2023 Celebrate Successful Practices Abstracts
ASPAN's 42nd National Conference
April 28 - May 1, 2023, Denver, CO
Board #1: Modified Valsalva Maneuver
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Contact: Barbara Merutka BSN RN CMSRN CAPA
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Board #2: Up in 3 and Home in 1: Improving LOS Amongst Arthroplasty Patients
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Contact: Lillyann Rowe MSN RN CPAN CCRN PHN
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Board #3: Learning for the Fun of It – The Use of Gamification in Educating Pediatric Perioperative Clinical Staff
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Contact: Kayla Haugen MS BSN RN CPN
Phoenix Children’s, Phoenix, AZ
Board #4: Improving the Autism Pathway in a Pediatric Perianesthesia Unit
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Contact: Lucinda Sapikowski BSN RN CCRN CPAN
Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA
Board #5: A New Model of Care: The High Intensity Surgical Short Stay Unit
Contact: Ingrid Daley MScN BA BScN RN CNCC(c)
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Board #6: Don’t Delay, Decrease Length of Stay: A Successful Multi-disciplinary Approach to Re-Optimization of Patient Flow
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Contact: Katherine Sceia MSN RN CPAN
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board #7: Let’s Get Digital: Advancing Perianesthesia Education Through QR Code Technology
Contact: Fina Michelle Meadows MSNed RN CPAN CAPA
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Board #8: Standardization of Active Post-op Voiding Trials for Same-Day Discharge GYN Patients
Contact: Brittany Aulenbach MSN RN AGCNS-BC CNOR
Reading Hospital – Tower Health, West Reading, PA
Board #9: What Is LAST and Are You Prepared?
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Contact: Elaine Hughes BSN RN CAPA
UVA Health, Charlottesville, VA
Board #10: Leaning on Post Anesthesia Care Unit Hold Times
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Contact: Gabrielle Johnson BSN RN
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Board #11: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve the Pediatric Surgical Pathway at an Academic Medical Center
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Contact: Anna Lee Sigueza DNP RN NE-BC CPAN
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board #12: Be Part of the Solution, Not the Problem: Improving Nursing Decolonization Documentation
Contact: Maria Ruffner BSN RN CAPA
University of Miami Health System, Coral Gables, FL
Board #13: Empowerment of the Bedside Nurse: Point Person Orientation in the Perianesthesia Unit
Contact: Megan Juliano MSN RN CPAN
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board #14: Use of Therapeutic Inhaled Essential Oil in Treating Post Operative Nausea and Vomiting
Contact: Kaitlin Bolster BSN RN CPAN CAPA
William W. Backus Hospital, Norwich, CT
Board #15: Malignant Hyperthermia Escape Room
Contact: Kaitlin Ronning DNP RN CPAN
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board #16: Don’t Be the LAST to Escape
Contact: Kaitlin Ronning DNP RN CPAN
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board #17: The Journey Towards a Culture of Certification
Contact: Robin Jones BSN RN CPAN
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Board #18: Improving Flow of Out of OR Interventional Psychiatry Procedures using a Collaborative Model of Care
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Contact: June M Nichols BSN RN CPAN
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA
Board #19: Implementation of a Relaxation Room
Contact: Samantha Stanley MSN RN CPN
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Board #20: Improving Care and Communication of Critical Care Patients in the PACU
Contact: Mary Grzybinski DNP RN CPAN
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Board #21: Sparking Joy in PACU with a Collaborative and Enriching Digital Platform
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Contact: Olivia Tanada BSN RN PHN CPAN
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Board #22: Improving Patient Preparedness for Discharge in an Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Setting
Contact: Jason Parker BSN RN CPAN
Virtua Health, Marlton, NJ
Board #23: Caring for the Transgender Patient in the Perioperative Setting
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Contact: Marie Courtney BSN RN CPAN CAPA
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Board #24: Pre-Admission Services: A Nurse-Led Initiative
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Contact: Linda Boateng MA BSN RN
El Camino Health, Mountain View, CA
Board #25: The ART of Caring for the Pediatric Anesthesia Patient in the Proton Therapy Center
Contact: Leo Flores BSN RN CAPA
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Board #26: Orientation Pathway
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Contact: Trisha Drossman BSN RN
University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, MI
Board #27: Nurse Led Collaboration and Innovation: Relieving In-Patient Bed Shortage by Creating an Extended Recovery Unit (ERU)
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Contact: Charlene Salvi BSN RN CPAN
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (BWFH), Boston, MA
Board #28: Coaching to Knock Our CPAN/CAPA Certification Rates Out of the Park
