The 13^th Annual Celebration of Scholarly Writing in Nursing

Children’s National Hospital

May 5, 2025

Allen, S., Parrott, J. Understanding Parental COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the Pediatric Population . Pediatric Nursing; Pitman Vol. 50, Iss. 6,  (Nov/Dec 2024): 277-283. DOI:10.62116/PNJ.2024.50.6.277.

Alrimawi I, Bettini E, Taylor C, Saifan AR, Al-Yateem N. Insights Into Child Abuse and Neglect in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) Area: Evidence and Opportunities. Glob Pediatr Health. 2024 Sep 28;11:2333794X241284029. https://doi.org/10.1177/2333794X2412840.

Arem, H., Duarte, D. A., White, B., Vinson, K., Hinds, P., Ball, N., Dennis, K., McCready, D. M., Cafferty, L. A., & Berg, C. J. (2024). Young Adult Cancer Survivors’ Perspectives on Cancer’s Impact on Different Life Areas Post-Treatment: A Qualitative Study. J Adoles Young Adult Onc, 2024; 13(5), 748–759. https://doi.org/10.1089/jayao.2024.0021.

Bell, C. J., Spruit, J. L., Deatrick, J. A., Weaver, M. S., Dickens, D. S., Hinds, P. S., & Kavanaugh, K. L. (2024). Development and Validation of a Ready-to-Talk Measure for Use in Adolescents and Young Adults Living With Advanced Cancer. Cancer Nurs, 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001343.  https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000001343.

Broden EG, Boyden JY, Keller S, James R, Mooney-Doyle K. Who, What, Where, and How? The State of Family Science in Pediatric Palliative Care. JPSM. 2024 Oct;68(4):e254-e279. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.06.022. Epub 2024 Jul. 9. Review. PubMed PMID: 38992396.

Broden, E. G., Eche-Ugwu, I. J., DeCourcey, D. D., Wolfe, J., Hinds, P. S., & Snaman, J. (2024). “At Least I Can Push this Morphine”: PICU Nurses’ Approaches to Suffering Among Dying Children. JPSM, 68(2), 132–141.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.202.

Caprarola SD, Jones MB, Yurasek GK, O'Neill RV, Pleau C, Rowan M, Gordish-Dressman H, Wernovsky G. Increased sound levels in the cardiac ICU are associated with an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and sedation. Cardiol Young. 2025 Feb;35(2):344-349. doi: 10.1017/S1047951124036163. Epub 2024 Dec 10. PMID: 39655669.

Choueiki JM, Sales S, Callicott S, Ashman D, Worst K, Badillo A, Varda BK, Mayhew A, Xu TO, Levitt MA. Is Collaborative Care the Future of Medicine? Lessons Learned from the Care of Children with Colorectal Conditions. Children (Basel). 2024 May 9;11(5):570. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11050570.

Coburn, S., Trojanowski, P. J., Vagadori, J., Hinds, P., Germone, M., Liu, E., Streisand, R., & Bost, J. (2024). Development and Validation of a Pediatric Celiac Disease-Specific Quality of Life Measure.  Am J Gastroenterol, 10.14309/ ajg.0000000000003132. https://doi.org/10.14309/ajg.0000000000003132. 

Colson C, Ascenzi J, Waibel E, Busch D. Pain Assessment in the Outpatient Pediatric Burn Patient: An Integrative Review. J Trauma Nurs. 2024 Jul-Aug 01;31(4):203-210. doi: 10.1097/JTN.0000000000000799. Epub 2024 Jul 4. PMID: 38990876.

Crowe, L., & Riley, C. M. (2024). Bad behavior in healthcare: an insidious threat to patients, staff, and organizations. Current Opinion Cardiol, 39(4), 331–337. https://doi.org/10.1097/HCO.0000000000001139.

Danford CA, Mooney-Doyle K, Deatrick JA, Feetham S, Gross D, Knafl KA, Kobayashi K, Moriarty H, Østergaard B, Swallow V. Building Family Interventions for Scalability and Impact. J Fam Nurs. 2024 May;30(2):94-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/10748407241231342.

