Hi Everyone,
I have a team here in PA that just recieved approval for it's FTE's to start up a team from scratch. They have a few concerns. The first being Peripherals, I was hoping to see how everyone else has been handling tracking restarts and assuring they're done every 72hrs. Currently, starts are not being documented properly in the computer system. They're looking for any suggestions, ie log books, ect.
Also, they're looking for suggestions on "marketing" their team. If anyone has anything that worked well for them, they'd love to hear about it.
Finally, they're looking to get an early assessment program in place. If anyone has any tools, tip, ect they'd love to hear about those as well.
Thanks Everyone!
 Craig
We did a major education process regarding documentation in the computer screens when we were launching them for use. Documentation is still bad at times but..... We get a report everyl morning and evening with patient location, age, diagnosis, isolation status, admission date acct# etc as well as IV sites, gauges, dates of insertion. This report also gives us central line dressing change documentation. Not perfect but at least we know who is where and if something is not documented we go look at the patient and enter as much data as we can. From these sheets we derive our workload for the day.
Marketing the team has been done wonderfully through a newletter we use for education of staff and showing off our accomplishments.
Jose Delp RN BSN
Clinical coordinator IV Team
Upper Chesapeake Health
Jose Delp RN BSN
CliClinical Nurse Manager IV Team
Upper Chesapeake Health
Jose,
I appreciate your feedback. I'll pass it along to the team!
Craig