Submissions from 2025
A Hot Topic: Standardization of Fire Safety Training in Perioperative Areas, Megan Benner MSN-Ed, RN, CPAN, NPD-BC
Adult Patient Perceptions of Nurse Listening Behaviors in an Ambulatory Surgery Setting, Kelly E. Lancaster, Jacqueline Bourque, and Kristiina Hyrkas
Submissions from 2024
Early identification of vascular access site complications and frequent heart rate and blood pressure monitoring after cardiac catheterization: A scoping review, Janelle Beaudry Clark and Eira Hyrkas
Call to action: Blueprint for change in acute and critical care nursing, Martha A. Curley, Margarete L. Zalon, Maureen A. Seckel, Anne W. Alexandrov, Lauren R. Sorce, and Devin Carr
The ILC Maine statement: Time for the fundamental care [r]evolution, Alison Kitson, Devin Carr, Rebecca Feo, Tiffany Conroy, and Lianne Jeffs
The Challenge: No Harm Index Relay Race, Hannah Taylor and Kate Campbell
Submissions from 2023
First-trimester occupational exposures and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among US nurses, I Agarwal, S Wang, J Stuart, S Strohmaier, E Schernhammer, J Rich-Edwards, and J H. Kang
The Administration of Tranexamic Acid For Complex Spine Surgery, Kristen Jockel, Amanda Lee, Marianne S. Cosgrove, Drew Reilly, and Shirvinda Wijesekera
Spiritual Care as a Core Component of Palliative Nursing, Megan Miller, Katie Addicott, and William E. Rosa
Submissions from 2022
'No more heroes': The ILC Oxford Statement on fundamental care in times of crises, Alison L. Kitson, Tiffany Conroy, Lianne Jeffs, Devin Carr, Getty J. Huisman-Dewaal, Asa Muntlin, Eva Jangland, Mette Grønkjaer, and Jenny Parr
Assessing the influence of patient language preference on 30 day hospital readmission risk from home health care: A retrospective analysis, Allison Squires, Chenjuan Ma, Sarah Miner, Penny Feldman, Elizabeth A. Jacobs, and Simon A. Jones
Submissions from 2021
Patient and family perceptions of an inpatient journal, Marguerite Peggy Anderson and Kristiina Hyrkas
The Value of Adapting Clinical Reasoning Teaching Methods, Devin Carr
Decreasing Unplanned Extubations in the Neonatal ICU, Deborah A. Igo, Kimberly Kingsley, Elisabeth Malaspina, and Alan Picarillo
Case Report of Cardiopulmonary Arrest During Pregnancy due to Opioid Overdose, Tracey E. McMillan, Sarah Austin, and Kristiina Hyrkas
End-of-Life Care: Improving Communication and Reducing Stress, Joan Carr Myers and Kristiina Hyrkas
Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Language Pathology in the Emergency Department: Specialty Consult Services to Enhance the Care of Older Adults, Elizabeth Pontius and Rob Anderson
Can hospital adult code-teams and individual members perform high-quality CPR? A multicenter simulation-based study incorporating an educational intervention with CPR feedback, Jesse M. Rideout, Edwin Ozawa, Darlene Bourgeois, Micheline Chipman, and Frank Overly
Submissions from 2020
Modeling emergency department nursing workload in real time: An exploratory study., Edwin L Clopton and Eira Kristiina Hyrkäs
Dysphagia After Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Case of Aspirated Dentures., Elizabeth J Hamilton, Casey MacVane, and Tania D Strout
Evidence-Based Education for Perianesthesia RNs to Increase Knowledge and Change Attitudes of Electroconvulsive Therapy., Lois M Hayworth and Kristiina E Hyrkas
Code Blue in the COVID-19 Patient, Jeffrey A. Holmes
Delirium in Older Patients With COVID-19 Presenting to the Emergency Department., Maura Kennedy, Benjamin K I Helfand, Ray Yun Gou, Sarah L Gartaganis, Margaret Webb, J Michelle Moccia, Stacey N Bruursema, Belinda Dokic, Brigid McCulloch, Hope Ring, Justin D Margolin, Ellen Zhang, Robert Anderson, Rhonda L Babine, Tammy Hshieh, Ambrose H Wong, R Andrew Taylor, Kathleen Davenport, Brittni Teresi, Tamara G Fong, and Sharon K Inouye
New Graduate Orientation Evaluation: Are There Any Best Practices Out There?: A Scoping Review, Jennifer Laflamme and Kristiina Hyrkas
Academic Emergency Medicine Faculty Experiences with Racial and Sexual Orientation Discrimination., Dave W Lu, Ava Pierce, Joshua Jauregui, Sheryl Heron, Michelle D Lall, Jennifer Mitzman, Danielle M McCarthy, Nicholas D Hartman, and Tania D Strout
Submissions from 2019
