Date of Award

Spring 2024

Document Type

Project – Full Written

Degree Name

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Committee Chair

Candice J. Rome

Abstract

Health prevention promotes positive healthcare outcomes by identifying risk factors associated with a disease process in its early stages to halt or slow its progression. Preventions, like routine screenings, facilitate the identification of risk factors or the initiation of treatment of a disease. Identifying risk factors, which often go unrecognized, helps to manage conditions like cardiovascular disease before it progresses in severity. Early treatment options or identifying risk factors that lead to cardiac disease positively impact healthcare costs by reducing the number of hospital visits, emergency services, and the need for costly long-term care. Prevention increases the quality of disease management, decreases physical limitations, and reduces disease symptoms, like pain and shortness of breath, improving quality of life. Mobile health clinics (MHC) employ affordable, safe, evidence-based screenings that can improve life expectancy by raising patient awareness through education after identifying risk factors. This project aim was to educate the at-risk population and evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to cardiovascular health by providing education and evaluate the learning with a survey after the educational intervention provided at the MHC.

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