Submissions from 2021
Letter from the Editor: A Peer Reviewed Journal in a Healthcare System: An Innovative Way of Dissemination, Nohemi Sadule Rios
Overcoming Undergraduate Nursing Education Challenges During the Pandemic, Melissa Abreu, Carolina Ferreiro, Danielle Garcia, Gisell Gonzalvo, Erika Nusbaum, and Beatrice Sikah
Self-Efficacy: Nurses’ Perceptions of Caring for Patients Living with Diabetes, Victoria Y. McCue
The Art of Nurse Mentoring: A Framework of Support, Diane S. Kramer, Victoria Y. McCue, Eve Butler, Andrea S. Prentiss, Maria M. Ojeda, Kayce K. Tugg, Vivian Fuentes, and Sally Bonet
The Impact of Emergency Department Staggering Shifts on Nurses' and Patients' Satisfaction, Amanda Simon, Marta Roses, Susana Pangilinan, and Wilfredo Padron
Metabolic Syndrome and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19, Donna Lee Armaignac
Alarm Fatigue and its Effects in Nurses at the Bedside, Angelica Polanco-Cabral, Johane Payoute, Mileidy Sanchez, Yerenis Rodriguez Garcia, David Yuan, and Oniel Perez Perez
Battling Burnout, Janet Boada, Samanta Fernandez, Emmanuel Rodriguez Arriola, Wideline Denis, Gloria Alfonso, Gavriella Ochoa, Ashley Fernandez, Ashley Toledo, Vanessa Forrest, Stephanie San Jorge, and Ingrid Vindell
Breastfeeding Education Benefits and Outcomes , Sabrina Delgado, Sahar Elhadary, Sheila Flaherty, Maday Guerra Velazquez, Jemely Herr, Stephanie Labib, Chinasa Meniru, Marien Scorpo, and Carolynn Sierra
Cap It! Lets Prevent Blood Stream Infections, Georges Avril, Patricia Castillo, Cristina Fernandez, Nicole Gomez, Laura Hernandez Aguirre, Ysabelle Hernandez, Cherline Liberte, Yeslie Ruiz Gomez, Chevanese Stephenson, Danielle Sylvaint, Cassidie Toussaint, Leidy Valdes, and Johanna K. Seballos Zambrano
Clean Hands Save Lives, Amanda Constantino, Amanda Perea, Andy Valdes Casanova, Ashley Borsten, Katherine Nistal Sayago, Kristen Webb, Priscilla Johnson, and Susan Martin
Diet Changes in 4 Hope Patients at Risk for HAPI, Ariadny Artola, Amanda Diaz Ruiz, Nereida Diaz, Stephanie Ledon, Monica Martinez, Catalina Ortega, Jose Veliz Otero, Yaima Perez, Andrea Quintero, Alzira Timmerman, and Salvador Vanegas
Fall Prevention in the Emergency Department, Giselle Ramirez, Luis E. Alvarez Seivane, Martha Saenz, Hannahjoy Wolan, Jesse Price, Helene Escalona, Frank Golembeski, Gustavo A. Almonte Cortes, Ernesto Guevara, Gabriella Cruz, Alejandro Velazquez Jorge, Stephanie Jimenez, Eva Parisi, Melissa Betancourt, and Natalie M. Gonzalez
Improving Circulation on STEMI Patients, Deniz Aguero, Paulina Carracedo, Joseph Cordova, Yanice del Valle, Jay Diaz, Maria Fidalgo, Cynthia Medina Perez, Yanna Melo, Jonathan Meneses, Nathalie Quinones, Aimee Sanchez, Alex Sanhueza, Alexandra Thorp, and Cecilia Trueba
Improving Communication with Patients in Ventilators, Yokasta Dominguez, Masiel Alonso-Carmenate, Christina Barrera, Neudys Bustamante-Jorge, Laurie DiRusso, Januri Perez Bacallao, Emily Ramirez, Alexis Reyes, Josephine Walker, and Rosmery Wong Ramirez
Increase in Nurse-Patient Ratio and the Risk of Nurses Burnout, Marcella Spairani-Knauss, Renee Pratt, Erese Labady, Sandra Normil, Joseph Blanchard, Madison Hudson, Jacqueline Alfaro, Alecia Francis, and Madison Hudson
