Feed Me/Body and Spirit
I will educate you on your newly diagnosed diabetes and help you with meal planning.
Who is a Diabetic Educator?
This type of isolation requires nursing staff and visitors to put on gloves and a gown prior to entering a patient's room.
What is contact isolation?
I can accept blood that is pourable or drippable or any isolation body fluids.
What is a red bag waste container?
I am the one to call if your patient would like to take their own medication from home while they are in the hospital; inhaler or eye drops.
Who is the pharmacist?
I will come and evaluate your patient if they are having difficulty with ambulation.
Who is a physical therapist?
I will come in to speak or pray with you if you would like or I can help you contact your own spiritual provider.
Who is the Chaplain?
A patient who is receiving 7 LPM of oxygen therapy requires which type of nasal cannula?
What is a high flow nasal cannula (green or teal colored tubing)?
This is where you would place your Coumadin and nicotine wrapper.
What the Black P-list container?
When a patient is diagnosed with CHF upon discharge, I would review their discharge medications to ensure they are on all proper CHF medications and I would notify the physician that they need to order the appropriate quality control medications.
Who is the pharmacist?
Your patient is having difficulty with dressing after rotator cuff. I will evaluate and provide adaptive devices to assist them.
Who is an Occupational Therapist?
This type of diet does not allow you to have anything by mouth at all and is commonly ordered on pre-surgery patients and patients with an NG tube.
What is an NPO diet?
I am used to treat respiratory distress in COPD/ CHF patients as a last resort prior to intubation. I provide bilevel positive airway pressure.
What is Bipap?
While administering a PRN Tylenol, the RN drops the pill on the floor. This is the proper waste receptacle for this medication.
What is the White Bucket with the Blue Lid?
At Froedtert South, insulin is considered what type of medication?
What is High Alert?
A patient trips and falls in the hallway as they are leaving the unit.
This type of documentation is now required.
What is an Event Report and a Post Fall Huddle?
This type of diet only allows the patient to have items such as milk, applesauce, ice cream, juice, and water.
What is a Full Liquid Diet?
This type of isolation requires only nursing staff to don an assigned N-95 mask or PAPR hood.
What is Airborne isolation?
I will accept all paperwork that has patient identification on it.
What is the blue bag waste?
When discontinuing a PCA, the RN notices the syringe still contains over half of the narcotic medication. This is the first step in managing this medication situation.
What is the remainder of the medication must be wasted properly in med-select with another RN or pharmacist?
I can evaluate your patient if they are having dysphagia or dysarthria after suffering from a CVA.
Who is a Speech Therapist?
I can provide you with information on patient education on any diets that are new to the patient and you can locate me on the portal under reference manuals.
What is the Nutrition Manual?
I am resistant to the carbapenem class of antibiotics considered the drugs of last resort for such infections. We are also a Gram-negative bacteria.
What is CRE or Carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae?
This is the waste receptacle that the empty syringe and tubing of the PCA medication will be placed in.
(I must completely empty of my narcotics)
What is the black bag garbage bag?
A patient states they take metoprolol 12.5 mg at home but their physician completed home medication list has metoprolol 25mg listed. In order to clarify, I am the one to call.
Who is the ordering physician?
I will need these additional interventions if my fall risk score is greater than 12.
What are yellow socks, yellow gown, yellow sign on the door, alarm on bed and chair, yellow wrist band?