Educational Reminder: Please ensure the patient and the medication are being scanned 100% of the time prior to medication administration.  Failure to comply with this process jeopordizes patient safety and patient care. 

File Time Variance is a discrepancy of 30 plus minutes between the File Time and Administration Time. The goal for number of File Time Variances is Zero.  Included is an education reference on File Time Variance. 

FTV

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The Medication Reconciliation is a patient safety standard.

All healthcare providers review meds on admission, transfer, discharge, and PRN.

Attached is education on Medication Reconciliation, Please make sure to review and ensure Medication Reconciliation is being completed per guidelines and standards.

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Med Rec

New Suicide screens accessible from either Safety/Risk/Regulatory or BH: Suicide/Homicide Screen interventions

On page 3 of the suicide screen is a new calculated risk and the option to document a Detailed Risk Assessment

Detailed Risk Assessment can be accessed through the Suicide screen or from a stand-alone intervention

Please note this is currently being Piloted in San Antonio and changes across the enterprise are expected after the first of the year. 

Educational attachment below-

BH Suicide and Risk Behavior Screens

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New SCD Pumps will be distributed to patient care areas over the next couple of weeks at Capital Regional Medical Center. Capital will be holding "Nursing Staff Practice Change" in-services. Please speak with charge nurse about attending a session when working at Capital Regional as an educational opportunity to learn how to use them. Attached is an educational document on the new SCD Pump for review and reference.

SCD Pump

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Please see attached education regarding patch documentation. The Continental Division will be adding a daily patch check reminder for fentanyl patches in BCMA. The RN will be expected to verify the patch is on the patient and document the verification. The planned Go-Live in the Continental Division is 11/26/2019.

BCMA: Daily Patch Check 

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Beginning July 1, 2020 in compliance with FDA, Joint Commission, and CMS, manufactures will phase out legacy feeding devices in an effort to reduce medical tubing misconnections and improve patient safety.

Please note this is a enterprise wide conversion:

https://mediaconnect.medcity.net/media/Enfit+-+Draft+1/1_ealiuqng

Transition Checklist

EnFit Transition Poster

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Our partners in East Florida, Mercy Hospital, have provided education regarding Co-Sign in the IV Drip Titration Intervention. The Co-Sign will be available based on the selected Drug for Starts/Restarts/Titrations. Please review and comment below with questions.

Co-Sign: IV Drip Intervention

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As a friendly reminder: If a patient discharges with a prescription for an opioid,  the patient must receive education on:

• Pain Management  
• Safe Disposal of Opioids
• Safe Use of Opioids.

Please note this education must be provided and documented for home and facility/rehab discharges.

The Education is located in Care Notes, please ask Charge Nurse if you are unsure where to locate this information.

Pain Management

Safe Disposal of Opioids

Safe Use of Opioids

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Please review the attached PowerPoint regarding USP 800: Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs shared by our partners in Central West Texas. Effective Date: December 1, 2019 enforceable by: FDA, The Joint Commission and CMS. I have also included HCA cooperate videos for review:

https://mediaconnect.medcity.net/media/t/0_7csehab9 

https://mediaconnect.medcity.net/media/USP+-+800+-+New/1_0spjune

USP 800

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Our partners at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in East Florida Division have provided a competency on Fall Prevention for review and reference. Please note this is not something HealthTrust is requiring for completion rather an educational document for review and reference.

Fall Prevention Competency

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