The Best Practice Fair was held at Bethesda Hospital on September 3rd and 4th 2025. The winning posters from the event are:
🏆 1st Place: Improving Pressure Injury Prevention Through a Multimodal Approach Courtney Roseberry, Mykerlange Amilcar, Sandria Jamieson, Angela Creary, Kettia Antoine, Tori Hatch
🥈 2nd Place: Improving Length of Stay for Patients on an Observation Unit Through Enhanced Communication Tools Celia Deleo, Karen Yap, Oblee Frankson, Maria Escobar, Olive Gibson, Jessica Ramos, Natalia Flores
🥉 3rd Place: Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury Prevention (HAPI) on Orthopedic Unit: 220+ Days of Success Carlye James, Kayla Samuels, Angela Stewart, Lauri Beltran, Vanessa Lennon
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Improving Length of Stay for Patient on an Observation Unit Through Enhanced Communication Tools
Celia De Leo, Karen Yap, Oblee O. Frankson, Maria Escobar, Olive Gibson, Jessica Ramos, and Natalia Flores
Available to BHSF community via local IP address or BHSF login.
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Improving Patient Experience in the Observation Unit: A Multimodal Performance Improvement Initiative
Madalyn Dickson, Olive Gibson, Maria O. Escobar, Ardril McInnis, Alicia Gilliard, Carol Bush, Natalia Flores, and Elisabeth M. Bernabe
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Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance in the Postpartum Unit: A Multimodal Performance Improvement Initiative
Darilyn Gelisanga, Gabrielle. M. Green, and Nishma O. Trivedi
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Retrospectively Examining the Probability of Acute Skin Failure among Hospitalized Patients with Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries
Tori Hatch, Jeanine M. Salamone, Claire O. McMillan, Pierna F. Vaughner, and Natalie Bermudez
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Enhancing IV Fluid Administration Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Kimberly Hulsey
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Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury Prevention (HAPI) on Orthopedic Unit: 220+ Days of Success
Carlye James, Kayla Samuels, Angela O. Stewart, Lauri Beltran, and Vanessa N. Lennon
Available to BHSF community via local IP address or BHSF login.
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Improving Perceptions of OR Prep Efficiency: A Surgical Services Performance Improvement Initiative
Melinda Kaszuk, Mariana Daniel, and Regina Apostol Balingit
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Dangers of Surgical Smoke in the OR
Jacqueline Longmore and Sarah Christensen
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Small but Mighty: A NICU Waste Management Initiative with Monumental Financial Impact
Emma Lopez, Caitlyn Gunther, and Mikaela Ajayi
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Empowering Patients Through Medication Education: A Heart Hospital Performance Improvement Initiative
Kathleen G. Lopez, Andrea Diaz, and Jennifer O. Cader
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Using Simulation to Increase Nurses' Knowledge and Skills with Emergency Bedside Re-sternotomies
Kathleen G. Lopez, Trish O’Brien, Colleen O. Buchholz, Courtney Tompkins, Taylor Carranza, Sara Gentles, Dana Orfinger, Kimberly M. Thomas, Amanda Camarano, Lauren Lang, Miriam Caban, Natalie Bermudez, and Tracey Fisher
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Exploring Intensive Care Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of the Family Support Person during Family-Witnessed Resuscitation
Carmen Petersen, Martha O. Morales, and Natalie Bermudez
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Malignant Hyperthermia Escape Room: Body on Fire
Lisa Pittington
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Improving Pressure Injury Prevention Through A Multimodal Approach
Courtney Roseberry, Mykerlange Amilcar, Sandria O. Jamieson, Angela Creary, Kettia Antoine, and Tori Hatch
Available to BHSF community via local IP address or BHSF login.
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Development and Implementation of a Robust Escalation Process for Telemetry Monitoring-related Events
Courtney Roseberry, Elisabeth Bernabe, Peggy O. Benenati, and Natalie O. Bermudez
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Improving Staff Responsiveness and Hourly Rounding effectiveness to Enhance Patient Satisfaction on a Surgical Orthopedic/Neuro Unit
Sherley Salomon, Courtney Roseberry, Lauri O. Beltran, Angela O. Stewart, and Julissa Bembry
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The Effect of Simulation on Nurses’ Knowledge, Skills, and Confidence with Providing Post-Fetal Death Support to Bereaved Parents
Monique Scholine, Donna Davis, Shannon O. Zalewski, Sandria Jamieson, Kettia Antoine, Nicole Adokou, Kristi Vargo, Erin M. Franklin, and Natalie Bermudez
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Improve Likelihood to Recommend East ED
Nicole Sidaway
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