All facilities in the EFD will be transitioning to using Plain Language to announce emergency codes/alerts – Medical, Security, & Facility.  We are converting to this format of announcing our codes to improve the safety and responsiveness of all within our facilities – our patients, visitors, and staff. We are not changing how the staff calls codes, what will change is how the operator announces codes. 

Please review the attached huddle card and ensure you are aware of the Emergency alert process for your facility. 

Emergency Codes

Thank you for your attention to PATIENT SAFETY!

Congratulations to Aaron Hicks, RN, on earning a DAISY Award!

Aaron was nominated by a patient at the Medical Center of Aurora for his outstanding kindness and ability to create an atmosphere that was relaxed and comfortable. Read the full nomination below:

"When we arrived yesterday at the room, we were scared, upset, and very worried. Aaron's amazing ability to calm and relax us worked immediately. His sense of humor, kindness, gentleness, and willingness to talk with us put us at ease. Aaron's smile is infectious and we appreciate him so much. 

Thank you for employing such wonderful people like Aaron. He was an absolute blessing for us during our stay."

Please join us in congratulating Aaron on his DAISY Award! 

If you're interested in joining the HealthTrust team, click here to browse our available job opportunities. 

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions congratulates Clarissa E., R.N. for receiving the Nightingale Award while on assignment at Medical City Fort Worth. Clarissa works with HealthTrust staffing partner Medical Solutions. The Nightingale Award is presented to nurses that exhibit excellence within the nursing profession and each participant must be nominated for this award. Clarissa, we are thankful for your dedication and commitment to patient care!

We are thankful for the countless nurses that have provided exceptional patient care to patients across the country throughout COVID-19. Although the pandemic created hardships for both patients and nurses, we are grateful for the dedication that nurses have exhibited towards enhancing patient care. Below, we share one nurses' experience of coping with the stress of COVID-19, the lessons that she learned and the support that she felt along the way.

Melissa L., ICU R.N., is thankful for the support of HealthTrust Workforce Solutions and HCA Healthcare throughout COVID-19. Although Melissa was afraid at the start of the pandemic, Melissa was comforted as HealthTrust and HCA Healthcare provided exceptional resources and proper PPE. Melissa’s compassion for her patients grew throughout her time treating COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. She truly learned the importance of spending quality time with her patients and making every encounter meaningful, which led to a deeper appreciation for her role as a nurse.

Aside from the positive support from HealthTrust Workforce Solutions and HCA Healthcare, Melissa is thankful for how every nurse leaned on one another and provided support to each other during COVID-19. Melissa’s advice to new nurses is to put all of their fears aside and to know that they are going to make a difference in the lives of many patients, who will ultimately make a difference in their life as well.

Want to be a part of the HealthTrust Workforce Solutions family? Click here to view open opportunities today!

Please review attached Bladder Management Program PowerPoint shared by our partners in the East Florida Division. 

The Goal of the program is to implement a systems-based appropriate indications for catheter placement and reduce overall indwelling urinary catheter utilization. The program supports current policies and promotes alternate choices to indwelling catheters. 

Please educate yourself on the program and the BMP algorithm. 

Bladder Management Program

Thank you for your attention to patient safety!

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions is thankful for the continued positive impact that is being made within every community that we serve. Today, we want to wish every clinician a happy National Hospital Week! National Hospital Week, which runs May 9th-15th, celebrates the nurses, physicians, administrators, volunteers, and more who provide healing and hope to people in need. Through the dedication and commitment of every health care hero, we know that the lives of patients are being changed across the country.

HealthTrust is proud to be a fully-owned subsidiary of HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading healthcare services providers that operates 185 hospitals across the United States and the United Kingdom. To learn more about the HCA Healthcare facilities in the U.S., click here to browse our facility spotlights. 

As we celebrate Oncology Nursing Month, we are thankful for the dedication of every member of the care team and take this month to recognize oncology nurses and our partnership with Sarah Cannon.

Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of HCA Healthcare, offers integrated cancer services with convenient access to cutting-edge therapies for those facing cancer in communities across the United States and United Kingdom.

Sarah Cannon’s cancer programs include individualized patient navigation provided by oncology-trained nurses, ~ 1,200 stem cell transplants performed annually throughout the Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cellular Therapy Network, hundreds of clinical trials, and molecular profiling capabilities. Sarah Cannon has remained a clinical trial leader in the majority of approved cancer therapies over the last 10 years, helping shape new standards of cancer care and provide access to novel therapies through one of the largest early-phase clinical trial programs in the world.

By joining Sarah Cannon as an oncology nurse, you help provide world-class cancer care close to home for hundreds of thousands of patients, a number unmatched by any single cancer center.

Interested in Oncology travel nursing travel positions? Click here to view our open opportunities today!

This Nurses Week, we are incredibly thankful for every nurses' dedication and commitment to patient care. The resilience of nurses, especially throughout COVID-19, has created a positive impact within the communities that we serve.

In honor of Nurses Week 2021, organizations across the country are showing their support for every healthcare hero. From Adidas providing thirty percent off of on-the-line items from their healthcare collection or Dunkin' giving free medium iced or hot coffee's on May 6 to healthcare workers who show their ID, there are incredible freebies and discounts being offered this week for every nurse. 

To view all of the discounts and freebies being offered for National Nurses Week, click here.

Happy Nurses Week!

Nurses are at the heart of healthcare and that has never been more apparent than throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. During Nurses Week 2021, we have a special opportunity to recognize these special healthcare heroes.

Nurses Week is celebrated annually, May 6-12. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife to honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth and to advance nurses’ vital role in transforming health care around the world. HealthTrust Workforce Solutions stands in support of extending this recognition into 2021 to continue to shine a light on the valuable impact nurses have made throughout the pandemic and beyond.

The pandemic has challenged us all in many ways, yet nurses have continued to deliver steadfast patient care without skipping a beat. We are inspired by the new and innovative ways in which nurses have found to take care of their patients, their families and one another. Your compassion, commitment, determination and resilience have given us all a reason to hope for a better tomorrow.

On behalf of the team at HealthTrust Workforce Solutions, thank you for being a beacon of light to those who need you most. We appreciate you and remain committed to doing our part to help you be able to continue to make a life-saving difference for those in our communities.

Have a wonderful Nurses Week!

Our partners in East Florida have shared with HWS Guidelines for Agency and Float Nurses. Please make sure you are familiar with the guidelines at the facility in which you are staffing. 

• Ensure I-Mobile is signed in and out and number written on white board
• Document in Meditech per EBCD guidelines
• If caring for a patient on Telemetry obtain a rhythm strip, validate, sign, date, and place in chart per unit guidelines.
• Ensure you punch out for lunch
• Assess all high fall risk patients and ensure Fall Precautions are implemented if applicable
• Complete hourly Safety rounding
• CHG documentation must be documented under Hygiene Care Intervention
  • Conducted daily for lines and foleys
  • First documentation at time new line placed
• Ensure you are following policy and guidelines for C. Diff Orders
• Foley Catheters/Drains
  • Date Inserted on bag
  • Stat lock in place
  • Bag below bladder off floor
  • Red Seal intact
  • No loops or kinks
  • Green clip in use
  • Emptied 3/4 full and before transporting
  • Documentation Q shift: Start Date, Reason, Patient Education
• Central Lines
  • No blood draws from Central Lines
  • Appropriate Dressing in place
  • All edges intact, CHG centered
  • Dated, timed, initialed
  • Orange caps on all unused ports and IV tubing ports
  • Dressing change and tubing change per facility guidelines
  • Document Q shift
  • Utilization of Bio patch
• Ensure Proper documentation of wounds and completion of wound care orders
  
  

Thank you for all YOU DO!