Telemetry
the number for CMU
What is *3044 or 2-3044?
Equipment needed to place a patient on a PCA pump
What is the Alaris PCA pump with EtCO2 channel, capnography tubing, syringe tubing, tele box with pulse ox connector, IV fluids with tubing?
Blood products administered at PAH
What are RBCs, FFP, platelets, & cryo?
This score considers a patient a high fall risk with the AI Predictive model
What is a score of 50?
Includes oxygen & suction set up at the bedside and padded side rails
What are Seizure Precautions?
How long staff has to put a patient on tele once ordered
What is 30 minutes?
Measures the partial pressure of CO2 in exhaled breaths
What is Capnography?
Needs to be documented within 30 minutes of start time & at the end within 1 hour of end time for each unit
What are lung sounds?
Must be in place for on a patient who is considered a fall risk
What are yellow socks, chair alarm/bed alarm on zone 2, & bed in the lowest & locked position?
Chart every 2 hours on the even hour when a patient has these
What are restraints?
The box identifier CMU needs to admit to their system
Dual sign off is not required for a PCA pump when programming or changing the syringe
What is false?
Nurse stays physically present in the patient room for this length of time
What is the first 15 minutes?
AI predictive model reassesses your patient this often
What is every 4 hours?
This is who I call for a Code Stroke or STEMI
What is Carelink at 2-2000 or *2000?
Phone designated for lethal rhythms
What is the red phone?
Parameters for the PCA pump are documented this often
What is every 2 hours on the EVEN hour?
When a nurse needs a dual sign off for blood
What is the start of the administration & a rate/dose change?
Where staff need to be when ambulating a patient
What is within arms reach?
I chart a comment for these medications when administering
What are PRN medications?
Responsible for calling CMU to admit a transfer patient
Who is whoever places the patient on the telemetry box?
The nurse puts the syringe & syringe tubing here when discontinuing a PCA pump
What is the waste container in the med room?
What the nurse needs to chart when the blood is finished infusing?
Vitals (including lung sounds) and "stopping" the infusion?
It is okay for a fall risk patient to ambulate with a family member
What is false? Patients who are considered fall risks must ambulate with a staff member always.
Where me and the offgoing nurse should be when getting shift report
What is at the bedside?