Page 3 - Center of Excellence Newsletter VolV(2) December 2019

Professional
Development
Updates
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1.Elsevier: Online clinical reference replacing Nursing Reference Center.
2.Weekly Safety Alerts:
Professional Development Page for reference noted by title , date and content.
3.AHA: Professional Development site or go to EVA and search AHA for class availability and registration.
4.Poster Presentation PDFs:
Professional Development
site for viewing.
5.Educational conferences/symposiums, lunch and learns will be posted on a Monthly Calendar and Flyers will also be emailed.
6. Massachusetts Centralized Clinical Placement (CCP site) Thank you to our many Preceptors and our internal Clinical Instructors. FY’ 19 we have placed 55 senior practicum students and graduate student placements, and 81 undergraduate clinical placements (602 students). We work with over 30 colleges primarily in MA. The CCP site consists of a network of health care organizations and nursing programs working together to facilitate clinical placements for undergraduate and graduate nursing students. All student placements go through the CCP site and the Professional Development Department. Any questions please contact Gail Fisher, RN or Margaret Russell Greene, RN.
7. Needs Assessment for Nursing will be sent out electronically via Survey Monkey. Please complete as we utilize this data for planning our educational programs. Based on last years Needs Assessment we provided programs such as Charge Nurse, Diabetes Management, EKG Rhythm Interpretation, and Pain management.
8. Onboarding Update FY’19: we had 33 onboarding sessions with 825 staff. The number of staff and onboarding has increased over the past 2 years. New staff include Unit Coordinators, Mental Health Workers/Counselors, PCSA’s, CCTs and CCT-R, LPNs, RNs, Travel RNs, NPs, MAs, Nursing Students and Instructors.
Annual Transplant Symposium
2019 Professional Development Programs
Novice Nurse
Stroke Symposium
Charge Nurse Workshop
Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)
Current Updates on Pain
Diabetes Management in Adult Primary Care
Diversity and Inclusion: People, Thoughts and Teams
Leadership Development with Deb Gerardi
Lunch & Learn - Appreciative Inquiry (AI): Framing Your Professional Nursing Practice
Lunch & Learn - Nursing: Care to Care
Lunch & Learn - Resiliency in Action
Lunch & Learn: Trans Health 101
Lunch and Learn: Nursing Documentation and Legal Implications
Navigating the Challenges of Managing Pain: Balancing Benefit and Harm
Nurse Expert Program
Nurse Leader Certification Review
Nursing Grand Rounds: Ethics in Healthcare
PDD and CI: Suicide Risk Assessment, Screening and Room Precautions
Professional Shared Governance Information Sessions
Rhythm Interpretation Series: Atrial Arrhythmia Review
Rhythm Interpretation Series: AV Block
Skin and Wound Care Updates
There were many other Nursing Specialty Programs offered and coordinated through the PDD and CI group including:
 ICU Consortia
 IV Flolan
 PulmonaryArterialHypertension  Ventricular Assistive Devices
 Neuroscience education
 ICU Skills
9. Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators:
% of Units That Outperform The National Benchmark