RE: Bruises & Skin Tears, Incident Reports

[Cathy Petros]

We do incident reports on all.  We only have to report the “unwitnessed” ones to the Department of Human Services.   Cathy Petros,RN [EMAIL PROTECTED]   This e-mail, and any attachments there to, is intended for use by the addressee(s) named herein, and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information.  If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of the e-mail, and any attachment thereto, is strictly prohibited.  If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by telephone at 207-866-4914 and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. -----Original Message----- From: cmdg[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cmdg[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy Archibald Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:05 PM To: cmdg@aanac.org Subject: Bruises & Skin Tears, Incident Reports   We are not sure if we are required to do an incident report for every bruise and/or skin tear, or just those that we don't know the origin of, ie if we know a bruise was from an ankle being bumped during transfer, do we do an incident report?  Some residents bruise so easily, and bruise from every lab draw and frequent insulin shots.  Your advice? Thanks.