We do a daily sedation awakening in association with the daily weaning trial. Our criteria are to awaken to a RASS (richmond agitation and sedation scale)...
We do not have an actual protocol but we do have a guideline. We have a daily sedation vacation. We turn off sedation at 0900 and try to leave off atleast...
Christian, I think thats a lot of responsibility for a charge nurse....placing you and your immediate responsibility under a tremendous strain. Taking...
Would you share your question line up please? Respectfully, Hattie Harriger,RN,BSN Cardiovascular Nurse Specialist Covenant Heart Institute 3615 19th Street...
It is likely that there is not any published evidence to support q4h vs. q8h documentation. We moved to q4h rhythm strip documentation because it was...
Hi all, hope you will find this information useful from the AJCC. Regards jennifer Authentic Leaders Creating Healthy Work Environments for Nursing Practice...
We start weaning off sedation (Diprivan drips) about 5 in the a.m. (Our pulmonologists round VERY early) and, like Patrick, try to leave the sedation off,...
Becky, If you give me your fax number, I can send the criteria we use at our hospital for PCU. Anne durham1015 <beckydurham@...> wrote: The community...
Who has responsibility for bathing patients? Dayshift or nights? In our unit the staffing is the same on both shifts. Nights bath vent patients but if there...
All our baths are done on night shift. They have less meds to administer and day shift is always very busy with family coming in and out. Our visiting hours...
Night shift staffs bathe patients; dayshift is on prn basis. We use the Sage Bath products. Hattie Harriger <hharriger@...> wrote: All our baths are...
We have a 15-bed mixed ICU. It is nights responsibility to bathe all patients. We are technically open (we only close to visitors from 0700-0830 am and pm...
We are a 12 bed unit. Night shift doesn't have an aide, so they are responsible for giving 1/3 of the baths. Day shift has1 aide, so they do the rest of the...
Are you referring to Progressive Care Unit for Admission/DC criteria? Anne Fereday <feredaa@...> wrote: Becky, If you give me your fax number, I can...
We try to get our baths done on the 3-11 and 11-7 shifts (depending on acuity) but if it's not possible, the night shift, (usually) will have them done by the...
I'm going to piggyback on this question. We have a 6 bed Step Down Unit we are opening and making staffing decisions. How many patients are typically monitored...
We work 12-hour (7p-7a) shifts and try to have night shift take care of the baths. Day shift is very hectic with doctors, visitors, ancillary staff taking...
The battle of the baths has been an ongoing issue in my unit for years, since before I became the manager. We recently resolved the isue by coming to the...
We don't have any set rules on baths. We would like for vented and sedated patients to bathed on nights, especially if they are going to be weaned. If a...
We bath on night shift except in a few cases, non-vented patients that may need rest. We bath our vented/sedated patients near the end of night shift. Kathy...
My ICU unit does essentially the same as you. Baths are not assigned but depend on your patient assignment. If the patient is on a ventilator or has a...
NO techs and we have 7 beds. ... From: NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of cdrnfne@... Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:18 PM ...
Ours is a 10-bed surgical ICU. Sometimes, though few, we are overflow medical when beds are empty. Ideally, we have one PCA per shift. Our day shift PCA...
We will be adding a 5 bed stepdown unit within the next two years and I would be interested in finding out the same as Anne. Thanks, Missy ... From:...
Interested in others' process of rounding in their ICU. Do you do walking rounds with other disciplines? Are they physician led? I would like to initiate daily...
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