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Date: | Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:33:07 EST |
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Hi to all,
I have been doing a newsletter for our staff for 6 years and in the last 2-3
years have added our Ob's F.P, and the Peds to the list of people who receive
my newsletter.
I call it the Milkline. It is just a one page sheet of information from
conferences, journal articles, items from the Lactnet, etc. I love doing it as
it is a teaching tool for our staff and now for the M.D.s, but I also learn from
the newsletter.
A little history of how I started the Milkline. When I started doing the
Lactation job 6 years ago, I was very concerned about updating the staff on
all the information that I was reading. How could I reach my peers with this
wealth of information.. We have a staff of about 90 full and part-time
employees. So I decided on a bulletin board with information that I would
change twice monthly. Then I tried to find a board that people would take time
to read. Well the only place that everyone visited on a regular basis was, you
got it ,the staff restroom. So I had my captive audience. The staff love the
information and after one of the Doc's said, she used our staff bathroom just
to read the Milkline,I then decided it was time to branch out and send the
Milkline to the M.Ds. This was a non threatening way to get the M.D.s updated.
Now the doc's will call me about a Milkline and will discuss the article with
me. Others will call and ask if I will do a Milkline on a certain subject that
has their interest. Some of our staff M.D's who would never have sent a client
to the lactation office will call and ask if we have current information on a
given subject and will send clients "to the experts "as one M.D.said. We are not
experts but we in the lactation office do know more about lactation then most
of our general medical staff and I don't in any way say this to insult them.
Because we all are working together we are able to give better care to our
patients and that is what we all want for the patient.
Over the 6 years I have continued to improve the newsletter. Now the heading is
in color, The breast icon is a light pink color with the Milkline logo in color
across the top.
I keep the information on the page to under 500 words so it can be read in just
"one sitting"<G>
So for anyone who wants to get information across to the staff and docs,think of
a creative way to write a newsletter and I would guess the idea would blossom
just like my Milkline.
For those of you who are thinking, haven't I heard of this before? Yes I wrote
this idea up and it was published in the JHL Sept 93.
Jan Aken R.N. IBCLC
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