2017 September Newsletter

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September is “Annual Safety Training” Month
Learning specialists, department educators and department managers have been asked to assign the
2017 corporate safety training programs to appropriate team members this month. The education will be
available for current team members from September 1 – September 30, 2017. New hires will be assigned
those programs that are part of their unit/department orientation between September 1, 2017 and August
31, 2018.

This education is required for team members who prepare, administer or waste drugs in the hospital
setting.

This education is required for team members who prepare, administer or waste drugs in the outpatient
setting.

This education is required for team members working in the laboratory.

This education is required for team members who use Formaldehyde in the workplace or collect/receive
tissue specimens preserved in Formalin.

This education is required for team members at outpatient facilities who generate biomedical waste.
Outpatient facilities are defined as units that are required to complete a manifest for biomedical waste
material pick up.

Laboratory Education Briefs
For greater sensativity and quicker turnaround time, the following processes will change beginning
September 19, 2017.

Life Support Policy Update

To streamline educational practices and provide consistent life support education at Orlando Health, policy
5916-2504 “Life Support Courses” is being revised. A few updated revisions to note:
Orlando Health continues to provide required life support education to team members. Effective the soon to
be announced policy go-live date in PowerDMS, team members who elect to complete life support courses
(BLS, ACLS, PALS or NRP) from an external source other at an approved Orlando Health training center
will no longer be reimbursed for the course cost. Life support courses that occur at any Orlando Health
hospital, Health Central University and Southlake Hospital are approved for reimbursement.

 Vendor life support education that does take place at an approved onsite Orlando Health training
center is not eligible for reimbursement. The following courses do not occur at an Orlando Health
hospital site and will not be reimbursed by Orlando Health:
 ABC Certification
 All about CPR

 American Heart Association (AHA) E-cards are now accepted as a legitimate replacement for hard
copy AHA Life Support course completion cards. Cards contain a QR code to easily verify
legitimacy online at www.heart.org/cpr/mycard.

 Team members attending onsite Orlando Health life support courses required for their job
description must clock in and out through Kronos.

 As a reminder, team members who miss a registered course will be charged for the cost of the
course as a “no show” fee unless the team member either withdraws from the course in their LMS
transcript (while at work) or notifies the Human Resources Solution Center cancellation line (from
home) at least 24 hours prior to course start time.

 Nursing and allied health team members are expected to complete ECG coursework prior to
attending initial advanced life support courses.

This Education Brief provides a summary of the correct selection and placement of the Nellcor™ pulse
oximetery probes (Max A, Max P, Max N and MaxFast) used in the adult, pediatric and infant populations.
For questions, please contact the Respiratory Therapist in your clinical area.

The 2017 Care of the Organ Donor Online Course has been revised to include guidelines for improving
communication with family members regarding brain death in the potential organ donor patient.
This Ed Brief provides a summary of the revised material including communication guidelines and specific
examples to help the nurse communicate a clearer message to family members.

Site/Population Specific

Adults Only: Radiologists and Radiologic Technologists

What: This Contrast Reaction Education provides clinicians; both radiologists and radiologic
Why: technologists, information from the American College of Radiology (ACR) Manual on
Contrast Media, Version 10.3.

Since contrast reactions are rare, this education provides education on recognizing symptoms
and identifying allergic- like vs. physiologic reactions. This material also provides a review of
mild, moderate and severe classifications of reactions.

Who: Radiologists and Radiologic Technologists

When: Team members shall complete this education prior to participating in the annual contrast
reaction simulation scenarios.

Action: This materal is currently available in the Institute for Learning Online (ILO). The Imaging
Services Educationor is asked to assign this material to all Radiologists and Radiologic
Technologists working with the adult patient population.

Questions: For questions, please contact your Imaging Services Educator.

Food and Nutrition

This online class is to be completed by all Food and Nutrition team members who deliver and pick up food
trays from patients in isolation rooms. This education should be completed by October 31, 2017.
For questions, please contact your site Food and Nutrition Dept. leadership team.

New/Updated Material
this month in the ILO

Revisions to current programs:

Training Name Updates/Comments

 Slides with repeated information were removed
 Condensed the 6 modules into 2 modules
 Total template redesign of the course
 Several images were replaced

Blood Culture Volumes

An audit was recently conducted by the ORMC Microbiology Laboratory. Corporately the adult blood
culture bottles were filled below the FDA and manufacturer’s approved minimum volume 47.0% of the time.
Only 16.0% were filled with the manufacturer’s recommended volume (best practice). Under filling blood
culture bottles may cause false negative results, or delay in patient results and treatment. Please look at
this Lab Ed Brief to review proper volumes for filling each blood culture bottle and the consequences to
patient care when blood cultures bottles are not filled to the manufacturer’s recommendations.

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