PC4/PAC3 2023 Spring Conference Posters

Welcome to the 2023 Spring Conference Virtual Poster Session!


Risk Factors for Adverse Events Among the Norwood Patients: A Single Center Retrospective Study

Alaa Aljiffry, MD
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Identifying and Screening for Pediatric Delirium in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Provider Education Intervention

Brittany Shutes, MD MPH
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Surgical Site Infections In Pediatric Patients After Cardiothoracic Surgery

Cassidy Golden
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Improving Medical Interpreter Usage during Medical Rounds for Limited English Proficiency Families in a Pediatric Cardiac Acute Care Unit

Chelsea Hughes, RN, CPN
Children’s Hospital Colorado

Implementation of a Discharge Nurse Role in the Acute Care Cardiology Unit

Elysia Harshman, BSN, RN, CPN
Children’s Health Children’s Medical Center Dallas

Implementation of a Fast-Track Post Operative Clinical Pathway Cardiovascular Surgery Patients

Darcie Al-Hassan, MSN, RN, CPNP-AC, PC
Children’s Mercy Kansas City

Periods of Low Renal Perfusion Pressure are Associated with Acute Kidney Injury following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Jamie Penk, MD
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Engaging Providers in Discharge Caregiver Education to Decrease Medication Errors – A Quality Improvement Projects in the Children’s Heart Institute

Jeanette Belan, RN
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School

Internal Automated PC4 Abstraction

Jennifer Kreuter, RN, BSN
Children’s Hospital Colorado

Decreasing Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections in a Developing Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Joyce Northrup, BSN, RN, CCRN
Dell Children’s Medical Center, Ascension

NG Free: Delayed Feeding Tube Removal May Prolong Hospitalization

Julie Kuzin, DNP, CPNP-AC/PC
Texas Children’s Hospital

Improving Medication Safety for Pediatric Patients: Utilization of a Simplified Digoxin Order Panel

Kaitlin Tindel, PharmD, BCPPS
Children’s Health Children’s Medical Center

Implementation of a Multiphase QI Initiative to Decrease Opioid Exposure in CICU Patients

Kimberly DiMaria, CPNP-AC
Children’s Hospital Colorado

1st Five Minute Drills: Using Simulation to Improve Resuscitation Team Performance in a Pediatric Cardiac Acute Care Unit

Kimberly DiMaria, CPNP-AC, CCRN
Children’s Hospital Colorado

Creating a Process to Improve the Timeliness and Characterization of Mortalities in Hospitalized Patients with Congenital Heart Disease to Identify and Implement Countermeasures

Loren D. Sacks, MD
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Improved Antibiotic Utilization in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Margot Hillyer, MD
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Implementation of a Staff Engagement Committee on a Pediatric Cardiology Unit Addressing Nursing Burnout

Mary Pacheco, BSN, CPN, RN
Children’s Health Children’s Medical Center Dallas

Characterizing Acute Care Cardiology Central Venous Catheter Use and Complications

Megan Rodts, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

OpenNotes in Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology: Collective Experiences of Caregivers and Providers in a Single Center

Megan Rodts, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Implementation of Central Venous Catheter Tubing Setup to Decrease the risk of Femoral Inserted Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in a Pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit

Nina Nacpil, BSN, RN IV, CCRN
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Discharge Medication Education on a Pediatric Cardiology Unit

Stephanie Squires, MD
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

Sustaining Improvements in CLABSI Reduction in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Sarah Brandt, BSN, RN, CCRN
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Early Enteral Feeding in Infants with Prolonged Ventilation after Congenital Heart Surgery

Suzanne Hilt, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
Golisano Children’s Hospital, University of Rochester

PROMISE: PRO-active Mitigiation to decrease Serious Adverse Events

Tara Cosgrove, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Creation and Implementation of an Institutional Postoperative Norwood Course Correction Process

Trisha Patel, MD
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta