Clinical Leadership Project Presentations
Presented by the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL), Class of 2009 Candidates for a Master of Science Degree in Nursing
Camp Heart Center Auditorium, 4th Floor, UVA Medical Center


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

1:30 Bundling Up Clostridium Difficile:
Infection Control and Prevention in the
Surgical, Trauma, Burn ICU
Sarah Meeneghan, STBICU

1:50 “Maximization of Carecast Use as a Vital
Communication Tool, Patient Clinical
Database, and Bridge the Introduction of
EPIC”
Mary Hove
Thoracic Cardiovascular Post-Operative Unit

2:10 Moral Distress on the Nerancy
Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Jeffrey Reynolds, NNICU

2:30 Increasing Interpreter Use for the
Hospitalized Limited English Proficiency
Patient
Julia Valette, Medical ICU

2:50 Break

3:10 Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections in the Medical ICU: Preventing Infections
with Technical and Adaptive Solutions
Nathan Maust, MICU

3:30 Interdisciplinary Communication
Surrounding Off-Service Patients in the Coronary Care Unit
Tiffany Small, CCU

3:50 ICU Delirium Prevention and Assessment
in the Coronary Care Unit
Booker Moritz, CCU

4:10 Implementation of SBAR Communication
Tool on 5 Central
Kathryn Gasser, Digestive Health
Thursday, July 30, 2009

2:30 Interdisciplinary Infection Control in General Medicine

Anne Fishwick
Amanda Martinez
General Medicine

3:00 Mucositis Management Project

Sherry Kausch
Kristen Smith
Oncology

3:30 Break

3:50 Implementation of the New Shift Manager Role on General Medicine

Kate Casey
Meghan Sheely
General Medicine

4:20 Painfully Speaking: Improving Assessment and Management of Pain on 5 Central

Carolyne Muhenge
Digestive Health

4:40 The "Leave Work at Work" Project:
Mindfulness Practice in Managing Work-Related Stress

Tim Cunningham
Emergency Department





Friday, July 31, 2009

2:30 Born in the OR: The Mother/Baby Reunion Project
Lindsey Baskette
Sara Read
The Women’s Place

3:00 Investigating Screening for Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital
Rebecca Bullock
NICU
Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, Richmond

3:20 Infection Control: Ring Wearing by Nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Kerri Murphy
NICU

3:40 Break

4:00 Increasing the Clinicians’ Awareness and Utilization of the Integrative Medicine Program at the Cancer Center

Sylvia Metzger
Cancer Center
4:20 Enhancing Nursing Delivery of Patient- and Family-Centered Care Using Education and Documentation Tools: A Pilot Study

Elly Palmer
Surgical