(L to R): Karen Mayo, Jessica Barbee, Maricia Duarte and Dalarie Manda.
Congratulations to HCA Healthcare colleagues Jessica Barbee of Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, California (Far West Division), as well as Pam Arnold, Lisette Cruz, Morgan Freitag, Terri Lynn-Collins and Jerry Morgan, Jr., from Belton Regional Medical Center in Belton, Missouri (MidAmerica Division) on submitting the inaugural corporate-level winning Evidence-based Project (EBP) presentations.
As a component of the HCA Healthcare Nurse Residency Program, each resident must complete an Evidence-based Project (EBP). Information related to the EBP can be found on the CSG Nursing Corner website.
Each division has a division-level panel that reviews all of the completed projects and assigns a score to each using an approved grading rubric.
(L-R): Jerry Morgan, Jr., Terri Lynn-Collins, Lisette Cruz, Morgan Freitag and Pam Arnold.
The project receiving the highest score at the division-level is then submitted to the corporate office for final judging. The nurse resident(s) who created the highest scoring presentation from the American Group and from the National Group is then rewarded with a stipend for use to attend a national conference, such as AMSN's Annual Convention.
The winning EBP presentations included:
- Jessica Barbee's presentation entitled "Accelerating the Discharge Process."
- The presentation by Pam Arnold, Lisette Cruz, Morgan Freitag, Terri Lynn-Collins and Jerry Morgan, Jr., entitled "Investigation of the Use of a Standardized Handoff between Nurses."
Thank you to all our nursing colleagues who share our mission in action: "Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life."
Other finalists included:
- "Creating a Suicide-safe Environment in the Emergency Department: Better Mitigation of Ligature Risks to Promote Patient Safety" by Alex Marin, Brandon Tate and Julia Kirwan (Mountain Division).
- "Determination for Reduced Infiltration" by Heather Beckham, Serah Crumley, Martina Bertone and Marielle Pelletier of Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida (South Atlantic Division).
- "Fluid Expansion Anyone?" by Anita Bueno and Laura Nielsen of West Houston Medical Center (Gulf Coast Division).
- "Hourly Rounding: Decreasing Patient Falls in the Hospital" by Emery Allen, Christa Butler and Jamie Hawkins of TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center (TriStar Division).
- "Improving Training to Maintain Effective Use of PPE in the Clinical Setting" by Caitlin Russel of StoneCrest Medical Center (TriStar Division).
- "NICU Thermoregulation Protocol Update" by Christa Hammer of North Florida Regional Medical Center (North Florida Division).
- "Patient Controlled Analgesia vs. Intravenous or Oral Pain Management in the Post-Operative Setting" by Stacy Davis, Emily Miller and Jennifer Steele of Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point (West Florida Division).