Preventative measures for pressure injuries for intubated and proned patients, Valery Sabbatino Restrepo, Ariela Pizzini, Nicole Marino, Beatriz De Haro Maylin, Ylenia Riesgo, Stephanie Rosell Soto, Mariam Gonzalez, Denellia Williams, Katrina Carrera, William Sanchez, Bia Agosto, Caprice Cuellar, Melissa Gomez, Nicole Acosta, and Nicole Galeano
Preventing Alarm Fatigue in Nurses: The #1 Patient Safety Hazard, Isabella Morles, Jasmine Monpoint, Vanessa Bang, Jacqueline Davis, Alimey Gutierrez Romero, Victoria Milatovic Castillo, Zuanlys Delgado Perez, Brenda Menjivar Segovia, Shamoy Dixon, Rocio Reyes Echemendia, Corissa Shill, Tori Hall, and Sofia Fonseca
Preventing HAPI in Hospitalized Patients Using Mepilex, Karen Brito, Juan Calvo Garcia, Catherine Cham, Alexis De La Rosa, Maryorie Gonzalez, Brittany Gutierrez, Darian Llanes, Alda Lopez, and Isabella Trillos
Preventing Patient Falls in 5 Hope and 6 Hope, Diana Devesa, Kristy Arteaga, Anna Mudrytska, Beyte Lugo Alonso, Ankadine Jean, Gabriela Arenas, Patricia Martin Ross, Stefano Caccavale, and Nicole DelCristo
Prevention of Falls in Patients With High Risk For Falls, Beatrice Farias, Lauren Khell, Yelsy Rivas Castaneda, Melissa Dewey, Rolando Taylee, Mariana Jimenez, Liannis Machin, Marilyn Bejarano, Anthony Fernandez, Claudia Manteira, and Kervin Paul
Prevention of Pressure Ulcers in Elderly Bedridden Patients , Chislon Griffiths, Giselle Hernandez, Greylene Basco, Marjorie Estermine, Kaitlin McWilliams, and Franceska Noel
Push or Scalpel, Deshai Singleton, Marcela Plata-Ramos, Carolina Del Rio, and Katerina Maury
Rock the Pain Away, Judith Spence, Cecilia Adrianzen Ahumada, Gabriela Carrasco, Jany Hernandez, Alejandro Duran, Keisha Wright Levy, and Zaira Marin
Social Media Influence on Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine, Joelle Hilton, Laura Rafael, Cynthia Rodriguez, Brunna Torres, and Denisse Jaramillo Williams
Telemedicine and COVID-19 Improving Patients Compliance, Katrina Collazo De Armas, Anna Conde, Lucia Domenech, Melanie O. Morlans, Amanda Lamelas, Maria Noguera Benavides, Grissobelle Reyes-Obando, Emily Rivero, and Deja Sriro
Turn Baby Turn, Pressure Injury Justice, Grethel Canton Hidalgo, Monica Kan, Beatriz Cruz, Tayler Dent, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Maria Torres, and Gabriela Sanchez
Vaccination vs Monoclonal Antibodies in Preventing Risk of Severe COVID-19 Illness, Nicole Corazon, Tabitha Hernandez, Melissa Tellechea, Valerie Marcia, Sadaf Salim, Melissa Diaz Bernal, Ashley Garcia, Jonathan Marquez, Maydel Fernandez Quevedo, Kristen Crooks, Precilla Bernard, Tadaaki Horigome, Bernadette Bedgood, Stephani Cardona, Marelyn Sequeira, and Yitsi Perdomo
The Collaborative Support Models Impact on Nursing, Diane Kramer and Kayce Tugg
COVID-19: Innovative Strategies to Support Mental Wellbeing for Frontline Nurses, Victoria Y. McCue and Simone Cheong
COVID-19 Surge: Extraordinary Response to Unprecedented Times, Simone Cheong and Kelly Delgado
Escape Room: A Competency Validation Approach, Sandra Bastidas, Kelly Delgado, and Meghan E. Sharkey
Surviving COVID-19 Campaign: Just in Time Training & Education, Strengthening Nurses' Resilience & Confidence, Jo Ann Aberilla
APRN Led Skin Integrity Rounds to Decrease Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs) in the Medical Surgical Units, Nanette L. Martin and Ashley A. Polster
Longitudinal Survey of COVID-19 Burden and Related Policies in U.S. Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Ashley Darcy Mahoney
