Hi all, there has been quite a thread on the CNS listserv regarding intrafacility transport of progressive care (stepdown, telemetry) patients for tests and...
we have the hospital wired and can monitor patients in the other depts remotely on those units. Frank [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
It depends. We can transport them without monitoring but we can decide that they need monitoring. It is a nurse decision. Libby ... From: "nuici1948"...
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... regarding ... of ... In our facility if the patient is stable and not on any vasoactivce drips but on say maybe O2 then they can go with a CNA-our tele ...
Our telemetry unit currently has the capability to monitor the patient throughout the hospital. Howwever if the patient has certain arrhythmia's a nurse and...
Patients on telemetry go down for tests per the radiology transporters without nurses and without their monitors. Only the ICU patients go for tests with a...
The physician decides whether the patient is stable enough to go for the test monitored or not. If the patient must be kept on the monitor a ACLS nurse must...
I am fairly new as a nurse manager of an inpatient rehab unit. I'm trying to figure out if we are making the best use of our staff. Do any of you manage a...
In our facility all monitored patients are transported with the portable monitor and the nurse remains with them. This includes going to radiology, for PICC...
I am interested in corresponding with those of you who work in a Transplant environment. I have some specific questions relative to air handlers, pressures in...
We currntly monitor remotely when the patient's leave the unit to go for testing. Recently the manager of the RT department has produced standards for an RN...
If we have a pt that needs to be ventilated and monitored, they are in the ICU and then they have to go down for tests w/ an RN and an RT. If they don't need...
On our unit, the nurses use their judgement to decide if a patient is stable enough to transport unmonitored. However, those that absolutely must go monitored...
I am looking for help with a couple things. I am evening manager of a pulmonary/step down vent unit and an oncology/medicine floor. 1) I am trying to find a...
... of a pulmonary/step down vent unit and an oncology/medicine floor. ... compliant with pneumovax and influenza immunization screening that we are mandated...
For the pneumovax, we did alot of education and the charge RN, manager, and case mamanger follow up with the staff to be sure they were doing it. We did this...
We do electronic charting and during the admission history/physical portion the nurse must screen for vaccinations or they can not go forward with the...
If you are on a computerized charting system, it can be built into the admission process. Our computerized triage chart has immunizations queries built it,...
We are building a new facility and I am in charge of a task force for monitoring. We are debating central monitoring -v- unit based. WE are also trying to...
I have a question for the board....we have recently been cited by a regulatory agency regarding the fact that when a physician orders a tube feeding volume,...
I think in part it depends on the preparation of the staff invovled-does everyone have at least a basic rhythm class so that the unit based monitoring means...
We in the process of fitting our Med/Surg unit with telemetry. I am wondering what issues you have experienced and what solutions worked better than others....
Tracy- We have 10 beds on a Med/Surg floor that are monitored on our Telemetry floor which is on a different floor of the hospital...we made very specific ...
Frank, I am very interested in your new process for monitoring M/S patients. Can you share information regarding the following? 1. Responsibilitites of the...
Wow, this seems like a slippery slope. I would ask what the difference is between this and stopping a maintenance IV to administer antibiotics or blood or any...
I can't believe you were cited for this! It's really absurd. I'd think an easier way to fix it would be for the doc's order to say "...40 ml/hr, may hold...
We have a tube feed order set and the dieticians calculate the rate based on labs, caloric needs, etc. We don't account for the times that the feed is off....
We are also building a new facility. Our plan is to have a telemetry floor (PCU) and also have remote cardiac monitoring on the med-surg floors. Both will be...
I think the more important issue then is the calories received per 24/hrs. I would have the physicians write it like that. If they are writing 40cc/hr and you...
I am presenting a proposal to provide Critical Care Training to our nurses hospital wide and would like to offer a method of outcome measurement with the...
