Nursing Research Scholarly Works - 2007

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Oral Presentations - 2007

  • Reneé Taylor (February 21, 2007). Survivor Hospital - Lessons from Katrina. Ross Pediatric Perinatal Hot Topics Conference, Rohnert Park, CA.
  • Reneé Taylor (February 21, 2007). Challenges of Evacuation. Ross Pediatric Perinatal Hot Topics Conference, Rohnert Park, CA.
  • Nattie Leger (March 9, 2007). Maintaining Operational Excellence During A Disaster. 40th Annual Michigan Department of Community Health Bureau of Health Systems & the Michigan Architectural Foundation, Grand Rapids, MI.
  • Jamie Blazek (March 26, 2007). Lessons Learned from Katrina: Preparing Patients and Staff. American College of Cardiology 56th Annual Scientific Session, New Orleans, LA.
  • Debbie Dumas-Hicks (March 26, 2007). Self-Care in Heart Failure. American College of Cardiology 56th Annual Scientific Session, New Orleans, LA.
  • Debbie Falanga (April 19, 2007). How to Take Care of Difficult Patients and Maintain Your Own Sanity. Clinical Transplant Forum, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA.
  • Reneé Taylor (April 20, 2007). Disaster Preparedness: Concerns and Needs of Nurses in a New Orleans Hospital. Evidence-Based Practice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Dr. Connie S. Logan Research Day, Co-sponsored by Rho Zeta Chapter & Epsilon Nu Chapters of STTI, Baton Rouge, LA.
  • Karen Rice & M. Bennett (LSUHSC) (April 20, 2007). Nurses' Recognition of Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult: A Mixed Methods Study. Evidence-Based Practice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Dr. Connie S. Logan Research Day, Co-sponsored by Rho Zeta Chapter & Epsilon Nu Chapters of STTI, Baton Rouge, LA.
  • Karen Rice (April 23, 2007). Peripheral Vascular Disease. Mayo Clinic's Cardiac and Vascular Nursing Review Course, Rochester, MN.
  • Karen Rice (April 24, 2007). Heroes in Disaster: The Role of the Non-Emergency Nurse. 14th Annual Heart Disease and Stroke Conference, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
  • Susan Raspa (April 24, 2007). Nursing Update in Pulmonary Hypertension. LA Chapter of International Transplant Nurses Society, New Orleans, LA.
  • Janet Perez (May 16, 2007). Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse Review Course. Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA.
  • Debbie Dumas Hicks (July, 2007). Management of Heart/Lung Waiting Lists. North American Transplant Coordinators Association. New York, NY.
  • Debbie Dumas Hicks (July, 2007). Surviving a UNOS Audit. North American Transplant Coordinators Association. New York, NY.
  • Nancy Davis (October 5, 2007). Sustaining Nursing Excellence throughout Manmade and Natural Disasters. 11th National Magnet Conference, Atlanta, GA.
  • Debbie Wadsworth (October 4, 2007). Peer Review: An Innovative Approach to Performance Evaluation. 11th National Magnet Conference, Atlanta, GA.
  • Jane Braendel (November 9, 2007). State of Mental Health Delivery Post Katrina. Quality Links, Sponsored by New Orleans Association for Healthcare Quality, Kenner, LA.
  • Nancy Davis (November 9, 2007). The Role of the CNO During and After a Disaster. VHA CNO Affinity Group Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  • Nancy Davis (November 14, 2007). Sustaining Organizational Operations Through A Disaster. Grays Harbour County Emergency Responders & Grays Harbor Community Hospital, Grays Harbor, WA.
  • Sharon Cusanza, Susan Robert, & Hector Vandenweghe (December 3, 2007). Magnet Excellence: Ochsner's Journey Through the Storm. Mercy Medical Center, Dubuque, IA.

Publications - 2007

  • Kathy Ellis (2007). Disaster readiness: Lessons from Katrina.
    Nephrology Nursing Journal, 34(1), 82-83, 98.
  • Kathy Ellis (2007). Who should provide continuous renal replacement therapy.Nephrology Nursing Journal, 34(2), 228-229.
  • Debbie Dumas-Hicks (2007). Heart transplantation. In D. LaPointe Rudow, L. Ohler, & T. Shafer, A Clinician's Guide to Donation and Transplantation. Applied Measurement Professonals, Inc: Lenexa, KS.
  • S. Cupples, Debbie Dumas-Hicks, L. Burnapp (2007). Transplant complications: Infectious diseases. In L. Ohler & S. Cupples, Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses. Elsevier: St. Louis, MO.

