SPN Fall Virtual Event: Best of the 35th Annual Conference Poster Presentations

Dive into the 125+ poster presentations from the SPN 35th Annual Conference — an exciting showcase of cutting-edge research and real-world innovations in pediatric nursing! These posters cover pressing topics impacting children’s health today, from mental health and health equity to clinical best practices and family-centered care.

  • Reviewing at least 6 virtual posters = earning up to 1.0 NCPD Contact Hours

Please note that the below posters were shared on Thursday, May 1 from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in the Poster Hall.

All Posters + Numbers

A-1 Advancing Pediatric Care: Tailored Training Programs for Medical Chaperones
A-2 Breaking Babel: Implementing a Universal Interpreter Symbol at the Bedside for Equitable Care
A-3 Transforming Culture Through A Collaborative Approach: Nurses and Physicians Dismantling Bias to Provide Equitable Care in a Pediatric Unit
A-4 Caring for Manes: Implementing Diverse Hair Care Guidelines for a Large Pediatric Hospital
CP-1 A Multidisciplinary Attack on CAUTI and CLABSI
CP-10 Wrong cuff sizes and full bladders lead to diagnostic inaccuracies: Imagine nurses improving blood pressure measurement practice
CP-11 From Pilot to Program; Outcomes and Lessons in Creating a Virtual Nurse Model in the Pediatric Acute Care Unit.
CP-12 Gameboard aids coping: Implementation of an evidence-based gameboard to improve coping for patients undergoing painful procedures in a clinic setting
CP-14 Red Flags and Rescue Plan Rounding in a Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit
CP-15 The Healing Garden: Terminal Extubations and Decannulations Outdoors at a Pediatric Hospital
CP-2 Be Prepared:  A Nurse-Driven Protocol for the Management of Adverse Vaccine Reactions in Primary Care
CP-3 Hitting the Right Note for Pediatric Pain Management
CP-4 Insertion and Maintenance of PICC for a Pediatric Patient with Epidermolysis Bullosa
CP-5 Navigating Complexity: Coordinated Care for Medically Complex Patients
CP-6 Nurse-Driven Protocol: A Bathing-Product Decision Tree to Reduce Skin Breakdown in Patients with Central Lines
CP-7 Nursing Standing Order Protocol for Acutely Symptomatic Pediatric Patients with IBD
CP-8 Schools in Session: Creating Standardized Curriculums for Caregivers of Medically Complex Children
CP-9 Trauma leads to Diagnosis of Rare Disease: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
E-1 Interventions enhance Safe Sleep compliance, leading to the attainment of Health System Gold Level Safe Sleep Certification. A Journey to Safe Sleep: Ensuring Every Baby’s Dream is a Safe One
E-10 Escaping Pediatric Sepsis: Utilization of "Escape Bags" to Elevate Nurse Knowledge and Patient Safety
E-11 Expect the unexpected: How emergency response simulation prepared an outpatient pediatric clinic
E-12 Happily, Ever After in Healthcare: Transforming Onboarding and Orientation with Evidence, Education, Integration, and a Touch of Pixie Dust
E-13 Improving self-confidence: Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice to improve nurse confidence during clinical deterioration
E-14 Is Less More? Finding the Right Number for Competency in Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Intravenous Insertions Among Pediatric Populations
E-15 Joe Talks: Enhancing Nursing Knowledge and Condition Management Through Interactive Education
E-16 Lean on Me: Leveraging Mentorship to Enhance the Pursuit of Nursing Professional Certification
E-17 No One Walks Alone: Education Intervention to Reduce Pediatric Falls
E-18 PINT: Supporting the Nurses of Tomorrow, Today
E-19 Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice Training for Simulated Pediatric Asystole Incorporated in Emergency Department Continuing Education
E-2 Advocating for Interprofessional Palliative Care Experiences in Pediatric Nursing Education
E-20 Teaching Pediatric Nursing Using Case Based Learning in a Flipped Classroom
E-21 The Impact of Clinical Judgment Measurement Model Debriefing on Nursing Students Perceptions and Understanding in a Multi-Patient Scenario
E-22 The Path to Safe, Advanced Patient Care: Acute Care Pediatric Cardiology Nurses Begin Caring for Patients with a Berlin Extracorporeal Cardiac Pump.
E-23 Envision the potential: Microlearning's impact on ambulatory workforce engagement & access to education through the weekly newsletter
E-24 Escape from Sepsis: A Game-Changing Approach to Pediatric Education
E-25 Growing with the Float - Redesigning the Residency program
E-26 Internship Program Development Post Pandemic: A Whole New World of Orientation
