All Were Winners in the Poster Session
by Debra Bakerjian, PhD, MSN, FNP
originally posted August 2010

This year marked the second annual poster session for CALTCM and we had more poster submissions and a greater diversity of topics than last year. There were 21 submissions in all and 18 posters that were presented at the conference. This year, the posters were divided into two categories: 1) Research and 2) Project | Demonstration. It was fantastic that we had so many nursing home-specific submissions this year! The posters were displayed late on Saturday afternoon immediately following the adjournment of the main program through the evening reception. Poster authors were available to discuss their posters and there was a lot of interest displayed by the conference attendees. This year’s competition had four poster judges: Dr. Terry Hill, MD, CMD and Dr. Mira Cantrell, MD judged the research posters while Dr. Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD and Ms. Leslie Evertson, GNP judged the project/demonstration posters. Judges ranked the submissions in their respective categories and the top three posters received awards. Please see below for a complete list of poster submissions and the respective award list for each category:

RESEARCH CATEGORY

1. Possible Target Conditions for Treating Rejection of Care Behaviors [ 1ST PLACE ]
    Shinya Ishii, MD, Joel E. Streim, MD and Debra M. Saliba, MD, MPH

2. “Shhh, Do Not Interrupt”: An Inexpensive Intervention to Improve Med Pass Times [ 2ND PLACE ]
    Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD and Nancy Beecham, RN, Elise Harvey, RN, Soon Chu, RN, and Sarah Johnson, LVN

3. Reducing Perceived Barriers to Nursing Home Data Collection [ 3RD PLACE ]
    Debra Bakerjian, PhD, MSN, FNP, Alice Bonner, PhD, GNP, Carol Benner, ScM, and Mary Jane Koren, MD, MPH

4. The California LANE Experience Participation in Advancing Excellence
    Jennifer Wieckowski, MSG and Debra Bakerjian, PhD, RN, FNP

5. Bringing Home to Nursing Homes – Creating a Calm Environment
    Ed Long, NH Administrator and Culture Change Guide

6. Consistent Assignment: A Key Step to Individualized Care
    Bonnie Darwin, KJ Page and Mary Margaret Chappell

7. Improving Management of Skin Tears
    Thomas Douglas

8. Promoting Nursing Home Quality Through Best Practices: Measuring Pressure Ulcer Prevention Behaviors of
    Certified Nursing Assistants
    Mary Ellen Dellefield, PhD, Martha Shively, PhD, RN, Claudia Der-Martirosian, PhD, and John Schnelle, PhD

9. The Right Information Makes a Difference: The impact of Electronic Medical Records on The Quality and
    Quantity for Data Available for Clinical Decision-Making
    Gwenmarie Hilleary, Margo Beamon, and Michele Curley

10. Management of Sex Offenders in Long Term Care: A Guideline for Planning
      Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD and Thomas Gibson PhD, JD

11. Effectiveness of a Continence Care Program in the Long Term Care Setting: A Collaborative Approach from the
      NH Staff and a Continence Specialist Nurse Practitioner
      Cara Stone MDN, WHNP-BC

PROJECT | DEMONSTRATION CATEGORY

1. A Practical Approach to Improve a Community Skilled Nursing Facility’s CMS 5 Star Rating [ 1ST PLACE ]
    James Jordan, NHA and Ashkan Javaheri, MD

2. Bring the Edge of Non-Traditional Facility In-Service Through Podcasting:
    Hear It When You Want It [ 2ND PLACE ]
    Janice Diez, MSNc, BSN, RN, DNS and Bertha Martinez, BSN, RN, ADON

3. Nurse Practitioner In-Home Primary Care [ 3RD PLACE ]
    Deborah I. Wolf-Baker, MSN, CHPN, FNP-BC and Timothy Gieseke, MD, CMD

4. A New Approach to Improve Quality in End of Life Care
    Laurie Walsh, GNP and Sharon McCoy, FNP

5. Improving Patient Safety in Using the Fentanyl Patch
    Flora Brahmbhatt, PharmD, CGP

6. Why Sort My Way Cards?
    Stanley A. Terman PhD, MD

7. The Ins and Outs of Care Transitions: A Model in Long-Term-Care
    Debra Bakerjian, PhD, RN, FNP

Next year, we hope to have even more posters and will be expanding the time of the poster session. In addition, we will be offering an online training session on poster submissions and how to create a poster abstract well prior to the poster abstract submission due date. So, we encourage all of you to think about what you might submit for next year. Quality improvement projects make excellent poster submissions as well as process change ideas and patient, family, or staff satisfaction topics. Consider using the Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes goals as a way of creating a poster. Your poster can then be displayed in the lobby of your nursing home for visitors and staff to enjoy. Look for further information on the poster session on our website in the near future.