Browsing General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster) by Title
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Don't be average: Outliers Matter!
Poster presentationSession F presented Tuesday, October 1, 11:30 am-12:30 pmPurpose: Emergency Department metrics are reported for a specific window of time, whether daily, weekly, or monthly as a mean or average. This can ... -
Don't be scared, be prepared!
Poster presentationSession H presented Tuesday, October 1, 2:30-3:30 pmPurpose: This project was completed to demonstrate that mock code blues and rapid responses improve nurse’s confidence and competence in actual emergent ... -
Don't stick me again! Reducing blood culture contaminations
Poster presentationSession B presented Monday, September 30, 11:30 am-12:30 pmPurpose: Blood culture contamination (BCC) is a significant problem in the emergency department (ED) setting. False positive blood culture results ... -
Door to electrocardiogram (ECG) time improvement utilizing the first nurse role
Purpose: Meeting the national standard for door-to-ECG acquisition within 10 minutes of arrival to an emergency department is crucial to ensure prompt treatment for patients suffering from a heart attack. The purpose of ... -
Door-to-needle magic
Purpose: Research shows that infusion of TPA within 60 minutes of arrival during a stroke in evolution remarkably improves the patient's ability to regain motor/sensory functions to that prior to having the occlusive stroke. ... -
Dosage miscalculations at the point of care: An innovative look at why
(2016-08-11)Incorrect medication administration, a well-documented problem in the United States, can be linked to bedside nursing issues such as forgetting doses, giving additional doses, or giving incorrect doses. Nurse educators are ... -
Early detection and nursing intervention in the care of patients with delirium
Quality improvement/evidence-based practice (EBP) project to increase compliance and accuracy of using the confusion assessment method (CAM) tool used to detect delirium as well as implement evidenced based nursing ... -
ED use of vapocoolant spray prior to IV insertion
Session H presented Friday, September 28, 2:30-3:30 pm Purpose: The pain associated with IV insertion can create a stressful experience for ED patients. The objective of this study is to determine whether the use of a ... -
ED volunteer safety patrol: A falls reduction strategy
Patient falls with injuries (FWIs) in the hospital are a serious risk. The Joint Commission reports that 63% of the 465 FWIs reported since 2009 led to death. In our emergency department (ED), we aimed to reduce falls with ... -
“EDRN school” – An interactive approach to validate competence and performance
Session E presented Friday, September 28, 10:00-11:00 am Purpose: Registered Nurse (RN) competency programs within hospitals have become a yearly standard. However, specialty areas such as Critical Care and Emergency ... -
Educating emergency department staff on human trafficking
Session H presented Friday, September 28, 2:30-3:30 pm Purpose: Provide education to emergency department staff to increase awareness in identifying and treating human trafficking victims. Design: This study was completed ... -
Education and reminders to increase cervical cancer screening: An evidence-based report
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Regular screening can find abnormalities early and prevent morbidity and mortality. But CCS rates are low in the U.S. and at the project site. A comprehensive ... -
An education program to reduce violence against emergency department nurses
(2017-12-05)Session A presented Thursday, September 14, 2017 Purpose: An Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) change project was designed to educate nurses in the ED on how to recognize, de-escalate, and mitigate violence encountered while ... -
Effect of a high-fidelity end-of-life simulation on nursing students’ death anxiety
(2016-08-11)Background: Many nursing students report feeling high anxiety about providing End-of-Life (EOL) nursing care (Hamilton, 2010). Traditional teaching formats are not best suited to provide students opportunities to reflect ... -
The effect of critical incident debriefing in the emergency department
Session E presented Friday, September 28, 10:00-11:00 am Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) nurses and other staff can feel stressed after critical incidents such as the death of a patient, a violent event, or a medical ... -
Effect of interdisciplinary rounding with psychiatry on three quality metrics
Poster presentationSession A presented Monday, September 30, 10:00-11:00 amPurpose: Inadequate understanding of the processes and plan of care for psychiatric patients by ED nurses was suspected to be related to prolonged ... -
Effect of the H-HANDS intervention on the adaptation to neurodevelopment of the premature child after hospital discharge
Objective: Determine the effect of H-HANDS* intervention, compared to conventional care, on the adaptation to neurodevelopment of premature infants during 4 weeks after hospital discharge. Instruments and Methods: ... -
Effective onboarding of new graduate nurses using a preceptor/orientation nurse model
Purpose: Onboarding of new graduate nurses in a fast paced emergency department environment can be stressful in the critical thinking skills and knowledge they must possess. Although a six month orientation was provided, ... -
Effectiveness of high fidelity simulation to bleeding control course with proper tourniquet placement amongst school personnel
50 mass shooting incidents occurred in 2016-2017 in 21 states resulting in 221 casualties and 743 injuries (FBI 2018). Bystanders are first on the scene of incidents, making training civilians necessary to decrease morbidity ... -
Effectiveness of standardized patient simulation scenarios & electronic health record documentation to improve the clinical competence of graduate nurses
(2016-08-11)Increased acuity of hospitalized patients, technology, and complexity of healthcare systems pose a unique challenge in the orientation of graduate nurses (GNs) to their role1. By themselves, traditional graduate nurse ...