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 2014
Shared Governance Equals Shared Decision, Is it or Is it Not?, Rosalina Butao
Treatment of Complex Open Abdominal Wounds with Exposed Viscera using a Specialized Negative Pressure Device in the Acute Setting, Donna Byfield
Ergonomic Task Force: South Miami Hospital 4 East Tower Bridge Incline, Natalie Campaneria
Reducing Cost and Improving Utilization Associated with Friction Reducing Devices, Natalie Campaneria
5 East Tower Quiet at Night Performance Improvement Project, Simone Cheong
The Effect of an Educational Intervention on the Knowledge and Management of PONV Among Anesthesia Providers: A Pilot Study, Eleazar Comprendio, Juan E. Ruan, Mohammad Zyed, Julie Lamoureux, and Feliciano Villalba
What You Don't Know CAN Hurt Your Patient: Postpartum Urinary Retention, Teresita Delgado
Evaluating Albumin Utilization in a Community-Based Hospital Post-Hetastarch Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Warning, Wilbert Fuerte, Frances Ordieres, and Judy Tseng
Surviving Sepsis South Miami Project, Aimee Green-Blumstein
Safe Patient Handling (SPH)- Reducing Injury to Patients and Healthcare Workers/Team, Christy Guzik-Creghton
Implementing the No One Dies Alone Program: Increase Comfort to Decrease Distress, Karol Harrelson
Evaluating the Sensitivity and Specificity of the Severe Sepsis Tool Utilized at Baptist Hospital of Miami, Jorge Hirigoyen
Happy Skin: Prevention of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers through a SKIN Bundle and Staff Text Reminders, Floralynn Lacrete
100% Core Care All the Time: A Newly Opened Hospital's Journey to NQM Excellence, Eva Mitra
Improving Identification of Early Signs of Deterioration: Project MITE, Jana Nesbit
Assessing Unit Practice Council Functionality: A Pilot Study, Maria Ojeda
Examining the Perceived Value of Certification and BSN Attainment, Maria Ojeda
The Impact of the Change in Time for Performing Vital Signs, Murielle Pariente
Cardiac Rehabilitation Enrollment Barriers of the Post Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Patients, Tracy Pencar
Troponin Testing: A Comparison of Laboratory Automatic Troponin Versus POCT Testing for Validity, Adacilis Ramirez Sardi
Effects of a Neutral Pressure Connector on Central Line Rate and Catheter Related Blood Stream Infections, Pam Sabatino-Holmes
Safe Transport of Telemetry Patients by ED RN's- Unintended Consequences, Marcia Schram
Retrospective Review of Carboplatin Dosing in a Community Hospital, Moe Shwin
Predictors of Poor Outcome in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patient After Successful Recanalization, Amy Starosciak, Italo Linfante, Gail Walker, Eugene Lin, and Guilherme Dabus