Metabolic Syndrome Screening Among Inpatient Psychiatric Patients

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I express my deepest gratitude to the University of California Irvine Neuropsychiatry staff and the UC Irvine Health leadership team. Thank you for welcoming me to your setting and supporting me in completing this evidence-based practice project. Thank you to the Adult Medical Psychiatry unit manager, Jennifer Nieves for welcoming this project with enthusiasm and praise. To Dr. Jody Rawles, my clinical mentor, you are a wealth of knowledge and your commitment to practice improvement inspires me. I would like to acknowledge my faculty mentor, Dr. Michael Terry, and seminar faculty, Dr. Kathy James for your expertise, encouragement and continual support throughout the process in its entirety. I would also like to acknowledge Donna Grochow, Director of the UC Irvine Department of Nursing Quality, Research and Education for her most generous contributions to my success in this program as well as my sanity. Lastly and most importantly, thank you to my husband for his unbridled enthusiasm for my success and unwavering support as we labored through the doctoral program together. My accomplishment is your accomplishment.