Yet another interruption on nights

[sistrmoon]

So we are now doing some sort of quality control study which requires one nurse to compile data on all the patients with central lines or foleys, make sure that all the nurses are checking the appropriate checkboxes, but also they have to enter the room to physically check for the presence of foley or central line. The primary nurse can't just report it to the nurse compiling the data. The nurse compiling the data has to go in. When is this done, you might ask? Why 1 AM of course! I'm sure this is a case of "well, they have the time on nights" but our satisfaction scores are going to plummet. We are Oncology so a ton of people have central lines.

[anon456, BSN, RN]

Can it be done when the RN goes in for the scheduled assessments? Just make the rounds at midnight or 4 AM or whenever that is done.

We have an IV nurse who has to physically check the dressings of all central lines in the entire hospital every night. I would hate to have that job.

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

But the floor nurses are already documenting their assessment of their patients' central lines every shift. Why on earth can't the data just be collected from the charted assessments? Why add an extra layer to the process?

and the compiling of the data? Sounds like a unit manager job to me, floor nurses don't have time for that.

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

Can it be done when the RN goes in for the scheduled assessments? Just make the rounds at midnight or 4 AM or whenever that is done.

We have an IV nurse who has to physically check the dressings of all central lines in the entire hospital every night. I would hate to have that job.

Well, the nurse doing the checks has her own patient load and assessments to do, and would have to coordinate going in at the same time with 4-5 other nurses.

All dressing changes at night? Patients must love that.

[CardiacKittyRN]

Our charge nurse does something similar to this at my facility... when they go in for their charge rounds they look at Foley's & central lines... I wouldn't think a floor nurse with her our patients would have time to go around and do this with her own patient load.. that's too much.