Our partners in The West Florida Division have shared some education on the expectations of timelines for dosing and parameters for Nimodipine.
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A non fit-tested N95 is a certified N95 mask approved by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that does not require a formal fit test, but does require a seal check.
A seal check is performed by the user each time the mask is put on. It will help determine if the mask is properly positioned on your face or if it needs to be readjusted.
How to perform a seal check:
- Put on the mask and adjust to fit securely
- Do either a positive pressure seal check and/or negative pressure seal check
- Positive pressure seal check: Exhale gently into the face mask. The face fit is considered acceptable when air can be built up inside of the face mask without air leaking out of the sides of the mask.
- Negative pressure check: Inhale gently so that the face mask collapses your breath for ten seconds. If the face mask remains slighlty collapsed and no outside air enters into the mask, the face fit is considered acceptable.
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Please ensure COVID vaccine screening is completed on all admitted patients who are 12 years and older.
Attached is education for review.
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Topics: All Nurses
Our partners in the East Florida Division have shared Fall Education Huddle Card. Please review the education and ensure you are aware and implementing Fall Prevention interventions at the facility you are staffing.
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Topics: East Florida Division, All Network Staff
Education: IV Catheter Conversion in EFL Division
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HWS Clinical Ops on Jul 26, 2021 3:22:36 PM
The East Florida Division will be converting from the Smith Medical IV Catheters to the BD Insyte Autoguard.
Included is an Education link from BD:
https://bd.showpad.com/share/dJpwowHux75bNHdtm9jLa
In addition live education will be provided in the facility by the BD Education Team during conversion process.
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Topics: East Florida Division
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard requires healthcare employers to have a written plan which outlines the processes and controls in place to protect employees from exposure to COVID-19. This COVID-19 Exposure Prevention Plan Training will introduce employees to new required elements of OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard content here…
- Understand the elements of our written COVID-19 Exposure Prevention Plan
- Understand the role of the COVID-19 Safety Coordinator
- Understand the Vaccine Benefits and Medical Removal Protection Benefit
- Understand who to contact with any questions or concerns
All HWS employees have been assigned the 7 minute HealthStream Course: OSHA COVID-19 Exposure Prevention Plan TrainingPlease complete the course on the next worked shift.
Attached is the HWS COVID-19 Employee Health Screening and Medical Management Policy
HWS Health Screening and Medical Management
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HCA Care Team (CTA) is a mobile and desktop tool that is a one-stop, single source of truth for nurses and clinicians to view, create and modify care team assignments in hospitals. It enables nurses and clinicians to keep track of their patient and location assignments and view the patient and bed assignments of their colleagues all in an easy-to-use application accessible on shared mobile devices or on facility desktop machines or GenShare.
CTA will integrate with Mobile Heartbeat, Nurse Call (Hill-Rom and Rauland), and allow improved connections with fellow caregivers and clinical decision support tools like Sepsis Prevention and Optimized Therapy (SPOT).
Additional training is available in HealthStream catalog for self-enrollment:
Course Name: HCA Care Team (CTA)
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Topics: East Florida Division, All Network Staff
For safety and infection prevention compliance, employees who provide direct patient care, those who interface directly with patients, and those who handle patient equipment/supplies, food or medication that is consumed by the patient, may not wear any type of artificial fingernails. Natural nails should be kept clean and not exceeding beyond fingertip.
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- In areas with moderate to substantial COVID-19 activity, PPE Guidance for aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) includes the use of N95 respirators
- Colleagues should adhere to Standard Precautions and use a NIOSH-approved N95 or equivalent or higher-level respirator, gown, gloves, and eye protection. For any airborne procedures, door should be closed
- HCP working in areas with minimal to no community transmission, should continue to adhere to Standard and Transmission-Based Precautions based on anticipated exposures and suspected or confirmed diagnoses.
- This might include use of eye protection, an N95 or equivalent or higher-level respirator, as well as other personal protective equipment (PPE)
- In addition, universal use of a well-fitting facemask for source control is recommended for HCP if not otherwise wearing a respirator
- When there is no presence of infectious disease (such as those requiring droplet precautions), appropriate level mask should be worn, N95 respirators can be an option
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-recommendations.html
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Safety Matters: Welch Allyn Vital Sign Machine
Posted by
HWS Clinical Ops on Jun 19, 2021 9:00:00 AM
Instances of erroneous blood pressure readings have been reported in a singular Facility. This is reportedly because of Welch Allyn vital sign machines losing seal at the juncture of the hose and the adapter/fitting for the blood pressure cuff. Reports have indicated that the failed seal results in devices losing pressure on higher blood pressure measurements, resulting in the need to retrieve and try multiple devices
Some departments have reinforced the seal with tape, which is not clinically advised by either Welch Allyn or GE Critikon manufacturers. Currently, the original fitting is removed and an adapter is being inserted that allows the Welch Allyn device to connect to GE Critikon blood pressure cuffs. Although this is common practice, it appears there is a general unawareness of any standard, manufacturer-recommended processes to insert the adapter in a way that successfully maintains a seal.
Please ensure you are following the facility established process for affixing the adaptors and GE Critikon blood pressure cuffs to the Welch Allyn machines.
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