Updates
1) Registration now has a chair in the hall at GS so they can bring patients back and have private conversations. We are working on a plan that will use Cerner to communicate when the physician has seen a patient and when registration is complete in order to indicate they can be discharged…more to come.
2) Reminder to techs: even with the 3rd nurse coming up front we will keep it where nurses stock the back and rooms and the techs clean and stock the front please do this every shift as these areas are small and can become chaotic quickly (i.e. copies of forms, cleaning, stock swabs and tubes)
3) Nurses, please look in the boxes on the bulletin board walls to see if you have any Chest Pain or Stroke audits.
4) This is such a busy time of year, several have talked about and agree that we should have a Winter Party in mid-January…. Let me know if you’re interested in helping to plan this!
5) Please do the initial triage on patients as quickly as possible so we know what we have in the lobby and checking in (red plus). The rest can be done later if others are waiting, this is a priority !
6) ESI levels: Tiffany just had a great class on how to assign ESI levels. You can review the ESI handbook that will answer any questions you have about this process. As a whole from what I have seen, the FEDs tend to assign lower ESI scores than the ENA ESI indicates. Please ask if you have any questions!
