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FloSheet - A Tri-Quarterly Publication for Nurses

Fall 2009

FEATURE ARTICLES

Extra-CHLA:  Lives Outside the Hospital
Diane Grade, RN, and her daughter help young people learn horse handling skills through participation in the California Rangers. 

Volunteers in Action
Nurses run, bike and swim for research

Air Traffic Controllers keep CHLA Running
Each of our ten house supervisors are responsible for handling the traffic of patients in our hospital.

Bedside's Best
Kahtryn Smith, RN, MN, manages the Autism Warm Line in the Boone Fetter Clinic

CHLA Originals:  The Perfect Tag-Team
New Magnet Program co-managers, Margaux Chan, RN, BSN and Susan Crandall, RN, BSN work out a job-sharing partnership so that they can remain involved in patient care.


FloSheet - Archive Issues

Summer 2009

  • Extra-CHLA:  Peggy Hoyt, RN, BSN, MHA, is putting her love for quilt making to work for the New Hospital's Building's Neonatal and Infant Critical Care Unit. 
  • Volunteers in Action:  Susan Cline, RNC, MSN, MBA hosted Maka Chawoneka from Harere Zimbabwe while she received care from our Division of Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery.
  • Making the Pain Go Away:   Nurses, Deborah Jury, RN and Meghan Middleton, RN use a variety of ways to treat pain in children.
  • Getting Strength from Her Patients:  Irene Ramos Klecha, RN, MSN, sometimes has to bear the most difficult news to expectant mothers.
  • Sharing a Commitment to Help Others:  Three nurses form the PICU's Social Morale Committee help the hospital's High-Risk Youth Program.
  • Noche de Niños Honors Our Veteran Nurses
  • Nurse Week Celebration Recap

Spring 2009

  • Extra-CHLA:  Joan Clark, RN, is a nurse and an officer, providing care on our Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit and serving as a Reserve Officer of the Navy
  • Volunteers in Action:  Denise Henry, RN, MSN, is the hospital's "Queen of CPR"
  • Balance:  Nurses Share How They Balance Work and Family
  • Bedside's Best:  Neuro-oncology Nurse, Barbara Britt, Finds a Cure in Caring
  • CHLA Originals:  RN Residency Program Celebrates 10 Years and Graduates a New Fellow

Fall 2008

  • CHLA Extra:  Bonnie Brennan, RN, BSN, a nurse with a passion for acting
  • Volunteers in Action:  Marion Antoku, RN is the force behind the DAISY Award
  • A World Perspective:  Our nurses' multicultural background helps families heal in comfort
  • Bedside's Best:  Educating Emergency Department Nurses
  • Bridge to Nursing Program
  • Childrens Hospital Los Angeles nurses participate in Nautica Malibu Triathlon to raise funds for pediatric cancer research at our hospital.

Summer 2008

  • 6 West nurses star in television commercial for Gold Bond Ultimate Healing Lotion
  • Volunteers in Action: 5 East Nurses - Raising Money and Awareness for Cystic Fibrosis
  • Learning the CHLA Way: Student Nurses Gain Invaluable Experience During Their Pediatric Rotation  
  • Bedside's Best:  Playing to an Audience, One Kid at a Time
  • CHLA Originals:  Guardians in the Operating Room
  • Recognition of Compassion and Dedication
  • FloSheet Chronicles
  • In Celebration and Gratitude:  Patient's Perspectives J&J Gala, and Nurse Essay Contest winners

Spring 2008

  • Extra-CHLA:  Nurses of 5 East and Neonatal and Infant Critical Care Unit create second cookbook
  • Volunteers in Action: Suzanne Taylor and Lisa Hatter call their experience providing care in Africa "life-changing"
  • It's All Relative: Family members enjoy each other's company on and off the job
  • Bedside's Best: Profile of Neonatal and Infant Critical Care Unit nurse 
  • Voice of the Profession: Message from Chief of Nursing
  • CHLA Originals:  Director of Family-Centered Care
  • FloSheet Chronicles
  • Announcement of Magnet Recognition for hospital's nurses
 

Fall 2007

  • Focus on physical fitness
  • Renal Teen Prom
  • Hospital passes major Magnet Milestone
  • Nurse develops support group for tracheostomy patients and families
  • Nursing Excellence award received by hospital employee
  • Spotlight on two-decade nursing veteran
  • Nurse wins Telly Award
  • Nurse referral program

