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A Hapi Reduction Qi Project: Don't Leave Your Patient In S.H.A.M.B.L.E.S, Anissa Guzman, Ashlee Garcia, Valerie Lindsay

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Improving Metabolic Monitoring During Transfers Of Care For Psychiatric Patients Discharged From The Inpatient Psychiatric Residency Service On An Antipsychotic Medication – Part 2, Allison Cohen, Anisha Boetel

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Root Cause Analysis, Victor Warr, Tom Sant, Carly Riehl, Rahib Bashir

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Qi Project: Clopidogrel In Nstemi, Amanda Sams, Erin Kaya, Carsten Kirby, Ester Peters, Michael Stewart (Faculty Advisor)

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Identifying Gaps In Interpretive Services To Improve Patient Care: A Root Cause Analysis, Christiane Phillips, Reed Ritterbusch, Ken Scott, Jenny Wickens

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Preventable Tacrolimus Toxicity, Brooke Parker, Jessica Sterner, John Mele, Laura Dewald, Cassidy Johnston

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A Diagnostic Dilemma: Qips, Ryan Carlisle, Paulina Giacomelli, Kyler Wyer, Julia Nyiro, Nolan Weinstein, Judy Swanson (Faculty Advisor)

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A Quality Improvement Project: An Educational Program For Nurses To Improve The Care For Patients Diagnosed With Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome, Daniel Davidson, Teresa Rangel, Kallie Anderson, Tobi Bryan, Cassie Baune

Providence Nursing Research Conference 2023 – Present

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Podium Presentation: Racial Inequities And Breastfeeding In A Nicu: A Quality Improvement Project, Emilia C. Garcia

2022 Providence Nurse Research Conference

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Optimization Of Transfusion Administration Process: A Quality Improvement Project, Nannette Berg, Jennifer Togioka

2022 Providence Nurse Research Conference

BACKGROUND:

Transfusion of blood products (transfusion) occurs infrequently for most nurses yet is a high-risk procedure for patients. To ensure patient safety, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC) created regulatory standards for transfusion administration and documentation. To meet regulatory standards, transfusion events require documentation of all six critical steps and nurse leaders must monitor compliance with regulatory transfusion documentation, taking action when rates are suboptimal. Yet, transfusion documentation in the electronic health record (EHR) has been described as fragmented, confusing, and devoid of built-in prompts to facilitate completion. Checklists can organize tasks with multiple …

Employing Strategies To Increase Ebp Competency In Frontline Nurses While Aligning Nursing Skills With Current Evidence: A Quality Improvement Project, Stacey Spradling, Jamie Roney

2022 Providence Nurse Research Conference

Background: Clinical nurses are required to demonstrate expertise for diverse patient conditions while balancing efforts to improve both staff satisfaction and clinical outcomes. Nurse leaders must implement and measure the effectiveness of strategies to empower nurses to maintain clinical competence for themselves and their peers to ensure the highest quality of evidence-based care is delivered at the earliest patient touchpoints reliably and consistently.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to engage direct care nurses as skills “champions” to improve the clinical skills of nurses working in a resource pool in a large urban hospital.

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Converting Clinical Orientation Materials From Paper To Electronic: A Quality Improvement Project, Megan Bowles, Abby Lust, Teresa Bigand

2022 Providence Nurse Research Conference

Background:

In one region including 4 hospitals, acute care nurses historically met with professional development practitioners (PDP) and received binders containing printed, specialty-specific policies and a competency checklist (required to be signed and returned to the nurse leader) upon new hire or transfer. Creating physical orientation packets is costly, time-consuming, and restricts the ability to share appropriate orientation materials in the event of a PDP sick call. Real-time communication between the orientee, preceptor, PDP, and nurse leader regarding status of the competency checklist cannot occur with a physical binder. Providing electronic onboarding materials is a potential solution.

