... offer room service, dietary passed the trays. The nursing staff in ICU, Critical Care Techs, would record the I&O but dietary would pick up the trays....
Does any other ICU triple critical patients or have two critical patients and one ready to transfer to telemetry? I'm concerned that we have needed to do this...
Hi Gina Did you ever work at HRMC in LHC AZ? Gina Leath <gleath@...> wrote: Does anyone have a follow up process that works for ensuring that if a pt...
... We Recently started rounding hourly in our ed. After a little staff resistance it has started to go well, it also helps when we get complaints from a pt or...
Currently, only our Birthing Center does the room service type of menu ordering but I believe the regular floors will be starting soon. Currently, dietary...
Patient assignments in any unit need to reflect the acuity of that patient. We frequently have patients awaiting transfer to a lower level of care in our ICU...
Yes, In Florida during season we never seem to have enough nurses or beds. We do triple these patietns, only when absolutely necessary and try to incorporate...
My question to that practice would be....what happens when the step down patients leave? Does that RN then care for three critical patients? How do you step...
Has anyone seen any articles lately on comparing NIBP with manual. This is more for the med-surg area but thought I had heard at an AACN conference recently...
There have been times that we will have triple patients in CCU and CVICU. These patients all have to be stable and we just can't convince the physician to...
We started this a few years ago...however, in ICU, the nurse still circles choices from a paper menu and sends it to dietary or calls down themself. The tray...
Hi all, Is anyone willing to share their facilities' diversion policies? May be for trauma, bed shrtage, etc. Thanks Angela Voigt, RN, BSN, CCRN ICU Clinical...
Our hospital allows patients to call and request their own diet off of a menu. It has done wonders for our customer service scores. On the PCU the dietary...
Cynthia, Do you use LPNs on your step-down or med-surg units and was is your CNA to patient ratio on those units as well. Lori Bauman, RN Nurse Manager ...
Our ICU often triples patients according to acuity. We sometimes get intermediate care overflow or unable to transfers d/t high census on the other floors, so...
Karen, What do you do if you have no rooms to transfer to? Bonita Bonita Hefner RN, BSN, CPAN, CNA-BC Nurse Manager-Critical Care Center 810 Fairgrove Church...
I would love to see them as well. I am in the process of revamping. We are trying to get away from using specific numbers. We are leaning towards "being out of...
My facility is granted diversion for 4 hour periods. The diversion is granted by EMS who takes into consideration the status of other area hospitals. We have...
If you don't have rooms to move overflow into do you still maintain a 2:1 nurse patient ratio even though the patients are not ICU patients? Thanks bonita ...
I am trying to get some handouts to patients and family members re procedures, their dagnosis and problems and the expectations and what to expect when in in a...
I have worked both ED and CC & mostly CVICU for 15+ years and it is a different world in the ED than in the CV & CC units. For the rest of you. Yes I have...
The nurses pass the trays to the ICU and PCU patients. This is at our request due to the frequent changes and instabilty that we frequently have in these...
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