Posters at Ochsner's Annual Research Night (May 15, 2007)

NOTE: Nurse authors are bolded

  • Tere Crouchet. Evaluation of Hemodynamic Changes Associated with Intravenous Metoprolol Administration on a Step-down Unit.
  • J. Bragg, W. Richardson, S. Kemmerly, M. Wolf, & Susan Rodriguez.Comprehensive Planning for the Needs of the Bariatric Population.
  • D. Reed, Opal Dibble, Janine Chapman, & S. Kemmerly. Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance Among Healthcare Workers.
  •  Shelley Thibeau, Margaret Pizzitola, Kathy Bell, Dawn Ricouard, H. Ginsberg, & M. Laurence. Improving Medication Safety in the NICU.
  • D. Reed, Janine Chapman, & S. Kemmerly. Who's Getting the Flu?
  • D. Taylor, Yvette Bertaut, Anita Campbell, Debbie Goodlet, J. Hall, Donald Meyer, & Susan Rodriguez.Impact of the Implementation of a Rapid Response Team on Resuscitation Events Outside of Critical Care Areas.
  • Nancy Davis, D. Simonson, Sylvia Hartmann, Nattie Leger, D. Boudreaux, & M. Zeringue. Mapping the Medication Administration Process via a Medical Business Process Modeling Tool to Identify Opportunities for Improvement.

Posters at LSUHSC/OMC Nursing Scholars Day (November 16, 2007)

NOTE: OMC Nurse authors are bolded

  • Debbie Goodlet, Christi Robinson, Patricia Carson, & Linda Landry. The use of video surveillance in fall reduction.
  • Jennifer Buquoi, Deanna Tillery, Julie Castex, & Jenell Gleason.Improving life in the morbidly obese population.
  • Debbie Bourgeois. Describing the impact of an educational initiative on completion of advance directives on a transplant unit.
  • Shelley Thibeau & Karen Rice. Assessing nurses' readiness for evidence-based practice.
  • Karen Rice, Marsha Bennett, Maureen Gomez, & Xiozhang Jiang. Nurses' recognition of delirium in the hospitalized older adult: Preliminary results.
  • Joelle Bourgeois, Gloria Giarratano, & Yvonne Sterling. Evaluation of followup interventions and outcomes in Head Start children.

teal bullet Lisa Colletti. Oh what a difference a year makes!
   Integrating a 199 bed community hospital into a large
   health system.

  • Jessica Culver, John Covington, David Davis, Vivian Faessler, Steve McDaniel, Sandra Poole, & Mia Schexnayer-Davis. Committee Simulation in a RN-BSN nursing research course.

Poster Presentations - 2007

  • M.J. Fayland (DeBakey VA, Houston) & Karen Rice ( February 22, 2007). Unraveling the Mystery Behind Evidence-Based Practice for Staff Nurses: A Bibliometric Analysis - A Pilot Study. Translational Research: Bridge or Destination, The Southern Nursing Research Society Annual Conference, Galveston, TX.
  • Flo Smith & Nattie Leger ( February 22-26, 2007). Hurricane Katrina: Could Your Facility Weather the Storm? Emergency Nurses Association Leadership Meeting, Boston, MA.
  • Shelley Thibeau (April 20, 2007). Neobytes - A Web-based Journal Club for the NICU. Evidence-Based Practice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Dr. Connie S. Logan Research Day, Co-sponsored by Rho Zeta Chapter & Epsilon Nu Chapters of STTI, Baton Rouge, LA.
  • Don Meyers (April 20, 2007). Impact of the Implementation of a Rapid Response Team on Resuscitation Events Outside of Critical Care Areas. Evidence-Based Practice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Dr. Connie S. Logan Research Day, Co-sponsored by Rho Zeta Chapter & Epsilon Nu Chapters of STTI, Baton Rouge, LA.
  • Shelley Thibeau, Margaret Pizzitola, Kathy Bell, Dawn Ricouard, H. Ginsberg, & M. Lawrence (July 12-14, 2007). Improving Medication Safety in the NICU. Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, "Quality and Safety", San Antonio, TX.
  • David Brennan (October 24-29, 2007). Implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Destination Therapy. 2007 Annual Convention of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Jane Braendel (October 24-29, 2007). How to Manage Psychiatric Patients on Medical Surgical Units. 2007 Annual Convention of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Nancy Davis, D. Simonson, Sylvia Hartmann, Nattie Leger, D. Boudreaux, & M. Zeringue (December 4, 2007). Mapping the Medication Administration Process via a Medical Business Process Modeling Tool to Identify Opportunities for Improvement. 42nd Mid-year Clinical Meeting of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, Las Vegas, NV.
  • E. Chacko, A. Cohen, K. Conrad, S. Deitelzweig, N. Ebrahim, Julie Foley, Sylvia Hartmann, Nancy Hennen, S. Kemmerly, Donald Martin, Mark Milner, & Susan Rodriguez (December 9-12, 2007). Ochsner Medical Center's Heart Failure Project. 19th Annual Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Orlando, FL.
  • Y. Bertaut, A. Campbell, E. Chacko, K. Conrad, R. Felberg, T. Gipson, J. Gleason, D. Goodlett, J. Hall, N. Hennen, S. Kemmerly, N. Leger, M. Milner, S. Rodriguez, L. Sandifer, L. Seoane, & D. Taylor, (December 9-12, 2007). Ochsner Medical Center's Rapid Response Team: CORE. 19th Annual Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Orlando, FL.
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