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A Simple Way to Start Your Own News Channel
Keep your staff in the know with a scrolling announcement board.
We mounted a monitor in the staff lounge to display scrolling digital updates on new hires, thank-yous for help on projects and policy reminders. The staff lounge serves the hospital's entire second floor (pre-op, OR, PACU, endo), so we post general as well as unit-specific announcements. We update the announcements weekly, usually on Fridays, using an office computer, then transfer the updates to a jump drive and load them onto the announcement board, which is actually just a small laptop. The laptop cost about $400 and the monitor ran about $100. An older computer loaded with PowerPoint is all you need; no Internet access is required. The PowerPoint presentation just keeps looping, so everyone has a chance to read all the slides. It takes 7 minutes to display 34 slides making lunch or breaks the perfect time for staff to catch up on important news.
Lori Bateman,RN, MSN, CNOR
Operating Room Manager
Clarian North Medical Center
Carmel, Ind.
lbateman@clariannorth.com
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