Thank you for your consideration in sharing your work at this year’s Ambulatory Celebrate Improvements Fair! This fair is a great opportunity to share improvement projects of any type – quality improvement, process improvement, etc. across Ambulatory operations.
Poster guidelines:
- If your work has been recently presented at a conference, your poster may be shared as is
- If your work has not been previously shared, please use the provided poster template
- Projects should have been completed within the two years leading up to the fair
- Posters should only be one slide
- All submitted posters (as a PowerPoint .PPTX file) should include an audio presentation lasting no longer than 3 minutes
- All submissions will also include a video file (.MP4 file) lasting no longer than 3 minutes
- View step-by-step instructions on how to record your presentation
- To submit your presentation, complete the poster submission form by clicking “Submit Your Work” on the left-hand of the page by Monday, December 8, 2025 at 2 PM. Follow these submission instructions.
- Finalized posters will be available on https://openworks.mdanderson.org/acif26/ beginning January 28, 2026.
- People’s Choice Voting will be available February 2026.
- The Ambulatory Celebrate Improvements Fair virtual event will take place on February 19, 2026. Zoom registration link will be available soon. The pre-recorded audio will be shared for attendees. Please have a member of your team available to answer questions via chat during the live event.
- Awards will be announced at the end of the virtual event.
- Winners will also be recognized in-person by Ambulatory leadership in the weeks following the event.
- Poster Example
- Poster Template
- Scoring Template
- View how to record your presentation in PowerPoint
- Step-by-step instructions to submit your recording and PowerPoint files
- FAQs
Event information:
Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to celebrating your exemplary work! Ambulatory Celebrate Improvement Fair Committee: AmbulatoryCelebrateImprovements@mdanderson.org
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Enhancing Clinical Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and Care Coordination Through a Thoracic 'Lunch and Learn' Case Study Series
Andrea Aleman, Sylvia Brown, Natalie Sanchez, and Morgan Nestingen
The implementation and impact of a thoracic 'Lunch and Learn' case study series co led by oncology nurse navigators and advanced practice providers to enhance novice ONN clinical knowledge, interdisciplinary collaboration, and care coordination.
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Evaluating The Impact Of Education And Assessment In Reducing Avoidable Revisits to the ACCC
Cynthia De Atley, Natalie Sanchez, Krista Patlovich, and Lindsay Santos
The aim of this project is to reduce OP-35 revisit ratio in the Thoracic Service Line data by 5% by April 2025 from the baseline FY24 Q2 data.
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Enhancing Gynecologic Oncology Nurse Navigation Through Structured Mentorship with Advanced Practice Providers
Melinda G. Harris, Sylvia L. Brown, and Cynae A. Johnson
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Improving Influenza Vaccination Assessment at the General Internal Medicine Clinics
Jennifer R. Jackson, Ella J. Ariza-Heredia, Spencer Gould Jr, Amber Tarvin-Walker, Neetha T. Jawe, Aleza G. Espinosa, Michael D. Vondenstein, Mark A. Melton, Thien L. Hoang, Valeria Villanueva, Jimmy M. Thomas, Markisha L. Bates, Rebecca P. Trask, Claudia P. Delosreyes, Danielle A. Benavides, Arabella Balason, and Carissa G. Jurisprudencia
To highlight an impactful quality-improvement initiative focused on strengthening influenza vaccination assessment within the General Internal Medicine clinics. Because patients with cancer face a significantly higher risk of complications from influenza, ensuring accurate vaccination assessment and documentation is not just important—it is essential to their safety and well-being.
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Enhancing Nurse Confidence in Triage Nursing
Lakeisha T. Keller-Davis, Sylvia Cooper, Jimmy Thomas, and Ana Lopez
The aim of this project is to increase nurse self-reported confidence in triage nursing by 15 percent in a three-month period in the Thoracic Center.
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Implementation of a Patient Assignment Process to Improve Nurse Efficiency and Ease of Use in the Ambulatory Treatment Center (ATC)
Rachel M. McDonald and Pauline Isidienu
Background: Wait times for patients, especially those undergoing oncology treatment, can increase their stress and anxiety and has been associated with decreased satisfaction scores (Godley & Jenkins, 2019). Based on a nursing needs assessment, the ambulatory treatment center (ATC) nurses at the League City Houston Area Location (HAL) frequently had difficulty finding their patient assignment on the center’s electronic health record (EHR) patient list. This caused staff dissatisfaction and delays with starting patient treatment which resulted in low patient experience scores for 'extent appointments began on time’.
Objectives of Project: The aim of this project was to increase patient top box scores for “extent appointments began on time” and increase staff satisfaction in ease of finding assigned patients in the Ambulatory Treatment Center at the League City Houston Area Location.
Process of Implementation: A nursing needs assessment was completed on the League City HAL ATC nurses via a Qualtrics survey that asked:
- ease of finding assigned patients on the patient list
- delays in patient care due to assignment process
- assignment errors due to assignment process
- transparency of charge nurse scheduling practices
- fairness of assignment load
- frequency of 2+ C1D1 assignment in a day or C1D1+ transfusions in a day
To address concerns from the needs assessment, an action plan was created to adopt the ATC TMC process whereby nurses are “assigned” a patient, placing them directly on an individualized nurse’s list in the EHR (Glogovac et al., 2020; Manohar & McLeod, 2020). The action plan also included sharing this process with other HALs for their adoption to create standardization across the institution.
Evaluation of Successful Practice:
In November of 2023, the League City HAL ATC top box score for ‘extent appointments began on time’ was 48.4. Intervention Start Date: December 2023, Intervention End Date: January 2024. Post-Data: Date 1: February 2024-Value: 64.1; Date 2: March 2024-Value: 64; Date 3: April 2024-Value: 63.6. Results of Staff satisfaction data: “Ease of finding assigned patients on the patient list” increased 26% post intervention. Perception of “delays in patient care due to assignment process” decreased by 23%. Perception of “transparency of charge nurse scheduling practices” increased by 30%.
Relevance in Clinical Practice:
Multiple studies have demonstrated a strong correlation between prolonged wait times and patient dissatisfaction (Glogovac et al., 2020; Manohar & McLeod, 2020). By conducting a needs assessment and determining where nurses were being impacted by inefficiencies in their patient assignment process, an action plan was developed that enabled them to see patients sooner and provide a timelier start to their treatment. Avoiding delays led to a superior patient experience as was reflected in the improvement of top box scores for “extent appointments began on time” and staff satisfaction post implementation.
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The Pause After the Pulse: Learning from a Code Blue Debrief
Eguia Staci, Kimberly Foster, Kimberly Foster, Lynsey Stiles, and Uzondu Osuagwu
A structured multidisciplinary after-hours code debrief was utilized to learn from identified safety gaps by using psychological safety, peer support, mock codes and badge inserts utilizing cognitive aids. Overall impact is improved safety, process reliability, team cohesion, and psychological safety aligned with organizational values.
