On May 13, 109 DNP students celebrated their collaborative efforts with their practice partners and their project faculty advisors as they disseminated their DNP project outcomes through a virtual poster session. Live poster presentations took place in multiple Blackboard Collaborate rooms in front of faculty and other invited attendees.
"You changed structures, processes and outcomes," said Shannon Idzik, DNP '10, MS, '03, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, associate professor and associate dean for the DNP program, during the awards ceremony that concluded the presentations. "You changed systems and, most importantly, improved patient care. You improved education in the cath lab; moved entire units to small volume tubes, literally saving LITERS of human blood; increased vaccination rates in children and adults, saving countless lives; implemented sleep apnea screenings in pre-op areas; and, uncannily, prepared hospital structures and policies for mass casualties and pandemics long before you knew it was coming!"
The Best Poster Award went to Aleta Skaanland, DNP '20, BSN, RN, CCRN, (pictured) a graduate of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist specialty, for her poster "Increasing Nurse Participation During Interdisciplinary Rounds." Bim Akintade, PhD ’11, MS ’05, MBA, MHA, BSN ’03, CCRN, ACNP-BC, NEA-BC, assistant professor and associate dean for the MSN program, served as her project chair.
A full list of DNP projects can be viewed here.