Susan, I do interim management and for the past several years we have always kept Saline locked for the reasons you state below. However, at my current...
This question is for critical care, med/surg, and ED. Are any of you doing hourly rounding? If so, how did you implement it? Did you use any prepackaged...
Our direct care RN actual staffing is 19.60 HPPD. Patient Care Assistants adds 3.25 HPPD. This excludes leadership, educators. It excludes orientation,...
We use Monitor techs on our tele units. On 1 floor the MT monitors 29 beds while on our other floor, the MT monitors 41 patients. They run strips every 4...
No, I would not want to do this since I would not want to be the patient in the hallway. Also, what happens if the expected discharge doesn't happen?...
On our 40 bed Telemetry floor, we staff 2 Monitor Tech/Secretaries an 7A shift and on on 7P shift. On the 7A side, one person is primarily responsible for the...
We have had to rearrange our IV stock and flushes as well as they are now considered medications. Our IV bags now are in a locked storage room across the hall...
Do you have nursing supervisor or bed manager or both that manages bed placement? How many beds is your facility? Do you have a staffing coordinator or who...
We use montior tech for telemetry monitoring. They watch no more than 30. They do have other duties such as unit secretary functions( answering telephone and...
I'd like to know if your hospital has a Stepdown/PCU, where is it located in relation to your ICUs? Is it next door, on the same floor, separated by multiple...
Susan Ramsey
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Jul 2, 2009 10:30 pm
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Hi...do any of you require staff to complete a 24-hour 'chart check' form? If so, could you share? Thanks! Renee Renee L. Clark, RN, MS MSP Clinical Nrs Coord...
We keep them in the room in a locked drawer. The nurses have a universal key on their badge. Terrie Fontenot RN,BSN,CCRN...
Terrie Fontenot
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Jul 2, 2009 10:31 pm
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We also keep our saline flushes locked in our Pyxis in a supply/med room. Make work more challenging for the nurses and rest assured, they'll come up with...
We have a monitor tech who monitors 24 from the ICU-- patients located throughout the hospital. Communication is by cell phone. The tech can do other...
Yes we do. They are supposed to check all orders since the last 24 hr. Chart Check. If there was not one done the night before, they should check all orders...
Hi, Currently, each unit manages its staffing independently. For example, ICU/IMC does self-scheduling, while Med-Surg has a specific employee trained in...
We just had our survey with only 6 directs and 14 indirects. NS flushes were considered medication since they are used to flush a line and were considered no...
At my facility, the House Supervisor rounds on all the floors and makes all bed assignments. We are licensed for 149 beds (35 minutes north of Little Rock,...
Hi Susan, Our hospital does have a Stepdown (IMC) Unit. It is on the same floor as ICU and is simply separated by doors. Renee Renee L. Clark, RN, MS MSP...
We have 3 progressive care units attached to larger units - surgical, medical, and neuro. Surgical PCU is 8 beds attached to a 53 bed surgical unit. Medical...
Yes we require 24 hour chart checks. The staff have to just sign the chart in red ink 24 hour chart check, date, time. No form required. ... From: Clark, Renee...
Yes, we also consider the saline flushes "medical supplies" per JC guidelines and do not lock up in our patient room supply areas. We do also have locked...
We have a progressive care unit that has 1 to 3 or 4 pt ratios. They are across the hospital. This has not caused any problems. Terrie Fontenot RN,BSN,CCRN ...
Terrie Fontenot
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Jul 5, 2009 5:48 am
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We do the 24 hr chart check but we just write in time date with nurse's name on the order sheet to the point that we checked. Its completed at 12 midnight. No...
Same with my unit, however, the organization I used to work for had a form in which you put the patient label and notated whether or not any missed orders were...
We also keep saline flushed behind locked doors with the IV fluids. We just had our Joint Commission visit about 8 months ago and they were still quoting that...
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