Olympia Snowe and NorthStar Bike Team Members 5-2008
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Director’s Updates
** Breaking news of interest to NorthStar Staff ** (Last Updated 6/30/08)
Operations Manager On Call:
June 30 - July 6
Felicia - 778-1027 (cell), 759-7188 (pager)
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
~Henry Ford
- IV Catheters are changing. Effective July 14 we (and FMH) are moving to BBraun Introcan IV Safety Catheter. Training is mandatory on these new Caths. Classes are July 14-16 0830 to 0130 at FMH. Sign up through NetLearning (make sure the NetLearning filter dates include July 2008).
- PHTLS - July 25-26. Register NOW! See the Training Page for more info. Free for NorthStar (FT/PT+) Staff. Doesn't get much easier/better than this!
- NetLearning. FMH is making this a must-do priority to comply with State and JAHCO requirments. And since the "year" turned over in Late February, it looks like there are a lot of CBLs missing. Please log on in the next week or so and spend a few minutes nailing these. You can get there from here: Netlearning. Thanks!
- Reminder... New Protocols effective July 1. Means Drug Box and Out of Drug Box changes. Please review all protocol changes. New/updated Truck Inventory forms and OOB Forms are on the "Forms" page of this website. July 1 changes to the Truck Inventory are also shown on the Forms Page.
- Central Line is due. Get your story ideas (and your writings!) to Cory asap! The newsletter needs your input!
- Some of you may have noticed the "Dashboard Stats" page on the web site. (from For the Staff, bottom of the list). Includes staffing stats, CQI Stats and Run Stats. Updated each month. Check it out. Note the Pain Measurement CQI Study. We need to DOCUMENT (in the Vitals section) any pain scale. And if measured once, must be measured again (that is the "compliance" piece of this). We'd like to get to 95% measurement. Including the score in the narrative is good but cannot be counted - must be in the Vitals section.
- The NO tobacco policy goes into effect on July 1. This includes the outside and parking lots of all the "owned" bases, inside all NorthStar bases and on all all the trucks. Includes tobaccco use in any form. No exceptions.
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