PIPD Update March 1, 2024

KUDOS 

Feb 24th NX shift- Great work on handling lots of admits while balancing high acuity

Denae for her excellent Q15 min BP for HOURS

Harper for coming in short notice to help admit 2 HA pts

Leif for always volunteering to take admissions

Allie and nursing student for acting fast and being awesome

Helen for getting us some new infant swings!!!

Briana T for excellent family centered care

Great work everyone, the team work has been amazing to see. 

Maurice Ahmeecheko’s grandmother, Catherine, has asked us to extend her appreciation to all the JPCH teams who have looked after Maurice over the years. She is grateful for everything that has been done for him up to his passing last week and very much wanted individuals from all areas to know this because as she put it “everyone knew Maurice”.

EMS coverage brochure - FYI (accessible via SHA website) CS-PIER-0148 Saskatchewan Ambulance Fee Brochure (saskhealthauthority.ca)

High Acuity (Obs) working group - we're looking to set-up a working group including staff to talk about and work through High Acuity issues like model of care, location, criteria etc. Timeline is TBD but time commitment would be regular meetings for a moderate length of time. We are looking for 3-4 staff so if you are interested and foresee yourself being available to participate please email Jonathan and Fiona. 

CNE UPDATE

1.       There is a new Q-card: it is for Urine STI collection. Go to Q-cards nursing folder and look at the Urine Specimen Collection folder. You can also search for any of these words it will pop up: “urine” “STI” “NAAT” “Collection”.

2.       Ferrous Fumerate oral suspension is on back order. Ferrous Sulfate (oral suspension and tabs) is also still available.

3.       MARs – you must write 4 digits to show time of administration. For example: you give the med at 09 scheduled time, write 0900. If a med is NOT given, you can circle the 2 digit “09”, initial and write reason it wasn’t given. Keep putting in 1600 calls as you can provide evidence of safety concerns!

4.       Cumulative dosing (for PCAs) – please write the 4 digits to show when you’ve checked the cumulative dose.

6mL ENFit syringes – purple ones are out of stock. Currently you will see an orange & white 6mL syringe. There have been concerns about meds getting stuck when drawing up/administering with these substituted syringes. Stores is aware and we are looking at what options we can do.