Works from 2024
Usefulness of established risk scores in predicting right heart failure requiring temporary right ventricular assist device support following left ventricular assist device implantation, Laura Coyle, Rachel Pedersen, Colleen Gallagher, et al. (Abstract)
Hands-on partnership to improve intraoperative hand hygiene, Kimberly Mitchell, Anastasia Meyers, and Jacob Schermetzler (Poster)
CNS impact as a sepsis coordinator, Emily Selby (Poster)
Different lens: Enhancing orientation using virtual reality, Mark Crucero, Pio Reggie Frigillano, and Anna Philipp (Poster)
Growing new perioperative nurses through residency program, Mark Crucero and Megan Loufek (Poster)
It's cold in here: Evaluating pre-warming strategies in the operating room, Mark Crucero, Maryann Dayon, Pio Reggie Frigillano, et al. (Poster)
Streamlining silos across state lines, Kimberly Mitchell, Kristen Roohr, Lee Bauer, et al. (Poster)
The use of simulation for team training in a pediatric malignant hyperthermia crisis, Mark Crucero, Bonnie Satinover, and Pio Reggie Frigillano (Poster)
Improving post-transplant vaccination compliance via implementation of a clinical pharmacist-managed service, Christopher Clayton, Sol Atienza, Justin Graff, et al. (Abstract)
QOPI highlights: Utilizing a multi engaging education approach to align workflows around QOPI standards for front line nurses, Abigail Dillon and Sharon Kilbride (Abstract)
Quality improvement project to standardize a nurse extern program across a multistate health system, Mandy Walter (Article)
Impact of Alzheimer's disease/dementia on reported social isolation in the medicare population, Laurel Marek and Lisa Grabert (Poster)
Operation Nightingale recovery: Can nursing repair the breach?, LaTivia Carr (Article)
Oncology nurse navigation in the care of breast cancer, Kendra Campbell and Jamie Cairo (Book Chapter)
Ambulatory care coordination data gathering and use, Carol Reynolds Geary, Mary Hook, Lori Popejoy, et al. (Article)
Appearances can be deceiving- A challenging case of pulmonary hypertension, Faizan Rahim, Sheraz Hussain, Christopher Sciamanna, et al. (Abstract)
Applying safety science to sepsis case review, Kate Lucey; Kim Maciorowski; and Megan MSN, RN, CNML, CPN¶; Kass, Carolyn BSN, RN, CPN, CPHON¶; DeNicolo, Kimberly MSN, RN¶; Stephen, Rebecca J O’Connell (Abstract)
Assessing accuracy of blood loss measurements during cesarean birth in a diverse patient population: A quality improvement study, Jessica Jf Kram, Yuri Zermeno, James O. Adefisoye, et al. (Article)
Building a business technology foundation to elevate the future of a system nursing education and professional development department, Lillian M. Jensen, Amy J. Bickett, and Stephanie Zidek (Article)
Comparison of two methods for transradial hemostasis after cardiac catheterization and impact on post-procedure efficiency, Jane Meitler, Theresa Briggs, Amanda Sedacki, et al. (Article)
Improved outcomes with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitorsIn pulmonary arterial hypertension, Nicole Hristakos, Anthony Guglielmi, Spencer Delevaux, et al. (Abstract)
Making the case for criticality: A novel approach to nursing product education, Lillian Jensen, Julie Dobbs, and Alisha Updike (Article)
Permanent contraception and the Federal consent process: Barriers to access, Callie M. Cox Bauer, Paige Anschutz, Layan Safi, et al. (Editorial)
Reduced length of stay after implementation of a clinical pathway following repair of ventricular septal defect, Tracey L. Ogdon, Rohit S. Loomba, and Jamie S. Penk (Article)
Risk stratification of acute kidney injury (AKI) following ureteral stent insertion for colorectal surgery, Thomas G. Matkov, Laurel S. Curry, and Alma L. Ochoa (Article)
Vaginal and rectal microbiome changes following administration of a multi-species antenatal probiotic: A randomized control trial, Emily Malloy, Ashley E. Kates, Jonah Dixon, et al. (Article)
Works from 2023
Education, digital tools, and diagnostic support to increase PCP-based cognitive testing in patients 65 years and older, Darren R. Gitelman, Jennifer Mishos, Cristybelle-Marie Canda, et al. (Abstract)
Rise of the virtual nurse, Mary Tibbe, Sandy Arneson, and Cindy Welsh (Article)
Case commentary: Another prong of attack? Topical antibiotic instillation with negative pressure wound therapy for nontuberculous mycobacterial skin and soft tissue infections, David C. Nguyen, Angel M. Buettner, and Khalid M. Dousa (Article)
Positive nurse mentoring: A call to action, Jeanne Hlebichuk and Margaret Salinas (Article)
Inequitable Impacts of Climate Change on Our Patients: Getting Climate Smart, Anne Getzin, Deborah Simpson, Kristin Ouweneel, Brenda Fay, Carissa Blumenshine, Anita Peña, Victoria Gillet, Lillian Jensen, Nicole Heilman, Dawn Shelton-Williams, and Monica L. Nakielski (Abstract)
