Please review attached educational handout on The Cactus Smart Sink from our partners in North Florida.

Key Points:

· The sink is for raw pharmaceutical waste only – tablets/capsules, liquid, and fentanyl patches

· Only Controlled Substance pharmaceutical waste is to be placed into the Cactus Sink

· Placing unapproved items in the collection slots of Cactus sink prevents proper disposal of controlled substances and presents opportunities for diversion

Cactus Smart Sink

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• NEVER hand your sharps to anyone else.
• NEVER let others hand their sharps to you including physicians.
• ALWAYS engage safety device after an injection.
• DO NOT use your body parts to engage the safety device after an injection! ALWAYS use a surface that is AWAY from you and the patient instead (e.g., instead of using your other hand to engage the safety, use the tabletop instead).
• Place sharps into the sharp container IMMEDIATELY after an injection instead of leaving the sharp on the patient’s bed or the bedside table.
• NEVER take your eyes OFF of the sharp.
• Make sure the sharp ACTUALLY goes INSIDE of the sharp container.
• NEVER attempt to recap a contaminated needle after an injection. Instead, toss the sharp into the sharp container IMMEDIATELY after use.

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Please ensure you are utilizing the parameters per MD orders when administering pain medication.

Example: Patient stated pain score 6.

MD Order:

Percocet 1 Tab PO Q6H PRN for pain score 1-3

Percocet 2 Tabs PO Q6H for pain score 4-7

Pain score greater then 7, call MD for additional orders.

Pain Medication Administration:

Percocet 2 Tabs PO Q6H

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Please review attached education regarding Dilaudid Ordering and Pain Re-Assessment. The Goal is to ensure safe and appropriate ordering of Dilaudid IV by creating layers of safety across the entire medication process.

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Dilaudid Dose Assesment

Please review education provided by our partners at Clear Lake Regional in the Gulf Coast Division.

Nimodipine is considered a critical medication and must be administered within 30 minutes of the scheduled administration time. If unable to administer within this time frame, please document a reason for delay or early administration in the comments section of the eMAR or in a nurse's note.

In an effort to assist with communication from Regulatory Body visits, our partners at Medical City Dallas have created a document: Regulatory Terminology vs. "Our Terminology." This document reviews potential questions and the answers as it relates to the common terminology.

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Regulatory Terminology

Please review the attached Bedside Shift Report validation form and ensure you are including all components into your Bedside Shift Report. I have also included a video that shows patient involvement and sharing personal connections during the Bedside Shift Report.

Bedside Shift Validation Checklist

https://youtu.be/rOJ2QdPHzvU

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The HCA Nursing Insights Falls Initiative has been developed to measure key process indicators(KPI's) demonstrated through evidence to reduce the frequency of patient falls.

The attached Fall Reference document includes Fall Logic, Key Process Indicators, Falls Outcome Measures,  and Upcoming KPI's.

Fall Risk Assessments should be completed for all patients upon:

• Admission
• Transfer Into a Location
• Shift Change

Please review the document and comment with questions.

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Fall Reference Guide

Our partners in the North Texas Division have implemented Pre-Rounding with each front line nurse prior to nurse leader patient rounds; with the end goal of improving patient clinical outcome and decreasing patient anxiety.

Pre-Rounding Consists of Three Questions:

1. Patient's preferred name

2. Personal connection

3. (In-Patient) How did the patient participate in Bedside Shift Report?

3. (Emergency Department) What is your patient waiting for in regards to tests and treatments?

Please make sure you are aware of the Pre-Rounding expectations and purpose.

Included for review and reference is an educational document on Pre-Rounding.

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Goal: To improve knowledge and responsiveness regarding SPOT alerts.

SPOT is a program that uses artificial intelligence to screen Meditech for Sepsis. It looks at : SIRS criteria (HR >90, RR>20, T: 38C/100.4F or < 36C/96.8F; WBC > 12,000 or <4,000) PLUS Suspicion or presence of an infection as evidenced by patient being on antibiotics or blood cultures being drawn in the past 48 hours.

Immediate Sepsis assessment and documentation determines SPOT Tier 0, Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 and the level of response necessary.

Process

SPOT alerts

Telemetry Technician notifies RN

RN assess patients and documents Sepsis Assessment in Meditech

Documentation to occur in less than 60 minutes from call or text.

This snoozes the patient from alarming for the next 6 hours.

Please review provided education reference from Los Robles in Far West Division.

Sepsis