Hello all, I would refer you to the following items from AACN: First a Practice Resource question from AACN News and second a citation for an article in ...
I think we have a great system for creating individualized care plans. Each patient admitted has a functional health assessment done (based on Marjorie ...
Our RN HPPD in ICU is 18.34 (note RN only). We also have nursing assistants which add 3.08 HPPD. We have a 19 bed med/surg ICU, most patients except cardiac...
Hi Roberta - Do these numbers include your non-productive time (PTO, class, etc..)? Does include the nurse manager or any educators? Or is this purely your...
No, they are only direct care hours of RNs working in the unit, including the charge nurse. They do not include the educator, CNS or manager time. They also...
Thanks! Your unit is equivalent to mine. Our HPPD is 24.7 BUT that includes everything....PTO, class time, two supply clerks, an educator, and myself. Our...
What are your institutions using for CVC flushes? Heparin or Saline? Which resource of evidence based practice are people using to support use of one over the...
HI Everyone: Just a word of caution when talking about NHPPD. Make sure you are comparing apples to apples. For example, some units only include direct...
There was recently a very good article in one of the critical care journals summarizing practices of heparinized vs. non-heparinized lines. I think it was the...
No, in our hospital, they are only in the ICU because of the q1 hour, or more often, monitoring that we do with them. Keri Amberger Dearborn County Hospital ...
Yes, we do. It is a wider range of glucose control than in the ICU. In the progressive care units we work with a range of 80-150 and in the ICUs 80-120. ...
Yes. Our 28 bed cardiovascular stepdown does insulin drips. They have 4:1 nursing on days and 5:1 on nights. They have two techs who do the blood sugar. Jan...
Saline Flushes now since 1994 for all CV Respectfully, Hattie Harriger,RN,BSN Cardiovascular Nurse Specialist 806.725.1745 hharriger@... ... What are...
We use insulin drips on the general units that are mixed 1:1. However, in ICU we use a Nomogram. ICU nurses titrate hourly using the nomogram protocol. ... ...
In IV therapy, all B-D and BARD PICC lines use 200 units of heparin per port. For Groshong central catheter, only saline is used to flush. For groin sheath and...
Mary, THank you for the info. The reason I am asking is that my hours do include the manager and all other fixed staff on the unit. I need to know the exact...
In our institution, every unit may take a patient on an insulin drip. The challenge is not so much the running insulin, but the monitoring of the blood sugar...
Do any of you have established ratios for the number of patients monitor techs can view? We are moving to a centralized monitoring model and I am not sure...
Yes, we do them on our Step Down Unit. ________________________________ From: NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dnhx45 Sent:...
Hello, I am in the process of updating some of my policies and are wondering what you all are using for any procedures. Is betadine still used in the placing...
Would you please send or post your Nomogram? Thank YOU. ... We use insulin drips on the general units that are mixed 1:1. However, in ICU we use a Nomogram....
We use all chloroprep. Susan D. Gerhardt, MSN, RN STICU/TICU/TTEL ... From: NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lrschifer Sent:...
We currently do not have a policy on the enroute monitoring of patients transferred to the ICU from the OR or PACU. Does anyone have a policy that requires...
I operate an open-heart ICU and Step-down. The ICU is 24.6 HPPD (8 beds) and the step-down is 10.1 HPPD 915 beds). These numbers are inclusive of all...
We have ~90 patients that the techs monitor. We staff this centralized area with 3 MT's. We try to have each tech monitor 2 screens (each with 12 patients...
Do you have computerized charting and, if so, is your care plan integrated with that or do you have a hard copy kardex that serves as your plan of care. Lori...
