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Welcome to the NTI 2008 Poster Presentation Page. Below is a list of selected posters and presenters for the NTI 2008 in Chicago IL. Posters are classified by either their Research or Creative Solutions category and by topic as well. Please select the poster category that you wish to view.



Research Creative Solutions
Bedside Clinical Practice

Education Competencies

Ethics/End-of-Life

Guidelines/Protocol Development

Performance/Quality Improvement

Administration/Management

Advanced Practice

Bedside Clinical Practice

Education Competencies

Ethics/End-of-Life

Guidelines/Protocol Development

Healthy Work Environment

Orientation/Precepting/Mentoring

Performance/Quality Improvement

Recruitment/Retention



Research

Bedside Clinical Practice










Education Competencies


Ethics/End-of-Life
  • RES202: Evaluation Of A Structured Program For End-Of-Life Care In A Neurologic Critical Care Unit: Surrogate Perspective, Susan Yeager

  • RES227: Correlation of Spirituality with Depression and Quality of Life in the Chronic Heart Failure Patient, Catherine Draus

  • RES238: End-of-Life Transition Experiences of ICU Nurses: Mindful Realization, Sarah Moscatel

  • RES242 Health Care Personnel Attitudes, Concerns, and Beliefs toward Family Presence during CPR and Bedside Invasive Procedures, Roberta Basol

    • Guidelines/Protocol Development

    Performance/Quality Improvement
  • RES221: Bundling of Nursing Interventions - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia, Linda Curtin

  • RES224: Clinical Outcomes and Satisfaction with Continuous Lateral Rotation Therapy (CLRT) in a Medical Intensive Care Unit, Nina Fielden

  • RES235: Efficacy of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in Obese and Diabetic Patients after Open Heart Surgery, Jesse Stephen Pasion

  • RES244: Improving Organ Donation Consent Rates through the Utilization of Effective Requestors, Cherie Bagwell

  • RES245: Improving Outcomes for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients, Katherine Johnson



    • Creative Solutions
    Administration/Management
  • CS302: Interactive Meeting Notices with Pizzazz!, Marilyn Jay

  • CS346: Evolution Of The Discharge Coordinator Role In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ruth Hynes

  • CS366: Implementation of a Carotid Stent Program with a Progressive Care Unit as Primary Recovery Site, Mary Anne Smith

  • CS429: Take Apart and Make New So as to Help Others: Improving Patient flow from the ED to the MICU using a Kaizen model, Mary Lu Daly

  • CS419: Shared Governance as a Catalyst for Success in a Small Community Hospital ICU, Martha Gooding

  • CS438: Use of eICU for Compliance with Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Compliance Items, Margaret Mullen-Fortino

    • Advanced Practice
  • CS415: The Role of the Cardiology NP Managing Patients Needing Percutaneous Coronary and Electrophysiology Procedures, Amy Schueler

    • Bedside Clinical Practice
  • CS106: One Chapter's Quest to Bridge the Gap Between Practice and Research: Addressing the Barriers, Rosemarie Hirsch

  • CS114: Challenges in Complex care: Managing pulmonary hypertension in progressive care, Laura Savage

  • CS119: Continuous TEN and Aspiration Risk Monitoring in the Neurointensive Care Unit, Danielle Mouradijian

  • CS125: Development of an ICU Preceptor Program based on the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care, Shelley Welch

  • CS127: ED/ICU Rotation: A Strategy for Staff Retention and Improvement of Patient Care in the Critically Ill, Jennifer Beckman

  • CS165: NPO at Midnight: A Practice Based on Tradition or Science, A. Renee Leasure

  • CS176: Reclaiming Our Priorities: Using Innovation And Creative Solutions On A Progressive Care Unit, Kathleen Dalesandro

  • CS178: RESQ Me! Your time is My Brain: Using a Rapid Response Team for Inpatient Stroke Alerts, Sandra Broughton

  • CS187: Using Citrate as an Anticoagulant during Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), Carol Boswell

  • CS193: Virtual CCU in the Emergency Department for STEMI Patient Care, Julie Benz