Mobilizing older adults: A multi-site, exploratory and observational study on patients enrolled in the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP)., Rhonda L. Babine, E Kristiina Hyrkäs, Caitlin G. McKenzie, and Heidi R. Wierman
Mobilizing older adults: A multi-site, exploratory and observational study on patients enrolled in the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP)., Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Caitlin G Mckenzie, and Heidi R Wierman
Quantitative Analysis of Surgical Residency Reform: Using Case-Logs to Evaluate Resident Experience., Sarah B Cairo, Wendy Craig, Caitlin Gutheil, Paul K J Han, Kristiina Hyrkas, Lynda Macken, and James F Whiting
Reducing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) by Decreasing Use of Indwelling Catheters, Joanne Chapman, Brenda Clark, Brian Jumper, and Carrie Strick
Reducing Length of Stay for Mental Health Patients, Faye Collins and Nancijean Goudey
Did You Wash Your Hands?, Kelley Coyne
Maternal holding during therapeutic hypothermia for infants with neonatal encephalopathy is feasible., Alexa Craig, Kyle Deerwester, Leah Fox, Julia Jacobs, and Scott Evans
A Lesson in Screening For Hereditary Kidney Cancer Syndromes., Cindy Curry
Use of Donor Milk to Improve Exclusive Breast-Milk Feeding Rates for Newborns on the Mother–Baby Unit...2019 AWHONN Convention, June 8-12, 2019, Atlanta, Georgia, Sharon Craig Economides and Jennifer Johnson
Innovative Interprofessional Improvement Project Increases Adherence to Vitamin D Supplementation After Newborn Discharge...2019 AWHONN Convention, June 8-12, 2019, Atlanta, Georgia, Jamie Fey, Noah Diminick, Heidi E. Morin, Kathleen Cyr, Jonathan Bourque, and Patricia J. Crosby
Predictors for Discharge After Robotic Hysterectomy – A Retrospective Analysis, Heidi Fox and Kristiina Hyrkas
Abdominal Pain After a Football Game., Heidi M Goddard, Casey Z MacVane, and Tania D Strout
Prognostic value of a modified surprise question designed for use in the emergency department setting., Samir A Haydar, Tania D Strout, Alicia G Bond, and Paul Kj Han
Predicting emergency department orders with multilabel machine learning techniques and simulating effects on length of stay., Haley S Hunter-Zinck, Jordan S Peck, Tania D Strout, and Stephan A Gaehde
Maternal Overdose That Results in Respiratory Arrest During Pregnancy...2019 AWHONN Convention, June 8-12, 2019, Atlanta, Georgia., Tracey McMillan and Sarah M. Austin
Increasing Referrals to a Community Paramedicine Fall Prevention Program Through Implementation of a Daily Management System., Julianne B. Ontengco
Association of Emergency Clinicians' Assessment of Mortality Risk With Actual 1-Month Mortality Among Older Adults Admitted to the Hospital., Kei Ouchi, Tania Strout, Samir Haydar, Olesya Baker, Wei Wang, Rachelle Bernacki, Rebecca Sudore, Jeremiah D Schuur, Mara A Schonberg, Susan D Block, and James A Tulsky
Teaching-learning partnership between nurses and long-term renal dialysis patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis: a qualitative study., Nicole M T Radmore and Kristiina Hyrkäs
Neurological pupil index and pupillary light reflex by pupillometry predict outcome early after cardiac arrest., Richard R Riker, Mary E Sawyer, Victoria G Fischman, Teresa May, Christine Lord, Ashley Eldridge, and David B Seder
Trying to do what is best: a qualitative study of maternal-infant bonding and neonatal abstinence syndrome., Katherin Rockefeller, Lynda C Macken, and Alexa Craig
Improvement of CHF patients’ fluid restriction education through self-efficacy, Johanna Ruckey and William Fyler
Feasibility of pre-operative mTOR inhibitor Sirolimus in children and young adults with desmoid tumor, Stephanie Verwys, Clara Magyar, Kathleen Glick, Douglas Hawkins, Archana Sharma, Brenda Weigel, Katherine Chastain, Joseph Khoury, Michele Manalang, Sarah Dry, Noah Federman, and Aaron Weiss
Missing pieces of the retention puzzle., Tammy Whitney-Dumais and Kristiina Hyrkäs
Submissions from 2018
Mother Baby Discharge Process, Zander Abbott, Maria Tkacz, Suellen Clark, Justyna Coleman, Dave Cox, Kathy Cyr, Sharon Economides, Jen Johnson, Stacy Lamore, Mary McNulty, Joy Moody, Heidi Morin, Cathy Palleschi, Josh Sinkin, Stephen Tyzik, and Helen Wild
