February 2014 7C Staff Meeting Minutes

7C Staff Meeting Minutes

Dates:  February 25 & March 3

Wins

• Employees of the Quarter for7C

o   July –  September 2013:  Ms. Sherrel, Housekeeper

o   October – December 2013:  Kate Siegfried, RN

Patient Satisfaction

• ·         Rolling out My Story and Take 5 in next few weeks
• ·         CH scores dropped this past quarter.  We are on the way back up.
• ·         Remember the basics:  AIDET, hourly rounding
• ·         Melinda and Erin will rollout templates as soon as they are available electronically

Ideal Patient Rounds

·          We will be trialing a more structured way of doing PICU rounds

• This will affect 7C RNs when you float
• Also, PICU Residents will not have portable phones during rounds/page them if urgent

• Sterile Cockpit conce
• Kardex/Daily Goals Sheet combin
• Xray rounds at 0815, rounds start at 0830

CPN Certification

• We are still trying to reach our goal of 5% of staff to be certified
• Erin has discussed the opportunity for an onsite CPN review course with some of our staff
• We will have 5 slots at the review course, but if others are willing to fund their own training, we will try to have as many attend as possible.

Epic Rollout

•  Superusers are attending block training.
• Please know your superusers:  Erin, Melinda, Kelly G., Tom
•  Go Live is 7-1-14. Training for all staff starts in May
• Reminder of PTO restrictions May 1-July 31

Infection Control Update

• No CAUTI, VAP or CLABSI in Dec. or January

• We may start receiving monetary awards for the unit for months with no CAUTI:  stay tuned for details.

Magnet Update:  Lauren Mercede, BSN, 7C Magnet Champion

• Staff reviewed the nursing excellence road map with a focused discussion of Exemplary Professional Practice
• PICU has good scores with the nursing sensitive quality indicators for falls, CLABSI, HAPU
• Professional Practice Model reviewed
• Staff need to continue to review Magnet manual and Lauren will keep us updated on our Nursing Excellence program.

Employee Engagement Survey

• 7C had 67% participation rate in the survey which ended earlier this week
•  Children’s Overall has the lowest response rate
• Results should be available in May

Staffing Update   

• New Administrative Assistant Rebecca Little starts today 
• welcome Julia Mack, RN I

Kronos/Optilinks Update

• Optilinks starts 3/4/14.
•  Optilinks will replace the nursing checkbook, nursing operations database (acuities), and the assignment sheets with one electronic document.
• Everyone must attend training or do CATTS lesson.
• We will continue doing all pre-planning on paper.  The date to switch to pre-planning in Kronos has not yet been set.
•  Please log in to Kronos and get familiar with the system as soon as possible.

MUSC Financial Update

• Hospital is doing well.  $51 million cash on hand. PICU is meeting cost per patient day and hours per work load unit goals.
• We will find out in April if we have $ for merit raises.

·         Night Shift Weekend Coverage

• Melinda will send out an email to see if there is interest in changing the weekend night shifts to Friday and Saturday nights.  This may make it easier to cover Friday nights.  
• We will still not have enough staff to cover every weekend, but will find a fair way to get coverage as needed.

 7C Shared Governance

• We need to get our unit based practice council/shared governance back on track
• Andre, Emily, and Lauren are going to pick a meeting day in March and get us started.
• Everyone is invited to participate!

 Staff Recognition

• Philip, Julianne, Lisa, Erin, and all of 7C received applause cards.
• Great job, team!!  Really proud of all of you!