COFFEE TALK
We've Got a LATTE Goin' On!
CHG bathing
In an effort to improve our C-section infection rates, we started having our scheduled C-section patients pick up a CHG kit in August to use the night before and morning of their procedure. Just a reminder, when your patient arrives to the unit for their C-section, we should ask "Can you please tell me what time you used the CHG to clean your skin before arriving here today?". Minimum requirement is one shower. If the patient has not completed this, they can either shower then if there is time, or you can use two packages of CHG wipes to bathe them if time is an issue. Please make sure this gets documented in the pre-procedure checklist.
CareFusion ClipVac Sucks Hair Away to Prevent Contamination
Hair clipping in barber shops and salons is cleaned up with a neat sweep-up, but neatness is not the standard in clinical environments, and especially around operating rooms. To help prevent bits of hair from flying all over the place, CareFusion has released a little vacuum that attaches to the company’s surgical clippers that sucks away hair as it’s being shaved off.
The company claims the ClipVac device captures 98.5% of the hair being clipped, which should help keep pre-op rooms clean and prevent contamination from tiny particles that may otherwise take flight along the air currents of the surgical unit.
For any surgery patient that needs to have clipping done in the OR or for those patients who have excessive amounts of hair, we will now use the ClipVac to shave them. After completing the shave prep, the entire tubing and blue cap section gets discarded, the clipper head goes in the sharps container, and the base of the vacuum pump and the clipper handle get wiped down with a purple-top wipe.
The ClipVac System
Proper technique
Avoid pressing down
Education Updates
~Management of Pharmaceutical Waste PiL to be completed ASAP
~APS/GNOSIS modules 46,47, and 48 and EFM Core Modules 1-4 must be completed by 12/31/15. (See below for the titles of the Core Modules required)
~Panda Warmer FailSafe In-service 12/15, 12/16, and 12/17. ALL RNs MUST ATTEND one of these in-services. You can still sign up! If you attended the In-service in October, you do not need to repeat it.
OBED EMS Arrival
Bathroom Key
Pyxis Discrepancies
Medication Education
Quick Medication Education December 17th
Any time between 3-4pm in Tiger B
Come Learn for 5 minutes or the whole hour!
Thursday, Dec 17, 2015, 03:00 PM
Tiger B
Discard tubes for IV starts
Staff Elevator Shut-down
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015, 05:00 AM
Staff Elevators (near cafeteria)
Care4 Downtime
FETALINK
During Care4 Downtime, please make sure to run the paper strip until the Care4 Downtime is complete.
Please refer to the below scenarios on how to use Fetalink during the Care4 Downtime.
1. Moms who are ASSOCIATED PRIOR to Downtime:
During the Downtime:
· Bedside and the Central Surveillance Monitor: Names, initials and fetal strips will continue to display.
· If you take mom off the monitor during Downtime: DON’T FINALIZE, JUST DISASSOCIATE.
· Archived Fetal Strips: Are NOT available during this downtime.
· Extended View: Only the last 24 hours of fetal strips display.
· Fetal Strip Annotations: Post to Care4 once Care4 is available again.
2. New moms that come in for Fetal Monitoring DURING the Downtime:
· DON’T Associate Mom in P2DA (neither by barcode scanning nor patient search).
· Just connect Mom to the Fetal Monitor.
· Annotate Start Time on the paper strip when mom placed on the fetal monitor.
· Central Monitor will display these moms by room, but not by patient name (initials).
· Annotate Stop Time on the paper strip if you take mom off the fetal monitor.
After the Downtime: Care4 available again
1. Fetalink: Close/Exit, then Restart Fetalink.
2. Moms who were Associated PRIOR to Downtime & Disassociated During Downtime:
· Finalize these fetal strips.
3. Moms that came in for Fetal Monitoring DURING the Downtime:
· Retroactively Associate:
· Use P2DA to Retroactively Associate mom using the Start Time noted on her paper strip.
· Retroactively Disassociate & Finalize: If you finished monitoring mom during the downtime:
· Use P2DA to Retroactively Disassociate mom using the Stop Time noted on her paper strip.
· Finalize the fetal strip.
NOTE: Retroactively Associate and Retroactive Disassociate can be done in the same P2DA window.
· Be sure to Finalize.