Fezza JI, Rau S, Clary L, Nimene Johnson O, Fimmel F, Barber J, Kanakatti Shankar R. Spectrum of neuropsychological challenges in Turner syndrome. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024 Nov 18;15:1461103. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1461103. PMID: 39624818; PMCID: PMC11608949.

Hall, D., Smiley, Y., Slovin, A., Manget, J., Bost, J. E., & Chokshi, B. (2024). Applying a Trauma-Informed Lens to Challenging Adolescent Encounters: A Faculty Development Session for Pediatricians. MedEdPORTAL, 20, 11408. https://doi. org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11408.

Howard MB, Fornari MJ, Colson CD, Ebner M, Jarvis LR. Intimate Partner Violence: Piloting an E-Module for Pediatric Staff. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2025 Feb;64(2):171-175. doi: 10.1177/00099228241254911. Epub 2024 May 21. PMID: 38770966.

Huang J, Spira AP, Perrin NA, Ellis A, Hsu EC, Kaufmann CN, Li J. Latent classes of sleep problems and subjective cognitive decline among middle-aged and older adults in the United States. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2025 Feb;129:105657. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2024.105657. Epub 2024 Oct 9. PMID: 39405666.

Jones MB, Cameron VK, Lee S, McNelis AM. Traumatic stress in parents of children with congenital heart disease: a scoping review. Cardiol Young. 2024 Aug;34(8):1622-1635. doi: 10.1017/S1047951124025332. Epub 2024 Sep 16. PMID: 39282736.

Kaye, E. C., Farner, H., Mehler, S., Bien, K., Mali, N., Brinkman, T. M., Baker, J. N., Hinds, P., & Mack, J. W. Patient, Parent, and Oncologist Perspectives and Recommendations on the Right Way to Talk About Prognosis in Advanced Childhood Cancer. JCO Oncology Practice, 2024; OP2400249. Advance online publication. https:// doi.org/10.1200/OP.24.00249

Kotler, H., Hinds, P. S., & Wolfe, A. H. J. “Death Is Not a Dirty Word:” A Qualitative Study of Emergency Clinician End-of-Life Communication. Pediatrics, 2024; 154(5), e2024067876. https://doi. org/10.1542/peds.2024-067876.

Lopez Magallon A, Saenz L, Mehta R, Chacón MA, Martinez Ransanz S, Swink K, Berris M, Hanabergh S, Yerebakan C, Wessel D, Munoz R. Pediatric Tele-Critical Care: Initial Experience with a Continuous Surveillance Model Aiming to Prevent Cardiac Arrest in Children with Critical Heart Disease. Telemed J E Health. 2024 Aug;30(8):2134-2141. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2024.0035. Epub 2024 Jun 28. PMID: 38938212.

Mastropietro, C. W., Sassalos, P., Riley, C. M., Piggott,K., Allen, K. Y., Prentice, E., Safa, R., Buckley, J. R.,Werho, D. K., Wakeham, M., Smerling, A., Yates, A.R., Iliopoulos, I., Sandhu, H., Chiwane, S., Beshish,A., Kwiatkowski, D. M., Flores, S., Narashimhulu, S.S., Loomba, R., … Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (CoRe-PCICS) Investigators. Clinical Outcomes After Tracheostomy in Children With Single Ventricle Physiology: Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Multicenter Cohort, 2010-2021. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2024; 25(8), 728–739. https://doi. org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000003523

Manuel R, Barber A, Kern J, Myers K, Neary T, Nicholson L, Walsh H, Zaveri P, Dwivedi P, Maggiotto C, King S. Focused Team Engagements to Enhance Interprofessional Collaboration and Safety Behaviors among Novice Nurses and Medical Residents. Pediatr Qual Saf, 2024; Sep 9;9(5):e767.

Mason JJ, Coleman L, Dawod M, Wathen K, Houston S, Waldron M, Hinds PS. Child and caregiver voices about inpatient care: What do they report as positive and as needing improvement? J Pediatr Nurs. 2024 Mar-Apr;75:213-220. doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2024.01.013. Epub 2024 Jan 24. PMID: 38272712.