  • CS310: At Arm’s Length: ICU Quick Reference Cards, Gene Corliss

  • CS327: CVP to go! Facilitating early goal directed therapy in severe sepsis, Cathy Lucafo

  • CS351: The GOOD Oxygen, the BAD Brain and the UGLY Hypoxia, Simone Reize

  • CS360: Hot Brain? Cool Treatment! Guidelines for Fever Management of Stroke Patients, Susan Styron

  • CS369: An Initiative To Diminish The Occurrence Of Pressure Ulcer Development In The Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patient, Patricia Lincoln

  • CS401: Protocol Implementation of Family Presence during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Procedures in an Adult ICU, Amy Carter

  • CS418: Severe Sepsis Screening in the ICU, Dorothy Bybee

  • CS428: The Suite Life of Family Centered Care, Julie Schneider

  • CS433: Totally unrestrictive: Opening the Doors to Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Ten ICUs Across one Institution, Jacqueline Puppe

  • CS436: Turn on the Heat: Surviving the Trauma Hypothermia Ice Age with Intravascular Core Rewarming, Cynthia Mastropieri

  • CS445: Venous Thromboembolism (VTE): A new look at an old problem, Dorothy Bybee

  • CS447: Ventilator Liberation Unit, Donna Bond

  • CS451: When time is of the essence: An Early Nursing Intervention Team -poised to respond to the in-house stroke patient, Mary Lu Daly

    • Education Competencies
  • CS180: Spring Training in the Big Leagues: Making the Most of Your Team, Cynthia Bryan

  • CS188: Using Human Patient Simulators (HPS) to increase knowledge and confidence in recognition of and response to ECG rhythms, Diane Brown

  • CS341: The Emergency Nursing Internship: An interactive and innovative model, Colleen Claffey

  • CS382 Maintaining Competency in Cardiovascular Surgery Using High-Fidelity Simulation, Marcia Maxwell

  • CS385: MET to the Rescue!! Overcoming Stagnant Outcomes through Expansion and Education, Soudi Bogert

  • CS402: Qualitative Findings Related to Perceptions and Confidence from Videotaping & Debriefing Teaching Techniques, Connie Chronister

  • CS407: Reclaiming Our Time And Revitalizing Annual Competency Evaluation In The Intensive Care Unit, Leah Brown

    • Ethics/End-of-Life
  • CS313: Caring Practices: Family Presence during Resuscitation in the PICU, Laura Hagan

  • CS359: Honoring Those Who Gave the Gift of Life, Charles Reed

  • CS384: Memorial Service in the Adult Critical Care Setting, Diana Cuypers


    • Guidelines/Protocol Development
  • CS135: Family Centered Care in the PICU: Implementing the American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines, Laura Hagan

  • CS164: The Nose Knows-Measuring NG Tubes in Critical Care, Wendy Worden

  • CS173: PUPPIs (Pressure Ulcer Protocol Prevention Interventions): Decreasing prevalence rates in a Medical Step Down Unit, Janice Zagari

  • CS174: The Rapid Response Team and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign: A Synergistic Approach to Mortality Reduction, Teresa Lienhop

  • CS325: Professional Practice Council's Implementation of Practice Excellence for the Elimination of CLABSI, Debra Furtado

  • CS332: Developing an RN dysphagia screening program for Stroke Patients, Katherine Johnson

  • CS340: Effect of an Evidence-Based Guideline for Central Venous Catheter Care on Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections, Ofelia Biagan

  • CS345: An Evidence-Based Project to Improve Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation, Pamela Shumate

  • CS386: Moving Day: Creating A Guide To Smooth The Ride, Laura Nugteren

  • CS392: Nurse Practitioners (NPs) Implement a Staff Nurse Driven Protocol for Chest Tube and Pacing Wire Removal, Tammi Backer

  • CS396: PCU with PT Makes This a Safer Place for You and Me in the Progressive Care Unit (PCU), Margaret McAtee

  • CS409: Refining Intensive Care Enteral Feeding Protocols To Reduce Patient Complications, Cynthia Heise

