Roles and Responsibilities
Acuity Tool
Epic and Voalte
New RN Orientation
Communication
100

1500 is the time this tool needs to be completed by the RN

Acuity Tool

100

Each nurse should have a mix of these in their patient assignments.

Acuity scores

100

Team Leads should be included in how many group chats?

2 - With their team and with the CN, HUC and other TL

100

New grad RNs will be with this member of the team during week 1, 2 and 7

Team Lead

100

A useful tool for communicating amongst the team via Voalte

Group Chat

200

Team leads, RNs, and CNAs should coordinate to ensure comprehensive _____ for new hires

Orientation

200

This team member communicates the scores to the charge nurse.

RN

200

Team members can use this to quickly check for I/Os in Epic

I/O tab

200

Another name for week 7 of orientation

Modified orientation

200

The type of communication best used when communicating important details or questions.

Closed-loop communication

300

The team lead will be busy completing this at 1500.

Audits (FOTM)

300

Determining acuity for a group of 5 patients shouldn't take longer than this many minutes.

5

300

Team Leads should sign into what patients on Voalte

Their assigned patients.  May add a note indicating their lead on other patients

300

During week 1 and 2 the Team Lead should focus on what aspect of nursing

How to be a nurse and critical thinking

300

This helps the team develop a plan of care for each patient during the shift

Team Huddle

400

The Team Lead is responsible for all of these for their patients at the beginning of their shift 

Vital Signs

400

This acuity score is given to patients who may need to be transferred to a higher level of care.

4

400

The team lead changes their profile to Registered Nurse from this screen in the patient chart

Treatment Team

400

New grad RNs will be with this team member during weeks 3-6

RNs

400

When delegating a task to another RN or CNA you should do this to ensure it was completed.

Follow-up

500

They are ultimately responsible for ensuring I/Os, vitals, and daily cares and safety are completed and charted for each patient at ordered intervals.  

RN assigned to that patient

500

The acuity tool needs to be completed by this time.

1500

500

TLs can look for these items on the brain to see where they can help RNs.

Tasks

500

When a new grad RN is on week 7 of orientation the other nurses in the team should be this.

Experienced

500

A term used to describe how each team member distributes and receives information.

Communication Style