Patient Safety
Cardiology
Communication with nurses
100

Patients who are a high fall risk

confused, agitated, unsteady, dizzy, low BP 

100
2 symptoms of heart failure

shortness of breath, edema, weight gain

100

heart rate

less than 60 or more than 100

200

Before leaving a patient's room

Bed/Chair alarm on

Call bell in reach


200

medication a patient with heart failure takes

diuretics

200
blood pressure

less than 90/60 or more than 150/60

300

I ask the nurse before ambulating a patient with...

A low blood pressure, a high blood pressure, a PA catheter, pericardial drain

300

oxygen

less than 90

400

blood sugar

less than 80 or more than 400

500

urine output

less than 500 for a shift