Weekly Update July 7, 2023

RN/LPN Certification Records:  If you have done training in the last year (Orientation or Chemo), your certification records are outside the Managers office in the CNE basket.

 

Last dose on MARs – reminder that all MAR notifications with “last day/dose” for specific medications need to be flagged for the medical teams to review.

 

PD supplies – all PD machines and supplies go to and from storage room 2013, not the hemodialysis room.

 

Congenital Syphilis Public Health Process – all original orders for Pen G and daily MARs must be faxed to public health. MARs need to be faxed at midnight as Public Health Tracks doses given for the entire 10 day course of treatment. If any doses are missed a 10-day course must be restarted. There is a Q-card with these details and fax number in the S drive.

 

Night nurse chemotherapy checks:  

Chemo checks are done by two chemo trained nurses on nights. Chemo checks are done the first night that chemotherapy orders are written. They check the BSA, correct drug and dosage of chemotherapy, the roadmap and MAR against the original orders. Subsequent day of chemo infusion the night nurse does the usual MAR to MAR comparison.

 

Can I give an antibiotic in a 3ml syringe through a central line? Yes you can. When flushing with NS we must use a 10 ml syringe as we are using a stop start technique to clear the line. However, you can administer an IV antibiotic in a 3ml syringe over 3-5 minutes as you are pushing the med slowly and not exerting the same amount of pressure on the line as you do with a NS flush. There is a higher risk of cross contamination transferring antibiotics from one syringe to another than there is of damaging the line with a slow IV push medication in a 3ml syringe.

 

Transfusion Medicine Education Needs survey – please send transfusion med your thoughts on education needs https://redcap.usask.ca/redcap/surveys/?s=JLL7HE83KX4NRRDD

 

All employees must complete the mandatory privacy training module by September 30, 2023. This is not the same as the Cyber Security Training that was completed earlier this year.

 

Instructions on how to access Privacy Training - InstructionGuide-PHIM-AccessingPrivacyTraining.pdf (saskhealthauthority.ca)

 

KUDOS

·         All staff for doing ARO screening on admission. You’re catching the bugs before we get any exposures!

·         Maxine, Sydney, Maddison, Carly and Heather for dealing perfectly with a very challenging parent situation.

·         Everyone pounding through the high volumes this week.

 

 

 

Have A Great Weekend

-         The Peds Team