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Archive > May, 2009 Vol. X, No. 5

Ideas That Work

Start Your Own News Channel

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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