Works from 2019
CLABSI Prevention through Prevention Huddles and CLABSI Risk Assessment and Prevention Form in Electronic Medical Record, Tara Benton, Barb Haney, Lacey Bergerhofer, Yolanda Ballam, and Kaitlyn Hoch (Poster)
The Kanga-Croo: Nurse Resident Champions Creating Momentum for Improvement, Brett Butler, Jacob Burden, Carly Creekmore, Blair Griffin, Taylor Godemann, Taylor Hagen, Theresa Koelling, Mary Anne Kucera, Halle Magid, Makenna Miller, Monica Page, Mary Riffel, Madison Stebbins, Sarah Stokes, and Skylar Suppes (Poster)
A Multifaceted Approach to Improve Quarterly Visit Rates at a Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Care Center, Paula Capel, Jessica Banks, Micaela McKenna, Ashley Andrews, and Christopher M. Oermann (Poster)
Optimizing Antibiotic Management of Pediatric Acute Otitis Media in an Emergency Department, Alicia Daggett, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, Nirav Shastri, Patricia Phillips, and Rana E. El Feghaly (Poster)
"Will Using Telemedicine with Medical Command during Situational Awareness Escalation Add Value to Patient Care?", Kathy Farrell, Bradley Bishop, Lisa Carney, Matthew B. Johnson, Natalie Masters, Lisa Pruitt, Sherry McCool, and Laura Fitzmaurice (Poster)
Improving End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Payment Total Performance Scores, Shelly Guyer, Gina Gregg, and Bradley Warady (Poster)
Lighting the Way to Ensure Safe Transition Home, Barb Haney, Ashley Mirabile, Dianne Wilderson, Beckie Palmer, Ashley Lewis, Cris Mills, and Eugenia K. Pallotto (Poster)
Implementing Treat to Target Approach in the Care of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Julia G. Harris, Jamie Holland, Emily Fox, Leslie Favier, and Ashley M. Cooper (Poster)
Increasing Rates of Breastmilk Use at Time of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Discharge: An Improvement Project in a Midwest Level IV NICU, Kathleen Hortenstine, Teresa Fulk, Stephanie Callis, Kyla Galate, and Beckie Palmer (Poster)
Trauma Informed Care: Improving Staff Morale on 6 Henson, Kara Humphreys, Katherine Karstens, Kortney Neiderhauser, Briana Pina, Payton Tallent, Stephanie Assad, and Madison Dexter (Poster)
Safe to Sleep in the ICN, Megan Kelly, Alexandra (Lexi) Van Noy, Molly Kruse, Megan English, Hannah Culbertson, Brianne Truitt, Ziryan Salihparkhy, Jenny McKee, and Brecklyn Findley (Poster)
Collaboration Between Rheumatology Clinic and Specialty Pharmacy to Positively Impact Patient Experience and Hospital Stewardship, Alaina Linafelter, Julia G. Harris, Robert Herr, Stephanie Quinn, and Ashley M. Cooper (Poster)
Improving Women, Infants, and Children Participation Using Quality Improvement Methodology, Samuel Little, Sarah Stone, Jeffrey D. Colvin, Sidney Smith, Brenda Hilboldt, Laura Williams, Patricia Marein, Keith Mann, and Kristi Williams (Poster)
Safe Sleep in the NICU, Ashley Mirabile, Barb Haney, Dianne Wilderson, Beckie Palmer, Ashley Domsch, and Eugenia K. Pallotto (Poster)
Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in High Risk Patients Across Multiple Specialty Divisions, Rachel Moran, Julia G. Harris, Claire Olsen, Rana El Feghaly, Liset Olarte, Douglas Blowey, and Luke A. Harris (Poster)
