assigning patients by acuilty

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Busy telemetry med surg floor needs help assigning patients by acuilty and not room number. Help anyone......

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Try a few categries, and assign numbers. The higher the number, the greater the acuity. Here's what I could think of....

Stable?

1 Stable rhythm

2 recent rate/rhythm issue

etc

Mental status

1 alert and oriented x3

2 confused

3 sundowns...dementia

etc

Level of Assistance

1 independent

2 min assist

3 max assist

4 frequent use of call bell

Meds

1 Po

2 frequent pain meds, IV abx

3 drips (dilt, lasix, etc)

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Thank you for your reply. I will give it a try.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

the only thing i would add is family issues for day shift because that can be a problem and take up lots of time also!!

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Specializes in Cath Lab/ ICU.

Central lines, family issues, weight >100kg, and if you have a resident writing orders we should get more points for that too!

Seriously, I bet there are templates available online...

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"resident writing orders": :lol2:

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