Hi everyone, my question is on how you deal with morning glucose checks and insulin administration? I work on a busy tele floor where the night shift is currently doing the morning glucose checks and coverage around 0600, trays aren't passed till around 0730. As you can see this is problematic. A little background info, nearly all of our patients are on a sliding scale with Aprida and we do 12 hr shifts 7 to 7. Currently management is looking at passing the morning glucose checks to the day shift so insulin will be administered within a 15 minute window of the breakfast trays being passed.There is a lot of negative feedback from day shift. They feel that the morning hour is already too busy and they just won't have enough time to accomplish everything plus morning glucose checks and coverage.
So my question is how do you guys deal with morning glucose checks and coverage?
Who (day or night shift, RN or CNA) checks the blood glucose and at what time? who is administering the insulin and at what time? and how fast are trays received after insulin is administered?
Thanksin advance
Brett