Using a Standardized Admission Handoff (I-PASS) to Improve Communication Between Pediatric Urgent Care and Inpatient Providers, Amanda Nedved, Kathleen Berg, and Amanda Montalbano (Poster)
Making the Management of Acute Otitis Media a SNAP, Cassandra Newell, Donna Wyly, Tanis Stewart, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, and Rana El Feghaly (Poster)
Development and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Process for Scarce Resource Allocation, Richard K. Ogden Jr., Daniel L. Millspaugh, and Brian O'Neal (Poster)
Improving Bedside Nurse Engagement in Quality Improvement (QI) Projects, Beckie Palmer, Sarah Carboneau, Ashley Domsch, Barb Haney, Brandy Huitt, Ashley Lewis, Ashley Mirabile, Allison Ronco, and Dianne Wilderson (Poster)
Improving Care of the Small Baby, Beckie Palmer, Abdebayo Oshodi, Brandy Huitt, Kaylee Hurt, Pamela Kliethermes, Trudy Koons, Patricia Lanzer, Ashley Mirabile, Allyson Owen, Christian Anthony Schneider, Betsi Anderson, and Steven Olsen (Poster)
Pediatric Surgery Opioid Prescription Follow-up, Gadison Quick, Nathaniel Aviles, Gabriel Melgarejo, Hunjung Choi, and Elizabeth Edmundson (Poster)
6 Hall Team Norms: It's Our Patient, Mallory Rittel, Markeyta Brown, Ron Chenoweth, Marcy Page, Chelsi Peterzalek, and Amanda Woldruff (Poster)
Improving Malnutrition Identification in the Outpatient Setting, Kristi Thaete and Karen Stephens (Poster)
Increasing Kangaroo Care in a New Small Baby Unit, Dianne Wilderson; Barb Haney; Ashley Mirabile; Beckie Palmer; Jenny Heltzer; Erin Keith-Chancy BSN,CCRN; Brooke Smith; Christian Anthony Schneider; and Abdebayo Oshodi (Poster)
Assessment and Improvement of Data Collection Errors Through Inter-departmental Collaboration, Charlott Williams, Kelli L. Behr, Mary Moffatt, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Poster)
Decreasing Length of Stay in Pediatric Urgent Care with Electronic Discharge Instructions, Jennifer Wooster, Aimy Patel, Brian R. Lee, and Amanda Nedved (Poster)
Works from 2018
Decreasing Cardiac Arrests in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Jeremy Affolter, Kathlyn Baharaeen, Mari Hanson, Lisa Laddish, Amy Bohm, Lindsey Bradbury, Megan McGhee, Anne Leroy, Hannah Cunningham, Michelle Waddell, Tiffany Mullen, Kimberly Lucas, William Douglas, Angel Pope, Marita Thompson, Paul N. Bauer, Erica Molitor-Kirsch, Tara Benton, and Laura Miller-Smith (Poster)
Sepsis: Triage Triggers, Outcomes Quicker, Rylee Ainge, Mackenzie Flaws, Natalie Heim, Emily Herndon, Hayley Norris, and Amy Scott (Poster)
Customizing a Pressure Injury Bundle Based on Unit-Specific Data, Kathlyn Baharaeen, Kimberly Palmer, Jamie Leroy, Julia Crouch, Bryan Limer, Gianna Swift, and Kate Gibbs (Poster)
Leveraging Human Factors to Improve CLABSI: Implementation of a Central Line Dressing Change Kit, Tara Benton, Barb Haney, Lacey Bergerhofer, Susan Burns, Yolanda Ballam, and Kaitlyn Hoch (Poster)
The Lifecycle of a K-card: Improving Data Collection While Improving Bundle Reliability, Tara Benton, Barb Haney, Lacey Bergerhofer, Susan Burns, Yolanda Ballam, and Kaitlyn Hoch (Poster)
Implementing Lean Daily Management System to Improve CVOR First Case On-Time Starts, Haley Borchers, Kelly Fehlhafer, Barbara Mueller, Jessica Nichols, Sarah Talken, Mary Hunter, and Kenneth Sam (Poster)