McDonald, Paige L., Abdallah, Samia M., Lyons, Laurie B., Fisher, Deborah, Increasing Access to Care: Designing a Blended Curriculum to Educate Adult Hospice Nurses in Caring for Pediatric Patients. Nursing Forum, 2024, 6833170. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/6833170.

Meghani SH, Mooney-Doyle K, Barnato A, Colborn K, Gillette R, Harrison KL, Hinds PS, Kirilova D, Knafl K, Schulman-Green D, Pollak KI, Ritchie CS, Kutner JS, Karcher S. Lessons Learned Establishing the Palliative Care Research Cooperative’s Qualitative Data Repository. JPSM, 2024; 68(3):308-318. doi: 10.1016/j. jpainsymman.2024.05.027.

Merriweather, B., Speller-Brown, B. J., & Campbell, A. D. A Pilot Study to Increase Naloxone Education and Prescriptions in Sickle Cell Clinics. J Sick Cell Dis, 2024; 1(Supplement_1), yoae002.023.

Moak, J. P., Ramwell, C. B., Gordish-Dressman, H., Sule, S. D., & Bettini, E. Small fiber neuropathy in children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic orthostatic intolerance and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome: A retrospective study. Auton Neurosci, 2024; 253, 103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. autneu.2024.103163.

Montealegre Sanchez GA, Arrigoni LE, Yonts AB, Rubenstein KB, Bost JE, Wolff MT, Barrix MC, Bandettini WP, Boateng B, Bulas DI, Burklow TR, Carlyle KP, Chen M, Das S, Dewar RL, Dixon AA, Edu MA, Falik RL, Geslak ML, Gierdalski M, Harahsheh AS, Herbert LJ, Highbarger J, Huq SR, Ko A, Koumbourlis AC, Lacey SR, Lipton AJ, Monaghan M, Ndour AS, Olivieri LJ, Pillai DK, Rehm CA, Sable CA, Sachdev V, Thurm AE, Truong UT, Turkbey EB, Vilain E, Weyers S, White JS, Williams AA, Zember J, Liang CJ, Delaney M, Batshaw ML, Notarangelo LD, Wessel DL, Barron K, DeBiasi RL. Pediatric SARS-CoV-2 long term outcomes study (PECOS): cross sectional analysis at baseline. Pediatr Res, 2024; Dec 18. doi: 10.1038/s41390-024-03777-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39695262.

Morin A, King S, Glennon S, Landers K. Grounded in Proficiency: A Crosswalk Between Nurse Leader Digital Transformation Guidelines and Core Competencies. Nurse Leader. December 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2024.12.005.

Ogungbe O, Ellis A, Ojinnaka CO. Food Security to Medication Adherence-Connecting Needs. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Feb 5;7(2):e2356570. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.56570.

Perkins A, Hinds PS, Grundman JB, Meighan S, Monaghan M, Streisand R, Marks BE. Improving equity in diabetes technology use: Voices of youth and their parents. Diabet Med, 2024; Nov;41(11):e15382. doi: 10.1111/dme.15382. Epub 2024 Jun 17. PMID: 38887129; PMCID: PMC11479830.

Pike NA, Dougherty CM, Black T, Freedenberg V, Green TL, Howie-Esquivel J, Pucciarelli G, Souffront K, St Laurent P; American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Clinical Cardiology; and Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health. Nursing Wellness in Academic and Clinical Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. J Am Heart Assoc, 2025; Jan 7;14(1):e038199.

Radcliffe CR, Akkawi G, Carson RA. Practical Application of Nirsevimab Recommendations for Infants and Toddlers. J Pediatr Health Care, 2024 Dec 12:S0891-5245(24)00373-0.

Rivas Berger M, Meadows A, Bost J, Margulies S, Martin B, Moffitt B, Speller-Brown B. The impact of a single music therapy session on pain perception of patients with sickle cell disease. Music & Medicine, 2024;16(2);131-140.

