Center eNurse

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Happy Nurses Week!
• Medicine Physicians and Nurse Practitioners Contact
• New MedStar Health Advertising Campaign
• Wireless Network Upgrades Continue on May 10 and 17
• Chinese Nurses Visit MedStar Washington Hospital Center
• ECHO Lab Now Providing Weekend Coverage
• Farmers Market at the Hospital Center
• FDA Recommendation for Lower Doses of Zolpidem (Ambien)
• Nursing Evidence Based Practice Grand Rounds: High-Alert Medication Safety
• Feeding Pump Conversion Go-Live May 15
• Rubbermaid Representatives on Units Next Week
• Clarification Regarding Labeling of IV Tubing
• Supply Interruptions of Integra's Cranial Access Kit
• Congratulations! CLABSI rates for March are down!
• Nurse Presents Poster at International Meeting
• A Nurse with a Big Heart 

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• New Hand Off Form
• MedConnect Round Up
• Patient Safety Event Management System
• Nominate Your Favorite Nurse for the 2013 Annual Exceptional Nurse Award
• Nominate the Best Physicians for the 2013 Annual Burses’ Choice Physician Collaboration Award
• April 15 Deadline for DON Clinical Mandatories
• Clinical Ethics Case Consultation Workshop
• Nursing Grand Rounds: Nurse Fatigue and Napping
• New Heart Failure CCTV Channel
• Weekend Echo Coverage Pilot Program
• Pain Resource Nurse Monthly Meeting
• Sarah Sabo receives President’s Award for Personally Making a Difference
• 4C’s Fresh Fruit Fridays

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Nurse Residency Evidence Based Practice Project Presentations 
• Topic of the Month for Pharmacy Nursing Unit Visits 
• Magnesium Premixed Bag Shortage
• End of-Life Ethics Conference This Friday
• Research and Grant Development Resource Center Now Available to All MedStar Health Associates
• Washington Regional Nursing Research Consortium Meeting.
• CODE ONE = STROKE
• Nursing CLABSI Committee 
• Falls Update: Important!
• Congratulations!

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Legislation Update
• Coming Soon: The MedStar 2013 Associate Survey—March 4 to 24.
• NEW! MedConnect II – Mark Your Calendars!
• Brown Phone Testing on Friday, March 8.
• Expert Usability Evaluations
• Nurses' Emotional Response and Disclosure of Errors Following Mistakes in Clinical Practice Survey
• Workplace Violence 
• National Shortages of Multiple Parenteral Nutrition Ingredients
• Wound and Ostomy Education
• MedStar Health Research Annual Symposium
• End of-Life Ethics Conference
• New Initiative: Patient Call Manager
• Author! Author! 

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• IMPORTANT! New Patient Safety Event (PSE) Management System Go Live Date Extended
• Tube Station #301 Out of Order
• SUPER BOWL SPIRIT DAY! It’s Back!
• Rapid Improvement Event Helps Streamline Bed Turnover
• After Last Year’s Culture of Safety Class, You Said: “We need to improve hand hygiene.”
• Nominate a Nurse for the Nurse.com Nursing Excellence GEM Awards
• SiTEL Faculty Development Program
• Reminder: TeleTracking Training Classes
• Nursing Research Consortium Meeting
• Nurses’ Emotional Response and Disclosure of Errors Following Mistakes in Clinical Practice Survey
• Research on Hypoglycemia at Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Grand Rounds
• National Nursing Ethics Conference 2013
• Blood Culture Collection Update
• Hospital Center Nurses Participate in Career Day at Montgomery Blair High School

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• 2C: New Access Procedure
• Best Nursing Team 2013
• Ordering Emergent Nuclear Medicine Studies After Hours
• 10-Hour MedConnect Downtime
• New Safe T Pro Lancets
• Physician Nurse Collaborative Seminar – Management of Pain in the Surgical Patient
• SANE’s Hester Interviewed

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Warm and Fuzzy Campaign Underway
• Room Number Changes for Cardiac Cath Lab
• Hospitalist Coverage
• MC70 Network Update
• Nurse Advise-ERR® November Newsletter
• Guidelines for Patient Transfer to non-ICU Units
• New Books in the Health Sciences Library
• Evidence on Screening for Sepsis at Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Grand Rounds
• From the Fall Prevention PI team
• Hospital Center Nurse Helps Save Heart Attack Victim

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Anti-Bullying Campaign Underway
• Open Enrollment for Nurses: Nov. 26 through Dec. 9
• New Dilaudid Syringe
• Risks for Pressure Ulcers in the ICU at Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Grand Rounds
• Moderate Sedation Simulation Class
• Appraising Evidence Guide: Quality of the Evidence – GRADE Summary of Findings Table
• Appraising Evidence Guide: Individual Study Evidence Table
• New Hydromorphone Syringes Temporary Replacements

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Patient Influenza Vaccination Season Underway
• Are You One of the 701 Associates Who Hasn’t Attended the Culture of Safety Training?
• Phentolamine (Regitine) Shortage Continues
• Code Blue Training for Nurses
• Mosby Update: Did You Know?
• Staffing and Patient Acuity at Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Grand Rounds
• Clinical Ethics Immersion Course
• Clarification on Labeling IV Tubing for Tubing Changes
• Change of Tube Type for NT-proBNP Testing

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Reminder: If You Have Direct Deposit, You Have Received Your Final PAPER Paystub
• September Issue of Nurse Advise-ERR
• Peer Nurses Needed
• High Alert/Double Check
• Patient Influenza Vaccination Season begins Monday, Oct. 1
• Upcoming Ostomy Care Class
• Educational Grants Guidelines Revised
• New Evidence Based Practice Resources for all Nurses
• New Phlebotomy Class for Fall
• A Message from Sally Gutierrez
• 3rd Annual Doctoral Student Research Conference
• Anne Veppumthara Named Recipient of the President’s Award for Personally Making a Difference

