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1. Write a Care Plan that has two problem labels that comes from the list of overriding, required and
selected areas of care that are marked on your Assignment card. One of them has to be a real problem
and not a risk for problem.
List an outcome that you can measure for each problem or diagnosis.
List 2 things that you will do to try and help the patient reach the outcome you wrote down. So there
should be 4 things you do total and they should be things you can do during the PCS.
2. Write down the flow rate in drops per minute on the Care plan if there is a gravity flow IV in the
patient. Make sure that you write down the right flow rate!
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CDM means that your try to solve problems by making choices during your patient care. It means using
good judgement and you knowledge of Nursing and keeping the patients best interest in mind.
If your going to not do or change a critical element, you have to tell the CE what your doing and why at
the time your doing it. Don't wait to tell the CE. If the CE decides that you are not using good
judgement in problem solving, you'll fail.
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Asepsis
1. Wash your hands in front of the CE before you start taking care of the patient.
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Caring
1. Don't ignore your patient. Be real and introduce yourself to the patient. Treat your patient the way
you want to be treated.
After the introduction ID the patient by checking at least 2 of these:
1) the patients name
2) when the patient was born
3) the patients Medical record number
Then explain what your doing there. If your patient is a child or adult that doesn't talk use touch if it's
OK culturally. Figure that out by asking relatives of the assigned nurse if your don't know whats OK
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culturally. Don't ignore your patient or act as if they don't matter just because they don't talk.
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Caring Cont.
2. Talk to your patient and their significant others in a way that they can understand.
Also encourage the patient to let you know what they need.
Respond when your patient talks to you.
Respond to the patients body language, for example when your patients winces in pain, ask about it.
To help when your taking care of the patient
explain what your about to do
ask about how your patient feels about the care your giving
ask if your patient is comfortable
talk about things that are important to your patient
ask your patient what order they would want they're care tasks done in
3. Don't be patronizing, demeaning or rag on your patient in any way, verbally or physically. If you
treat people bad, nursing is not for you.
4. Be respectful, treat your patient with dignity and respect their culture.
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Emotional Jeopardy
Anything you do or don't do that threatens your patients or their friends and relatives emotional well
being will end the PCS and you'll fail.
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Mobility
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Mobility cont.
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4. Write down
your patients ability to move and get around
what things your patient uses to help get around
any problems your patient has with balance
If you positioned, transferred, or walked your patient during the PCS
How your patient reacted to the positioning, transferring and/or walking.
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Physical Jeopardy
Anything you do or don't do that threatens your patients physical well being. Your responsible for your
patients physical safety for the entire PCS. If you don't report a deterioration in your patients condition
or are about to do something that might hurt your patient, the PCS will be stopped and you'll fail.
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Fluid Management
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Check the area where the line goes into your patient. It might be a central, on arms or legs, or
implanted in the vein type of device. Look for problems such as dislocation, infiltration(fluid going into
the tissue instead of the vein) or other problems by
feeling the skin around the IV for changes in temperature. It might be cooler or warming than the
rest of the surrounding skin
or feeling the area for edema
If the flow rate is not right change it by
adjusting the flow to plus or minus 5 drops per minute of the rate you calculated. It's the same
for microdrops.
if it's on a pump, adjust the pump to the exact number required to deliver the prescribed volume
Write the prescribed fluid that's going into your patient on the PCS form
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Make sure the flow rate is right by adjusting the drip rate to within plus or minus 5 drops a minute
of the rate you calculated.
Or if a pump is used make sure that it's set to the exact number so that it will give the correct
volume
Don't forget to write the fluid being given on the PCS form
When you have to maintain an intermittent access device like a hep lock
check the insertion site for infiltration or other problems by
feeling the skin around the site for warmth or coolness or
feeling the area for swelling/edema
Aspirate for blood unless there's a good reason not to. It's very important to aspirate because that
tells you the line is in a vein
Flush the hep lock or similar device with the correct fluid
Don't forget to chart the flush solution on the PCS form
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6. Chart your patients Hydration status and the condition of the IV site
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Vital Signs
Get accurate vital signs by reading the thermometer within plus or minus 2 tenths of a degree.
Measure the pulse by counting within plus or minus 5 beats a minute. Your allowed a 10 beats a
minute error for a patient under 2 years old
Count the breaths within 2 breaths of actual. Your allowed a 6 breath error for a child under 2
Read the blood pressure device within 6 millimeters of mercury
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Vital Signs
Make sure you get an accurate weight when it's assigned to you by
balancing the scale
undress the patient if needed
keep the scale clean
your only allowed a 1% error on weights
Don't forget to get the O2 saturation when your assigned
Check your patients level of pain when pain is assigned to you by
asking your adult patient that talks to rate their pain on a 1 to 10 scale
ask your talking child patient to rate their pain on a 1 to 5 faces scale
If your patient doesn't talk watch them for behaviors like moaning, grimacing or restlessness
3. Chart every one of the assigned vital signs on the PCS form
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Abdominal Assessment
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Neurological assessment
2. Feel the anterior fontanel if your patient is a child under one year of age. Make sure the child is
upright, unless there's a problem that would prevent it. If the child is lying down the fontanel might
bulge normally.
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4. Check your patients pupils to see if they are both the same size and if they react to light.