Straton, E., Bryant, B. L., Kang, L., Wang, C., Barber, J., Perkins, A., Gallant, L., Marks, B., Agarwal, S., Majidi, S., Monaghan, M., & Streisand, R. ROUTET1D: A behavioral intervention to promote optimal continuous glucose monitor use among racially minoritized youth with type 1 diabetes: Design and development. Contemp Clin Trials, 2024; 140, 107493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2024.107493.

Roberts-Turner, R., Mason, J. J., McLeese, R. W., & Talley, L. B. Using safety event report data as an additional variable to assess current structure and processes. Nursing Management, 2024; 55(11), 22–27.  https://doi.org/10.1097/ nmg.0000000000000188.

Schultz TR, Edemba D, Lecuyer ME, Garzone A, Henise S, Liljestrand A, Hinds PS, King S. LGBTQ+ Population Well-Being: Health Equity Implementation Science in Action. Public Health Nurs, Dec 2024; https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13480.

Schultz TR, Forbes J, Hafen Packard A. Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: Impact on Health Care, Nursing, Quality, and Safety. Qual Manag Health Care,  2024 Jan-Mar 01;33(1):39-43. doi: 10.1097/QMH.0000000000000438. Epub 2023 Sep 29. PMID: 37817310.

Teele, S. A., Crowe, L., Koch, J., Pollak, U., Bacha, E., Mulreany, M. P., Trice, S., Riley, C. M., Winlaw, D. S., May, J. W., Savani, R. C., & G. Wernovsky. The Pediatric Heart Center Melting Pot: Sharing Recipes for Success: Proceedings from the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg, 2024; 21501351241255640. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501351241255640.

Whyte-Nesfield, M. M., Trujillo Rivera, E. A., Kaplan, D., Li, S., Hinds, P. S., & Pollack, M. M. Predicting Parental Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms Following their Child’s Stay in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Prior to Discharge. J Intensive care Med, 2024; 8850666241287442. Advance online publication. https://doi. org/10.1177/08850666241287442.

Wolfe, A. H. J., Hinds, P. S., du Plessis, A. J., Gordish-Dressman, H., Freedenberg, V., & Soghier, L. Mindfulness Exercises Reduce Acute Physiologic Stress Among Female Clinicians. Crit Care Explor, 2024; 6(11), e1171.  https://doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000001171.

Book Chapters

Sanchez-Jacob R, Prat Aymerich C, Rodrigo C, Keller S, Shet N. Otero H, Kaplan S, Medina L, Blackmore C, Applegate K, (2024). Evidence-Based Imaging of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Children. In Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics: Clinical Decision Support for Optimized Imaging in Pediatric Care. Springer International Publishing; 1-21p. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-030-38095-3_93-1.

Beachy J., Snapp B. (2024). Resuscitation, and delivery room stabilization. In Neonatal nurse practitioner certification intensive review: Fast facts and practice questions. Amy Koehn (Ed). 2nd Ed. New York, NY:Springer.

Published Articles in the CNH Pediatric Nurse Journal (PNJ), Fall, 2024.

Alleyne A. How indoor global positioning devices could improve response times during emergencies.

Berris MJ. The Telecritical Care Nursing Service at Children’s National.

Bryan SH. SAIL WITH HEART: The commitment, compassion and connections of the Pediatric Nurse Navigator.

Bruce, A. Kampala, Uganda 2023: A return to medical mission work for heart surgery.

Engh, EP & Woodrum B. Empower your wallet: Financial well-being and wealth building for RNs at Children’s National Hospital.

Jenson RW. Behind the lead apron: Nursing assessments in Pediatric Interventional Radiology.

Jules N. Time for writing but would anyone be interested?

Keller S. Quiet everyday heroes: Security team members protecting staff, patients, families, and themselves.

Mead, AE. Identifying nurses’ power to confront climate change.

Ramwell CB & Bettini E. When we don’t listen, overlooked and misunderstood: Breaking patient care bias in POTS patients.

Yoko-Uzomah J. Controlled substances: Appreciating the good, avoiding the bad and ugly.

Contribution to a Professional Newsletter

Hom, L. A., Oster, M. E., & Martin, G. R. (2024). AAP updates recommendations on use of

pulse oximetry to screen newborns for critical congenital heart disease. AAP News.

December 16, 2024.