Venous Thromboembolism Risk Stratification via Electronic Medical Record Classification, Shannon L. Carpenter, Laura Miller-Smith, Brittney Hunter, Ashley Duty, Justin Sheets, Yuri Tupa, and Kate Gibbs (Poster)
Medication Education in the Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic, Ashley M. Cooper and Julia G. Harris (Poster)
Peer Accountability Improves Performance for Daily CHG Bathing to Reduce CLABSIs, Sara Crawford, Stacy Pennington, Jeremy Affolter, Kathlyn Baharaeen, Paul N. Bauer, Tara Benton, Shekinah Hensley, Tiffany Mullen, and Michelle Waddell (Poster)
Shortening the Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy in Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Alicia Daggett and Brandi Missel (Poster)
Sustainability and Outcomes of a Standardized Aminoglycoside Induced Ototoxicity Monitoring Algorithm, Claire Elson, Christopher M. Oermann, Michelle Weltman, and Ellen Meier (Poster)
Improving HPV Immunization by Age 13 in Over 20 Kansas City Pediatric Practices, Luke A. Harris and Douglas Blowey (Poster)
Financial Stewardship Through Appropriate Critical Care Documentation, Shobhit Jain, Nirav Shastri, Gregory P. Conners, and Irene Walsh (Poster)
Utilizing a Situation Awareness Huddle Tool to Decrease Code Blue Events, Matthew B. Johnson, Lisa Carney, Cheryl Powers, Bradley Bishop, Natalie Masters, Becky Paulsen, Andrea Raymond, and Paul N. Bauer (Poster)
A Healthcare Improvement Initiative to Increase Multidisciplinary Pain Management Referrals of Youth with Sickle Cell Disease, Rae Ann Kingsley, Gail Robertson, Lynne Covitz, and Areli Ramphal (Poster)
Reducing Serious Harm Pressure Injuries: Cause Analysis Through Bedside Huddles, Cathy Bandelier Laverick, Brian Haney, Kimberly Palmer, Pat Clay, and Kate Gibbs (Poster)
Increasing the Use of Waveform Capnography in Neonatal and Pediatric Patients, Sherry McCool, Lisa Pruitt, and Olivia Kaullen (Poster)
A NINJA Initiative at Children's Mercy, Richard Ogden, Bradley A. Warady, Vimal Chadha, and Wendy Hoebing (Poster)
Pharmacy Driven Best Possible Admission Medication History at a Pediatric Institution, Damon Pabst, Charity Thompson, Brandon French, Brian O'Neal, Garret Matthews, Zeb Benner, and Joshua Meade (Poster)
Quality Improvement: Implementing a Foot Exam to Improve Care for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus, Emily Paprocki, Ryan McDonough, Tiffany Musick, and Joseph Cernich (Poster)
More Timely Care: Effect of Online Queuing System vs. Change in Hours of Operation on Hourly Arrival Volumes, Aimy Patel, Brian R. Lee, and Amanda Montalbano (Poster)
Improving Handoffs by Incorporating a Standardized IPASS Section Into the Written Handoff Document, Kristin Streiler and Susamita Kesh (Poster)
Resident Great Catches: Recognizing Resident Physicians Who Promote a Safe Environment for Patients, Kristin Streiler and Susamita Kesh (Poster)
Improving Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccination in Children With Cystic Fibrosis, Adam Van Mason, Wendy Estrellado-Cruz, Kristi Williams, Ellen Meier, Elizabeth Elson, Stephanie Duehlmeyer, Paula Capel, Jessica Banks, and Christopher M. Oermann (Poster)
Pressure Injury Prevention for Urology Surgical Procedures: A QI Initiative, Azadeh Wickham, Pat Clay, and Kate Gibbs (Poster)
Redirecting Care, Directing Support: End of Life Huddles in the Intensive Care Nursery, Tiffany Willis and Sandra Ganey (Poster)
