
• Park “drunk driving car” (car that has been damaged as the result of an alcohol-related crash) outside of high school
• Collaborate with law enforcement to increase random checkpoints for driving under the influence
• Collaborate with law enforcement to perform no-consequence breathalyzer tests in bars to promote awareness and education about levels of intoxication, along with distributing information about excessive and binge drinking
• Collaborate with city council to make the approval of liquor licenses contingent on all servers taking server training
• Develop poster to use at fair booth about prescription drug abuse and proper disposal of prescription drugs
• Develop media campaign (based on CDC and attorney general’s office models) to present on local cable and radio about prescription drug abuse and proper disposal of prescription drugs

Emphasis on Wellness, Education & Prevention

• Engage with employers in area to offer blood pressure checks, promote awareness of physical therapy services, and offer prevention education services (e.g., prevention of diabetes, chronic disease, and back injury)
• Offer one or more cooking classes to educate participants about healthy eating and diabetic meals
• Dedicate space in hospital newsletter, as well as space on hospital website, to a “Wellness Update”
• Use hospital newsletter and website to educate community members about services and facilities available within the community and from consumers’ health insurance companies
• Send hospital staff member to wellness program training
• Host booth at community festival which highlights alternative, healthy cooking and baking options
• Partner with senior center and other community organizations to offer dinner and dance class to encourage wellness and healthy recipes
• Engage with county extension service and public health to find ways to promote community wellness events and activities
• Launch media campaign through radio, newspaper and website to raise awareness and education about cancer screening services and obesity services
• Implement weight management program that includes meal replacement program and nutrition coaching
• Offer “Stepping On” program, which helps older people reduce falls and increase self confidence in situations where they are at risk of falling
• Offer 12-week weight management program that features comprehensive health evaluation along with detailed exercise prescription, dietary/eating suggestions, three months of fitness center membership, ongoing monitoring of health measures, mobile phone apps for recording progress, follow-up phone calls, weekly weigh-ins, and one-on-one guidance with a physical therapist to teach use of exercise equipment
• Renew Bariatrics created a student health guide tailored to the unique needs of college students. Their goal is to empower students with the knowledge and tools they need to thrive in their college years, both academically and personally.

Healthcare Workforce Shortages (physicians, visiting specialists, healthcare professionals)

• Increase postings on hospital’s social media sites, including Facebook, that convey vision of future healthcare delivery and present a positive message of where the hospital is going
• Form Marketing Group involving hospital, economic development, Chamber of Commerce to promote strengths of community
• Hold meeting/workshop with community members who meet with physician candidates and share a consistent, positive vision of the future of healthcare delivery in the community
• Support local student in medical school
• Prepare written and visual materials about the future medical facilities to share with physician candidates that will present the short-term and long-term vision of what future healthcare will look like
• Engage with medical school residents to encourage them to return to community to practice medicine
• Work with Center for Rural Health on physician recruitment
• Work to build stable, well-liked staff of nurse practitioners and physician assistants that includes both female and male providers
• Implement or increase use of Telehealth programs, including emergency Telehealth
• Present recruitment efforts in a better light by using professionally designed and printed marketing materials that include information about hospital services, clinic services, and community information
• Create a video to highlight the hospital’s work and community’s assets, to recruit providers as well as educate community members about available services; send it on a flash drive to prospective provider candidates and show it at the local theater prior to movies
• Apply for grant funding to assist with travel costs (airfare, hotel, etc.) associated with community visits by physicians (and their spouses) being recruited by the hospital

Financial Viability of Hospital

• Meet with stakeholders and community groups to help disseminate information and tell story of hospital’s strengths/value of to community (tourism, economic development)
• Increase promotion and marketing of current services by improving web presence, developing marketing campaign (possibly featuring patient testimonials), sponsoring weekly newspaper column, and using local electronic marquee
• Promote locally available services to discourage local residents to travel for specialty healthcare services (e.g., surgery, etc.)
• Explore alternate uses for hospital
• Implement strategy to effectively communicate with community about hospital’s challenges
• Communicate about finances and what’s behind “bad debt”
• Educate community to help people understand why sales tax is needed
• Reduce dependence on locum physicians through promotion and greater use of existing nurse practitioners and physician assistants
• Expand geographic service area by marketing new nurse practitioners and physician assistants to nearby communities

Higher Costs of Healthcare for Consumers

Lack of affordable housing.

• Partner with North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) to increase stock of affordable housing
• Advertise funds available from Housing Incentive Fund (HIF) administered by NDHFA
• Appeal for more federal low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) in oil patch
• Research zoning models in other U.S. cities for affordable housing policies and solutions

Lack of Collaboration with Community

• Increase hospital presence at community events through sponsorship of events or information booths
• Form steering committee with hospital representatives, public health, and other local healthcare providers to promote collaboration

Lack of Daycare

• Offer incentives in the form of subsidies for licensed home daycare providers
• Promote Child Care Aware of North Dakota as resource to find local child care centers
• Offer extended Clinic hours, in evenings and weekends, for working parents
• Research potential funding sources to assist with first responder training
• Work with high school to encourage students to volunteer for emergency service careers
• Organize event to recruit ambulance drivers
• Explore alternate models of emergency care, such as community paramedicine

