How do they post DNR in the patients rooms at your LTC

Bird2 · Jul 29, 2005

Everywhere I have worked there is a place in the room where it states DNR. This facility posts a heart if they are a code. I would much prefer knowing a patient is a dnr without having to look for where ever the heart might be. Maybe if the hearts were all in the same place would help.
Also is there a specific spot in your facility where new orders are put?

We don't place anything in the room to show the code status. We color code the name bands. We always have a few that we have to careplan because they refuse the bands. Whenever we have tried to place a code such as a heart in the room we always discovered that a room move took place but the heart was not. It sounds like a good idea though.

chelojelo · Jul 29, 2005

We don't post anything in the patients' rooms, either. And they don't wear name bands. We just have to look at their charts. Aside from the paperwork on the inside of the chart, we use a large green sticker dot, about the size of a nickle, on the outside, next the the patient's name if they are a full code. For DNR we use a red one. There are not a lot of pts. who are full codes, though, so we usually just know the ones who are. The sticker dot thing works well, though.

panurse101 · Jul 29, 2005

Everywhere I have worked there is a place in the room where it states DNR. This facility posts a heart if they are a code. I would much prefer knowing a patient is a dnr without having to look for where ever the heart might be. Maybe if the hearts were all in the same place would help.
Also is there a specific spot in your facility where new orders are put?

Our facility doesn't place anything re: DNR status in the resident's rooms. We only have the code sheet on the front of the chart. Because there really isn't alot of full code residents, this really isn't a problem.

dinkymouse · Jul 29, 2005

Ours don't wear name bands either and a red dot on the chart means that their is a current health issue. I am surprized at the number of full codes in this facility. I suppose after I am there long enough I'll figure it out. Thanks

suzanne4, RN · Jul 29, 2005

You do need something more than having to run to the chart. If a patient suddenly coded, do you have time to run and look for that chart?

RainbowzLPN, LPN · Jul 29, 2005

We have certain colored circle stickers on the chart & room of the resident. They aren't in the room itself, but on the outside, on their memory box windows.

rjflyn, ASN, RN · Jul 29, 2005

As a side note there was a facility back when I worked as a Paramedic that if you were not DNR you would not be admitted there. So it wasnt an issue, with one exception there was a hold back pt from before they went all DNR.

Rj

joyflnoyz, LPN · Jul 29, 2005

Where I work code status is designated by the name label on the chart.

White= Full code, Blue= DNR.

I am working on a new report sheet that will have a spot for DNR..the ones the facility supplies are just resident names and a line to write things.

jsteine1 · Jul 29, 2005

In florida, it was considered a violation to have any signs posted in the patients rooms viewable by anyone. Agree, this is a problem. We used to have signs such as Fluids restricted, toileting instruction or other triggers for staff and had to remove all of them. Ultimately, a unique wrist band was instituted for DNR.

Aneroo, LPN · Jul 29, 2005

A facility I used to work at had different colored stickers on the door. Some meant DNR, fall precautions, etc. -A

BabyRN2Be · Jul 29, 2005

One LTC had a board of all the residents names, much like a hospital. If there was a blue dot (about the size of a quarter) next to the name, it meant that they were DNR.