Please ensure COVID vaccine screening is completed on all admitted patients who are 12 years and older.
Attached is education for review.
Thank you for ALL you DO!
Please ensure COVID vaccine screening is completed on all admitted patients who are 12 years and older.
Attached is education for review.
Thank you for ALL you DO!
Topics: All Nurses
Our partners in the San Antonio Division, MHS, recently rolled out education around the Suicide Prevention Plan.
Please review attached education on the Suicide Prevention Plan including the Assessment, Interventions, and Documentation.
Thank you for your continued dedication to patient safety!
Topics: San Antonio Division, All Nurses
Did you know HealthStream has many courses available to you for continued Education for FREE:
Click HERE to access the Healthstream login page or copy and paste the address below and add it to your Chrome Browser:
Thank you for all YOU DO!
Topics: All Nurses
Our partners in the Capital Division have recently installed Cactus Smart Sinks. Cactus Smart Sinks are used to waste controlled substances.
Cactus Smart Sink for wasting Controlled Substances
Please ensure you are aware of how to properly waste controlled substances at the facility you are working.
Thank you for ALL YOU DO!
Topics: Capital Division, All Nurses
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.
Thank you for your attention to patient safety!
Topics: East Florida Division, All Nurses
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.
Thank you for all YOU DO!
Topics: All Nurses
Great changes are coming to the Meditech Nurse and Charge Nurse/Clinical Nurse Coordinator Print Report and Magic Key Menu in NUR and a new EDM Desktop Menu. Nurses and charge nurses will begin to see a different, simplified, look and feel to their menu.
Print Report Menu
The Print Report has been streamlined to make it easier for nurses to find the routines which are utilized most frequently throughout the shift. With the exception of the EBCD Reports, all other reports have been moved to the Magic Key Menu.
NUR Magic Key Menu
The Magic Key Menu has been standardized across the entire East Florida Division to allow for a more consistent experience across all of our facilities.
Integrated Desktop (Status Board Buttons)
The Integrated Desktop (Status Board Buttons) has also been standardized and nurses may notice that the sequence of the buttons may be have changed up or down on the list of options.
Variance Menu
A new button has been added to the Status Board options. The Variance button houses facility specific reports utilized for specific process workflows at each individual site.
EDM Desktop Menu
The EDM Desktop Menu has been restructured and unutilized routines removed thereby de-cluttering the desktop menu.
Thank you for ALL YOU DO!
Topics: East Florida Division, All Nurses
A File Time Variance is a discrepancy of 30+ minutes between the File Time and the Administration Time of a medication. A File Time Variance is created when the user scans the medication after the administration and edits the time to indicate the time the patient was given the medication. File Time Variance is a show of false documentation of medication administration and against policy.
Please ensure medications are being scanned and documented in real time.
Included is an educational document for review on File Time Variances.
Thank you for your dedication to patient safety!
Topics: All Nurses
In an effort to prevent safety fallouts the North Texas Division, Medical City Fort Worth has created a handoff checklist. Please ensure you are familiar with the checklist and utilize the Hand Off "Time Out" to review the important safety elements.
Thank you for all you Do!
Topics: North Texas Division, All Nurses
Mobilab app- will now be available on the iMobile devices to utilize as well as still available on the desktop.
The app will be pushed out to all the devices on 4/6/21 throughout the San Antonio Division.
The QR Code below is a video providing an overview and resource of the app:
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Please contact the charge nurse at the facility with additional questions.
Thank you for your DEDICATION to patient care!
Topics: San Antonio Division, All Nurses
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