How Often Do I Chart
Vital Signs
Every 4 hours and PRN
The patient is found on the floor
Get help. Don't move patient until the nurse has assessed for injuries
Temperature
>38.5C
What does the black jack cable do?
Makes the bed communicate with the console at the HUC station when the bed exit alarm goes off
Run controls on the glucometer
Daily at 0500
Patient's Weight
Daily at 0500am
You hear a bed alarm going off, but it's not your room
Address the alarm ASAP
HR
<60 or >100
What is something you can use to support patients when ambulating?
Gait belt
Make a printed label for the glucometer controls
Every time you open a new box of control solution. The printed label should include the opened date, expiration date, initials
PO Intake
After all meals, snacks, and PRN
You see a call light blinking in the hallway, but it's not your room
Go into the room, turn off the call light, and address the patient's needs
SpO2
<92%
If your patient is High Risk for falls, where should you be when the patient is in the restroom?
In the restroom with the patient
Refill a patient's water
At the end of your shift and as needed
Foley catheter care
Once a shift (after bathing a patient, if applicable)
You enter the room to find your high risk fall patient in the restroom
Open the door, check on the patient, remain with the patient, keep the patient in sight, do not close the door
Blood Sugar
<80 or >200
What are the 5Ps of purposeful rounding?
Pain, Potty, Possessions, Positioning, Personal needs
Change linen bags
Before the end of your shift and as needed
Patient refusals, abnormal vital signs, or abnormal CBGs
EVERYTIME!!! (Must notify RN and document prior to leaving room)
Your patient refuses the bed alarm
Educate the patient on the importance of the bed alarm. Notify the RN and document the notification
BP
SBP <100 or >150,
DBP <50 or >90
How do you pause a bed alarm
Before the patient gets OOB, press the Key then Silence button, or press the silence button if the bed alarm is sounding
Restock PPE cabinets, gloves in room, and at least 1 supply cart in your section
By the end of your shift