Marketing/Promotion of Hospital Services

• Announce hospital services and schedule of visiting specialists on outgoing hospital phone line and run while callers are put on hold
• Advertise clinic hours, visiting specialists on electronic signs in town (banks, community buildings)
• Create hospital Facebook page
• Distribute flyer listing services to local businesses
• Partner with area businesses to host health fair and offer free food, screenings and advertise services
• Develop professionally printed marketing materials that include information about hospital and clinic services, community information, and provider bio cards; distribute them to clients, patients, at community events, and at recruitment and health fairs
• Run advertisements in local newspaper that promote and educate the public about some of the underutilized, and sometimes unknown, services offered by hospital
• Create a video to highlight the hospital’s work and community’s assets to recruit providers as well as educate community members about available services; send it on a flash drive to prospective provider candidates and show it at the local theater prior to movies

Mental Health (including substance abuse)

• Promote 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline – 988 has been designated as the new three-digit dialing code that will route callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
• Promote and utilize the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration as a resource
• Employment Resources for People Recovering From Substance Abuse Issues
• Mental Health for College Students
• Substance Abuse Resources and Support for College Students
• North Dakota's Health & Human Services Behavioral Health Division Mental Health Program Directory helps North Dakotans locate and access mental health services in the state. The directory allows users to search for mental health programs by location, population served, type of mental health specialty, and treatment and interventions options. Users can also search for programs that offer telehealth services.
• Promote the website for free mental health and substance abuse resources for North Dakotans at any stage of their recovery journey, including resources/treatment, warning signs, how to talk to a family member, definitions of different types of treatment and a local treatment center directory.
• 15 alcohol & drug rehab centers in Grand Forks and Fargo areas
• Quality Health Associates of North Dakota is providing Mental Health First Aid Training to increase the capacity of rural communities including the workforces of Critical Access Hospitals, long-term care facilities, and community service providers to use this evidence-based practice to recognize the signs and symptoms of individuals experiencing mental illness, respond to acute needs, and refer to additional available resources.
• Inventory available community services including oil companies' safety offices and conflict resolution assistance
• Develop mental health screenings in schools; research granting agencies (Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Helmsley Foundation)
• Promote national suicide hotline
• Develop network/resources for runaways
• Increase promotion, through advertising and public relations efforts, of counseling services that currently are available, including those through Telehealth
• Collaborate with schools on educational seminars for students about mental health issues and increase interaction with school counselors
• Continue collaboration with ministerial groups, including potential training of group by social worker
• Train Emergency Room personnel on how to effectively facilitate mental health committals, transportation, and other responses, including training on paperwork and patient interactions
• Establish support groups (such as families with mental health crises, grief group) led by a social worker
• Tips on How to Find a Job After Rehab

Not Enough Jobs with Livable wages

• Promote jobs in healthcare as they tend to provide high paying jobs. CareerBuilder website lists all jobs by North Dakota community
• Create a liaison between hospital and area economic or jobs development corporation to promote economic impact of healthcare jobs. North Dakota CAHs have an average economic impact of $6.4 million and contribute about 220 jobs to the community
• Start a local scholarship for health education with understanding recipient returns to the community for service for a specified period of time

Obesity & Physical Inactivity

• Create and promote community facility available for indoor walking
• Grant community access to school fitness center that includes weight and cardio equipment
• Organize adult co-ed volleyball, pickleball, and basketball leagues
• Promote availability of fitness opportunities though hospital website, cable television, post office signage, and via schools and churches
• Partner with Extension Office to plant community or school garden
• Develop community farmer’s market
• Host a 5K or 10K race (running, walking, rollerblading, biking)
• Pilot wellness programs using hospital staff with the idea, “How can you get your community healthy if your staff is not healthy?”
• Hold monthly cooking classes focused on better nutrition choices with take-home recipes, informational materials, and placemats; incorporate blood pressure checks and cholesterol tests into the class time

Sexually Transmitted Infections/Spreadable Disease

• Contact North Dakota Health Department for STD informational material and supplies
• Discuss with public health and primary care clinic how to collaborate to address the issue for the community
• Work with the local school on sex education curriculum
• Contact business community as part of worksite wellness education – include STD screenings
• Use social media to raise awareness, especially among young people, of STDs and prevention strategies

Traffic Safety & Elevated Motor Vehicle Crash Death Rate

• Sponsor defensive driving course through Highway Patrol for community members
• Partner with ND Safety Council on projects
• Promote Distracted Driving course at high school
• Reinstate SADD (Students Against Distracted/Drunk Driving) at high school
• Display wrecked vehicle during community events
• Offer Defensive Driving course with speaker's panel consisting of DUI victim and those who have been affected by drunk driving to share experience of loss and impact of loss
• Have high school student create video about distracted driving and show movie as trailer at local movie theater. Hold community contest to see who can make most effective video
• Promote public transportation on hospital's webpage
• Partner with Cut It Out: The Beauty Community Against Domestic Abuse to get training materials for hair stylists and other professionals to get employees to recognize signs of abuse
• Contact Community Violence Intervention Center (in Grand Forks) for programming ideas, education, treatment and collaborative work for peace to prevent violence