Respiratory therapy by itself will skill you assuming you have something to start the skilling. Nebulizers won't do it. IV meds in hospital, pt. is on oxygen, etc. Besides capturing the minutes the nurse is with the patient setting up equipment, mixing the nebs, instructing him/her during the inhalations, you might want to consider checking oxygen saturations as well, and breath sounds for the nurese notes. We put just the minutes & solution, with the admin time with the nurses initials on the MAR, but had a flow sheet with the other information that included the O2 Sats., the breath sounds, etc. I'm including a copy that made the rounds on the list a while ago. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: respiratory minutes
> > We have never before captured respiratory therapy > days (15 min/day). I have a resident that would not > benfit from rehab but returned from hopitalization > with a nebulizer tx QID. Bet theses four treatment, > there is definitely 15 min/day besides inhalers > ordered. I spoke with my DON regarding where we can > document minutes and she decided she'd have our > pharmacy put it on the MAR a space to record minutes. > 1 - Is there anything else or different I need to > know? > 2 - Can I capture the respiratory therapy minutes from > the hospital? If so , it raises my score from an SE2 > to SE3. > > Thanx in advance > > ===== > Jennifer RN BSN MDS Coordinator > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > /---------------------------------------------------------- > The Case Mix Discussion Group is a free service of the > American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators > "Committed to the Assessment Professional" > Be sure to visit the AANAC website. Accurate answers to your > questions posted to NAC News and FAQs. > For more info visit us at http://www.aanac.org > -----------------------------------------------------------/
Repiratory Flow Sheet.xls
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