Last Tuesday was our first combined hands-on competency review session for the ambulatory clinics at ECU Health Physicians, bringing together the nursing (RN, LPN) and allied health (CMA, RMA, MA, Rad Tech, CT) team members from academic and community primary care and several specialty clinics. This session allows team members to rotate through stations to review and validate high risk, low volume, and high impact skills. Many of us are used to the high risk/low volume skills but I added in a few items and referred to them as "high impact" skills. These are items that are frequently occurring in many areas (ex: blood pressure measurement) but if performed incorrectly it could have major impacts to the patient's treatment plan and the data that is submitted for hypertension control would not accurately reflect the patient's true disease control and the work our teams do each day. We have one more skills session coming up for our Greenville based primary care and community specialty clinics. Shout out to my team of two amazing nurse educators, Jennifer and Materria, who take this show on the road and cover all of our regional clinics with the support of the clinic staff and the support of Stacey and Kimberly Manning, the Quality Nurse Specialists within ECU Health Physicians. Huge thanks to our leadership who supported us in getting instructors and team members together for the day! Pictured below are Sandy Goff, MSN, RN-BC, Nurse Administrator with ECU Health's Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Staci Adams, BSN, RN, Panel Manager with ECU Health Physicians (based out of the Wilson Healthplex). They covered the 12-lead EKG and emergency response station. Extra points to you if you caught that the 12-lead stickers aren't quite in the right location- that's on purpose (that is part of the learning experience and the learner will then be expected to demonstrate the correct location and landmarks)! #lifelonglearning #ECUHealth #ECUHealthPhysicians #ECUHealthEducation
