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Director, Center for Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes

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About Kristiina E Hyrkas, PhD, LicNSc, MNSc, RN

Present	Director, Center for Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes, MaineHealth ‐ Maine Medical Center
Institution Organization Position Type Position Title Time Period to Options Current Position Affiliate my profile with this Institution

Nursing and Social and Behavioral Sciences

Center for Nursing Research & Quality Outcomes

Maine Medical Center

22 Bramhall St

Portland, ME 04102

Impact of Bowel Management Guidelines on Documentation and Patient Outcomes ...

Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2021 (2021)

Alana Trottier, Paul Blakeslee and Kristiina Hyrkas

Introduction • Bowel management (BM) is an inadvertently overlooked aspect of patient care for critically ill patients who have complex, ...

New Graduate Orientation Evaluation: Are There Any Best Practices Out ...

Journal for Nurses in Professional Development (2020)

Jennifer Laflamme and Kristiina Hyrkas

Efficient, cost-effective, and safe orientations with clear expectations are necessary for new graduates in their transition from student to practicing ...

Evidence-Based Education for Perianesthesia RNs to Increase Knowledge and Change ...

Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses / American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (2020)

Lois M Hayworth and Kristiina E Hyrkas

PURPOSE: To increase perianesthesia registered nurses (RNs') knowledge and change attitudes of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). DESIGN: A pretest/post-test design was ...

Modeling emergency department nursing workload in real time: An exploratory ...

Int Emerg Nurs (2020)

Edwin L Clopton and Eira Kristiina Hyrkäs

Study of emergency department (ED) nursing workload has been largely subsumed under the related but separate phenomenon of ED crowding. ...

A comparison of usual care, a patient-centred education intervention and ...

Journal of nursing management (2014)

Kristiina Hyrkas and Marjorie Wiggins

AIM: To compare medication adherence and readmissions in patients who received usual care vs. patient-centred interventions. BACKGROUND: Medication adherence is ...

Cardiovascular Service Line Chaplain at an Academic Medical Center: Creation ...

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Joan Carr Myers, Kristiina Hyrkas, Tim Kafer, Sheila Parker, et al.

Problem Statement: As health care providers and organizations have become complex and specialized, efforts to address the spiritual needs of ...

Changing the Surgical Residency: A Mixed-Methods Study of Residents’ and ...

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Sarah B Cairo, Wendy Craig, Caitlin Gutheil, Paul K. J. Han, et al.

Objective: To evaluate a reformed surgical residency curriculum aimed at addressing emerging practice models, enhancing residents’ educational experience, and improving ...

Impact of supplemental thiamin on lactate levels in adults with ...

Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (2023)

Paul A Blakeslee and Kristiina Hyrkas

BACKGROUND: Elevated lactate levels at 24 h are highly predictive of in-hospital mortality in adults with septic shock. Thiamin is ...

Improvement of Family Communication in the Perioperative Environment Utilizing Text ...

Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2022 (2022)

Sonja Orff and Kristiina Hyrkas

Text Messaging Technology Improves Patient Satisfaction for Communication with Nurses in Perioperative Care Unit

Patient and family perceptions of an inpatient journal

Marguerite Peggy Anderson and Kristiina Hyrkas

End-of-Life Care: Improving Communication and Reducing Stress

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly (2021)

Joan Carr Myers and Kristiina Hyrkas

This quality improvement initiative originated in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) at a 637-bed licensed Magnet teaching hospital with ...

Case Report of Cardiopulmonary Arrest During Pregnancy due to Opioid ...

Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN (2021)

Tracey E McMillan, Sarah Austin and Kristiina Hyrkas

In the United States, the number of deaths related to overdose of heroin and other opioids, specifically among women of ...

Spiritual/Religious Orientation and Moral Distress in Pulmonary Care Nurses ...

Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2021 (2021)

Kristiina Hyrkas and Myrna Koonce

Introduction • Nurses who provide care which they perceive as increasing suffering often experience moral distress (MD). • Response to ...

Falls and delirium in an acute care setting: A retrospective ...

Journal of clinical nursing (2018)

Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Sarah Hallen, Heidi R Wierman, et al.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: To describe and compare identification of delirium, length of stay and discharge locations in two patient samples ...

Falls in A Tertiary Care Hospital-Association With Delirium: A Replication ...

Psychosomatics (2016)

Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Deborah A Bachand, Joanne L Chapman, et al.

BACKGROUND: Delirium has been previously implicated as a risk factor for patient falls. This is a replication study of a ...

Effectiveness of regionalized systems for stroke and myocardial infarction.

Brain and behavior (2015)

James P Rhudy, Marie A Bakitas, Kristiina Hyrkäs, Rita A Jablonski-Jaudon, et al.

BACKGROUND: Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are ischemic emergencies. Guidelines recommend care delivery within formally ...

Contemporary issues in nursing: patient safety, decision-making and social support ...

Journal of nursing management. (2013)

Lynn Macken and Kristiina Hyrkas