Archives for March 2018

If you see the white demographic validation sheets not done in a chart of patient you are seeing..
Either..
1)give to ward clerk to do when available
2)give to nursing to allow them to delegate the task or do themselves
3) do it yourself! It takes about 20 seconds maybe…
even if you just validate the phone number it may be super helpfull later when soemone needs to call them!

Nursing is supposed to take responsibility to do when ward clerk not there but soemtimes I find just easier to do myself.

This sheet was created to flag info because of patient that was never contacted ( about his positive bllod cultures from which he died) due to lack of info to reach or find him. Same reason for the new line on the d/c sheets reminding yuo to get a contact number.

John

Hi all,

Please start thinking ahead if you have ideas to help us all to manage the upcoming summer boom!

I am meeting with radiology to try and plan re early morning CT’s, ensuring ultrasound coverage as good as can be, etc!

We could use the 6 hours overlap money differently if wanted? maybe do 4 hour overlap shifts and then have shift overlap other days instead too…
These kind of thoughts…

Novel ideas of flow/efficiency may be lurking in your head so thing about brainstorming with all!

John

If anyone gets a critical result in their mailbox for a micro/lab test that they didn’t get a call from or the patent wasn’t admitted…
Please let me know!!

I just got one for a joint culture for a patient with a septic joint!!

the critical result pathways of a phone chain exists to timely get this info to the MD that needs to know and for the patient!!
If you don’t know the pathway of phone calls let me know or it is on sharepoint.

John