E-28 Ready, Set, Hire! A Hospital-Run Transition Program to Prepare Senior Nursing Students for the Pediatric Workforce
E-29 Revitalizing End-of-Life Education: A Curriculum Redesign for RN Residents
E-3 Assembling an Allergy Clinic: An Educational Blueprint for Success in Ambulatory and Primary Care
E-30 Teddy Get's A Check-Up
E-31 Using Simulation To Foster Critical Thinking Skills in Nurses of a Newly Developed Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit
E-5 Building Expertise: Creating Professional Development Opportunities for Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
E-6 Building Heroes with Heart: Immersive clinical for nursing students with children impacted by illness and disabilities at a medical residential camp.
E-7 Caring Hearts: Partnering with Palliative Care to Advance Excellence in End-of-Life Care
E-8 Empowering Pediatric Nurses: From Medical-Surgical to Intermediate Care Excellence
E-9 Enhancing Practice Transition: The Impact of Cardiac Academy
EBP-1 A Hybrid Boot Camp
EBP-2 Fall Prevention Strategies in a Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
EBP-3 Identify and Implement a Best Practice for Preparation of a Sedated Procedure
EBP-4 Identify Best Preceptor Strategies for New Graduate Pediatric Float Pool Nurses with Learning Disabilities
EBP-5 Implementation of an Ultrasound Guided PIV Training Program for Nurses in a Pediatric Emergency Department
EBP-6 Preventing infant mortality in the Emergency Department: Using evidence-based research to provide safe baby sleep resources to caregivers
EBP-7 Standardized Pain Management Protocol for Pediatric Needle Insertion: Improving Team Coordination and Pain Relief
EBP-8 To Infinity and Beyond the Bundle: A CLABSI Prevention Initiative
EBP-9 Creating Safe Medication Storage Education for Caregivers at Home to Decrease the Incidence of Unintentional Ingestions in the Community
IT-1 Dare to Imagine: A Virtual Reality Perioperative Walkthrough for Pediatric Patients
IT-2 Leveraging the Implementation of an Automated Scoring System (MPEWS) to Earlier Identify Clinical Deterioration of Acute Care Patients
IT-3 Elevating Patient Safety by Implementing a Neonatal Electronic Health Record (EHR) and EHR Pharmacy Tools at Six Birthing Hospitals
IT-4 Using Defibrillator Feedback Technology to Measure and Improve the Quality of Pediatric CPR
LM-1 A Safe and Healthy Work Environment: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Support Staff Well-Being, Reduce Burnout, and Increase Morale.
LM-10 Empowering Excellence: Restructuring the Nursing Board for Enhanced Impact
LM-11 Exploring the Ideal PATH for Providing Feedback to Preceptees: Permanent, Accessible, Transparent, and Honest.
LM-12 Learning in Leadership: Proactive Safety Huddles to Reduce Patient Harm
LM-13 Optimizing Inventory Management for Pediatric Emergency Transport: A Dual-Campus Approach to Enhancing Resource Efficiency and Cost Reduction
LM-15 Optimizing Mentorship for Novice Nurses: A PDSA-Driven Approach to Enhancing Engagement and Support
LM-16 Predicting and Hiring for Attrition, A Best Practice for Recruitment and Retention for Pediatric Nurse Leaders
LM-2 A Standardized Approach to Enhance Communication and Collaboration Between Bedside Nurses and Medical Residents
LM-4 Clean the Screen: The Nurse Leader's Role in Decreasing Healthcare-Associated Infections
LM-5 Culture Building to Take Engagement to New Heights: Making Changes Based on Associate Engagement Survey Results
LM-6 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Progress and Outcomes of SPN's Call to Action
LM-7 Keeping the Magic Alive: Enchanting Strategies for Engagement & Nurse Retention
LM-8 Navigating Tough Talks: How to Successfully Have A Difficult Peer Conversation
LM-9 Promoting Healthcare Professional Wellness at a Children's Hospital: A Supportive Initiative in Response to COVID-19 Challenges and Beyond
QI-1 A Testicular Torsion Pathway to Improve Surgery Outcomes
QI-10 Education, Engagement, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust: Creating an Enchanted Fall Prevention Program
QI-12 From Ouch to Ahh:  A Quality Improvement Project to Stomp Out Severe Pain and Improve Patient Satisfaction
QI-13 High Risks High Stakes: Developing a risk screening tool for unplanned tracheostomy decannulations
QI-14 Identifying Medically Complex Pediatric Patients at Risk for Decompensation at a Post-Acute Care Facility
QI-15 Improving Communication Between Pediatric Nurses and Physicians on an Acute Care General Medicine Unit
QI-16 Improving Emergency Department throughput with a quality improvement process: Imagine the possibilities of improved patient outcomes.