5. Check the motor response of your patient in the arms and legs by
asking them to squeeze the fingers of both your hands with their hands and then to push against
your hands with both feet, either up or down
If your patient can't do those things watch their musculoskeletal responses for evenness on both
sides and movement
6. Check the patients response to pain, for example pressing the nailbeds. Do this only if they don't
respond when you talk to them.
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7. Make sure that you chart everything you observed like the patients
level of consciousness
the condition of the fontanel
how the pupils of their eyes responded
Weather the motor response on both sides were the same
If they reacted to pain
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3. Chart want you observed, especially the differences between left and right sides
were there distal pulses?
How long did it take for capillaries to refill and what was the color?
where the fingers and toes cool or warm?
Did you patient notice touch?
Were they able to move OK?
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Respiratory Assessment
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Comfort Management
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Chart
What you observed about your patients comfort needs or discomfort
What you did to make your patient more comfortable
How your patient responded to the things you did
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Musculoskeletal Management
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extension
Support your patients arm or leg weight while your moving them
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Oxygen Management
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7. Keep the room from exploding or burning by removing things that can spark
8. Apply and maintain your patients oxygen delivery system at the right rate of delivery
9. Apply and maintain instruments that measure O2 saturation level when it's assigned
10. Chart
1) Your patients response to activity
2) O2 status
3) Condition of the skin that's in touch with O2 tubing
What you did to manage your patients Oxygen status
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Pain Management
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Respiratory Management
1. Put your patient in a position to make the respiratory hygiene activities easier
3. Check your patients breathing before starting the respiratory hygiene activities by
a. Tell your patient to breathe in and out as deeply as possible
b. listen to your patients breath sounds over the upper and lower lobes. Move the stethoscope from
side to side (4 lobes)
c. Watch their breathing patterns
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5. Help you patient with or preform one or more respiratory hygiene activities
a deep breathing
1) Instruct your patient to breathe in and out as deeply as possible
2) Repeat deep breathing exercise as ordered or needed by the patient
b coughing
1) Tell your patient to breathe in and out as deeply as possible
2) have your patient cough forcefully on the third or forth exhalation
3) Help with splinting if needed (Splint your incision before you cough. Place one hand above and one below you incision. Splinting is
important and remember to do it. )
c Use of mechanical devices such as incentive spirometer
1) teach your patient how to use the device
2) Have your patient repeat the exercise as ordered or as tolerated
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d. Chest percussion
1) Clap vigorously on your patients chest wall in the area designated unless contraindicated
2) Vibrate vigorously on your patients chest wall unless contraindicated
e. Suctioning:
1) If your assigned to suction by catheter:
a. Make sure the catheter is clear
b. Set the right pressure on the machine
c. Insert the catheter before turning on the machine
d. Keep rotating the catheter while suctioning
e. DO NOT SUCTION FOR MORE THAN 15 seconds at a time
f. repeat suctioning as needed to remove your patients secretions
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7. Chart
a. the comparison of breath sounds heard before and after the treatments
b. any abnormal breathing patterns observed
c. What activities you implemented
d. What was your patients response to the activities
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Skin Assessment
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4. Record the scores for each subscale and a total score within a range of plus or minus 3
5. Chart the amount of risk your patient is in for developing a pressure ulcer
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Wound Management
1. Check the wound, it's location, type of wound, appearance, and if there is any drainage
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6. remember to chart
a. what you observed about the wound.
1) it's location
2) the type of wound
3) it's appearance
4) if there was any drainage
b. What you did to clean, irrigate, and protect the wound and it's surrounding skin
c. How your patient responded to what you did
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3. Chart your observation about the amount and color of the specimen
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Enteral Feeding
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5. When you have a patient with continuous tube feeding assigned you will
a. Do the following within 20 minutes of starting care for you patient
1) See that the flow rate is accurate by either
a) counting the drops per minute that are flowing or
b) charting the flow rate setting on the feeding pump in the PCS form
2) Fix the flow rate when needed by either
a) adjusting the flow to within 5 drops per minute of the calculated flow or
b) adjusting the flow rate of the feeding pump to the exact number prescribed
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b. make sure the NG tube is in the stomach at least once during the PCS by one of the following
methods,
1) Suck up some stomach contents or
2) Push in 10-20 ml of air while listening with a stethoscope (use 5 ml of air if your patient is less
than 2 years old)
c. When your assigned to measure whats left in the stomach you will
1) measure the stomach contents
2) Put the contents back unless contraindicated
3) figure out the amount of feeding to give
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Irrigation
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Medications
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Medications cont
b. Check the insertion site for dislocation, infiltration, or other complications IMMEDIATELY before
giving the medication by using one of the following methods
1) Feeling the surrounding skin for changes in temperature or
2) touching the surrounding skin for edema
c. Clear the air from the IV tubing starting the flow
d. When you patient has a Hep lock you must
1) ASPIRATE for blood return unless it's contraindicated
2) Flush the line with the designated solution BEFORE giving the medication
3) Flush the line with the designated solution AFTER giving the medication
4) Chart the flush solution used on the PCS form
e. Regulate the flow to give the prescribed amount in the correct period of time
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9. Record the medication given on the HOSPITAL MAR within 30 minutes of the time you gave it
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Patient Teaching
3. Give your patient accurate information thats also appropriate and consistant with identified need
5. Record
a. Your patients readiness to learn
b. What information you provided
c. Your patients response to the information given
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