1. Email Questions: Catherine.S.Wilson@Vanderbilt.edu
ED Staff Meeting
August 11th, 2011
@ 2pm
Questions:

2. DOOR PRIZE
Anyone who present for the Staff Meeting will be placed in drawing for door prize

3. Elevate Committee
Elevate Committee Update by Dena & Morgan

4. Cathy Wilson
EDUCATION

5. Education Update ACLS New Test New Book & Location to get Book
Nurse Residents

6. Gel is on back order from company
Please perform
Hand hygiene on
Entry & Exit!
Look for the
Blue Hand
Containers!
Blue Hand of Hygiene
Gel is on back order from company

7. COMPETENCY CHECK-OFFS
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec

8. Jacki Ashburn
Quality Update

9. Chris Ruckman (Manager Update)
KUDOS
Retention Committee looking for new members: contact Brad T. or Ali G.
Flex In / Out No flexing while on PIC, this will begin 5/22/11
One Touch will need to be check each morning with regular dept. accucheck machines

10. Continues…. Hand Written Notes Scheduling Policy
Rx / Work Note etc. all need to be copied so they can be scanned into the patient’s record
Scheduling Policy
Revised scheduling policy will go out tomorrow with the InformER
Service Center Meeting
Meeting &
Schedule Classes / Training
Missed will count as an occurrence
OBET Team
If patient is coming to ED or is present in the ED that is delivering then call Flight Comm to activate OBET Team

11. Continue…. HIPPA Violation Extra Call Light Child Life Specialist
Picture this: Hospital staffers fired for sending photo of patient's wounds
  /26/2011
 A Connecticut hospital recently fired three workers and disciplined four others after a clinician took a photo of a 17-year-old gunshot victim in the ED and sent it to others, the New Haven Register/Boston Globe reports. A hospital spokesperson said the photo was taken with a camera phone after the patient died. The photographer allegedly sent the image to a "small number" of other people, but does not appear to have posted it on the Internet. According to the spokesperson, the hospital employees who were not fired received written warnings, documented counseling, and related education. She said all disciplinary actions took place within 10 days of the incident. "While the patient is unidentifiable in the photograph, the picture was unauthorized and violates our zero tolerance policy relating to patient privacy," the hospital spokesperson said, adding that the hospital "handled the matter immediately and with the severity it deserved." The spokesperson also said hospital officials met with the family to apologize (New Haven Register/Boston Globe, 7/23; Federico, Hartford Courant, 7/22).
**remember not to give out any medical information without a signed consent from patient including to other hospital personnel**
Extra Call Light
The charge nurse and Kristy Bare both have extra call lights for patient use
Child Life Specialist
Survey

12. Continue….. Employee Opinion Survey MRs Pager Notification
Follow survey from Feb. 2011
MRs Pager Notification
Use the “physician pager notification” sheet “blue sheet”
Breakfast with Chris
Aug. 12th 7:15am-9am, location N.E.S.T
Senior Medical Student
will start September 2011, work along side a RN

13. Variance Report RNs 1 FT Days; 4 FT Nights; 1 PT / 1 FT Mid-Shift
Multiple people in orientation this week
**new RN positions, total 17**
Paramedics 1 FT Days; 2 new FT Mid-Shifts; 2 new PT
CP 1 FT Days; 1 FT Nights; 2 new PT
MR 1 FT Days
MHS position have been converted to Care Partners

14. RNs 59% ED Attending 100% ED Residents 100% Paramedics 100%
Hand Hygiene- June 2011
RNs 59%
ED Attending 100%
ED Residents 100%
Paramedics 100%
PCTs 67%
OVERALL PERCENT 72%
Hand Hygiene- July 2011
RNs 90%
ED Attending 100%
ED Residents 100%
Paramedics 50%
PCTs 50%
OVERALL PERCENT 87%
Social Workers- 100% / Xray- 100% / “other students”- 100%