About the Conference: Baptist Health South Florida Nursing & Health Sciences Research hosts the annual BHSF Research Conference. The conference is designed to engage healthcare providers in research and evidence-based practice activities that improve the quality of patient care and enhance organizational efforts to provide clinically excellent, compassionate care. Each year it provides healthcare providers with the opportunity to gain knowledge related to feasible and relevant strategies to integrate research and evidence based practice in a clinical setting.
Intended Audience: This program is designed for nurses and healthcare professionals who work in direct patient care, research, management, education or are interested in research.
Submissions from 2019
Canine-Assisted Therapy (CAT): A nurse-initiated program to reduce patients’ perception of pain and anxiety at a critical access hospital, Victoria McCue, Molly Vlach, Sherry Stathers, Clair Hefner, Theresa Worden, and Julie Erickson
Taking a Bite Out of Malnutrition, Virginia Miyar, Maria Montoya, and Roberto Roman Laporte
Increasing barcode medication administration (BCMA) to improve patient safety, Maria Perez Arias
Breaking Barriers: Cultivating a Collaborative Infrastructure in a Hybrid Academic Community Cancer Center, Zasha Pou, Sophie Rolati, Elysse Castro-Hall, Erin Remmick, Rachel Evers, Steven Simon, Edwin Gould, Gloria Garcia, Zuanel Diaz, and Jeffrey Boyd
Addressing Stroke Patient and Family Reasons for Not Calling 911, Maygret Ramirez, Rodney Bedgio, and Virginia Ramos
Effect of Resiliency Education on Emergency Nurse Burnout and Patient Satisfaction, Regina Russell, Yanet Leal Morales, James Adefisoye, and Victoria McCue
Discharge Task Force: A Nurse Driven Evidence-Based Practice Model, David Schneider and Joey Carralero
Teacher's P.E.T. (Peer Education Team), Meghan Sharkey
A Real World Experience of the FAST-ED Based Pre-Hospital Stroke Triage System to Detect Large Vessel Occlusions, Ned Shashoua, Amy Starosciak, Jayme Strauss, and Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa
Maximum IV-tPA Dose is Associated with Greater Likelihood of Hemorrhagic Conversion, and Worse Functional Outcome at Discharge, Amy Starosciak
Predictors of good functional outcome at discharge in stroke patients with depression in the Florida Puerto Rico Collaboration to Reduce, Amy Starosciak
Implementation of Stroke Pathways to Reduce Length of Stay, Cost, Readmissions, and Mortality, Jayme Strauss, Jenny Ductant, and Daniel Hartnett
Preoperative factors related to delayed discharge after total knee arthroplasty removal from inpatient-only list, Juan Carlos Suarez, William Arguelles, Priscilla Rivera, Yvette Hernandez, Don Parris, and Giovanni Paraliticci
Hemiarthroplasty vs. Total Hip Arthroplasty for Femoral Neck Fractures: 2010-2017 Trends in Complication Rates, Juan Carlos Suarez, William Arguelles, Anshul Saxena, and Priscilla Rivera
Implementation and use of an electronic Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) in the cancer care pathway at Miami Cancer Institute (MCI), Dominique Symonette, Karla Otero, Beatriz Currier, Claudia Ferri, Carla Araya, Maria Townsend, Monica Diaz, Lorrie LeGrand, Lauren Suarez, and Noah Zanville
Mastering Sepsis Care with Outstanding Results: APRN role in the Virtual Sepsis Unit, Lisa-Mae Williams
Mixed Methods Study of Tele-ICU Nursing Interventions to Prevent Failure to Rescue in the Critically Ill, Lisa-Mae Williams
Submissions from 2018
Impact of Education and Growth on an Engaged Workforce and Positive Outcomes, Katia Abaunza, Nathalia De Oro, and Maria Gauthreaux
Let the Patient Discharge Follow-Up Call Data Do the Talking!, Chianta Allen and Giovanna Vanegas
Bedside Dysphagia Screening Project in Acute Stroke Population, Jacqueline Alonso
Improving Nursing Documentation and Decreasing Revenue, Joan Baker
E-Dates: Enhancing Competency of Novice/Advanced Beginner RNs, Sally Bonet, Kelly Delgado, Sandra Bastidas, and Lizette Gonzalez
Clinical Partners’/Emergency Techs’ Work Relationships and Job Satisfaction, Edwina Brathwaite, Victoria McCue, Priscilla Molas, and Diana D'Orazio Garcia
The Circulating Nurse’s Role in Decreasing Fear to Patient and Designated Family Member Prior to a Surgery under Anesthesia, Claudia Chanes and Jimmy Cotton
Relationship of Staff Engagement and Perception of Safety Scores with Patient Outcomes, Simone Cheong and Itzel De Los Santos