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2005 Innovation Award Winners
The following are the 14 “best of the best" Innovation Award submissions for 2005 listed by PRIMARY AUTHOR, FACILITY, and TITLE of the BEST PRACTICE innovation:
Primary Author |
VHA Facility |
Title of Best Practice |
Sandra K. Janzen | Tampa VAMC | Transforming Care at the Bedside in a Medical-Surgical Unit |
B. Sue Kancir | VA Connecticut HCS | Advanced Data Management Innovation |
Lisa Tinch | Greater Los Angeles HCS | Compressive Mental Health Treatment Center |
Norma Figueroa | Tampa VAMC | Primary Care Chronic Pain Opioid Case Management |
Leah Grove | Dayton VA Medical Center | Hypoglycemia Protocol: A team Approach to Patient Safety |
Michele Biscossi | Stratton VAMC | Reducing Deep Vein Thrombosis Incidence Amongst Hospitalized Patients |
Victoria Church | Portland VAMC | Improving Outcomes with Telemetry Monitoring Performance Improvement Initiatives |
Norma Humphrey | Atlanta VAMC | Huddle Team Meeting |
Paula Flemming | John J. Pershing VAMC | Tele-Dermatology Meets Technology |
Christine Gregory | VA Central Iowa HCS | Clinical Team Communication Collaborative |
Voncyle Mahone | Birmingham VAMC | Nurse/Physician Collaboration for End of Life Care in an Acute Care Setting |
Patricia Dzandu | Hampton VAMC | Improving Patient Care by Integrating the Nursing Alcohol Withdrawal Scale (NAWS) With Standard Physician Orders (SPO) |
Brenda Flanigan-Tyson | Charleston VAMC | Nurse Driven Heparin Management: A Successful Nurse/Physician Collaborative Effort |
Sandra A. Parkes | VA Palo Alto HCS | 24 Hour Emergency Department Observation Unit (EDOU) |