Summer 2007

  • Combining a career in nursing with a career in spiritual care for others
  • "Love through the Lens" - photography of our nurses caring for children
  • Nurses bond with patients
  • Education for patients with diabetes
  • Making the move "west" to work at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
  • Nurses Week festivities

Spring 2007

  • Nurse attends traveling seminar in China
  • Educating the community about HIV/AIDS
  • Providing scoliosis screenings
  • Teen drinking and driving awareness
  • Sickle-cell educators
  • Wound management expert
  • Training nurses to work with children with developmental disabilities

Fall 2006

  • Singing from the heart
  • Volunteer for Project Angel Food
  • Caregivers instrumental in separation of conjoined twins
  • Highest Hematology/Oncology nurse ranking claimed by one of our own
  • CAMP CHLA - nursing field exposure for high school students
  • First annual Hospital Hero Award

Summer 2006

  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit book club
  • Nurse joins medical mission in Amazon
  • Nurses presenting nationally
  • Nurse returns to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit after 12-year absence
  • Nurse adopts "medically fragile" children
  • Celebrating Nurse Week

Spring 2006

  • Preparing future caregivers
  • Volunteering for Huntington Gardens
  • Magnet Recognition program preparation becomes journey of enlightenment
  • Leader in congenital heart disease
  • Reconstructing dreams, supportive organization for children with cleft lip palate and other facial deformities
  • Fifth Annual Nurse essay contest
  • Sharing professional insights on the radio

Fall 2005

  • Country dancing helps nurse recuperate from a bicycling accident
  • Providing care for Katrina victims
  • Planning for disaster
  • Decreasing bloodstream infections
  • Working on clinical trials for CLOLAR to help  leukemia / lymphoma patients
  • Nurses recognized for excellence

Summer 2005

  • Mastering sign language
  • Volunteering for Children's Day in Little Tokyo
  • Star selected for LA Nurses, unscripted documentary following lives of nurses
  • Spotlight on CTICU role model
  • Focus on two-decade veteran of the CNICC
  • Lending program makes home ownership a reality for nurses

Spring 2005

  • Caregiver makes African trek
  • Retreats remedy caregiver fatigue
  • RN Residency in Pediatrics sustains new nurses
  • Teaching patients about advocacy
  • Nurse cares for fellow passengers after Metro commuter train accident
  • First-ever grants made to new nurse recruits

 

Fall 2004

  • Mountain biking for fitness
  • Nurses collaborate to restart nursing school
  • Patient safety first with new KIDS data system
  • CTICU honored for exemplary patient safety improvements
  • Operating room caregivers perform surgeries for children in Vietnam
  • Professional ladder for nurses
  • DAISY Foundation

Summer 2004

  • Scrapbooking as a tonic
  • Telemedicine program serves are PICUs
  • Garden reveals first view of the New Hospital Building
  • Caregiver is portrait in humanism
  • Nurse essay contest winners
  • Grass roots injury prevention
  • National magazine spotlight on our caregivers in hematology-oncology

Spring 2004

  • Nurse adapts to adopting
  • Rental Teen Prom
  • Focus on neonatal nursing
  • Jack-of-all-Trades caregiver
  • Donating hair to the Locks of Love program to benefit cancer patients
  • Benefits for nurses
  • Hospital launches nationwide nurse recruitment program

Fall 2003

  • Painting - hobby that brings serenity
  • Pain management services benefits from nursing staff
  • Focus on pediatric nurse practitioners
  • Spotlight on 33-year veteran nurse
  • Hillary Clinton gives keynote address for opening of The Saban Research Institute
  • Providing care at diabetes camp

Summer 2003

  • Passion for the culinary arts helps destress
  • Good patient care begins at home
  • Elite ECMO nursing core leads the field
  • A patient of the hospital becomes a nurse
  • Bone marrow transplant coordinator volunteers throughout the world
  • Nurses awarded top honors for nursing excellence during Nurses Week

 

Spring 2003

  • Nurse gives vocal performances
  • CHLA graduates 7th class of RN Residents
  • Anne Wilson Endowment for Nursing Excellence
  • Nurse essay contest
  • Focus on Orthopaedic Nurse
  • In service in Sinaloa
  • Nurse Benefits
  • Market adjustments made for nursing salaries