Nursing Excellence Conference

The Orlando Health Nursing Excellence Conference provides a motivational learning environment to recognize and celebrate excellence in nursing care and leadership. As a result, each year, nurses showcase their best practices, performance improvement projects and nursing research at the Nursing Excellence Conference. This full-day conference is a highly anticipated event that inspires and engages nurses at all levels. 

Of those posters presented at the poster session, five posters were selected for special recognition for 2020.

1. First Prize: An Explorative Study on Nurses' Attitudes and Beliefs of Medication Safety and Reporting in Practice. Andrea Schuermann MSN, RN, CNML, NE-BC and Laura Arkin MSN, APRN-CNS, ONC, CCNS
   
   
2. Second Prize: From Worst to First: A Collaborative Approach to Decreasing Urinary Catheter Utilization and CAUTI. Suzanne Ashworth, MSN, APRN, CCRN, CCNS and Jeannie Schiller, MSN, APRN
   
   
3. Third Prize: Responsiveness PI. Wendy Cooper, MSN, RN-BC and Patricia Geddie, PhD, APRN, AOCNS, FCNS
   
   
4. Honorable Mention: Reducing Nightshift Calls to Physicians and Delivering Quality Patient Care: A Process Improvement Project. Kristy Hemmingway, MS, BSN, RN, NE-BC