NURSING CARE
What to Expect: Your nurse will (Nursing Care)
Perform good hand hygiene by using the gel or washing at the sink when entering and exiting your room
Your role: Speak up if staff (or family) forget to clean their hands when entering and exiting your room.
Respect your privacy by knocking before they enter
Acknowledge you by name and introduce themselves by name and licensure (Example: my name is Aaron and I am your nurse)
Tell you why they are in your room and how long it will take
Narrate their care while they are in your room. Example: I am checking your IV bag to see when you will need another one and to see when the tubing should be changed.
Close doors/curtains to protect your privacy.
Thank you before they exit.
Physically examine you and conduct assessments like listen to your lungs with a stethoscope every shift.
Give you understandable explanations.
Keep your bed rails up for your safety
Round on you hourly (This decreases your chance of falling by 50% and your chance of skin damage 14% and your need to push the call light by almost 40%):
assess your personal needs
communicate the plan of care for the day and stay.
Help you change position in bed to protect your skin
Customized to your care to meet your personal needs and participation.
Ask for your commitment to the plan of care.
Your Role:
Tell them what is most important to you and ask them to write it down to help them remember.
Ask them to note on the care communication board what would make their care exceptional to you.
Conduct a bedside introduction of your next nurse and report off at the bedside to include you.
Your role: Ask what “core measures” apply to your care.
15. IV tubing must be labeled with the date it was placed and the date it is due for
change.
Your Role: Ask when your tubing is due for change.
16. IV site must be labeled by who started it on what date
Your role: Ask when the IV is due to be changed.