  • CS449: VTE Prophylaxis – A Nurse - Driven Protocol, Troy Shimet

    • Healthy Work Environment
  • CS459: Unit Based Shared Governance Leads The Journey of Creating a Healthy Work Environment, Laura Lewis

    • Orientation/Precepting/Mentoring
  • CS110: Bringing Staff Education into the World of the Web: On-line Journal Club, Janie Ginsburg

  • CS117: Clinical Resource Nurse to the Bedside: Helping Nurses Grow Clinically and Confidently, Lori Boyle

  • CS138: From Graduate Nurse to Critical Care Nurse: Getting There Safely and Staying There, Rochelle Armola
  • CS139: Growing Our Graduates, Chanda Ronk

  • CS324: Critical Care Internships and Fellowships: Customizing the Approach to Specialized Orientation, Kathy Ramson
  • CS391: Nurse Orientation: The Road to Competence, Rhonda Fleischman

    • Performance/Quality Improvement
  • CS105: Impacting Specialty Certification Through Collaboration, Christie Artuso

  • CS112: A Cardiac Services Discharge Lounge: Setting Priorities In Patient Discharge Teaching And Achieving Outcomes, Tonya Washington

  • CS118: Contain It ! A Simple Solution to Decrease Nosocomial Infections, Maria Castillo

  • CS131: Ensuring Airway Safety In High Risk Patients: Getting The Word Out!, Vibien Myles

  • CS134: Family Activation of the Rapid Response Team, Dorothy Bybee

  • CS145: The Impact Of A Nursing Peer Review Model On Nurse’s Perception Of Autonomy, Decision-Making, And Professional Status, Liane Fujita

  • CS148: Implementing The Brain Attack Coalition Guidelines Across A Service Lines, Karen Ellmers


  • CS149: Improving Goal-Directed Sedation Practices and Recognition of Delirium in the Medical ICU, Sherry Nelles

  • CS150: Improving Nutrition Practices in the ICU Using an International Quality Improvement Project, Jeannette Richardson

  • CS154: International Study Buddies: Partners in Research Across the Continents, Myra Ellis

  • CS155: Keeping Up with Ventricular Assist Devices, Ann Petlin

  • CS156: Leading Change: An Externship Program in the Perioperative Setting, Audrey Roberson

  • CS161: Medication Reconciliation: Nurses Make it Happen!, Rosario Macapagal

  • CS171: Patient Screening in the ICU for MRSA, Jocelyn Noel
  • CS182: Strategic Therapeutic Outcomes in the Management and Prevention of Sepsis (STOMP Sepsis), Cynthia Schmidt

  • CS190: Utilization of a Pathway-Based Reporting Tool for Efficient Handoff Communication in a Telemetry Unit, Carrie Hayes

  • CS194: When Do I Take the Pink One? Clarifying Discharge Instructions, Cynthia Bryan

  • CS354: Grass Roots Initiation of a National Certification Program Initiative: Peer to Peer Motivation, Carie Linder

  • CS378: Level I Cardiac Care Program: Save That Heart Muscle, Kimberly Kuphal

  • CS395: Organizational Commitment to Heart Failure Yields Specialty Certification, Ann Peterson

  • CS399: Promoting Family Rapport and Safety in a Busy Vascular/ Thoracic Surgical Unit, Marie Desir

  • CS430: Taking Advantage of Technology: Creation Of An ICU Website As A Resource For Education And Communication, Gene Corliss

  • CS442: Utilizing Concepts of Lean Engineering to Improve the Resuscitation Process, Nelda Martin

  • CS460: Implementation of Standardized Orders for Patients With Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock, Patricia Juarez

    • Recruitment/Retention
  • CS301: Creating Chapter Diversity: Recruiting and Engaging New Graduate Nurses, Stephanie Ray-Nichols

  • CS412: Retention Strategies in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Tammy Richardson

  • CS437: Undergraduate Nursing Residency Program as a Tool for Recruitment, Jo Ann Jenkins

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