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Contact: Kristina Miranda MSN RN CPAN CNL CCRN CPN
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL
Board #29: Caring for Overflow Patients in the PeriAnesthesia Care Unit: Creating an Inpatient Unit within the PACU at CHOP
Contact: Katie Dunn BSN RN CPN
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Board #30: Improve Communication Between the Perioperative Team and Patient’s Family/Designee During their Perioperative Journey While Keeping it Meaningful, Safe and Effective
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Contact: Gloria Abadilla BSN RN CCRN-CMC
Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
Board #31: Pediatric COVID/COLDS Scoring Tool: Safe Surgical Outcome
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Contact: Tara Wright MSN RN CPN
Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH
Board #32: Addressing Colleague Safety in the PACU
Contact: Amy Molloy BSN RN CPAN
Beth Israel Lahey Health, Burlington, MA
Board #33: Assessing the Language Proficiency of Our Bilingual Perioperative Staff
Contact: Maria del Mar Rodriguez MSHI CNS BSN CNOR
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Board #34: Augmenting the 5 Rights: Improving Compliance with Barcode Medication Administration
Contact: Megan Belknap BSN CCRN
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Board #35: “Tell Us How We’re Doing”: Putting Patient Satisfaction in the Patient’s Hands
Contact: Angela Patruno BSN RN-BC CPAN
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Board #36: Too Sweet for Surgery: Implementing Perioperative Hyperglycemia Pathways to Optimize Outcomes
Contact: Nancy K. Homan DNP MBA MHS AGACNP-BC FNP-BC
Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE
Board #37: Improving Operational Efficiency by Assigning Peripheral IV (PIV) Placement to Preop Nurses
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Contact: Taneka Morning BSN RN CAPA
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Board #38: Improving the Quality and Consistency of OR to PACU Handoff
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Contact: Hope Herd BSN RN CPAN
Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
Board #39: FOCUSing on Family-Centered Care: Improving the Patient-Family Experience
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Contact: LeighAnn Chadwell MSN RN NE-BC
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
Board #40: Comprehensive Onboarding to PeriAnesthesia Program
Contact: Maribel Acosta MSN RN
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Board #41: Expansion of a Perioperative Flex Team into the Operating Room
Contact: Heidi Leonard BSN RN CPAN CAPA
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Board #42: Enhance Multimodal Pain Management with Team Collaboration in the PACU
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Contact: Xiao Wang (Jerome) MSN/MS RN CPAN
UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA
Board #43: PACU Pause
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Contact: Mercedie Weber MSN RN CPN
Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Board #44: PeriAnesthesia Education Block Times
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Contact: Diana Wong MS RN CPAN ONC
NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, NY
Board #45: Comprehensive Perioperative Cross-training: The Benefits of Optimizing Staffing
Contact: Katherine Douglas MSN RN CPAN
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Board #46: We Get by with a Little Help from Our Fellow Educators…How We Survived a Supply Shortage and Two Rollouts
Contact: Alena Mascetta MSN RN CPAN CCRN
Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Board #47: New Graduate Nurses in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit: Advancing a Foundation of Clinical Knowledge and Skills Achieved through a Nurse Residency Program
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Contact: Elizabeth Lopes MSN RN CPAN CAPA CPN
Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
Board #49: Opening Doors for New Graduate Nurses in Perianesthesia
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Contact: Jessica Bies MSN RN
M Health Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
Board #50: Discharge Instructions/Post-Op Phone Calls: Working SMARTer
Contact: Elizabeth A. Steffen BSN RN CAPA
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood, KY
Board #51: Nursing Best Practice: Safe Use, Storage, and Disposal of Opioid Medications & the Critical Contribution of Perianesthesia Nurses
Contact: Agnes Hsu BSN RN CPAN
The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Board #52: May the Task Force Be with You: Nurse Led Collaboration and Innovation in Developing A Novel Staffing Matrix for a Newly Blended Perianesthesia Unit
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Contact: Kelly Mastroianni BSN RN
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA
Board #53: Enhancing Patient Outcomes through PeriAnesthesia Clinical Leader Engagement, Development and Unit-Level Shared Governance
Contact: Robin Kaufman DNP RN NEA-BC
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA
Board #54: Developing a New PACU Overnight Extended Recovery Unit (ERU) Unit Through Mentorship and Empowerment
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Contact: Ian Trefethen BSN RN
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA