What kinds of patients get central lines in your ICUs? Are they routinely put in all septic patients, those with vasoactive meds? ICU Manager of a community...
Does anyone limit the number of consecutive 12-hour shifts staff can work? How many consecutive 12-hour shifts do your staff usually work? and is night shift...
What is your actual and your budgeted Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) and what does that number include--manager, educator, director, etc.? What is your actual...
the techs are usually 6:1 - the monitor techs are in a small room and watch over 120 patients throughout the entire hospital ________________________________ ...
Hello, In our hospital we are focusing on customer service. Each department has been asked to implement three measurable criteria to improve customer service....
We use a stamp that is actually stamped on the order sheet---by the actual order. In other words, if the MD orders Central line insertion, the stamp is...
We use a 1:3 RN to Patient ratio for Peds Stepdown. We do have monitor techs on another floor watching the EKG monitors and use Clinical associates (NAs) to...
Our facility uses Press Ganey as well. I get a unit specific score on for each of my units on the entire survey as well as our unit percentile against a...
I am very much interested as well. I have a family survery for ICU but I am always striving for more. Shannon ________________________________ From:...
Our policy states no more then 44 hours in 4 consececutive days.... but this is not always followed due to staffing crisis, which is everyday. rmsanders54...
Our unit does self scheduling and several full time employees on the night shift prefer to schedule their days for a 2-week timeframe (80 hour pay period)...
I have seen a great process where the required 'time out' information is preprinted in red at the bottom of the consent form. I.e., Date and time of time out,...
We use Avatar which has specific questions related to nursing care, pain, physician care, nurses identifying themselves, feeling safe, nurses explaining...
I'm also a manager of a community hospital and we struggle with getting central lines for our patients. No they are not routinely inserted in septic patients...
Budgeted 14.79 Direct care hours which include RN and Patient Care Techs. It does not include the Manager, Clinical Coordinator on days, Charge nurse on...
We use AVATAR as well. I am new to this hospital and I was told that we can look at updated scores on a weekly basis. I'm sure I'll be learning how to access...
It seems that we see central lines for Cabg and Valve surgeries but they are to be removed three days after surgery. PICC lines are being placed most of the...
... One thing I have done is send out a letter to all the patients that have been in our ICU and give them a chance to respond with compliments or complaints...
We have seen a huge increase in our HPPD related to acuity, CRRT, RRT, and most significantly the implementation of an EMR. We started with Epic in February....
We are budgeted for a TOTAL HPPD of 24.1 - this includes manager, educator, assistant head nurses, techs, unit clerks and bedside nurses. We're a level 1...
I am the Clinical Support Nurse for a 4 bed ICU in a newly opened hospital. I am working very hard to make sure that my ICU nurses aren't made to work alone...
Each quarter of the year, the "skin police" as we call them do a skin prevalence check for hospital acquired decubitus ulcers. Our rate in the ICU is above...
Standards for staffing in the two Critical Care areas at my facility mandate having two nurses in the unit if there is one patient requiring critical care. If...
We have core staffing of 2 nurses in ICU, even if we only have 1 patient. We have to have the 2nd nurse to override for meds, help if a patient deteriorates...
I manage a 10 bed unit in a small community hospital in CT. If there were only one patient in the ICU, we would per policy have at least 2 RN's and one support...
Dear Lynn, The standard at our hospital is minimum of two staff at all times. We have larger ICU's and rarely only one patient, but this problem arises when we...
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