Nursing

Publication and Presentations

Nursing Scholarly Works 2007

PODIUM PRESENTATIONS

Chris Simon, RN, BSN, staff nurse SMCA/NICU, presented “Down Syndrome: What’s There to Know.”

CNO Joyce Batcheller, RN, MSN, CNAA, Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, presented, “Transforming Care at the Bedside: Staff-led Innovation - Seton Family of Hospitals Case Study.” National Healthcare CNO Summit Hot Springs, Virginia

Colleen Mullins, RN, MSN, director of Nursing Practice, presented “It’s Not Just for Physicians: The Benefit Computerized Provider Order Entry Offers to Nursing.” Cerner Health Conference, Kansas City, Missouri

Debbie Fowler, RN, clinical manager of SMCA/L&D, presented “Manager’s Circle: Leading in Magnet Status with Evidence-Based Quality and Safety.” 2007 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, San Antonio, Texas

Gaylen Tips, RN, MSN, CEN, director of Trauma Services, University Medical Center at Brackenridge, presented “Tracking Inferior Vena Cava Filter (IVCF) Deployment in Trauma Patients.” Society of Trauma Nurses Annual conference, Las Vegas, Nevada

Karen Winsor, RN, MSN, CNS, APN for Brackenridge/Ortho-Trauma, presented “Limb Salvage Techniques using Vacuum-Assisted Closure.”

Kim Belcik, RN, BSN, Nursing Service research project coordinator, presented “Information Literacy: A Prerequisite to Evidence-Based Nursing.” 18th Annual Nursing Research Conference Sigma Theta Tau International
Vienna, Austria

Maria Tappan, RNC, University Medical Center at Brackenridge Acute care educator, presented “Look at the Data: Automating and Standardizing Data Reporting.” Cerner Health Conference, Kansas City, Missouri

The Perinatal Safety Workgroup including Judy Kitchens, MHA, Perinatal Safety project manager; Elaine Henry, RNC, director, Brackenridge Perinatal Services; Ann Hearn, BSN, RNC, SMCA/Maternity clinical supervisor; Linda Forster, RN, SNW/Maternity Continuing Education coordinator; and Alice Vedder, RNC, educator/charge nurse, SSW/L&D, presented “Crisis Simulation to Improve Communication and Teamwork.”

Rita Kluny, RN, BSN, CHTP/I, neonatal staff nurse/SPS, presented “Healing Touch for Babies.”

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

University Medical Center at Brackenridge Critical Response Team Nurses Sandy Rankin, RN, CCRN, and Sandy Schuch, RN, CEN, presented “Prevalence of Palliative Care Needs in a Community-Based Public Hospital.” 10th-Annual International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research European Congress, Dublin, Ireland

Judy Kitchens, MHA, Perinatal Safety project manager, presented “Achieving Zero Preventable Birth Injury by Implementing ‘High-Reliability’ Obstetrical Units.”

Julia Chang, RN, MSN, staff nurse, Brackenridge/ED, presented “Safely Caring for More Patients - Faster - in a Busy ED.”

Karen Perry, RN, BSN, CPAN, Dell Children’s Medical Center PeriAnesthesia specialty educator, presented, “Controlling Chaos in a Crisis: Organization of the Malignant Hyperthermia Cart.” Mayo Clinic’s 2007 Quest for Quality Conference, Rochester, Minnesota

Martha Gooding, RN, BSN, CCRN, and Martha Wald, RN, CCRN, presented “It Takes More Than a Magic Wand: Staff Nurses Impact the Design of the New ICU in Our Small Community Hospital.” Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia

Martha Gooding, RN, BSN, CCRN, presented “Marshalling Reinforcements: Facilitating Staff Safety in a Six-Bed ICU in a Small Community Hospital.” Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia

Martha Wald, RN, CCRN, presented “You Can Breathe Now: A Teaching Tool for Families of Ventilated Patients in ICU.” Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia

Mary Ann Whicker, RN, BSN, Network Nursing Education Coordinator, presented “Failure to Rescue.”

Pam Castles, RN, MSN, Ambulatory specialty education coordinator and chair, Ambulatory Services Specialty Council; and Lyn Trott, RN, BSN, CPN, Network Nursing Education coordinator Pediatrics, presented, “Competency, Compliance and Collaboration.” 32nd Annual American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, Las Vegas, Nevada

Pam Castles, RN, MSN, Ambulatory specialty education coordinator and chair of the Ambulatory Specialty Council, presented “The Co-Creation of Excellence: One Specialty’s Journey.” 2007 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, San Antonio, Texas

Susan Ourston, RN, MSN, SSW/clinical manager for Women’s Services, presented “All About the Baby” and “Do No Harm: High Reliability with Magnesium Sulfate.” Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress Washington, DC

Tiffany Thornton, RN, CMSRN, clinical manager, SMCA/Medical-General Surgery-Gyn, presented a poster on the “SWAT Team in Transforming Care at the Bedside.” Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Todd Langton, RN, CNOR, Perioperative Specialty Education coordinator, presented “Through the Looking Glass: The Future of Pediatric Nursing.” 14th Annual Children’s Hospital Association of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas

Vickie Hooper, RN, BA, CCRN, Pediatric ICU educator, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, presented “Getting to Zero Pressure Ulcers: Pediatric SKIN Bundle Progress After One Year.”