MEDSTOPPER: An Online Tool to Assist With Deprescribing Medications in Patients Enrolled in Home Hospice, Paige E. Scholer, Kavita Sharma, Kanwardeep Singh, Lori Cook, Jenny Kaldor, Tamara Schulz, Sarah J. Riutta, and James Adefisoye (Abstract)
Psychological Impact of Type II Violence Against Nurses, Deborah Gentile and Heather Ludy (Abstract)
The Use of Topically Applied Sweet Marjoram Essential Oil for Pain Reduction Following Intrauterine Device Placement, Vicki F. Fresen, Jennifer K. Homa-Bonell, and Taylor A. Romdenne (Abstract)
Adding an admission nurse to help alleviate staff's workload stress, Zharmaine Zafra (Poster)
A nursing led initiative in collaboration with the Performance of Excellence Center to change psychiatric emergency department triage procedures to improve patient care, Kristen Edmunds, Nicholas Archer, Michell Olshan-Perlmutter, and Marquita Boggess (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Assessing internal travel nurses clinical knowledge: A modern, electronic approach to staffing readiness, Nicole Hartmann (Poster)
Best fit for nurse advancement: Program development & evaluation, Dulce Torres, Sara Marzinski, and Jeannie Hlebichuk (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Bonus time! Using a rewards program to encourage engagement in a nurse residency program, Michelle Grube, Melissa Oberle, and Veronica Bigott (Poster)
Bridge to practice: Program initiation and evaluation, Seung Kapusta, Dulce Torres, Sara Marzinski, Jeanne Hlebichuk, and Jami Tutino (Poster)
Can preventative dressings be as effective as specialty beds for HAPI prevention on your unit?, Katie Sparks, Mary Pilon, Amber Wylie, and Chrystal Clark (Poster)
Can you escape an infection?, Teresa Flowers and Jennifer McConnell (Poster)
"COAST"ing through bedside shift report, Kristi Webster (Poster)
Code for success: Learn to impress, Carol Holzer, Martha Summins, Bernenice Arellano, and Jexenia Gonzalez (Poster)
Cohorting of heart failure patients with targeted nursing staff education to improve patient outcomes, Ann Erb (Poster)
Come on down! Utilizing gamification learning techniques to improve knowledge of nurse sensitive indicators, Jamie Gordon and Kari Remer (Poster)
Coming out of COVID: Resuscitating live onboarding, Patricia Shafer and Claire Hackelberg (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Decreasing ventilator days in medical intensive care unit by implementing ABCDEF bundle, Audrone De La Vega (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Development and implementation of a nursing shared governance toolkit, Heather Wagner (Poster)
Do ask do tell: Improving sexual orientation and gender identity documentation completion within electronic medical records, Patrick Griggs (Poster)
Do your new nurses have what it takes to “escape”?, Kathleen Kingman, Megan Kirchen, and Mary McManus (Poster)
Electronic orientation checklist: Click it to check it!, Rubie Rose Costales, Tonya Pagor, Fran Majca, and Candice Spak (Poster)
Engaging nurses and patients in research to validate a mobility evaluation tool, Kerri Milligan and Demi Dranseikaite (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Float standardization: Creating a welcoming environment & safe float experience, Kelsey Tavs (Poster)
Health & wellbeing of the nurse, Erin E. Bichler and Regina Michler (Oral/Podium Presentation)
High risk for readmission criteria for wound care patients, Carolyn Jacobson (Oral/Podium Presentation)
How do clinical nurses implement ‘What Matters to You’ for hospitalized older adults?, Bryn Adams, Katherine Davey, Jennifer Giron, Anna Laurae Kruse, Jennifer Sanders, Jeri Smith, Linda Smith, Murad Taani, Bayan Alqam, Mary Hook, and Vida Vizgirda (Poster)
Implementation of an emergency department communication tool to assist in the prevention of acute care readmissions, Matthew Shall, Christopher Griggs, Ronella Eaddy, Denise Comeaux, Wes Hofferbert, Sushma Racharla, George Ross, Zachary Lutwick, and Kimberly Price (Poster)
Implementation of a pediatric intensive care unit diary, Linda Esposito (Poster)
Implementing clinical event debriefing to improve patient care, Colleen Butler (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Improving the management of obstetric hemorrhage with the use of quantified blood loss, Anniece Fisher, Adrienne Arnold, Nikiyia Lozada, Jasmine Carter, Barbara West, Karen Beagles, and Mary Ann Neumann (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Improving the patient experience through bedside shift report - A quality improvement project, Jocelyn Azanon and Carolyn Brumm (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Increasing mobility to increase discharges, Karen Uribe, Gina Castillo, and Vanessa Narag Lichner (Poster)
Keep calm and labor on! Use of aromatherapy in labor and delivery, Erica Biancalana and Tricia Green (Poster)