Falls and delirium in an acute care setting: A retrospective chart review before and after an organisation‐wide interprofessional education., Rhonda L. Babine, Kristina E. Hykräs, Sarah Hallen, Heidi R. Wierman, Deborah A. Bachand, Joanne L. Chapman, and Valerie J. Fuller
Falls and delirium in an acute care setting: A retrospective chart review before and after an organisation-wide interprofessional education., Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Sarah Hallen, Heidi R Wierman, Deborah A Bachand, Joanne L Chapman, and Valerie J Fuller
Developing the Clinical Nurse Leader Survey Instrument: A Modified Delphi Study., Miriam Bender, Alice Avolio, Patricia Baker, James L Harris, Nancy Hilton, Lisle Hites, Linda Roussel, Bobbi Shirley, Patricia L Thomas, and Marjory Williams
Exploring parent expectations of neonatal therapeutic hypothermia., Alexa K. Craig, Roslyn Gerwin, Janelle Bainter, Scott Evans, and James Christine
Stress and symptoms of depression in fathers of infants admitted to the NICU., Helen Cyr-Alves, Lynn Macken, and Kristiina Hyrkas
Severe right upper chest pain · tender right sternoclavicular joint · Dx?, Louis Eubank, Samantha Wood, and Tania Strout
Emergency Medicine Trainee Burnout Is Associated With Lower Patients' Satisfaction With Their Emergency Department Care., Dave W Lu, Paul Logan Weygandt, Carrie Pinchbeck, and Tania D Strout
Current Practices of Concussion Management in Primary Care: A Survey: 3381 Board #: 250 June 2 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM...American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, May 29-June 2, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota, William L. Patterson, Kristine Karlson, William Dexter, Deborah Johnson, Christina Holt, Ardis Olson, and Amy Haskins
Patient Throughput Time in the Emergency Department: Can Obtaining Blood Specimens in a Pre-hospital Setting Increase Timeliness?, Arielle Rancourt
Patient Throughput Time in the Emergency Department: Can Obtaining Blood Specimens in a Pre-hospital Setting Increase Timeliness?, Arielle Rancourt
MMC Fall with Injury Prevention Project, M. Wiggins, Joanne Chapman, Laurie Wilson, Rhonda Babine, Jennifer Laflamme, Melissa Vanmeter, Erica Weightman, Natalie Talbot, Kristine Hykras, Marie Hodge, and Angela Smith
Physicians’ Perceptions of Hope and How Hope Informs Interactions With Patients: A Qualitative, Exploratory Study., Airin Wolf, Catherine F. Garlid, and Kristiina Hyrkas
Submissions from 2017
Social Media in Nurse Anesthesia: A Model of a Reproducible Educational Podcast., Kristin Andrejco, Jon Lowrance, Brad Morgan, Cassidy Padgett, and Shawn Collins
Communication Of Medication Side Effects In An Acute Care Hospital, Deb Bachand, Rachel Caiola, R6 Neurology Med-Surg Unit, Haley Pelletier, Brendan Lilley, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, and Stephen Tyzik
Development of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Order Set at Maine Medical Center, Sarah Bockian, Emily Esslinger, and Martha Weatherhead
Delirium Reduction Strategies For The Critically Ill, June Chaves, Sam Canonico, Will Cheney, Tammy Corey, Gil Fraser, Alex Kowalewski, Jen Low, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Haley Pelletier, Cathy Palleschi, Stephen Tyzik, Suneela Nayak, and Ruth Hanselman
Survey of neonatal intensive care unit nurse attitudes toward therapeutic hypothermia treatment., Alexa Craig, Christine James, Janelle Bainter, Francis L Lucas, Scott Evans, and John Glazer
Reducing Acute Kidney Injury Due to Contrast Material: How Nurses Can Improve Patient Safety., Peggy Lambert, Kristine Chaisson, Susan Horton, Carmen Petrin, Emily Marshall, Sue Bowden, Lynn Scott, Sheila Conley, Janette Stender, Gertrude Kent, Ellen Hopkins, Brian Smith, Anita Nicholson, Nancy Roy, Brenda Homsted, Cindy Downs, Cathy S Ross, Jeremiah Brown, and Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group
Evidence based nutritional management of adult patients with severe burns, Ashley Lazarz and Samantha Waller
Pediatric patient-centered transitions from hospital to home: improving the discharge medication process., Leah A Mallory, Noah P Diminick, Jonathan P Bourque, Meredith R Bryden, Jessica L Miller, Nancy M Nystrom, Melanie R Lord, and Lorraine L McElwain
Does medication safety and diversion education improve medication securement practices in SCU compared to current practice?, Natasha R. Stankiewicz