On-boarding Experienced Non-Oncology Nurses to Address Staffing Shortages: Development of a Transitional Oncology Training Program, Marguerite Rowell and Hollie Gow
An Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Reducing Readmission Rates and Improving Self-Management Skills for People Living with Diabetes, Eduardo Martinez Sanchez, Elva Diaz, Martha Bertin, Victoria McCue, James Adefisoye, Marie-Elsie Ade, and Winifred Pardo
A Unit Practice Council’s Journey to Reducing Noise Pollution, Jessica Martinez
Call me if you need me!, Christina Landivar and Fabiola Molina
Common Compression Neuropathies, Svetlana Faktorovich, Asia Filatov, and Zufe Rizvi
Decreasing Blood Culture Contamination Using Initial Specimen Diversion Device, Nancy Doctura, Joan Baker, Rose Petit Frere, Jessica Celorio, and Cynthia Fischer
Decreasing the Infection Rate in the Rehabilitation Department Using Chlorhexidine Gluconate Wipes, Guerline Lucien and Evelyne Michel
Dysphagia Screening Improvement in Stroke Patients, Yadira Gutierrez, Joan Baker, and Russel Dizon
Emergency Department: PODs, Mehdy Yavari, Joan Baker, Kristal Brown, Sherine Craig, Shana Sealy, and Jennifer Rodriguez
Hand Mittens use to Decrease Self-Extubation, Fritz Boucicault, Marie Ramirez-Montalvo, Nataly Ruiz, and Carla De Jesus
MeteORs blazing through the Vortex into Communication Excellence!, Bobbie Wich and Millie Escalona
Quality Sleep-Better Therapy- Healthy Body, Evangeline Aguda, Mariam Almasi, Sandra Castano, Cora Go, Christianah Alonge, Melissa Villa, Iomee Lehninger, Taylor Alonzo, Chiara Salomon Sriro, Fariya Sharif, Judy Bowling, and Edlina Hilson
Rest Without Fear: Providing Safe Hospital Discharges for COVID19 Patients Using Masimo Monitoring, Rose Petit Frere, Nancy Doctura, Sherine Craig, and Joan Baker
Rule of Three, Robert Callahan, Amanda Setney, and Sulahy Tavarez
The Impact of Erythropoietin on Short and Long-term Kidney-Related Outcomes in Extremely Low Gestational Age Neonates. Results of a Multi-center Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial, Jorge Perez, Magaly Diaz-Barbosa, Arturo Serize, Jorge Jordan, Edshelee Galvis, Susana Bombino, Lauren Carbonell, Anna Maria Patino-Fernandez, Carmen de Lerma, Kelly McDonough, and Maiana De Cortada
Turning Teams: Making Pressure Injury Prevention a Priority, Aracely Olvera, Susie Collins, Martha Gaitan, Maria Menendez, Fanny Rodriguez, Maria Carrillo, and Silvia Cubero
Uncomplicate the Complicated: A Revamp of Sepsis and Glucose Algorithm, Carey Acosta
What time is it?....It's TEA TIME!!, Yesenia Mauricio, Vanessa Echevarria, and Marisol Piedra
The Impact of Disaster Tabletop Exercise on the Nurses Knowledge on Emergency Preparedness and the Influence on Professional Quality of Life, Vivian Fuentes
Shared Governance Committees Empower Nurses to Use Their Voice, Margie Martinez
Abstract P286: The Effects of COVID-19 on the Reasons for Not Calling 911 for Acute Stroke, Maygret Ramirez, Rodney Bedgio, Virginia Ramos, Ivis Gonzalez, Yaima Miro Gonzalez, Star Belnap, and Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–Associated Coronavirus 2 Infection and Organ Dysfunction in the ICU: Opportunities for Translational Research, Donna Lee Armaignac
The Oncology Nursing Society Rapid Review and Research Priorities for Cancer Care in the Context of COVID-19, Noah Zanville
Submissions from 2020
A Collaborative Effort to Establish a Convalescent Plasma Program in South Florida, Roberto L. Roman Laporte and Edwina Brathwaite
