November Nurse Calendar
Library Resources Course
Dec. 12, noon – 1 p.m., Duncan Reid Conference Room
Anne Fladger teaches participants how to access electronic journals, and books, how to search CINAHL, OVIS and PubMed databases and how to use RefWorks. Call Martha Griffin at ext. 2-7952 for more information.
Save the Date: March 5
Everyday Challenges in Perinatal Care Conference
Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Norwood
Topics include adolescent sexuality, maternal/newborn sepsis, fetal surgery and more.
Nursing Grand Rounds
Thursdays, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN-L1. Lunch will be provided to the first 25 participants and contact hours will be awarded.
Dec. 13
Exploring Skin Care Strategies for Extremely Low Birth Weight Premature Infants
Presented by Marie Field, RN, MS, and Corrine Cyr Pryor, RNC, BA, IBCLC
Jan. 3
Caring for Yourself While You Care for Your Patients: Preventing Injury while Providing Patient Care
Presented by Tucker O’Day, Elizabeth Taylor, RN, MS and Earl West
Jan. 10
Caring to Confront: How Self-Advocacy Positively Affects the Professional Workforce, Workplace, and Patient Outcomes
Visiting scholar presentation by Rosanna DeMarco, PhD, APRN, ACRN
Jan. 24
Nursing Malpractice: Myths and Misconceptions
Presented by Janet Barnes, RN, JD, executive director of Clinical Compliance & Risk Management, and Elizabeth Cushing, JD, CRICO/RMF Claim Manager
Feb. 7
Cultural Rounds
“Nursing in Japan”
Presented by Kumiko Esumi, RN
Clinical Builds to be Upgraded to MS Office 2003
Microsoft Office 2003 will be installed on clinical builds, the desktop computers in inpatient areas in the Tower and CWN, during December between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Each upgrade will be done remotely on idle computers; keyboards on those computers will be locked for approximately six minutes during each upgrade, and once the upgrade is complete, computers automatically will reconfigure Outlook 2003 as each user logs on for the first time. This takes 30 seconds. More than 6,000 computers at BWH have been upgraded to Office 2003 through user requests and Windows XP upgrades. For more information, call the Help Desk at ext. 2-5927.
Thomson Award Nominations Due Jan. 10
Nominations are available for two recognition awards offered in the memory of the late Dennis Thomson. From 1991 to 1998, Thomson served as BWH’s director and then vice president of Public Affairs. He died Nov. 10, 1998, following a battle with cancer.
The Thomson Leadership Award is presented annually to a staff member who exemplifies leadership as defined by Thomson. Awardees receive up to $2,500 to attend a leadership program of their choice. The Compassionate Care Scholar Scholarships provide $1,000 as seed money to support projects that benefit BWH patients. Nomination forms are available on BWHPikeNotes.org