International Healthcare Security Week 10/9-10/16

Updates 10/3/16

 “Lessons Learned: Healthcare Teams Respond to Crisis,”

o Oct. 10: 7:30-9am and repeated 1-2:30 in Searle Center

o Dr. Haytham Kaafarani, who was directly involved in caring for victims of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Also, Dr. David Thomas Efron, from Johns Hopkins, will speak about a 2010 shooting of a physician by a patient's family member.

 Nursing Grand Rounds – “Incivility and Safety”

o Duke Hospital’s own Sara L. Emory, DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC

o Oct. 11, 10am-11am. Duke North Room 2002:

Follow this link to register or for more information: https://intranet.dh.duke.edu/hospitals/duh/WSG/SitePages/Home.aspx

Merit raises: Meet expectations – 2% and it will be reflected on your Oct 14th pay check.  Employees hired before Jan 1, 2016 will receive the full 2%  Employee hired between Jan.1st to March 31st , 2016 will receive 50 % of the raise  Employee hired after March 31st will not receive a merit raise. Stroke Training: All staff must show Stroke training annually for Joint Commission. There has been a designated article “Activating a Stroke Alert: A Neurological Emergency”  It is located in CE direct, https://cedirect.continuingeducation.com/ available through Duke’s Clinical Ed website. Please read/ complete the survey and bring the certificate to the Annual Check Off.  If you do not remember your password or cannot get into CE direct please send an email to [email protected] include your net id; unique id and ask to be given access or reset your password. PIV Dressings From IV Team; Please use the PIV start kit for PIV dressing changes too. It is only 88 cents and has all the tools you need to change the PIV dressing. Practice Change Per new ACLS guidelines, vasopressin is no longer in the code carts but is stocked in the omnicell Its time again for annual Falls and BMAT revalidation. Please review the attached flyer and seek- out Katelyn Daly and Hadja Thiam for training.