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
Effects of Ethnicity and Prior Depression on Hospital Course and Outcomes in First-Time Stroke Patients, Amy Starosciak
Impact of Nightly Earplugs on Medical/Surgical Patients’ Perceptions of Noise Level and Quality of Sleep, Diana Talania
Fall Management in a Mixed Neuroscience Unit: The Predictive Ability of the Morse Fall Scale, Bridget Webster
A Propensity-Matched Study of the Association of Contrast Media Administration with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in ICU patients, Lisa-Mae Williams
Submissions from 2015
Promoting Comfort During CT-Coronary Angiogram, Margo Archer, Dawn Arevalo, and Kelly Vazquez
BAKER ACT Project, Lucy Arcila, Evelyn Quinones Lassalle, Carla Green, Melinda Patton, and Melinda Collins
Motivation and Certification Rates among Allied Health Professionals, Eda Avila, Edlina Hilson, and Maria Ojeda
Pain Management of Medical-Surgical Patients at Homestead Hospital: The Role of Nurse-Patient Communication, Dianne Crabtree, Kathy Gruny, Kimberly Figueroa, Veronica Zamoyski, Carrie Bilek, Rachael Rodriguez, and Luchie Anne Dwyer
Investigating the Scholar Nurse Partner Effect on the Novice Nurse, Gisell Gonzalvo, Vanessa Collazo, Steve Lewis, and Aubrey Florom-Smith
Decreasing Blood Culture Contamination in the ED, Bettina Laier
Ebola Preparedness - An ED Perspective, Bettina Laier
Outcomes of Sepsis Patients using Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitoring to Guide Fluid Resuscitation, Rosemary Lee, Rosie Sanchez, Laura Berni, Joyce Nealey, and Maria Ojeda
Survey of Nursing Practice at Doctors Hospital, Carolyn Lindgren, Juan Nery, Maria Ojeda, Judy Bowling, and Diane Amado Tate
Impact of Pharmacy Patient Education Programs on Medication Related HCAHPS Scores, Ana Lopez-Samblas, Maria Rojo-Carlo, Aixa Rey, and Maria Perez Arias
Patients' and Families' Perspective: What Makes an Extraordinary Nurse in a Patient and Family Centered Care Hospital?, Victoria McCue
An Assessment of Current Palliative Care Beliefs and Knowledge: The Primary Palliative Care Providers' Perspective, Yvonne Patten, Maria M. Ojeda, and Carolyn Lindgren
MCVI-SMH Outpatient Heart Failure Program (reduce readmission rates), Victoria Pope
Hearing the Child's Voice: Their Lived Experience in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Andrea Prentiss
Pediatric Emergency Department Rapid Care Model, Netonua Reyes, Rene Bascoy, Rosa Rousseau, Francisco A. Medina Mejia, Julian Diavanti, Pedro Marin, Tanisha R. Jones, Sandra Young, and Andrea Gibson
Impact of Pharmacist-Driven Transition of Care Program in a Community Hospital, Felicia Seiler, Ana Lopez-Samblas, Maria Rojo-Carlo, Abby Marrero, and Aixa Rey
Facing Falls by Staying in the Zone, Beatriz Taboada, Charles Juste, and Rocio Ramirez
Unit Retention Strategies, Steven Trush, Rosa Filomeno, Joyce Jones, and Martha Gaitan
Submissions from 2014
Effect of Pre-Existing Health and Illness Characteristics on Sepsis Responses and Outcomes, Donna Lee Armaignac