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• It Takes Two to Double Check
• Intravenous Administration of Potassium
• Patient Elopement at Nursing Evidence Based Practice Grand Rounds
• The 2012 Nursing Research Posters
• Student Evidence Based Practice or Research Assignments and Practicums
• WRNRC September Meeting
• WRNRC’s 3rd Annual Doctoral Student Research Conference and Call for Abstracts
• Pain Awareness Activities
• The First World Sepsis Day is Sept. 3

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Cooper RSAN Test Sept 4
• New Neuro ICU
• MedConnect Device Walkthrough Group is Looking for You
• Medication Safety Alert: Insulin Concentration vs. Insulin Dose
• High Alert and Double Check
• Handling Home Medications – Reminder
• Regulatory Reminder – RN/APRN License Renewal Deadline Tomorrow
• And much more...

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• MedConnect Device Walkthrough Group is Looking for You
• Nurse Advise-ERR® August Newsletter
• Sickle Cell 5K Walk
• Welcome to New MedStar Health Hospital
• CLABSI Reminders/Updates
• RN/APRN License Renewal Deadline Approaching
• Code Blue Training

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Oncology Nursing Journal Club
• Mandatory: Annual Fit Testing Requirement for Clinical Care Providers
• Instructions for Placing MC70 Batteries in Chargers
• Code Car Exchange Program Underway
• Nursing Evidence-Based Practice and Research Grand Rounds
• Case Study:  Patient with Multiple Co-Morbidities Develops Pressure Ulcer
• The John Lynch Moral Courage Award

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• New!  Code Cart Exchange Program begins July 2
• Bar Code Scanning of IV Bags
• RN/APRN Licensure Extension
• Management of Hyperglycemia in the Hospital Modules Updated
• No falls in May
• World Class Nurse Leaders

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Decide to Drive, Arrive Alive
• MC70 Scheduled Downtime
• Treatment of Central Vascular Access Devices Occlusions with Alteplase
• Save the Date – Oncology Nursing Journal Club Meets June 13
• MedStar Health Nurses’ Perceptions and Readiness for Evidence Based practice Survey
• Introduction to Oncology Nursing
• Phlebotomy Concepts and Techniques, Summer Edition
• Book Drive Success!
• Professional Development Celebration

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• A Message from Lucy Wilcox
• 2D Staff Members Take Top Spots in Nurses Week Safe Lift Rodeo
• RN License Renewal
• Change in Perioperative Documents
• Mandatory HIPAA Training Module
• Oncology Nursing Journal Club
• Nurse Advice-ERR May Newsletter
• 2012 Exceptional Nurse Award Winners
• Nurses Choice Physician Collaboration Award Winners
Nurses Week Poster Contest Winners Check Out Our Nurses

In this Issue:

• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Friend Us on Facebook!
• Amalga Generated prescriber Order Sheets
• NEXT Book Drive
• Cytotoxic Medication Packaging
• DC RN Renewal Process
• Research on Beside Shift Report
• The AMSN Medical Surgical Nursing Certification Review Course is Coming to Town
• CEUs through Department of Continuing Medical Education
• New Infection Control Website
• Retirement Announcement
• Welcome to Jacqueline Bell-Benton

In this Issue:

• Special Issue: Nurses Week 2012: Nurses Embracing Excellence NICU Goes 400 Days without CLABSI
• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Resources to Decrease Falls and Staff Injuries
• Associate Giving Campaign: Giving--the Power to Heal
• Washington Regional Transplant Community Hosts Seminar / New Tool for LVAD Patients and Caregivers
• Flu Shots / Sign the Code Today

In this Issue:A

• Message from Sue Eckert
• Coming: A Full-Scale Code Orange Exercise
• New May 1! Healthy Options Snack Cart
• Missing Monitor Mission
• Difficulty with AMP Compliance View?
• Nurses Week Poster Presentations
• Save the Date: Nurses Week Feature Presentation on May 11
• Intravenous to Oral Therapeutic Interchanges
• Drug Shortage Update
• Extravasation and Alteplace Protocols Approved
• Wound Care Conference May 11
• Nurse Advice-ERR April Newsletter
• Update on Vascular Access Device Maintenance
• Triggers for Spiritual Care consult/Assessment Tool
  Lorelei Reyes-Lumpe, RN, Receives
• President's Award for Personally Making a Difference
• In the News: Julie Lein, RN, Emergency
• Medicine Interviewed by Associated Press Television

In this Issue:

• NICU Goes 400 Days without CLABSI
• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Resources to Decrease Falls and Staff Injuries
• Associate Giving Campaign: Giving the Power to Heal
• Washington Regional Transplant Community Hosts Seminar / New Tool for LVAD Patients and Caregivers
• Flu Shots / Sign the Code Today

In this Issue:

• NICU Goes 400 Days without CLABSI
• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Resources to Decrease Falls and Staff Injuries
• Associate Giving Campaign: Giving the Power to Heal
• Washington Regional Transplant Community Hosts Seminar / New Tool for LVAD Patients and Caregivers
• Flu Shots / Sign the Code Today

In this Issue:

• NICU Goes 400 Days without CLABSI
• A Message from Sue Eckert
• Resources to Decrease Falls and Staff Injuries
• Associate Giving Campaign: Giving the Power to Heal
• Washington Regional Transplant Community Hosts Seminar / New Tool for LVAD Patients and Caregivers
• Flu Shots / Sign the Code Today