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Go Home With Naloxone: A Resident-Led Quality Initiative To Increase Naloxone Prescribing For Hospitalized Patients At Risk For Opioid Overdose, Megan Block, Md, Theresa Morikawa, Md, Benjamin Pedroja, Md

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Medication Usage In Independent Living: A Continuing Care Retirement Community Aging In Place Initiative, Aarti Deshpande, Carrie B Rubenstein, Ruth Benfield, Lee Burnside

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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify medication use concerns in this community.

Background: In this study, Swedish Geriatric Medicine Fellow partnered with this community to identify medication use concerns in this population.

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are intended to support residents as they age in place. These communities tend to be well resourced but less studied. This survey attempts to identify medication use concerns in this population. Mirabella CCRC has 324 Independent living (IL) residents, 82 of which are couples. The average age is 85 years. The current cost of an IL unit is from $4673- …

Implementation Of New Policy Software To Enable Quick Access To Best Practice Resources, Mary Alice Duthie, Debbie Shuster

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Purpose: Transition to a new policy software that would enable staff to quickly as easily locate Swedish policies and provide policy authors with a practical tool to work more efficiently on policy revisions.

Background/Significance: Existing policy software for Swedish had limited search functionality that caused issues with staff not being able to locate policies quickly or easily. This outdated software had been in place from 2007 – 2021 and contained only basic operations that remained unchanged during this time. If staff had difficulty finding policies in the software then there was the potential for either relying on others on the …

Blood Administration Documentation Audit Automation, Tonya Lawson, Harriette Lober, Andrea Nordmark

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Background: Blood administration is a high risk, low volume, complex procedure. It has strict regulatory requirements for documentation of at least 15 elements over the course of the procedure. There are frequently findings for deficient documentation during survey. Manual audits are time consuming and inaccurate. Every facility in the Providence system faces the same challenges to audit for compliance.

Problem: Detecting the rate of compliance for documentation of blood administration manually is difficult. Nursing documentation for blood administration is often incomplete. Manual audits are labor-intensive and have proven to have limited impact to increase documentation compliance.

Methods: We created an …

Implementing Team-Based Nursing To Improve Patient & Staff Satisfaction, Dawn Doud, Kallie Anderson, Lynn Stapleton, Lauren Perteet, Ashley Ferrera, Taryn Rodriguez, Daniel Davidson, Crystal Maxey

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Achieving Quality Care In A Timely Manner: The Utilization Of Observation Unit At Covenant Medical Center, Daisy Bolla, Daisy Dagohoy, Camie Rowland

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Building A Culture Committed To Fall Prevention, Mary Uppinghouse, Queena Kim, Marissa Evans

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Effects Of Sedation Vacations And Sedation Level Quality Improvement Project, Gisele Bazan, Bo Ewing, Cynthia Grissman, April Marpa, August Montgomery, Tana Overman

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Improving The Nicu Experience Through Experience -Based Co-Design, Julie Metcalf, Sarah Pearce

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Process Improvement For Simethicone Use During Endoscopic Procedures, Airene D. Albutra, Mary Estelle De Vera, Sarah J. Wyrick

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Electronic Solution For Low Census Requests, Tina Bardavid, Robert Wong

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Improving Quality Of Patient Care By Reducing The Prevalence Of Surgical Site Infections, Gina Dashiell, Luanna Hansen

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Improving Ed Sepsis Bundle Compliance, Jen Selby

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Development Of A Maternal Child Health Department-Wide Neonatal Resuscitation Cart Educational Project, Anna M. Munoz, Beverly Holland

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The Scat On C. Diff: Reaching Zero Infections, Gianna Peralta

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Fall Prevention Utilizing Remote Safety Monitoring, Gemma Seidl

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Nv-Hap? Not On My Map!, Chet Mccauley, Ahlam Jadalla

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How Much Blood Is That? The Use Of Scorecard Feedback To Improve Measurement Of Blood Loss At Delivery, Marilyn Cejka Steinberg

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