2024 Projects
Watched by select patients and or their caregivers, provided by PATTS, preop nurse and again in PACU prior to discharge, to help reinforce safe home care of their LDA.
What is the Home Urinary Cather Care patient education video?
The go to nurses in our department for all things fall prevention, proving staff education, monitoring for equipment needs, and tracking patient outcomes and attending meetings.
Who are Beth and Sue?
Found in the hallway between the OR and PACU, used upon arrival and when leaving, creates a legal document of your worked hours.
What is the departments timeclock?
The model used at HonorHealth by which the people doing the work can have a voice and impact their professional practice.
Required monitoring, in addition to the standard PACU monitoring, for patients who have received Narcan or been placed on a PCA.
What is capnography?
An underutilized monitoring device that provides real time information on your patients ventilation, gas exchange, and metabolism.
An area in the PACU supply room, created by Deb working with logistics, to have a one stop shop for a specific type of supply.
What is the supply room wound care bundle?
Falsely reporting arrival and departure times or actual work hours in the department, requiring corrective action from leadership.
What is illegal documentation of your timecard?
Occurs each month in person or online, staff are expected to attend at least 80% each calendar year.
What is the monthly staff meeting?
Time throughout your shift, when you are not involved in direct patient care, that should be utilized to help with cleaning, emptying, stocking and helping your peers.
What is downtime?
The person or persons responsible for keeping the urinary catheter go home kits stocked and available for use in the PACU.
Who is everyone during downtime?
The nurses strongly involved department and hospital level initiatives to monitor, track and prevent negative patient outcomes related to surgical site infections and hand hygiene compliance.
Who are Cassandra and Sheyla?
Required to be completed by each staff member prior to 0900 on timecard Monday (Monday before payday Friday).
What is the timecard sign off?
The unit level, shared governance meeting, run by resource nurses, in which decisions are made and information is disseminated, open to all staff, meeting every 6 weeks.
What is the Periop Resource Council (PRC)?
Professional development program offered at HonorHealth, where nurses can get paid for going above and beyond in their, professional growth, shared governance participation, resource nurse roll, and QI/EBP/Research projects, November 1st through Oct 31st.
What is HonorNurse?
Teaching method that should be used with every patient education interaction, that ensures a patient has truly understood the learning objectives.
What is teachback?
Two items recently place in the bedside carts by the skin resource nurses, Jenny and Deb, to help protect patients skin against skin tears.
What are IV skin prep wipes and adhesive remover wipes.
The only time slot that you may choose from when placing your schedule in laborworkx.
What is your assigned start time?
Participation in one of these can earn you points towards HonorNurse (level one professional development), help you stand out in your annual review and may boost you to the next nursing tier.
What are unit, hospital, and network committees or taskforces?
The core set of values that guide all HonorHealth employees as one of the most respected and innovative leaders in healthcare, including Integrity, Customer-First, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
What are the ICARE values?
Interdisciplinary project to improve antibiotic timing, track fallouts and identify barriers, with the ultimate goal of decreasing surgical site infection rates and improve patient outcomes, started in PREOP and completed in the OR.
What is the orange communication tool for antibiotic timing?
Can help with your EPIC documentation needs and questions, communicating with informaticists on optimization requests and approvals.
Who are Nancy and (maybe) Quinn?
The week of the open schedule window that should not be utilized by staff, but is used by the supervisors to balance the schedule.
What is week 2 of the open schedule?
A small group of people brought together to complete a task, preform a job or achieve a specific goal.
What is a taskforce?
The source of truth for perianesthesia clinical practice guidelines, if not addressed in hospital policy and procedures, updated regularly at the national level, a copy can be found in a binder in the PACU and an electronic version in Teams.
Whare are the ASPAN Standards?