• Communicating End-of-Life wishes; Sarah Fink
• Patient education about terminology used at end-of-life; Sarah Fink
• Documentation of patient and family goals of care; Nicole Alcorn
• Bedside swallowing screen for stroke patients; Megan Davis
• Blood pressure monitoring for obese patients in ambulatory care; Nancy Dole
• Crisis care planning for acute exacerbation for psychiatric inpatients; Colleen Finnegan
• Preventing sleep deprivation in SICU; Derek Fortin
• Thermoregulation of high risk neonates; Karen Gray
• Treatment of perineal dermatitis; Marge Jensen

Staff Nurse Interns' Completed Projects:

Sally Beckman, Adult Psychiatry

• Assessment of Suicides within a Hospital Setting
• Purpose: Develop a risk assessment tool for inpatient psychiatric patients to promote identification of patients at risk for suicide attempt
• Contact information: sally-beckman@uiowa.edu

Amy Bowman, MICU

• Prevention of Aspiration of Enteral Feedings
• Purpose: Prevention of aspiration and promotion of intake from enteral feedings in MICU
• Contact information: amy-bowman@uiowa.edu
• Bowman, A., Greiner, J.E., Doerschug, K.C., Little, S.B., Bombei, C.L., & Comried, L.M. (2005). Implementation of an evidence-based feeding protocol and aspiration risk reduction algorithm. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly.
• View video about this project

Ronda Drahozol, MICU

• Family Pet Visitation
• Purpose: Improving patient satisfaction by using family pet visitation for long-term patients
• Contact information: ronda-groth@uiowa.edu

Michele Farrington, 3JCW - Pediatric Inpatient

• NG placement verification in children
• Purpose: Improving practice and prevention of complications related to nasogastric tube placement in children
• Contact information: michele-farrington@uiowa.edu
• Publication information (in review)

Jane Greiner, MICU

• Sedation Management
• Purpose: Improve consistency in sedation practices and reduce patient ventilator hours and length of stay
• Contact information: jane-greiner@uiowa.edu
• Cullen, L., Greiner, J., Greiner, J., Bombei, C., & Comried, L. (2005). Excellence in evidence-based practice: Organizational and unit exemplars. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 17, 127-142.

Melissa Lehan Mackin, 3JPP - Gynecology/Oncology

• Guided Imagery to Reduce Anxiety
• Purpose: To reduce anxiety for gynecology-oncology patients during their acute inpatient hospitalization
• Contact information: laura-cullen@uiowa.edu

Diane Madsen, 7JCW - General Surgery

• Why Listen to Bowel Sounds?
• Purpose: To promote nursing assessment of return of gastrointestinal motility following abdominal surgery
• Contact information: laura-cullen@uiowa.edu
• Madsen, D., Sebolt, T., Cullen, L., Folkedahl, B., Mueller, T., Richardson, C., & Titler, M. (2005). Listening to bowel sounds: An evidence-based practice project. American Journal of Nursing, (105) 12, 40-50.

Linda Moeller, 4JPE Oncology

• The Impact of Dietary Restrictions on the Risk for Infection in the Neutropenic Oncology Patient
• Purpose: To develop patient education about safe food handling and recommendations for a general diet for inpatient with leukemia without increase in their risk of infection
• Contact information: linda-moeller@uiowa.edu

Karen Redus, 4SE - Medical Psychiatry

• Fall Risk Assessment
• Purpose: Improve identification of patients at risk for falling, leading to fall prevention
• Contact information: marita-titler@uiowa.edu

Lori Stebral, Perioperative area

• Double Gloving in the Operating Room
• Purpose: To recommend double gloving during operative procedures to minimize the risk of injury and contamination to the glove wearer
• Contact information: lori-stebral@uiowa.edu
• Stebral, L., & Steelman, V. (2006). Double Gloving for Surgical Procedures: An evidence-based practice project. Perioperative Nursing Clinics, 1(3), 251-260.

Natalie Van Waning, PICU

• Family Transition from PICU to pediatric floor
• Purpose: Improving family satisfaction with the transfer of their child from PICU to the pediatric floor
• Contact information: natalie-vanwaning@uiowa.edu
• Van Waning, N., Kleiber, C., Freyenberger, B. (2005). Development and implementation of a protocol for transfers out of the pediatric intensive care unit. Critical Care Nurse, 25(3), 50-55.

Sheri Swenning, POD - Perioperative Division

• Brushless Surgical Hand Antisepsis
• Purpose: Appropriate use of pre-operative hand scrub products by all staff for patients pre-operatively; maintain organism reduction for prevention of infections and preventing skin irritation for personnel
• Contact information: sheri-swenning@uiowa.edu

Kathy Williams, Otolaryngology clinic

• Stapedectomy: development of a patient education brochure
• Purpose: To develop an evidence-based patient education brochure for patients going through the stapedectomy procedure
• Contact information: kathleen-williams@uiowa.edu

Sarah Fink, MNHP, RN

Linda Moeller, RN, BSN

Lori Stebral, RN, BSN

Kathy Williams, RN, BSN, CORLN