One Fall is Too Many: Using Evidence-Based Practices to Enhance Bronson Methodist Hospital’s Fall Prevention Program
Maggie Benny, RN, Staff Nurse - Cardiology, Sue Boot, RN, GRN, Staff Nurse - Volume Influx Pool, Grace Kerwin, BSN, RN, CPAN, Staff Nurse - Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Erica Nagra BSN, RN, Staff Nurse - Post Procedure Unit, Mary Shook, RN, Staff Nurse - Preadmission Screening.
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators National Conference
Orlando, Florida
January 2008

Effect of an Advanced Practice Nurse Rapid Response Team: Utilizing a Predictive Query as an Early Warning System
Linda Benson MS, APRN, BC, CCRN – Rapid Response Team
Society of Critical Care Medicine Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
February 2008

Bronson Emergency Department Patient Admission Throughput Initiative
Gordon Sorenson, RN, CEN, Staff Nurse – T&EC & Steve Polega, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager – T&EC
National Patient Safety Foundation Annual Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
May 2008

Attitudes of Nurses Toward Research
Nancee Hofmeister, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Director – Nursing & Professional Practice & Andrea Bostrom, PhD, Professor – Grand Valley State University
Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Conference
Indianapolis, Indiana
June 2008

A Fatigue Countermeasures Program for Hospital Staff Nurses: An Interventional Approach
Nancee Hofmeister, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Director – Nursing & Professional Practice, Linda D. Scott, PhD, RN, Professor – Grand Valley State University, Neal Rogness, PhD, Professor – Grand Valley State University & Ann E. Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor – University of Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
June 2008

Examining the Feasibility of Implementing Specific Nursing Interventions to Promote Sleep in Hospitalized Elderly Patients – This poster won first place for Research
Rita LaReau, MSN, APRN, BC, GNP, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Geriatrics, Linda Benson MS, APRN, BC, CCRN – Rapid Response Team, and Grace Manguba MBA, Kuanwong Watcharotone MS
National Gerontological Nurse Practitioners Conference
St. Louis, Missouri
September 2008

Attitudes of Nurses Toward Research
Nancee Hofmeister, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Director – Nursing & Professional Practice
Critical Link Conference
South Bend, Indiana
October 2008

Continuous Quality Improvement and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia – 2003 to Present
Glenn Carlson, APRN, MSN, CCRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Critical Care
Critical Link Conference
South Bend, Indiana
October 2008

One Fall is Too Many: Using Evidence-Based Practices to Enhance Bronson Methodist Hospital’s Fall Prevention Program
Erica Nagra, BSN, RN, Staff Nurse - PPU & Grace Kerwin, BSN, RN, CPAN, Staff Nurse – PACU
Critical Link Conference
South Bend, Indiana
October 2008

Bronson Emergency Department Patient Admission Throughput Initiative
Steve Polega, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager – T&EC
Institute for Hospital Improvement
Nashville, Tennessee
December 2008