Care Plans
Medication Orders Policy
Assessments
Patient Care Areas
100

Documentation on care plans should happen _______

Every Shift

100

Reassess IV pain medication within ______ minutes of administration. 

30 

100

Full patient assessment should be completed within _______ hour(s) of assuming care for patient.

One

100

No _______ or ________ at the nursing station. 

Food or Drinks

200

_________ are based on assessments, reassessments, and results of diagnostic tests. 

Care Plans

200

Reassess PO medications within _________ of administration. 

1 hour

200

Head to Toe Assessment, Sepsis Screen,  Patient Education/Learning Assessment and Fall Assessment & Prevention should be assessed how often?  

Every shift

200

Open single-use items (i.e. telemetry patches) should be _______________

thrown away

300

For an admission, a care plan should be added within _______   hours. 

Four

300

STAT medications must be administered within ________ minutes of being ordered. 

30

300

These items must be completed _____ hours from assuming care of your patient:

Completing Admission Navigator,  Four Eyes Skin Assessment. Pressure Injury Risk, and Initiation of Care plan 

4

300

Patient food in refrigerator should be labeled with name, room #, and expiration date. Food is expired after _________ hours. 

72

400

During ________ you document, review and resolve care plans. 

Discharges

400

Based on the standard administration times, medication ordered to be given 2 times a day should be given at ______ and _______. 

0900 and 2100

400

Focused reassessments are completed how often on med-surg floors? 

Every 8 hours

400

Opened glucose QC strips and solutions should be dated. Glucose QC solutions expire _______ days after opening, strips expire ______ days after opening.  

90 days       180 days

500

A patients care plan is interdisciplinary and __________ according to patients need's to improve outcomes. 

Individualized

500

Pain medication should be administered according to pain scores. A moderate rating would be ________

4-6

500

Telemetry alarm history should be documented every ____________. 

4 hours

500

No more than _______ O2 tanks should be in one area, and they should be separated by full/partial and empty. 

12