Annual Conference

A Diabetes CNS Utilized a Creative Approach
to Sharing Hypoglycemia Management
Information with Registered Nurses
Margie Hull, MSN, BSN, M.Ed, ACNS-BC, CDE
A Multidisciplinary Approach: Improving
Documentation Key to Serum Drug Level
Interpretation
Myra Woolery, MN, RN, CPON
A three-pronged approach using patient
scenario, hands-on skills, and case presentation
to maintain nursing best practice in
high-acuity, low-volume emergencies in a
Military Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
Allison L. Andersen, MSN, RN, CPAN, CCNS
An evidence based approach to Pain and
Sedation Assessment in the ICU
Lindsey Siewert, MSN, ARNP, CCNS, CCRN
An Innovative Clinical Nurse Specialist
Partnership: Chemotherapy, Biotherapy and
Neurosciences
Kristen Maloney, MSN, RN
Arterial Line Insertion Service from a Nurse
Driven Vascular Access Team
Jennifer McCord, MSN, RN, PCCN, CCRN, CCNS
Client Acuity in Advanced Practice
Community Based Case Management
Mary K. Johnson, MS, BS, RN, PHCNS-BC
CNS as a Facilitator of Learning: Innovative
Safe Sleep Initiative
Michalena Levenduski, MSN, RNC
Connecting on Common Ground:
An Advanced Practice Provider Group
Patrick Schultz, MS, RN, CNS, CCRN
Creating an Optimal Competency Assessment
Experience Through the Use of Innovative
Validation Instruments
Brenda Shelton, MS, RN, CCRN, AOCN
Decreasing the Risk of Postoperative
Pulmonary Complications in the Obese Patient
Jo Podjaski, DNP, APRN, CNS-BC
Designing Skills Day Incorporating Simulation
Sharon Perkins, MS, RN, CRRN
Developing an Easy Continuous Ambulatory
Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) Process
Kathleen L. Wright, RN, MSN, AOCNS
Dyeing to identify IV medication errors: a
Clinical Nurse Specialist Group Identifies
Factors Contributing to IV Push Medication
THE POSTER PRESENTERS
Errors, and the resulting housewide
education initiative.
Anne Carter
Early Recognition And Treatment Of Alcohol
Withdrawal Syndrome In Burn Patients:
Impact Of Nursing Care And Patient
Outcomes Using New Clinical Guideline
Jan Kulisek, MS, BC-RN, APRN-BC
From unit based to disease focused:
Transforming the role of oncology clinical
nurse specialists
Deborah Hanes, MSN, RN, CNS, ARNP
Healing Touch (Ht) as an Innovative Method
of Care for Patients
Christine Valdez, CNS-BC, MN, CNOR
High Fidelity Simulation as a Teaching
Strategy For Oncology Nursing Education:
Implications for Education and Practice
Tanya L. Trotter MSN, RN, CNS
Taletha Askew MS, MBA, RN, CNS
Hyperbilirubinemia in Newborn: A CNS-Led
Evidence-Based Practice Initiative to Reduce
Risks and Hospital Readmissions
Marianne Allen, MN, RNC-OB
Patricia Mauer, MSN, MBA, RNC-MN
Immersive Learning: An Innovative
Certification Review Model
Amelia Ross, MSN, RN
Impact of the CNS role competency of
collaboration, consultation and mentoring
on nurse sensitive quality outcomes.
Jennifer Colwill, MSN, RN, CCNS, PCCN
Implementation of a Suicide Protocol in
Critical Care
Tammy Maclay, RN, MS, CCRN, CEN
Implementation of an Evidence Based
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol
David O’Brien, MSN, RN
Implementation of an Oral Care Program in a
Critical Care Unit to Decrease the Incidence of
Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia
Tammy Maclay, RN, MSN, CCRN, CEN
Improving Patient Safety with Evidence-Based
Fall Protocol: An Implementation Project
Marsha Henn, RN, MSN
Incorporating Emerging Standards for Clinical
Nurse Specialist in a CNS Online Curriculum
Margaret Doheny, PhD, RN
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Innovations in Conflict Management
Sally Cadman, MS, ACNS-BC, CCRN
Innovative Use of Electronic Health Record
Reports by Clinical Nurse Specialists
Suzanne Purvis, MSN, RN, GCNS
Location Variables Affecting Accuracy of
Blood Pressure Monitoring Using A
Non-Invasive Cuff System
Catherine Draus RN, MSN, ACNS-BC, CCRN
Professional Development for Advanced
Practice Nurses: An Innovative Model
Gail Mueller, MSN, RN-BC, ACNS-BC
Molly Hespenheide, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC
Program to Enhance Asthma Management
among Rural Families of School-aged
Children Who Have Asthma
Sharon Horner, PhD, RN, FAAN
Psychiatric/Mental Health Clinical Nurse
Specialists (PMHCNS): Helping to Overcome
Mental Illness Stigma Through Research
Nancy Mann, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC
Reducing 30 Day Heart Failure Readmission
Rates
Jennifer Kitchens, MSN, RN, CVRN
Skin Rounds: The CNS as Interdisciplinary
Skin Team Expert
Kathleen L. Dunn, MS, RN, CRRN, CNS-BC
Staff Nursing Satisfaction With a CNS Facilitated
Journal Club to Enhance Evidence Based
Practice
Jennifer Kitchens, MSN, RN, CVRN
The CNS’s Role in Advancing Practices:
Removal of Chest Tubes & Transthoracic
Pacing Wires in the Stable Post Open Heart
Surgery by ICU Staff Nurses
Alexandra Cox
The Effects of Silver Containing Alginate
Primary Dressings Compared to Alginate
Primary Dressings on the Healing of Chronic
Venous Leg Ulcers
Kimberly Hall, RN, MSN, CWCN
The Role of the CNS in Innovation
Implementation
Catherine S. Brennan, MS, RN, CNS
Using Computer Based Learning as a Method
of Establishing Competency in the Care of
High Risk, Low Volume Nursing Care
Jan Kulisek, MS, BC-RN, APRN-BC