Keep calm and screen for sepsis, Nicole Hamilton (Poster)
Living up to the challenge: Preventing unplanned extubations in the NICU, Yorleni Ambrosio, Julie Lombardo, and Christina Bourque (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Malignant hyperthermia simulation and competency, Nicholas Nowak and Anna Auger (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Modification of a Children’s Hospital Early Warning Score (CHEWS) algorithm, Kelly Perez, Jessica Panice, Kelly Pujo, and Emily Dawson (Poster)
More than numbers – Let’s talk about mixed methods research, Deborah Gentile (Poster)
MOVE IT or lose it: Competing to improve hospitalized patient mobility, Julie Bialas and Mary McManus (Poster)
“Music is considered my skin-to-skin with her”: Music therapy with parents and their extremely preterm infants in the NICU, Elisabeth Bombell (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Nurse driven intervention to improve acute kidney injury (AKI), Theresa Briggs (Poster)
One and done - A process for improving CHG bathing compliance, Michelle R. Johnson (Poster)
Optimizing sitter use: Enhancing safety and cutting costs, Lauren Gentry, Susan Perusich, Kristie Geil, and Rachelle Lancaster (Poster)
Patient experience best practices: An exemplar of advanced practice registered nurse EBP mentor team led inquiry, Jodie Pufundt, Kelly Perez, and Megan Morgan (Poster)
Perfecting the poke, Alyssa Krueger and Morgan Brill (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Promoting vaginal birth - A collaborative approach, Olga Lazala and Paulina Ibarra (Poster)
Promoting vaginal birth in the nulliparous term singleton vertex (NTSV) patient, Tina Davis-Larkin, Kim Kocur, Valerie Swiatkowski, Ellen McNicholas, Emily Welps, Laura Sylvester, Lindsay Brauneis, Maria Cava, and Emily Wetherell (Poster)
Putting the kibosh on bugs: Nurses lead reduction in blood culture contamination rates, Echo Ashley (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Ready, set, go! Implementing an electronic handoff tool to decrease emergency department length of stay, Jennifer Peterburs (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Reducing team member injuries through culture change, Monika Bogun-Dzioban (Poster)
Reduction of hospital-acquired pressure injuries on a progressive care unit, Kathryn Beres (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Safe patient handling: The key to teammate safety, Sue Harvey and Sherise Lopez (Poster)
Screening colonoscopy: Your gut will thank you for it, Ashley Lemmon, Tanisha Davis, and Maria Patricia Morales (Poster)
Shared governance 101: What you need to succeed!, Deanna Shaver and Olivia Due (Poster)
Shared governance led pilot to implement a multidisciplinary case review process, Amanda Smith, Katalin Stanaszak, and Venus Grice (Poster)
Simulation increases team members' skills in a new healthcare environment from a nursing educator viewpoint, Rosie Bernard, Grace Walls, Cynthia Malone, Kimberly Galera, Karen Beagles, Linda Ameyaw, Gwenn Cockle, and Vada Wiley (Poster)
Site-wide HAPI reduction strategies, Stephannie Oppermann and Jessica Yates (Poster)
Stay home: Nurses spur decline in emergency visit returns, Deanna Strebig, Amber Koplitz, and Heather Ludy (Poster)
Strength in numbers: Achieving nurse certifications for large groups using a three-pronged approach, Kristen Livermore (Poster)
Take the lead or fall: Nurse-led fall prevention improves patient outcomes, Stephanie Marx and Heather Ludy (Oral/Podium Presentation)
Tele-critical care nurse initiative drives central line stewardship to improve quality of care, Noelle M. Hartley and Lynn Thompson (Oral/Podium Presentation)
The beat goes on: Resuscitate your ECG program, Tammy Lis, Frances Majca, and Patti Stockhausen (Poster)
The evolution and sustainment of an internal agency to further reduce costs, Desiree Bellon and Kari Mleziva (Poster)
The family support person role during resuscitation: A qualitative exploration, Kelly Powers, Jaclyn Duncan, and K Renee Twibell (Poster)
Think stroke before you choke: Increasing dysphagia screening compliance in the emergency department, Katie Cruz, Bryna Shefferly, Amy L. Kuehni, Ryan Vander Schaaf, Danielle Manske, Lea Jopke, Holly Burkette, Tanya Erke, and Stephanie Petrucci (Poster)
Type II violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Nurses' experiences and implications for practice, Cindy Andersen (Poster)
Use of rapid medical evaluation in the emergency department setting, Cassie Kohl, Meaghan Gallagher, Tricia Urbanik, and Ashley Vilona (Poster)
Using nursing judgement to reduce postpartum fall rates in patients recovering from epidural analgesia, Bryn Adams, Katherine Martinez, Elise Poelking, and Yvonne Renick (Poster)
Using simulation to enhance staff skills in massive transfusion, Jennifer Peterburs and Tara Anderson (Poster)