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We are a skilled nursing facility and have
taken dobutamine drips in the past, we monitored vs q shift unless condition
warranted more often, we followed policy provided by pharmacy provider for care
and monitoring, nurses were inserviced by pharmacy nurse. We didn’t have
a problem as resident had previously been at home with hers. -----Original Message----- Does any one out their take patients
on Dobutamine drips? We are a hospital based unit and we
have been asked to consider 2 patients in the last 2 days. If the patient were stronger,
apparently they would be able to go home w/ HHC on this drip without any
telemetry monitoring. We don't do telemetry monitoring on our unit. We
are looking at the feasability of taking these types of patients without
telemetry monitoring, but would require some revision of some of our policies. If you take these types of patients,
do you do telemetry monitoring, how frequent do you check vital signs, what
criteria do you use to determine if the patient is stable enough to admit
without telemetry? What written policies do you have in place regarding care
and monitoring? Please email me if you take these
patients and let me know your experiences? Peggy Pringle, RN, NHA Covenant HealthCare -TCU |
- Dobutamine gtts Peggy Pringle
- Re: Dobutamine gtts Beverly Weary
- Re: Dobutamine gtts Karen Marolf
