Media, Publications and Presentations

Radio/ TV

Publications

• Reducing Hypergycemia Hospital-Wide: the Basal Bolus Concept
  American Diabetes Association 68th Scientific Sessions Abstract Book (Donna Murphy, APN, BC ADM, CDE, Rita Vercruysse, RN, BSN, MPH, Terese Bertucci, APN, CNP, CDE, June 2008)
  
  
• Clinical Reliability and Validity of the N-PASS: Neonatal Pain, Agitation, and Sedation Scale with Prolonged Pain
  Journal of Perinatology (Pat Hummel, MA, APN, January 2008)
  
  
• Disaster Training for Prehospital Providers
  Prehospital Emergency Care (Christine Chaput, RN, Christine Stake,
  Matt Deluhery, Katherine Martens, MD, Mark Cichon, MD, October-December 2007)

• University HealthSystem Consortium Sentinel Event Management and Prevention: Best Practice Recommendations White Paper and Sentinel Event Member Survey
  (Judy McHugh RN, MSN, co-authored, July 2007)
  
  
• The Impact of Crush Injury in Trauma Care
  Advance Nursing for Nurse Practitioners (Daria C. Ruffolo RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Sept. 19, 2005)

Presentations

• "Does the Lung Allocation Score Work", AACN 34th Annual Midwest Critical Care Conference, Lincolnshire, IL (Jennifer Johnson, RN, BSN; Erin Mahoney, RN, BSN and Jeff Sorenson, RN, BSN, March 12, 2008)
• Peripheral Nerve Hyperexcitability Syndrome Associated with Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel Antibody, Managed with Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Steroids, American Society for Apheresis Annual Meeting, Galveston, TX (Teresita Bernardo, RN, BSN, Apr. 9-12, 2008)
• Patient Expectation During Health Care Encounters: A Grounded Theory Study, Northern Illinois University, Naperville, IL (Pamela Clementi, PhD, APRN, BC-FNP, Nov. 7, 2007)
• Patient Expectation During Health Care Encounters: A Grounded Theory Study, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL (Pamela Clementi, PhD, APRN, BC-FNP, Oct. 27, 2007)
• The Complex Pelvis Fracture: Bones, Blood and More
  Diagnostics in Trauma: It is Not all Black and White, Contemporary Forums, Chicago, IL (Daria C. Ruffolo RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Nov. 5-6, 2007)
• The Adult Acute Abdomen and More
  Airway in Trauma: It's All About the "A", Illinois Symposium of Advanced Practice Nurses, Oak Brook, IL (Daria Ruffalo, RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Oct. 26, 2007)
• Anemia in Trauma When is it time for Blood?
  The Complex Pelvis Fractures: Bones, Blood and More, Southern Illinois Trauma Symposium, Springfield, IL (Daria Ruffalo, RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Oct. 21-22, 2007)
• Laboratory Data and its Clinical Application, Critical Care EMT-P Symposium (Daria Ruffalo, RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Oct. 18, 2007)
• Rhabdomyolysis: Death of a Cell, Advocate System Critical Care Symposium (Daria Ruffalo, RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Oct. 17, 2007)
• Difficult Diagnostic Decisions, Illinois State ENA Spring Symposium, Oakbrook, IL (Vicki Bacidore, RN, MS, May 17, 2007)
• Utilization and Benefits of an Indwelling Bowel Catheter: Achieving Maximum Performance, 20th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care, Tampa, FL (Deborah Holman, RN, BSN, Apr. 28 - May 2, 2007)
• Lung-Transplant Process, 33rd Annual Midwest AACN Conference, Arlington Heights, IL (Mary Grace Lach, RN, BSN, CCRN, March 11-14, 2007)
• Utilization and Benefits of an Indwelling Bowel Catheter: Achieving Maximum Performance, John A. Boswick MD Burn and Wound Care Symposium, Maui (Paula Petersen, RN, BSN, TNS and Deborah E. Holman, RN, BSN , Feb. 19-23, 2007)
• Managing Hyperglycemia in Adult Hospitalized Patients Storyboard, 18th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Orlando, FL (Rita Vercruysse, RN, BSN, MPH, Dec. 10-13, 2006)
• Glycemic Management in the Hospital: Admission to Discharge, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL (Drs. M. Emanuele, W. Barron, F. Nabhan, Terese Bertucci, APN, CNP, CDE, Theresa Pavone, MSN, Barbara Rumick, RN, CCRN, Rita Vercruysse, RN, BSN, MPH, Jill Whitney, RD, LDN, CNSD, BS, Dec. 2, 2006)
• Managing Hyperglycemia in Adult Hospitalized Patients Storyboard, UHC 2006 Quality and Safety Fall Forum, Baltimore, MD (Rita Vercruysse, RN, BSN, MPH, Oct. 11-13, 2006)
• Crush Injury: Life Before Limb, Contemporary Forums (Daria C. Ruffolo RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Nov. 3, 2005)
• Hypothermia in Trauma: The Cold Fact, AACN Chapter Meeting, Chicago (Daria C. Ruffolo RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Oct. 26, 2005)
• An Overview of Nursing: A Brief Look at Our History and What the Future Holds? and Hypotensive Resuscitation: How Low is Too Low? Trends in Critical Care Philadelphia (Daria C. Ruffolo RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Oct. 21, 2005)
• Cardiovascular Assessment: Using your senses, Nursing Spectrum Seminar (Daria C. Ruffolo RN, MSN-CS, CCRN, ACNP, Sept. 20, 2005)
• Placentas: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, National Mother Baby Nurses Conference (Donna McCormack, MSN, APN/CNP, Sept. 8, 2005)
• Neonatal Pain Assessment and the N-PASS Tool, Neonatal Update: Care of the Newborn, Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS (Pat Hummel, RNC, MA, NNP, PNP, Feb. 11-16, 2005)
• Follow-up and Home Care: Children with Respiratory Issues, Caring for our Future: 4th Annual Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital Pediatric-Neonatal Symposium, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL (Pat Hummel, RNC, MA, NNP, PNP, Feb. 19, 2005)
• Neonatal Pain: Assessment, Management, and the N-PASS Tool, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton Ontario, Canada (Pat Hummel, RNC, MA, NNP, PNP, March 7, 2005)
• Neonatal Respiratory Distress, Perinatal Outreach, Loyola University Medical Center (Pat Hummel, RNC, MA, NNP, PNP, April 18, 2005)
• Basics of Genetics, The 5th National Neonatal Nurses Meeting, Chicago, IL (Pat Hummel, RNC, MA, NNP, PNP, Sept. 8, 2005)
• Neonatal Pain Assessment, Management and the N-PASS Tool, Providence Health System in Alaska, Anchorage, AK (Pat Hummel, RNC, MA, NNP, PNP, Sept. 26-29)