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 2018
Breathing Easier When a Lung-Health Outpatient Team Has Your Back, Rosario Dominguez, Michael Salinero, and Tina Hyman
Nursing and Health Sciences Research Journal, Carrie Figueredo
Exploring and Understanding Predictors of Burnout among Nurses, Marla Geltner, Victoria McCue, Diana D'Orazio Garcia, and Timothy Madaras
Coordination of BG testing, Insulin Administration and Delivery of Meal Trays, Maria Gough and Margaret Geneve
Implementing a Transcultural Nursing Care Model to Improve Pulmonary Hypertension Medication Compliance, Tina Hyman and Michael Salinero
RN Perception of Mentoring in a Hospital Environment, Diane Kramer, Andrea Prentiss, Kayce Tugg, Victoria McCue, Eve Butler, Maria Ojeda, Sally Bonet, and Vivian Fuentes
The Impact of Using Education, Engagement and Nursing Teamwork to Reduce Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury, Melissa Marballie and Carol Johnson
An Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Reducing HAPIs, Jessenia Menendez, Isabel Madrigal, and Jennifer Agudelo-Doval
Improving Length of Stay: Transitioning Care from the Emergency Department to a Clinical Decision Unit, Griselle Pastor, Emilia Villoch, Van Cronkhite, Justo Ruiz, and Natalie Mancuso
Patient's Perception of the IV Experience in the Emergency Department, Marcia Schram and Martha Tijerino
Effect of FAST-ED Implementation and Age on Distance Patients Travel from Scene to Comprehensive Stroke Center, Amy Starosciak
Healthy People 2020, Ana Viamonte Ros
Submissions from 2017
Determining the Predictors for Cardiac Etiology on Syncope Patients in the ED, Abraham Alfonso Remigio, Rohit Vinod, Julie Lamoureux, and Andres Soto
Knowledge and Use of a Nursing Professional Practice Model at a Critical Access Hospital, Jessica Bauser, Victoria McCue, Melanie O'Neill, Beverley Leake, Chelsea O'Connor, and Amanda Smith
The Novice Nurses’ Perception of The Pocket Brain: A Tool to Facilitate Learning During Orientation, Sally Bonet, Victoria McCue, and Tanya Cohn
The Effect of Repetitive Text Messages on the Retention of Knowledge Among Clinical Staff, Judy Bowling
Reliability & Validity Testing of a Rubric for Assessing Response Quality in a Virtual Journal Club, Simone Cheong
Careful Monitoring of Intravesical Volume Prevent Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Angie De La Cruz and Blessy Issac
The Use of Procalcitonin as a Sepsis Marker in a Community Hospital, Nathalia De Oro, Maria Gauthreaux, Joseph Scott, and Julie Lamoureux
Do you Hear What I Hear, A Clinical Alarm Fatigue Project, Nancy Doctura and Tamra Da Costa
Home in 16 Hours, Jessica Lynn Heligman and Lizbeth Torres
View and Do Simulation Method: Small Group Learning Experiences for Large Cohort RN Residencies, Marrice King and Shelby Lash
Improving the Identification and Treatment of Sepsis Through The Use of a Pediatric Specific Sepsis Screening Tool, Michael Pujol
One Million Global Catheters PIVC Worldwide Prevalence Study, Pam Sabatino-Holmes
Reducing Warfarin ADR’s with a Nurse Led Anticoagulation Clinic: A New Model of Patient Care, Michael Salinero and Tina Hyman