A Drive-thru Anticoagulation Testing Clinic during COVID-19 Pandemic, Tina Hyman, Nohemi Sadule Rios, and Robert P. Ramirez
A Healthcare Organization’s Response to Challenges during a Pandemic, Debora O'Cathey and Judy Bowling
Efficacy of the Nutritional Supplement, EvenFlo, in the Management of Sickle Cell Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Richard Muga, Arthur Ajwang, James Ouma, Josephine Ojigo, Juliana Otieno, Peter Okoth, Caroline Wafula, Sophia Ajwang, David Ogolla, Abraham Hollist, and James Adefisoye
Impact of lipid levels and high-intensity statins on vein graft patency after CABG: Midterm results of the ACTIVE trial, Alexander Kulik, Amy Abreu, and Viviana Boronat
Improving Code Response Time through Strategic Positioning of Nursing House Supervisors: Results of a Nurse-Led Intervention, Noah R. Zanville, Paula T. Smith, Albis A. Aguiar, Joan Simon-Smith, Jessenia Menendez, Alice J. Cockerel, Rosalina P. Butao, and Marguerite Rowell
Innovative Strategies to Support Mental Wellbeing, Victoria Y. McCue
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Facing the Future with Hope, Nohemi Sadule Rios
Nurses at the Frontline of COVID-19, Nada Wakim
Radiodermatitis: Clinical Summary of the ONS Guidelines™ for Cancer Treatment–Related Radiodermatitis, Lauren Suarez
The Outstanding Service of a Nurse Supervisor During COVID-19, Judy Bowling
High-Flow Nasal Cannula vs. Mechanical Ventilation for Reducing Mortality in COVID-19 ICU Patients: A Review of Current Evidence, Alexis Hawkins, Ana Miranda, Diana Romero, Viviana Tenorio, Dianne Willis, and Noah Zanville
The Effect of a County Prehospital FAST-ED Initiative on Endovascular Treatment Times, Joseph Souchak, Ned Shashoua, Maygret Ramirez, Ivis Gonzalez, Virginia Ramos, Anshul Saxena, Emir Veledar, Amy Starosciak, and Felipe De los Rios La Rosa
Nursing's seat at the research roundtable, Noah Zanville
Impact of restrictions on parental presence in neonatal intensive care units related to coronavirus disease 2019, Ashley Darcy Mahoney
Increasing Sepsis Rates in the United States: Results From National Inpatient Sample, 2005 to 2014, Muni Rubens, Anshul Saxena, Sankalp Das, Donna Lee Armaignac, Emir Veledar, Khurram Nasir, and Louis Gidel
Prevalence of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Extremely Low Gestational Age Neonates (ELGAN), Jorge Perez, Magaly Diaz-Barbosa, Arturo Serize, Jorge Jordan, Edshelee Galvis, Susana Bombino, Lauren Carbonell, Anna Maria Patino-Fernandez, Carmen de Lerma, Kelly McDonough, and Maiana De Cortada
Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children, Ashley Darcy Mahoney
Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism, Ashley Darcy Mahoney
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Case Report and Literature Review, Kettia Alusma-Hibbert and Patricio Espinosa Prado
Pulmonary Edema and Stunned Myocardium in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Kettia Alusma-Hibbert and Patricio Espinosa Prado
Association of contrast and acute kidney injury in the critically ill: A propensity matched study, Lisa-Mae Williams, Gail Walker, James Loewenherz, and Louis Gidel
Improving the Patient Experience Following Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Practice Development Project, Gwen Burley, Lizbeth Torres, and Jessica Heligman
