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 2016
Developing Graduate Nurses in the ICU: From Weakest Link to Competent Bedside Leaders, Othniel Aljoe
Addressing Moral Distress in Critical Care Nurses, Rose Allen
Exploring Perceptions of Workplace Bullying in Nursing, Flora Benamor
Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Pain Study, Gwen Burley
Improving Outcomes Through Performance Improvement, Evidence-Based Practice, or Research: Choosing the Right Road, Eve Butler, Maria Ojeda, and Andrea Prentiss
Nursing Bedside Swallow Screen: How it Affects Outcome of Stroke Patients, Honoree Ceballos
Fall Prevention Initiatives to Reduce the Number of Falls With or Without Injury on a Multi-Specialty Progressive Care Unit, Claire Croswell
Nitroglycerin Administration Trim Project, Rosa Filomeno
Strategies to Improve the Use of Electronic Prescription, Rosa Filomeno
Initiatives to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Hollie Gow
Establishing and Evaluating Nurses' Knowledge and Perceptions of the Effectiveness of an Inpatient STEMI Protocol, Katty Guevara
Quality of Life of Patients with Diabetes, Clair Hefner
Sepsis Education for the Primary Nurse with Swift Intervention leads to Successful Outcomes, Sandy Jones
Turn Teams, How Do You Prevent Unit Acquired Pressure Ulcers?, Evelyn Jonusas and Maria Kahn
Immediate Debriefing in Simulation: A Mobile Video Playback System, Tania Kalogeras
Use of Low-Dose Ketamine for Pain Management in an Emergency Department, Joseph Ladd
Exploring Nurses’ Feelings On Floating: A Phenomenological Study, Marie Paule Lafontant
Nurse Practitioner Group Visit Model: Improving Diabetic Outcomes for Afro-Caribbean Americans, Melissa Marballie
Promoting a Healthy Work Environment in the Emergency Department, Becky Maya
Patient’s Ease of Use, Comfort, and Satisfaction with the Female Urinal, Adriel Rodriguez
Increasing RN Perceived Competency with Substance Use Patients, Regina Russell
Bridging the Experience Gap: An ED Escalation Guide, Marcia Schram
Voluntary Incident and Near-Miss Reporting, Debra Stanger