Nursing

Nursing

Butterfly Award winner: Brooke Harris

May 1st, 2025
Employee Spotlight, Nursing, Butterfly Award

Congratulations to the 2025 Q1 Butterfly Honoree, Brooke Harris, CNA/IMCU.

Patient story: “She is someone who comes to work fully ready to meet every patient with a smile, laugh and support with whatever they need from the very start of her shift to the end. She is someone who never hesitates to help where she can and does her best to check in on everyone on the floor to make sure she can provide the most amount of team work and support she can. She is the coworker that you feel relief knowing she’s there for the day. You know the patients are not only taken care of medically but emotionally and spiritually too. She sees every patient as a whole person instead of a sick person in a bed. She makes sure that she gets to know the patients she cares for and uses it to help them heal in ways medicine can’t. A patient once told me that she is like a ball of sunshine when she walks into his room and I’ve never seen her any other way.”

Read More

GME prepares for annual research symposium

April 18th, 2025
Employee Spotlight, Nursing, GME

The GME Department is proud to support all scholarly activities and provide the best academic experience for our learners.

The Annual Graduate Medical Education Research Symposium at Riverside Medical Center showcases the scholarly endeavors of our fellows, trainees, and medical students. Participants presented quality improvement projects, case reports, investigator-initiated research, and evidence-based practice studies. The venue allows for the dissemination of knowledge, information exchange and valuable academic discussion.

For further information on the symposium, or if you are interested in conducting research, please contact Malgorzata Witkowska, Clinical Research Coordinator, at [email protected] or Cynthia Koehn, Clinical Research Nurse, at [email protected]. 

Case Reports

  1. When Clean Turns Contaminated: A Case of Endocarditis Due To Exposed AICD Leads Nishita Vattem, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
  2. Out of the woods and into the jungle; A case of an uncommon problem presenting commonly by Nancy Mayer, DO, Internal Medicine Resident and Charles Swanson, DO, Gastroenterology Fellow
  3. A Rare Case of Glycopyrrolate Induced Biventricular Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy by Nishita Vattem, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
  4. Tricvalve gets tricky: iatrogenic atrial septal defect due to migration of bicaval prosthesis device by Arjun Bagai, DO, Internal Medicine Resident and Dureshahwar Ali, DO, Cardiology Fellow
  5. A Unique case of Unileaflet Mitral Valve by Iga Fudyma, DO, Internal Medicine Resident and Dureshahwar Ali, DO, Cardiology Fellow
  6. IgA Vasculitis in an Adult by Arjun Bagai, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
  7. Psychiatric Implications of Recurrent Insulin Overdose in a Patient with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Prior COVID-19 Infection: A Case Study by Ashley Clark, MD and Rehan Saini, MD, Psychiatry Residents
  8. Psychosis and Sphingomyelinase: A Case Report on the Psychiatric Manifestations of Neimann-Pick Disease by Breanna Wennberg, MD, Psychiatry Resident
  9. Struck Through the Heart: A Case of Lightning Strike-Induced Cardiomyopathy by Rahul Patel, DO, Cardiology Fellow
  10. When two paths cross: a case of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in a patient with multiple myeloma by Dhruv Patel, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
  11. Neuropsychiatric symptoms leading to an inpatient psychiatric admission reveals diagnosis of Glioblastoma Multiforme by Fatima Hooda, DO, Psychiatry Resident
  12. Diffuse Ductal Dilation in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Kyle Hamann, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
  13. Rare Occurrence of pleural effusion as primary presentation of Rheumatoid Arthiritis by Sasha Singh, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
  14. Peculiar problem in PSCC by Kyle Hamann, DO, Internal Medicine Resident

Investigator-Initiated Research

  1. Effect of Statin Therapy on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Female Patients Receiving Anthracyclines: A Retrospective Propensity Score-Matched Analysis by Iga Fudyma, DO, Internal Medicine Resident and Andrew Mariano, DO, Cardiology Fellow

Healthcare Professionals

Does Monthly Newsletter Communication Predict Employee Engagement? by Elizabeth Deck, DNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES

Reducing Readmissions Through Transitional Care Management by Liberty Erfe, DNP, RN

Changes in Tobacco Usage in Patients Taking GLP-1 Receptor Agonists or GIP/GLP-1 Receptor Agonists by Hailey Mueller, PharmD

Reducing Community-Acquired-Pneumonia Treatment Duration Rates by Aubree Mann, PharmD

Read More

Flag-raising ceremony held for National Donate Life Month

April 17th, 2025
Community, Nursing

On April 16, Riverside Healthcare and Gift of Hope hosted a flag-raising ceremony in honor of National Donate Life Month. The family of Amari Crite spoke about Amari’s gift of tissue donation following her passing last year. The family then helped raise the Gift of Hope flag.

Also speaking at the event were Riverside Vice President of Nursing Ellen Bollino and Gift of Hope’s Alexis Plumb. Riverside Chaplain Marsha Collins blessed the flag.

Riverside and Gift of Hope’s partnership in 2024, by the numbers:

  • 10 families offered the opportunity for organ donation
  • 8 families were supported throughout the organ donation process
  • 4 patients became organ donor heroes, 4 became Donors in Spirit
  • 9 life saving organs were recovered and transplanted
  • 57 families offered the opportunity for tissue donation
  • 36 families consented and were supported throughout the tissue donation process
  • 20 individuals were able to be successful tissue donors and give countless life enhancing tissues to others

Read More