On May 11, 131 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 increased use of manometers in the OR, improved sleep in the ICU, screened social determinants of health in primary care Medicare Patients, you improved quality of life in elderly through meal time, improved breastfeeding in the NICU, increased screening for child maltreatment, individualized care plans and saved tens of thousands of dollars by reducing unnecessary ABG’s … to name a few.”
The Best Poster Award went to:
Wendy Zhang, DNP ’21, RN, CCCTM (pictured, left)
Family Nurse Practitioner specialty
"Social Determinants of Health Screening in a Suburban Primary Care Setting"
Project Faculty Advisor: Katherine Fornili, DNP ’16, MPH, RN, CARN, FIAAN
Clinical Site Representative: Rita Pabla, MD
Faculty Second Reader: Lynn Oswald, PhD, RN
Runners up (pictured, right, top to bottom) were:
Megan Wanzer, DNP ’21, BSN '13, RN, CCRN-CMC-CSC
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist specialty
“Implementation of an Arterial Blood Gas Indication Algorithm in Cardiac Surgery”
Project Faculty Advisor: Tracey Wilson, CRNP
Clinical Site Representative: Stacey Foertsch, BSN, RN
Faculty Second Reader: Veronica Gutchell, DNP, RN, CNS, CRNP
Lucy Rose Ruccio, DNP ’21, BSN '15, RN-NIC
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner specialty
“Discarding Residuals: Implementing a Feeding Algorithm in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit”
Project Faculty Advisor: Jan Wilson, DNP, CRNP, NNP-BC, FAANP
Clinical Site Representative: Louise Hanssen, DNP, CRNP
Faculty Second Reader: Jana Goodwin, PhD, RN, CNE