Hello,
Is anyone using a Modified Early Warning Scoring System to target your sepsis patients? If so, do you have any policies you would like to share? Due to our patient populations, we added an oxygen saturation and modality component to our scoring system. The issue we are having is that our Multiskilled Technicians do the majority of the vital signs, but cannot perform pulse oximetry. What is the practice at other facilities that implemented a MEWS System? Thanks, Katherine F. Green, RN, BSN, CCRN ICU Coordinator 4500 Thirteenth Street Gulfport, MS 39565 (228) 575-2517 (228) 865-3521 ________________________________ This email may contain information covered under the Mississippi Privacy Law (Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29), the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. § 552a) and/or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No. 104-191) and its accompanying regulations. Healthcare information is personal and sensitive and must be protected in accordance with these provisions. If this email contains healthcare information, it is being disclosed to you only after appropriate authorization from the patient or under circumstances that do not require patient authorization. You, the recipient, are obligated to maintain it in a safe, secure and confidential manner. Re-disclosure without additional patient authorization, unless otherwise permitted by law, is prohibited. **********PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL********** If you are not the intended recipient of this email, be advised that any use, disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and then destroy/delete all copies of the original message and any attachment(s) thereto.
_______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