LeeAnn Christie, RN, CCRN, nurse research, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, present “There’s an Oncology Patient in my PICU. What do I do? Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia

Jo Keisman, RN, MBA, senior director of nursing, Seton Northwest Hospital, presented “Backseat Leadership in Transforming Care at the Bedside.” Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, Las Vegas Nevada

PUBLICATION

Betty Thornell, RN, MSN, CCRN, director of Critical Care Services at University Medical Center at Brackenridge, and Mary Viney, RN, MSN, CNAA, vice president of Nursing Systems & Network Accreditation, as well as UTASoN professors Angela Clark, PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN, FAHA, and Corrine Grimes, PhD, RN, CNS, authored “Developing Rapid Response Teams: Best Practices Through Collaboration.” Clinical Nurse Specialist, Volume 21, Issue 2

Kenn Kirksey, RN, PhD, APRN, BC, CNS, director of Nursing Research, published “A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an HIV/AIDS Symptom Management Manual.”

Vice President of Nursing Systems & Network Accreditation Mary Viney, RN, MSN, CNAA, and Seton Southwest Hospital Senior Director of Nursing Nikki Rivers, RN, MBA, published “Frontline Managers Lead an Innovative Improvement Model.” Nurse Management, Volume 38, Issue 6

Rita Kluny, RN, BSN, CHTP/I, neonatal staff nurse/SPS, authored “Healing Touch for Babies.”

LeeAnn Christie, RN, CCRN, nurse research, coauthored “Comfort and confidence levels of health care professionals providing pediatric palliative care in the intensive care unit.” Journal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care Volume 3, Issue 3.

CNO Joyce Batcheller, RN, MSN, CNAA, Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow,”Maximize your impact with leadership domains”, Nurse Management Volume 38, Issue 8.

RECOGNITION

Dawn Parsons, RN, CSN, clinical manager, Shivers Cancer Programs/Seton Cancer Screening and Seton Cancer Care teams and the Dermatology Clinic at University Medical Center at Brackenridge, and Diane Lynch, RN, BSN, BBA, staff nurse, Children's/NICU, were named among the 2007 TNA Fab Five.

Susan Crane, RNC, MSN, MBA-HCM, director of the Seton Network Neonatal System, was honored with the March of Dimes Texas Excellence in Perinatal Nursing Award.

Sandy Rankin, RN, CCRN, gave the Graduation Address to the 2007 nursing graduates at
Austin Community College School of Nursing December Commencement

RESEARCH

Joyce Batcheller, MSN, RN, CNAA
Antoinette Rowin, MSN, RN
“Versant”
In progress

Joyce Batcheller, RN, MSN, CNAA
Mary Viney, RN, MSN, CNAA
“Health Alliance Safety Partnership (HASP)”
In progress

LeeAnn Christie, RN, CCRN
“Reducing catheter associated bloodstream infections initiative (NACHRI)”
In progress

LeeAnn Christie, RN, CCRN
“PICU Focus group BSI surveillance variability survey project (NACHRI)”
In progress

LeeAnn Christie, RN, CCRN
“Orientation and roles of APNs in PICU setting (NACHRI)”
In progress

LeeAnn Christie, RN, CCRN
“Respiratory failure after bone marrow transplant (PALISI)”
In progress

Lee Ann Christie, RN, CCRN
“Pediatric acute lung injury mechanical ventilation strategies (PALISI)”
In progress

Lee Ann Christie, RN, CCRN
“Critical pertussis in U.S. children (PALISI)”
Approval

Kenn Kirksey, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, CNS
“Correlates of Self-Perceived Job Satisfaction among Licensed Vocational and Registered Nurses”
Completed

Vickie Simpson-Hooper, RN
“Skin integrity in critically ill and injured children (NACRI)”
In progress

Dawn Parsons, RN
“National Cancer Institute: Community Cancer Center Program”
Approval

Dawn Parsons, RN
“Texas Cancer Council: Seton Cancer Care Team Rehabilitation Program”
In progress

Dawn Parsons, RN
“Promoting healthy behaviors in low income cancer survivors”
In progress

Chris Abbyad, MSN, RN, University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing
“African American Women and childbirth classes”
In progress

Joyce Batcheller, MSN, RN, CNAA
“Critical Evaluation of the Texas Nursing Competency Consortium (TNCC in collaboration with the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center”
Approval

Lauren Brandt, RN, APN
Susan Fifer, RN
“The Missy Project: Genetic Screening for Aneurysms”
In progress

Lauren Brandt, RN, APN
Laura Winslett, RN, APN
“Hemicraniectomy Clinical Outcomes”
In progress

Lauren Brandt, RN, APN
Laura Winslett, RN, APN
“Hypothermia Chart review to determine research”
In progress

Kathy Griffin, RN
Mary Decker
Kathy Kaut, RN
“Fatigue of Quadriceps Muscle Synergy in Spinal Cord Injury Persons during Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling”
Ongoing

Lauren Brandt, RN, APN
Kathy Griffin, RN
“Recovery Spinal Cord Injury Protocols – Design Protocol”
Ongoing

Kathy Griffin, RN
Kathy Kaut, RN
“Functional Electrical Stimulation in Spinal Cord Injury Patients: Pilot Study”
Ongoing

Angela Clark, PhD, RN, CNS, Associate Professor at UT Austin School of Nursing
“Healthy Heart Study for People Living with Chronic Heart Failure “
In progress

Angela Clark, PhD, RN, CNS, Associate Professor at UT Austin School of Nursing
“Sleep Disorders in People Living with Heart Failure Research Project”
In progress

Dr. Mary Beth Cishek
Nichole Jones, CNS
“Certican (drug) Study”
In progress