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eNews for the Medical Staff and Advanced Practice Clinicians of Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
AUG. 4, 2016
2015 EPIC UPGRADE GOES LIVE THIS SUNDAY, AUG. 7
In this Issue:
2015 Epic Upgrade Goes Live this Sunday, Aug. 7
The last provider playground session before go-live, is tomorrow, Friday Aug. 5. The session
is in Training Room B on LL3 in the hospital. Drop in anytime from noon to 3 p.m. to preview
Epic 2015. Both your IT experts and Provider Champs will be available to walk you through
some of these enhancements.
Onsite Photo Session is Aug. 12
DME Specialist Provides Customized Equipment
Make Plans to Attend Town Hall
Patient Placement Guideline & Policy in Effect
Epic 2015 offers many exciting changes in multiple areas: Click here to learn more about
Marking as Reviewed and several In Basket enhancements.
Williams Named Nebraska’s Chief Medical Officer
Remember to call the IT Go-Live Command Center @ 8888 instead of the Help Desk if you
have any go-live related issues. The IT Command Center will be open 24 hours a day, for
an undetermined time frame, starting Sunday Aug. 7.
Epic 2015 also offers changes to Haiku and Canto:
• Several
features are available in both applications. Click here to learn more.
• Canto
has two new features: write reminders using Jot Notes and Adding Annotations
to Clinical Imaging. Click here to learn more about these features.
• Three
sections of the Handoff report can be documented using Canto. Click here to
learn how.
Implementing Epic’s lab application, Beaker, offers many new features including easier ways
to navigate through Epic and variations when entering lab orders. Click here to see some of
the new lab changes and how orders will be different.
In addition, with Beaker implementation, a Type & Screen will be required on all blood
product ordered that meet a set criteria. Click here to see how the blood order sets will
include the Type & Screen, the new lab report, and a few other additional changes.
ONSITE PHOTO SESSION IS AUG. 12
GRAND ROUNDS
Fridays, 8-9 a.m., Glow Auditorium
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Aug. 5
Child and Adolescent Patients Admitted to
General Medical Units
Sean Akers, Psy.D.
Coordinator Consult
Children’s Behavioral Health
Joan Daughton, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Children’s Behavioral Health
Aug. 12
2015 Kids Count in Nebraska Report
Chrissy Tonkinson, MPH
Research Coordinator
Voices for Children
VIEW PAST GRAND ROUNDS FOR CME CREDIT
Children’s requires professional photos of our medical staff for our Find a Provider web
page and various marketing materials and publications. If you haven’t had a chance to
take or update your professional photo, don’t miss this opportunity while the professional
photographer is onsite from 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 12. The photographer
will be located in the Specialty Pediatric Center, Third Floor.
Click on this link to sign up for a time.
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DME SPECIALIST PROVIDES CUSTOMIZED EQUIPMENT
Dan Duley, ATP, RET
Rehab specialist Daniel Duley, ATP, RET, joined Children’s in March. He is
responsible for acquiring and maintaining durable medical equipment
(DME) for pediatric patients. Dan acquires and maintains complex rehab
equipment, including individually configured mobility products, such as power
wheelchairs; seating and positioning products, such as seat cushions, back
supports, and molded seating systems; and other specialized equipment,
including standing frames, gait trainers, strollers, car seats and specialized
walkers. To make an equipment referral, call 402-734-6741 or
1-800-747-7334.
CALENDAR
Aug. 8
Shootout for Cancer Golf Tournament
Benefitting Children’s
Champions Run Golf Course
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
Aug. 16-19
Town Hall
Glow Auditorium
SEE SCHEDULE
READ MORE
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
CLICK HERE to read this week’s Legislative
MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND TOWN HALL
At Town Hall, Children’s leaders provide updates on a variety of strategic initiatives, including
financial information, patient experience initiatives, construction & facilities projects, performance
improvement, marketing communications and more. Employees and medical staff are
encouraged to attend, ask questions or send questions in advance to TheHero@childrensomaha.
org. Attending a Town Hall meeting is a great way to stay up-to-date on what’s happening
throughout the organization. Please plan to attend one of these upcoming Town Hall sessions in
the Glow Auditorium:
Aug. 16 – 7:30 -8:30 p.m.
Aug. 17 – 10 -11 a.m. & noon -1 p.m.
Aug. 18 – 7:30 -8:30 a.m. & 3-4 p.m.
Aug. 19 – 11 a.m.-noon
Update. Contact Liz Lyons, 402.955.4139,
with questions.
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PATIENT PLACEMENT GUIDELINE & POLICY IN EFFECT
A new Patient Placement Guideline and corresponding policy have been developed by a
multidisciplinary team. With the care of our patients becoming increasingly complex, we
regularly reach bed capacity. Multiple patient transfers occur between units in order to ensure
care is met with the right nursing skill set. Patient diversions to other facilities continue to occur.
The purpose of this guideline and policy is to have a strategic focus on patient placement
anywhere in the inpatient setting to improve quality care, reduce transfers and multiple handoffs,
and expand nursing competency on Med/Surg units to accommodate needs.
In this new process, the admitting physician and/or the administrative coordinator will
collaborate to determine best placement for the patient. Guidelines define preferred unit
placement based on specific patient diagnosis and/or related conditions and the unit’s
nursing competency. Intermediate Care (IMC) status and non-invasive ventilation care has
been expanded so these patients can be cared for throughout all Med/Surg units. Education
is in progress to include telemetry monitoring skills for the 6 Med/Surg unit nurses, to better care
for patients with ingestions and anorexia.
If it is unclear where to place a patient based on diagnosis, complex condition or available
beds per policy, the administrative coordinator will gather an interdisciplinary team of the
admitting physician, unit medical and nursing directors, unit manager and unit charge nurse to
confer on where the best placement for the patient would be. The administrative coordinator will
record decisions made by this group.
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If you have questions about this new process, please contact Marcie Peterson, director of
Pediatric Critical Care & Intermediate Care, or Crystal Smith, director of Med/Surg.
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Executive Editors:
Carl Gumbiner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
WILLIAMS NAMED NEBRASKA’S CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
Thomas L. Williams, M.D., has been appointed chief medical officer and director of the
Division of Public Health for the State of Nebraska. Williams currently serves as laboratory
medical director and chair of the Department of Pathology for Methodist Hospital. He is clinical
assistant professor of Pathology at UNMC College of Medicine. Dr. Williams has been on
Children’s medical staff since 1978.
Marty Beerman, MHA, APR, Vice President,
Marketing & Community Relations
Melissa Johnson, CPMSM, CPCS, Manager,
Medical Staff Services
Editor:
Betsy Reece, APR, Marketing Coordinator
Please send questions, comments or
article submissions by Monday at noon
to [email protected].
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members of the Medical Staff and Advanced Practice Clinicians.
Executive Editors:
Carl Gumbiner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
Marty Beerman, MHA, APR, Vice President,
Marketing & Community Relations
Melissa Johnson, CPMSM, CPCS, Manager,
Medical Staff Services
Editor:
Betsy Reece, APR, Marketing Coordinator
Please send questions, comments or article submissions
by Monday at noon to [email protected].
The Pulse is published by Children’s Hospital & Medical Center to provide up-to-date information to members of the Medical Staff and
Advanced Practice Clinicians.
Executive Editors:
Carl Gumbiner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
Marty Beerman, MHA, APR, Vice President,
Marketing & Community Relations
Melissa Johnson, CPMSM, CPCS, Manager,
Medical Staff Services
Editor:
Betsy Reece, APR, Marketing Coordinator
Please send questions, comments or article submissions by Monday at noon to [email protected].