Plays of the Week:
Play of the week goes to the Red/Green PCMH teams for their impressive "Encanto" pumpkin display! Let it be known that people were in fact "talking about Bruno" that day.
Play of the week also goes to Dr. Noelle Molter pitched in to help precept yesterday when we were backed up in clinic and she had finished seeing her own patients. This was after delivering another excellent DEI workshop!
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Sunday, 11/6 Andrew Warren's Birthday 🎉 and Daylight Savings Time ends | | | |
Monday, 11/7 National NP Week Starts | MR: Case and Empiric Antibiotics 101 Lecture, Helfrich | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Tuesday, 11/8 | MR: Bennett CPC | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Wednesday, 11/9 Lisa Sukenaga's Birthday 🎉 | SIM/Skills: LP (Rees/Cirks), Bladder cath (Kolasinski), and Tourniquet (Schacht) | 0745 - 0850 SIM Center (4th Floor, Heroes Bldg) **3rd Deck Team report to the PICU** | Residents and Medical Students Only; before the session, please review the related modules here OR go to www.classroom.google.com and enter the class code: xwe5vzj |
Thursday, 11/10 Minimal Manning Day | No Morning Report | | |
| Chief Resident Interviews | 0700-1000 Allergy Conf Rm | Residency Leadership, PEC members, and Chief Resident Applicants Only |
Friday, 11/11 Veterans Day 🇺🇸 | No Morning Report | | |
I will be on leave from 3NOV-13NOV. For any acute call/morning report issues, please reach out to the following:
4-6Nov acting Chief Resident: CPT Elise Reddington (elise.reddington@nccpeds.com)
7-10Nov acting Chief Resident: Capt Sidney Zven (sidney.zven@nccpeds.com)
11-13Nov acting Chief Resident: LT Alex Mauro (alexandra.mauro@nccpeds.com)
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
14NOV: Block 6 Starts | 9DEC: Anthony Lucido's Birthday |
15NOV: Warren Journal Club | |
24NOV: Thanksgiving Day (Outpatient Clinics Closed) | |
25NOV: Native American Heritage Day (Minimal Manning Day) | |
9DEC: Holiday Party ❄️ | |
Announcements:
All Staff Updates
Veterans Day Events & Offers
Events
Deals & Discounts
New Mask Mandate Guidelines
Masks are mandatory: upon entry into the medical facility, during patient encounters (with eye-pro), in all clinical and patient-facing areas, and corridors by hospital staff (buildings 1-10, 19, NiCOE, and 85T)
Masks are optional in spaces not engaged in patient care, meetings (i.e. morning report), spaces that are administrative in nature by supervisors, and in customer service activities
If at any time you experience new onset respiratory or influenza-like symptoms, immediately don a face mask and alert your supervisor (see below for further guidance on testing)
Chief Resident Selection Comments
It's time for the Chief Resident Selection for the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year. There are four candidates, and they have all provided statements for you to read. Please submit your anonymous and confidential comments using the Google Form link below. The selection committee of staff and residents highly values your feedback.
https://forms.gle/ZVonovTuqugZQgEz5
**Please open on non-military computers**
The form will be open until November 8th.
Respiratory Season Updates
Flu and COVID vaccines
COVID Vaccine Site (Arrowhead Zone, Bldg 9)
0700-1500, Mon-Fri
Flu vaccine for 2 years and up
COVID vaccine for 6 months and up
Immunizations (America Zone, Bldg 19)
Flu vaccine for 6 mos-2 years
NO COVID VACCINE
Patient Testing
See below for the respiratory testing algorithm for 2022-2023
The Respiratory PCR Panel 2.1 is the upper respiratory biofire panel with 22 pathogens
Peds ID can approve outpatient use of the biofire (respiratory PCR Panel 2.1) so please reach out to us for verbal approval if you have a clinical scenario where the expanded panel will help with management.
Peds ID on call phone (available 24/7): 301-648-0545
AMS Connect: WB Peds Infectious Disease (please include DODID in AMS connect message)
Healthcare Personnel Testing
Do not report to work if you have onset of influenza-like symptoms (fever, dry cough, other respiratory symptoms +/- myaglias, headache).
You must undergo testing for COVID (if testing occurs within 48 hours of symptoms you will be tested for COVID, Flu, and RSV)
If positive for COVID: HCP should call Occupational Health (301-400-0885) for isolation guidance. Please let your supervisor know the isolation period from OccHealth so the supervisor can help adjust manning accordingly.
If negative for COVID-19: isolate at home until afebrile for 24 hours without fever-reducing medications AND other symptoms are improved
If positive for flu: contact your PCM to discuss the option of Tamiflu
NICU Admissions
The NICU may be able to temporarily admit patients less than or equal to 2 months corrected gestational age in the setting of staffing and bed shortages on the inpatient pediatric ward. Admissions will be considered on a case-by-case basis as well as with consideration of the NICU census, anticipated deliveries, staffing and acuity levels. Back transfer to the ward should be considered whenever their space can accommodate.
Some appropriate diagnoses may include: Rule out sepsis, Hyperbilirubinemia, Dehydration, Failure to thrive, Meningitis, Urinary tract infection, Post anesthesia monitoring
The NICU does not have adequate respiratory isolation so all patients must test negative for influenza, RSV and COVID prior to arrival in the NICU.
IPASS Training
Please make sure to complete your IPASS training NLT 9NOV if you have not done so already
Resident-Specific Updates
Don't forget to reach out to your Block 6 Rotation Supervisors. View the attachment below for the most up-to-date contact information.
MHS Genesis Updates:
PI/QI: Next Session is 6DEC
Please notify your stakeholders prior to the next meeting
Please view your project-specific template here
Educational/Teaching Opportunities
APPD AIMS (Advancing Inclusiveness in Medical Education Scholars) Program Application Opening
USU Teaching Opportunities
Research Opportunities & Upcoming Conferences
15th Annual Research & Innovations Month (May)
Details
Upcoming Conferences:
AMSUS Annual Meeting 2023: February 13-16th at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center, National Harbor, MD
Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Conference 2023: April 27-May 1st in Washington, DC
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