Quality Improvement Podiums and Posters

Adding an admission nurse to help alleviate staff's workload stress

Zharmaine Zafra, Advocate Aurora Health

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Can preventative dressings be as effective as specialty beds for HAPI prevention on your unit?

Katie Sparks
Mary Pilon
Amber Wylie
Chrystal Clark

12:00 AM

Can you escape an infection?

Teresa Flowers
Jennifer McConnell

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Code for success: Learn to impress

Carol Holzer, Advocate Aurora Health
Martha Summins, Advocate Aurora Health
Bernenice Arellano, Advocate Aurora Health
Jexenia Gonzalez

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Cohorting of heart failure patients with targeted nursing staff education to improve patient outcomes

Ann Erb, Advocate Aurora Health

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Come on down! Utilizing gamification learning techniques to improve knowledge of nurse sensitive indicators

Jamie Gordon, Advocate Aurora Health
Kari Remer, Advocate Aurora Health

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Decreasing ventilator days in medical intensive care unit by implementing ABCDEF bundle

Audrone De La Vega, Advocate Aurora Health

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Development and implementation of a nursing shared governance toolkit

Heather Wagner, Advocate Aurora Health

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Float standardization: Creating a welcoming environment & safe float experience

Kelsey Tavs, Advocate Aurora Health

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High risk for readmission criteria for wound care patients

Carolyn Jacobson, Advocate Aurora Health

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Implementing clinical event debriefing to improve patient care

Colleen Butler, Advocate Aurora Health

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Improving the management of obstetric hemorrhage with the use of quantified blood loss

Anniece Fisher, Advocate Aurora Health
Adrienne Arnold, Advocate Aurora Health
Nikiyia Lozada, Advocate Aurora Health
Jasmine Carter, Advocate Aurora Health
Barbara West, Advocate Aurora Health
Karen Beagles, Advocate Aurora Health
Mary Ann Neumann, Advocate Aurora Health

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Improving the patient experience through bedside shift report - A quality improvement project

Jocelyn Azanon, Advocate Aurora Health
Carolyn Brumm, Advocate Aurora Health

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Increasing mobility to increase discharges

Karen Uribe, Advocate Aurora Health
Gina Castillo, Advocate Aurora Health
Vanessa Narag Lichner, Advocate Aurora Health

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Living up to the challenge: Preventing unplanned extubations in the NICU

Yorleni Ambrosio, Advocate Aurora Health
Julie Lombardo, Advocate Aurora Health
Christina Bourque, Advocate Aurora Health

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Malignant hyperthermia simulation and competency

Nicholas Nowak, Advocate Aurora Health
Anna Auger, Advocate Aurora Health

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Modification of a Children’s Hospital Early Warning Score (CHEWS) algorithm

Kelly Perez, Advocate Aurora Health
Jessica Panice, Advocate Aurora Health
Kelly Pujo, Advocate Aurora Health
Emily Dawson, Advocate Aurora Health

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MOVE IT or lose it: Competing to improve hospitalized patient mobility

Julie Bialas, Advocate Aurora Health
Mary McManus, Advocate Aurora Health

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One and done - A process for improving CHG bathing compliance

Michelle R. Johnson

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Promoting vaginal birth - A collaborative approach

Olga Lazala, Advocate Aurora Health
Paulina Ibarra, Advocate Aurora Health

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Promoting vaginal birth in the nulliparous term singleton vertex (NTSV) patient

Tina Davis-Larkin, Advocate Aurora Health
Kim Kocur, Advocate Aurora Health
Valerie Swiatkowski, Advocate Aurora Health
Ellen McNicholas, Advocate Aurora Health
Emily Welps, Advocate Aurora Health
Laura Sylvester, Advocate Aurora Health
Lindsay Brauneis, Advocate Aurora Health
Maria Cava, Advocate Aurora Health
Emily Wetherell, Advocate Aurora Health

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Reducing team member injuries through culture change

Monika Bogun-Dzioban, Advocate Aurora Health

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Reduction of hospital-acquired pressure injuries on a progressive care unit

Kathryn Beres, Advocate Aurora Health

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Screening colonoscopy: Your gut will thank you for it

Ashley Lemmon, Advocate Aurora Health
Tanisha Davis
Maria Patricia Morales, Advocate Aurora Health

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Shared governance 101: What you need to succeed!

Deanna Shaver, Advocate Aurora Health
Olivia Due, Advocate Aurora Health

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Simulation increases team members' skills in a new healthcare environment from a nursing educator viewpoint

Rosie Bernard, Advocate Aurora Health
Grace Walls, Advocate Aurora Health
Cynthia Malone, Advocate Aurora Health
Kimberly Galera, Advocate Aurora Health
Karen Beagles, Advocate Aurora Health
Linda Ameyaw, Advocate Aurora Health
Gwenn Cockle, Advocate Aurora Health
Vada Wiley, Advocate Aurora Health

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Site-wide HAPI reduction strategies

Stephannie Oppermann, Advocate Aurora Health
Jessica Yates, Advocate Aurora Health

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Tele-critical care nurse initiative drives central line stewardship to improve quality of care

Noelle M. Hartley
Lynn Thompson

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Think stroke before you choke: Increasing dysphagia screening compliance in the emergency department

Katie Cruz, Advocate Aurora Health
Bryna Shefferly, Advocate Aurora Health
Amy L. Kuehni, Advocate Aurora Health
Ryan Vander Schaaf, Advocate Aurora Health
Danielle Manske, Advocate Aurora Health
Lea Jopke, Advocate Aurora Health
Holly Burkette, Advocate Aurora Health
Tanya Erke, Advocate Aurora Health
Stephanie Petrucci, Advocate Aurora Health

12:00 AM

Use of rapid medical evaluation in the emergency department setting

Cassie Kohl, Advocate Aurora Health
Meaghan Gallagher, Advocate Aurora Health
Tricia Urbanik, Advocate Aurora Health
Ashley Vilona, Advocate Aurora Health

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Using nursing judgement to reduce postpartum fall rates in patients recovering from epidural analgesia

Bryn Adams, Advocate Aurora Health
Katherine Martinez, Advocate Aurora Health
Elise Poelking, Advocate Aurora Health
Yvonne Renick, Advocate Aurora Health

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Waking up to safety: Napping as a fatigue countermeasure

Anndria Cluster, Advocate Aurora Health
Kathryn Matthies, Advocate Aurora Health
Bonnie Schleder, Advocate Aurora Health

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What the butt? Pressure injury reduction in intensive care

Noor Bontz, Advocate Aurora Health
Michelle Emick, Advocate Aurora Health
Matthew Lemke, Advocate Aurora Health
Laura Reindl, Advocate Aurora Health
Kristan Jesel, Advocate Aurora Health

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