Fluids in Sepsis Keeping Pace, Donna Lee Armaignac
Abstract 102: EXPLORING COSTS OF TELE-INTENSIVIST DELIVERY MODELS WITH AND WITHOUT 24/7 BEDSIDE INTENSIVISTS, Donna Lee Armaignac, Lourdes Rojas, Carlos Valle, Chintan Bhatt, Lisa-Mae Williams, Eduardo Martinez-DuBouchet.se-ccu-icu, Don Parris, and Louis Gidel
Abstract 125: DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL CARE DATAMART FOR EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH AND POPULATION HEALTH TRENDS, Carlos Valle, Lourdes Rojas, Chintan Bhatt, Eduardo Martinez-DuBouchet.se-ccu-icu, Lisa-Mae Williams, Don Parris, Louis Gidel, and Donna Lee Armaignac
Abstract 1359: EXPLORING LOS IN TELE-INTENSIVIST DELIVERY MODELS WITH AND WITHOUT 24/7 BEDSIDE INTENSIVISTS, Lourdes Rojas, Carlos Valle, Chintan Bhatt, Lisa-Mae Williams, Eduardo Martinez-DuBouchet.se-ccu-icu, Don Parris, Louis Gidel, and Donna Lee Armaignac
Abstract 402: EXPLORING MORTALITY IN TELE-INTENSIVIST DELIVERY MODELS WITH AND WITHOUT 24/7 BEDSIDE INTENSIVISTS, Donna Lee Armaignac, Lourdes Rojas, Carlos Valle, Chintan Bhatt, Lisa-Mae Williams, Eduardo Martinez-DuBouchet.se-ccu-icu, Don Parris, and Louis Gidel
A Nurse Driven Acute Stroke Alert Process Improves Treatment Times and Treatment Rates, Daniel D'Amour, Jayme Strauss, Amy Starosciak, Maygret Ramirez, and Star Belnap
Case Study: How to Run Three Simultaneous Stroke Alerts that Require Endovascular Therapy, Jessilyn Pozo, Peter De Armas, Andrew Waisbrot, Daniel D'Amour, Amy Starosciak, Star Belnap, and Jayme Strauss
Critical Care A La Mode During Natural Cataclysms, Donna Lee Armaignac
Development of an Advanced Analytics DataMart for Machine Learning, Effectiveness Research, and Population Health Trends, Carlos Valle, Lourdes Rojas, Chintan Bhatt, Eduardo Martinez-DuBouchet.se-ccu-icu, Lisa-Mae Williams, Don Parris, Louis Gidel, and Donna Lee Armaignac
Implementation of Daily Multidisciplinary Rounds on an Adult Inpatient Blood & Marrow Transplant Unit: Initial Observations and Future Plans, Vera Suzuki, Monika Magnum, Noah Zanville, and Maria Rios
Implementation of Stroke Pathways to Reduce Length of Stay, Cost, Readmissions, and Mortality, Jayme Strauss, Daniel Hartnett, Peter De Armas, Albert Fernandez, Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa, Kunal Patel, Amy Starosciak, Andrew Waisbrot, Star Belnap, and Daniel D'Amour
Incorporating Critical Care Training within a Blood and Marrow Transplant Residency for New Inpatient Nursing Staff, Annette Caravia, Karla Ruiz Tamayo, Yanet Castro Bustamante, and Noah Zanville
Triage Nursing Intervention Improves Stroke Treatment Rate and Times for Walk-in Strokes, Nayive Quezada, Ron Burke, Yaima Miro Gonzalez, Maygret Ramirez, Ivis Gonzalez, Daniel D'Amour, Amy Starosciak, Star Belnap, and Jayme Strauss
Fertility Preservation in the Setting of Breast and Gynecologic Cancers and Cancer Treatment, John Paul Diaz and Elina Melik-Levine
Intra-abdominal Hypertension and the Open Abdomen: Nursing Guidelines From the Abdominal Compartment Society, Rosemary Lee
ONS Guidelines™ for Cancer Treatment–Related Radiodermatitis, Lauren Suarez
Submissions from 2019
Development of an Advanced Analytics DataMart for Machine Learning, Effectiveness Research, and Population Health Trends, Carlos Valle, Lourdes Rojas, Chintan Bhatt, Eduardo Martinez-DuBouchet.se-ccu-icu, Lisa-Mae Williams, Don Parris, Louis Gidel, and Donna Lee Armaignac