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Research and Innovation

  • The Center for Nursing Research, Evidence-Based Practice and Innovation

Grow your skills with us as we lead the future of nursing. The Center for Nursing Research, Evidence-Based Practice and Innovation gives you the opportunity to be a part of the latest innovative advances in nursing and help establish new nursing practices, recruitment processes and mentorships.

Nursing Research

We aspire to inspire.

The Baylor Scott & White Health Nursing Research program facilitates the pursuit and practice of clinical excellence by nurturing a culture of inquiry, providing guidance in the dissemination of peer-reviewed articles, mentoring nurses through the research process and advancing the incorporation of evidence-based practice findings into current standards of care to promote safe passage.

Nursing Scholars

Through scholarly nursing research supporting the delivery of optimal care to those we serve, and by creating a healthy work environment through a spirit of inquiry and integration of new evidence into practice, we are changing nursing for the better. Our Nurse Scholar Program is an 18-month program designed to develop RN skills, including:

  • Identifying opportunities for nursing research
  • Conducting literature reviews
  • Developing research questions
  • Developing elements of a research protocol
  • Participating in data collection
  • Disseminating research findings
  • Translating findings into practice where applicable

To view our current nursing research scholars and projects, download our guide.

Current Research Scholars

Our Faculty

We are here to serve, and we treat everyone with compassion and care. Meet the leaders who are changing nursing for the better.

Alaina Tellson, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC

System Director Nursing Research

Ramona Baucham, MSN, RN

Nurse Scientist Baylor Scott & White All Saints

Penny Huddleston, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN

Nurse Scientist Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving

Karen Stanzo, MSN, RN, IBCLC, NEA-BC

Nurse Scientist Baylor Scott & White DFW East Region

Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence guides our decisions.

Our evidence-based practice incorporates the best available scientific evidence with clinician expertise and the patient's preference. This framework is how we make decisions about healthcare.

  • ASPIRE

    ASPIRE means Achieving Synergy in Practice through Impact, Relationships and Evidence. Our ASPIRE nursing program empowers nurses to develop expertise in caring for specific patient populations. Learn more about this voluntary professional nursing program.

Philanthropy

Baylor Scott & White Health is committed to advancing education opportunities, leadership development and evidence-based practice amongst our nurses—efforts that lead to higher standards of patient care and better patient outcomes.

Philanthropy plays a valuable role in supporting and expanding programs that advance these efforts (e.g., graduate nurse residencies, nursing research, Advancing Nursing Excellence Scholars, Foundations of Nursing Leadership).

To make a gift to support nursing initiatives like these, contact Sarah Burdi at the BSW Dallas Foundation at Sarah.Burdi@BSWHealth.org or 214.820.4721.

Innovation

We solve complex healthcare problems.

How many times have you thought, "This isn't working," or "I know a much better way we could do this?" As Magnet® defines it, innovation is "something nurses do to improve patient outcomes, efficiency and cost effectiveness." At Baylor Scott & White Health, we are constantly innovating to change nursing for the better.


Fall prevention example

Avoiding a PICC example

Join Us

Be a part of our team as we strive for better, together.

Nursing Careers

Explore roles that build on your skills and ambitions.

Nursing Research

Partner with us on research that will shape the future of healthcare.

Philanthropy

Your generous donations help us achieve our mission for nursing excellence.

Active Nursing Research Studies

To view our completed nursing research studies, July 2019–present, download our guide


An investigation of the mixed-method relationship between diuretic medication nonadherence and Brain-Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) or NT-proBNP (NBNP) among adults with a 90-day heart failure hospital readmission

Investigators: Nancy Vish, Henry Viejo, Art Signo, Penny Huddleston
Locations: BHVH, Waxahachie


Effects of virtual reality as a non-opioid pain management intervention for patients on bedrest after percutaneous sheath removal at BHVH

Investigators: Lesley Abraham, Mary-Helen Chaplin, Daryn Holloway, Mary Vitullo, Henry Viejo, Penny Huddleston
Location: BHVH


Connect Heart Failure

Investigator: Meenaz Bachoo
Location: THH-Plano


Enhanced communication and health literacy awareness to decrease heart failure readmission rates

Investigators: Alaina Tellson, Bria Hollingsworth
Locations: THH-Plano, Plano


Describing the direct care nurses’ perceptions of workplace bullying

Investigators: Penny Huddleston, Meleah Puckett
Location: Waxahachie


Describing the unlicensed assistive personnel’s perceptions of workplace bullying

Investigator: Penny Huddleston
Location: Waxahachie


Use of weighted blankets in patients with behavioral disturbances in acute care settings

Investigators: Norman Gregorio, Keenan Mullins, Penny Huddleston, Doug Hanna, Johna Gilber
Locations: Waxahachie, Irving


Team support: Help when you need it!

Investigators: Penny Huddleston, Amanda Smith
Locations: Waxahachie, Irving


Measuring interventions for meaningful recognition and skilled communication using the healthy work environment scale for direct care nurses in acute care settings

Investigators: Penny Huddleston, Linda Tjiong, Ramona Baucham, Karen Stanzo, Trenton Raff
Locations: Waxahachie, Irving, Grapevine, Baylor All Saints, McKinney, BUMC


Measuring interventions for meaningful recognition and skilled communication using the healthy work environment scale for nurse leaders in acute care settings

Investigators: Penny Huddleston. Linda Tjiong, Ramona Baucham, Karen Stanzo, Trenton Raff
Locations: Waxahachie, Irving, Grapevine, Baylor All Saints, McKinney, BUMC


Delaying bath to increase breastfeeding rates in mothers who vaginally delivered newborns

Investigators: Lucila Coronado, Penny Huddleston
Location: Irving


Workplace Violence — Bullying UAP intervention

Investigator: Penny Huddleston
Location: Irving


Workplace Violence — Bullying RN intervention

Investigator: Penny Huddleston
Location: Irving


Effects of virtual reality as a non-opioid pain management intervention for patients

Investigators: Linda Tjiong, Penny Huddleston
Locations: Grapevine, Irving


Development of a tool to measure factors affecting breastfeeding among mothers in the NICU

Investigator: Leora Patton
Location: Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center


Analysis of screening protocol to determine intimate partner violence, anxiety and depression in mothers with infants in the NICU

Investigator: Karen Stanzo
Location: McKinney


The effect of delayed cord clamping on preterms: An observational study

Investigator: Diana Rich
Location: BUMC


Targeted education on stroke trial

Investigator: Candace McAlpine
Location: BUMC


Code Elevate

Investigator: Erika Fernandez
Location: Hillcrest


Effects of diet (clear liquid vs. NPO) on outcomes in L&D

Investigators: Tracey Jones, Alaina Tellson
Location: Hillcrest


Mindfulness in the workplace: Reducing nurses' reported stress levels in the ICU

Investigators: Jasmine Lord; Anna Bowman
Location: Temple


AMIGO

Investigator: Marlene Porter
Location: Temple


Multidisciplinary staff shared governance

Investigators: Beverly Carrington, Leanne Clark, Toni Haddox
Location: Round Rock


A case series evaluation of the impact of contact-free, continuous monitoring of respiratory rate and heart rate in the inpatient surgical setting

Investigators: Carol Rukobo, Nycole Bolin, Alaina Tellson
Location: Lake Pointe


COVID, proning and hospital-acquired conditions

Investigators: Alaina Tellson, Sharon Gunn, Laura Morgan
Location: System

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