BWH Nurses Present Posters Nationwide
Several BWH nurses recently created posters that were accepted for presentation by national nursing organizations.
Ilene Fleischer, MS, RN, CWOCN and Diane Bryant, MS, RN, CWOCN, both enterostomal therapy clinical nurse specialists, were recognized for “Simple to Complex: Strategies for Preventing and Managing Tube Related Complications.” They expected to present their poster at the 19th annual symposium on Advanced Wound Care and the 16th annual Medical Research Forum on Wound Repair, in San Antonio, April 30 - May 3, and the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society’s 38th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, June 24 - 28.
The Association of Registered Nurses recognized several other BWH nurses for their research and posters, including: Eric C. Hahn, RN, and Katrina Bickerstaff, BSN, RN, CPAN, CAPA, for “The Use of a Computerized Perioperative Nursing Report to Facilitate Verbal Hand-Off Report to the Post Anesthesia Care Nurse”; Hahn, Leanne Espindle, RN, Susan Twardy, RN, Linda Huet, RN, Paul Charles Laemmle, RN, Patricia Powers, RN, Viven Keating-Lombardo, RN, Mary Margaret, RN, and Courtney Ruggerio, RN, for “Staff Registered Nurses Design and Build Their Own Electronic Record For the OR”; Joyce Kelly-Brown, RN, BSN, and Judith Nagle, MSN, APRN, BC, CNOR, for “Knee Joint Preservation with Autologous Cartilage Implantation”; Maryanne Kupchun, BSN, RN, and Nancy Doyle, RN, for “Multi Service Collaboration for the Patient Undergoing Giant Basilar Aneurysm Clipping Necessitating Circulatory Standstill”; Linda Daw, RN, BSN, CNOR, and Christie Pope RN, BSN, for “An Educational Initiative for High School Students: An Intervention for Maintaining Perioperative Nursing Resources”; Angela Roddy Kanan, BSN, RN, CNOR, CRN, and Elizabeth Gasson, MSN, RN, CNOR, for “Safety in an Intraoperative MRI Suite.”
Five of these posters were presented at the National Congress in Washington D.C. at the end of March.
Mary Lou Moore, MSN, RN, CCRN, nurse manager of Tower 12; Martha Jurchak, PhD, RN, director of Ethics Service; and the Rev. Katherine N. Mitchell, DMin, staff chaplain, in April presented a poster, “The Impact of Compassionate Care Rounds on Nursing Practice,” at Horizons, the regional American Association of Colleges of Nursing conference.