The impact of an electronic best practice advisory on brain computed tomography ordering in an academic emergency department., Donald Szlosek, Samir A Haydar, Rachel J Williams, Ryan C Jackson, Christine L Hein, Nathan Mick, and Tania D Strout
Strategies To Improve Interdisciplinary Communication In An Acute Care Inpatient Pediatric Unit, Sarah Thompson; Haley Pelletier; Barbara Bush Children's Hospital-Inpatient, Maine Medical Center; Suneela Nayak; Ruth Hanselman; and Stephen Tyzik
Submissions from 2016
The role of clinical nurse specialists in the implementation and sustainability of a practice change., Rhonda L Babine, Cindy Honess, Heidi R Wierman, and Sarah Hallen
The role of clinical nurse specialists in the implementation and sustainability of a practice change., Rhonda L. Babine, Cindy Honess, Heidi R. Wierman, and Sarah Hallen
Falls in A Tertiary Care Hospital-Association With Delirium: A Replication Study., Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Deborah A Bachand, Joanne L Chapman, Valerie J Fuller, Cynthia A Honess, and Heidi R Wierman
A Retrospective Chart Review of Bleeding After Circumcision to Build Evidence-Based Practice in Newborn Care., Patircia Crosby and Julie V. Fortier
Deep Tissue Pressure Injury (DTPI): Predictors and Risk Factors During Hospitalization. A Literature Review, Tricia Foley
Inadequacy of Headache Management After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage., Elizabeth K Glisic, Linda Gardiner, Linda Josti, Elizabeth Dermanelian, Sandra Ridel, John Dziodzio, Barbara McCrum, Ben Enos, Patricia Lerwick, Gilles L Fraser, Paul Muscat, Richard R Riker, Robert Ecker, Jeffrey Florman, and David B Seder
Geographic access to interventional cardiology services in one rural state., James P Rhudy, Anne W Alexandrov, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Rita A Jablonski-Jaudon, Erica R Pryor, Henry E Wang, and Marie A Bakitas
The evolving paradigm of individualized postresuscitation care after cardiac arrest., David B. Seder and Christine Lord
The evolving paradigm of individualized postresuscitation care after cardiac arrest., David B Seder, Christine Lord, and David J Gagnon
Abstract 649: Biobank collaboration enables cancer modeling with high quality biospecimens and data, Lindsay Shopland, Ivette Emery, Todd Hoffert, Rise Aalberg, Petra Helbig, Susan E. LaPierre, Vicky Sanders, Kevin D. Mills, Tara Hill, Aysha Sheikh, Michael Jones, Anne Breggia, and Jens Rueter
Evidence-Based Interview Strategy for New Nurses., Kelly Strout, Jeff Nevers, Deborah Bachard, and Sarah P. Varney
Submissions from 2015
Barriers to employment for drug dependent postpartum women., Kelley Bowden and Daisy Goodman
Education and simulation training of pediatric intensive care unit nurses to care for open heart surgery patients., Jacqueline M Campbell
Promoting a perception of quietness on a telemetry unit., Cecilia Inman
Effectiveness of regionalized systems for stroke and myocardial infarction., James P Rhudy, Marie A Bakitas, Kristiina Hyrkäs, Rita A Jablonski-Jaudon, Erica R Pryor, Henry E Wang, and Anne W Alexandrov
Survival following Ommaya reservoir placement for neoplastic meningitis., Marie Roguski, Anand Rughani, Chih-Ta Lin, Deborah A Cushing, Jeffrey E Florman, and Julian K Wu
Coming Home to Nursing, Nancy Walters
Submissions from 2014
The Development and Implementation of an Obstetrical Triage Tool to Prioritize Patients and Track Process Times by Risk Categories., Devdra Griffin and Kristiina Hyrkas
A comparison of usual care, a patient-centred education intervention and motivational interviewing to improve medication adherence and readmissions of adults in an acute-care setting., Kristiina Hyrkas and Marjorie Wiggins
Use of transesophageal echocardiography to avoid a never event., Paul Lennon, Douglas Salvador, Reed Quinn, and Kathleen Black
Retention, fatigue, burnout and job satisfaction: new aspects and challenges., Lynn Macken and Kristiina Hyrkas
Work climate, communication and culture--workforce issues and staff retention., Lynn Macken and Kristiina Hyrkas
Peripheral brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in bulimia nervosa: a systematic review., Kathryn Phillips, Kathleen Keane, and Barbara E Wolfe