Accomplishments:

December 2013

• The Burn Center became American Burn Association certified for the 3rd time (every three year review).  This was a huge undertaking and quite intimidating.  The amount of paper work, quality review, chart review, and site visit requirements were staggering, but we got through it and just found out November 11th!
• I continue to be on Scope of Practice Council and we've answered some pretty interesting questions. 
• We applied for IRB approval at the end of our last class, and I'm finding out that becoming a study participant is complicated and a lot of paperwork and inservicing has to be done.  On top of that, I'm finding that the approval process will take much longer than I knew.  
• I created a continuing education credit approved burn education module teaching new and seasoned nurses alike how to perform basic burn dressings.  It's a one hour course.  I've found that I really enjoy teaching more than any other aspect of my job.