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The
Maryland Emergency Department Leadership Special
Interest Group has been revitalized. Our focus is to
address areas of common need and interest with a focus
on collaboration and best practices. Areas of discussion
have included but are not limited to -ED holding
Management of mental health patients
Alert status and diversion
Process improvement
This
group focuses on nurses in leadership roles but is not
limited to managers and directors. All ED
nursing leaders are welcome.
For
additional information, contact Andi West-McCabe at
410-641- 9644 or
amccabe@atlanticgeneral.org.
2010 Meetings
All
meetings are at Annie’s Restaurant on
Kent
Island from 12 Noon -2 PM
March 12, 2010
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Maryland
State ENA Nursing Leadership SIG Featured
If you
saw the Advance for Nurses magazine, November 16, 2009
issue, you may have seen some of the Maryland State ENA
Nursing Leadership SIG pictured. A two page article with
pictures of our leadership group entitled “ED Think
Tank” was featured. It gave credit to the organizers of
the group, Andi West- McCabe, MS, BSN, RN, NE-BC and
Matt Ansel, MS, RN, CEN, who reactivated the group 2
years ago. They coordinate meetings every other month at
Annie’s Paramount Steak and Seafood House on Kent Island
with 8-24 managers in attendance.
They
discuss issues that include but are not limited to
computerization, psychiatric care, policies and
procedures, orientation, infectious disease trends and
its impact on the ED, accreditation, legislation,
regulation, staffing, etc. The sharing that is done
helps to ease the burden on each individual manager and
provides support and resources to each other.
Staffing in the ED Packet Information Available
In response to the high volume of inquiries related
to legislative initiatives that involve nurse
staffing, ENA has prepared a "staffing packet"
containing material to assist its members in
developing collaborative strategies to educate
colleagues and legislators specifically on nurse
staffing in the ED. ENA opposes mandated staffing
ratios or other unilateral methods for determining
nurse staffing in the ED. To promote safe and
effective patient care, ENA supports evidence-based
staffing models that account for variables in
patient census, acuity, and length of stay, nursing
time for interventions and activities by patient
acuity, skill mix, and an adjustment factor for
non-patient care time. Contact Kathleen Ream, ENA's
Washington Representative at
enagov@aol.com
or downloading the information directly from ENA's
web site at
www.ena.org/government.
Document Sharing—Job
Descriptions, Policies, Clinical Guidelines—Can You
Help?
These are
just some of the categories we are looking to
enhance for the Document-sharing area of the Members
Only section of the ENA Web site. On a daily basis,
ENA staff members receive calls asking for anything
from a job description for a triage nurse to
guidelines for obtaining head circumference on
infants and children while in the ED. Can you help?
Take a look at the following list
to see if you might already have a form, document,
or policy that you could share with your fellow ENA
members:
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Job Descriptions—ED or
trauma nurse practitioner, ED or trauma case
manager, bedflow
coordinator, triage nurse, clinical coordinator,
psych liaison nurse, trauma coordinator, trauma
program manager or trauma registry coordinator.
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Forms—ED flowsheet,
trauma flowsheet, resuscitation flowsheet,
competency checklist, or orientation checklist.
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Templates—orientation (new
graduate, seasoned, second-career), competency
development, or clinical ladders.
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Clinical Practice
Guidelines—use of external jugular veins for IV
access, clearance of cervical spine in trauma
patients, head circumference measurements in
infants and children.
Do not hesitate to share even if
something is not on the list. For instructions on
submitting a document to share with your colleagues,
go to
http://www.ena.org/document_share/Instructions.asp
(login will be required), or send an e-mail to
webmaster@ena.org if you have any
questions.
To see what documents colleagues
have already shared, go to
http://www.ena.org/document_share/default.asp.
Since this is a Members Only benefit, you will be
required to login to access this area. After you
have logged in, select Document Sharing from the
menu at the top of the Members Only home page.
Staffing Issues
The website is developing a new section called
"Employment Opportunities". If you are interested in
advertising for a fee, please contact Pam Fox, Website
Editor, State ENA, at
foxprn@erols.com for details.
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