Clinicals Week 10

For the week of November 16th, I spent 8 hours with my preceptor. We attended a lot of meetings. It really showed me how important it is to have time management. We went to three meetings and in between meetings we checked emails, took care of phone calls, and worked on ongoing projects. It was quite a busy day! The first meeting was about implementing computerized provider order entry (CPOE). Of course, this is a difficult process because providers tend to be resistant to these types of changes. But, after a long time of planning Cook Children's should have it fully in place by the end of December. The second meeting was for Patient Care Council. It was a director level meeting that is informational in purpose. Each director gave updates for their departments if they had any. And the last meeting was to plan the charge nurse workshop for the charge nurses on the 4th floor. They discussed the agenda for the workshop and who the speakers would be. They also discussed some case presentations that they would have for the charge nurses, one of them being a simulation of a code for a child that had apnea after receiving a narcotic. This is a great case for this pre and post surgical floor because it is a very real possibility that this could happen on this type of unit.