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Course outline 164 hours, two 2 hour shifts per week (no breaks unless shift is over 4 hours) scholars are not allowed to do what during shifts?
- eat or drink in patient care settings
- use cell phones
- use program site computers, do homework ID badge
- badge should be clipped onto collar of polo shirt
- for leave of absences extending 2 weeks, must return badge shift changes
48 hours before shift begins = rescheduled (3 allowed) <48 hours before shift begins = excused missed shift (2 allowed) after shift begins = unexcused missed shift (none allowed) when health scholar is not present: ask charge nurse if HS has called in sick, wait 30 minutes, ask if you can help on another floor or lobby floor time sheet
- when signing in, only date and time started
- at end, add time finished and total hours competency checklist Documentation of participant's training and competency for each department
- submit checklists to department coordinator
- must be completed my registered nurse Counseling report to correct and improve performance and review program policies and procedures leave of absence between 14 and 180 days, allow 2 weeks for processing letter of recommendation need 124 hours to request recommendation, will be released when you have completed 164 hours stakeholders of health services Consumers, Community SDOH, Regulators, Providers, Payers Providers hospitals, clinics, long term care, home health, physicians community SDOH
Assess Hand Hygiene Identify empathy vs. sympathy have empathy- try to understand one's situation culture traditions, beliefs, values, customs and rules that characterize a group of people neonates and infants neonates: newborns - 1 month; infants: 1 mo. - 1 year high risk for aspiration, suffocation, falls (infant) toddlers 1 year - 3 years high risk for choking, injury, infection preschool and school age 4 years - 12 years high risk for injury related to falls/bodily damage, trauma due to abuse, asthma, fluid/electrolyte imbalance adolescents 13 - 18 years high risk for substance abuse, depression/suicide, sexually transmitted diseases
young adults 18 - 40 years high risk for substance abuse, midlife crisis, increased stress middle adults 40-64 years high risk for hearing and eyesight decline, bone and joint pain older adults 65+ years high risk for decreased skin integrity, aspiration, sleep pattern disturbances, risks for falls, sensory and perception alterations
- over 55% of acute care is age 65+ and in last 2 years of life HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- ensure privacy and security of healthcare info
- protects any unique identifying number, characteristic, or code PHI
injury something that happens to you
- tell the charge nurse
- seek treatment
- page COPE COPE Program Manager number (888) 248 - 2914 injury prevention
- nose between toes
- keep load close to your body
- feet pointed to direction you are going scope of practice the duties or services that a particular health care practitioner is authorized to preform allied health mid-level health care professionals who support, complement, or supplement the work done by physicians and nurses ex: Physician Assistant, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Registered Dietitian, CNA, Athletic Trainer, Exercise scientist accredation
a process of review and validation in which an organization is evaluated 3 big health care accrediting agencies TJC (largest in US, on site every 3 years), DNV (Swedish, on site annually), HFAP survey relevance in accredation ** always come back to the surveyor if you don't know the answer!! DNR Do Not Resuscitate Advanced directive the patient has signed a health care directive for staff to provide info about their wishes in the event of a life threatening health care scenario POLST Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Central Premise of Standard Precuations ALL BODILY FLUIDS ARE POTENTIALLY INFECTUOUS PPE Protective Personal Equipment handling blood
code gray for combative or disruptive patient confronting medical staff
- to respond, go to location code Mr. North like code gray but for anyone who is NOT a patient
- go to location code red fire
- close all doors to area code blue adult medical emergency (14+ years)
- follow instructions from nurse or med. center employee code blue neonatal/pediatric CPR needed (neonatal: under 3 mo., pediatic: 3mo - 13 years) code orange hazardous materials spill
- do not attempt to clean up manually
- try to block of area code amber alert
infant abduction
- guard entrance/exits
- look for suspicious things code purple missing adult patient
- look for suspicious situations code yellow bomb threat
- look for suspicious situations code silver person with a weapon or hostage situation
- do NOT go to location triage disaster internal/external RRT Rapid Response Team code jack patient or visitors who have fallen to the floor
- special team to respond code BART Brain Attack Response Team - Patient with a new stroke
Speech - is speech slurred? Time - note time symptoms started patient care team various healthcare professionals and hospital personnel that participate in patient care ** patients are the final decision makers of the patient care team what led to the expansion of allied health carriers? WW Trendelenburg Position patient's head is low and legs are elevated in-patient vs. out-patient In-patient: patient admitted for the night Out-patient: patient checks in and leaves the same day as procedure immune system is what line of defense? third line of defense how many nerve pairs in body? 31 Ecchymosis fancy way of saying bruise