QI-17 Improving Team Handoff of Pediatric Behavioral Health Patients in the Acute Care Medical/Surgical Setting
QI-18 Quality Improvement In Focus: The Development of Guidelines for Wound Photo Documentation in an Ongoing Quality Improvement Project
QI-19 Integrating the home experience for the hospitalized patient with diabetes
QI-2 An Innovative Approach to Fall Prevention: One Size does not Fit All
QI-20 Interdepartmental Collaborative Quality Initiative to Improve Pediatric Safety and Quality
QI-21 Little Lungs, Big Care: Prevent Unplanned Extubation
QI-22 Optimizing Prior Authorization Workflows in Outpatient Clinics:  A Comprehensive Approach
QI-23 Perioperative Sensory Pathway
QI-24 Pixie Dust and Patient Flow: Sprinkling magic to provide inpatient care to ED boarders.
QI-26 SCOPE Rounds: Enhancing the MD-RN Rounding Experience for Night Shift
QI-27 Seizure Precautions for Pediatric Patients admitted for Video EEG monitoring or Seizure Management at an Urban Academic Medical Center
QI-28 Tiny Drops, Big Impact: Strategies for Pediatric Transfusion Efficiency
QI-29 One Woman Army: Kick-starting an improvement in Chlorhexidine bathing compliance in a pediatric step-down unit (CSC).
QI-3 Boosting Bedside Nurse Engagement, Confidence and Collaborative Communication through a Rounding Tool and Process Refinements in Multidisciplinary Rounds
QI-30 Building Brighter Futures: A Proactive Blueprint for Sustaining Higher Pediatric Admission in Community Care
QI-31 Continuous Process Improvement regarding Pressure Injuries in Children with Medical Complexity
QI-32 HEART-OPOLY: A Cardiac Nursing Game for Enhancing Clinical and Leadership Skills
QI-33 Breaking Through the Blue: Implementing Standardized Depression Screenings in Adolescents
QI-34 Improving Morning Rounds Through Nurse Presentations in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
QI-35 Improving Patient Safety Through Accurate Vital Sign Trending and Patient Data Recording
QI-36 Pre-assigning Code Team Roles in a Pediatric ICU
QI-39 Untangling Pediatric Pain: Navigating Complexities of Pediatric Pain Treatment in the Inpatient Setting.
QI-4 Checkmate: Improving Concurrent Two-Nurse Skin Check Compliance on a Pediatric Surgical-Trauma Acute Care Unit
QI-40 Utilizing specialized pediatric nurses through OneCall to efficiently facilitate transport and patient placement to Children's Hospital Colorado
QI-41 Utilizing Statistical Tools to Evaluate Staffing and Patient Safety
QI-6 Did we try THAT yet? Empowering the Medical-Surgical Team to Prioritize Interventions When Considering Rapid Response Activation
QI-7 Dot-Com Bundle: Improving the audit process
QI-8 Early Nurse Career Coaching to Impact Retention and Engagement
R-1 A play-based investigation into children's coping pre and post vaccination. A view from the child and parent's perspectives (a pilot study).
R-11 Exploration of Central Venous Catheter Protective Devices in the Pediatric Population: A Mixed Methods Study
R-12 Impact of an Escape Room Educational Intervention for Telephone Triage Nurses
R-13 Pediatric Asthma Inhaler Technique: Quality and Content Analysis of YouTube Videos
R-14 Pilot Intervention Study to Explore the Health Benefits of Yoga in Adolescent Girls
R-16 Exploring the role of peripheral neuroinflammatory biomarkers and their association with pediatric delirium
R-17 Improving Access to Healthcare for High-Risk Patients with Poor Weight Gain
R-18 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Parents of Hospitalized Children Assisted by Invasive Home Mechanical Ventilation: A Qualitative Pilot Study
R-19 Studying The Outcomes of a Novel Storytelling Program: Evaluating the Impact on Social Connection in Healthcare
R-2 "I tried to be the rock, but inside I was just crumbling": Grandparents' Lived Experiences of Their Grandchildren's Cancer Journey
R-3 Advancing Care Equities with Hair Care Innovations
R-4 An Evaluation of a Novel Pediatric Transitional Care Facility for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Care
R-5 Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy and Balance Control in Pediatric Cancer Survivors
R-6 Demystifying Local Nurse Retention in a  Pediatric Academic Institution; A Qualitative Study
R-7 Dressing for Success: Implementing PRN Changes to Combat CLABSIs in Pediatrics
R-8 Effects of Pre-Anesthesia Anxiety, Parental Factors and Anesthesia Duration on Post-Anesthesia Child Behavior
R-9 Examining Health Literacy among Caregivers of Children Diagnosed with a Critical Congenital Heart Defect Participating in a Simulation Program