Your presentation is very well organized and has a very smooth presentation so very ease to listen, however the power point was little crowded so it was not ease to read so make more space or use fewer words to fit in the power point, using a picture is also very effective. Sedation is hot topic with pain medication management in my hospital too. I have not worked in ICU for the last 25 years so, I learn about current trend in ICU sedation from you. Does your current hospital have any sedation assessment flow sheet or not. If your ICU has a sedation assessment but there are still problems reassess the sedation flow assessment.
Thank you for your feedback. We do have the RASS sedation assessment flowsheet but some nurses don’t assess the patient correctly when it comes to grading their sedation level. Looking at our flowsheet it could be set up better to make it easier to understand.
Is under-staffing an issue? You mentioned that there is a high turn over employee rate in the ICU. It is tempting to over sedate patients if it is necessary to care for more than 2 patients.
We are in need of staff, but our unit does a good job at sticking with a nurse to patient ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 depending on acuity. We take 3 patients rarely.
Your presentation is very well organized and has a very smooth presentation so very ease to listen, however the power point was little crowded so it was not ease to read so make more space or use fewer words to fit in the power point, using a picture is also very effective. Sedation is hot topic with pain medication management in my hospital too. I have not worked in ICU for the last 25 years so, I learn about current trend in ICU sedation from you. Does your current hospital have any sedation assessment flow sheet or not. If your ICU has a sedation assessment but there are still problems reassess the sedation flow assessment.
Thank you for your feedback. We do have the RASS sedation assessment flowsheet but some nurses don’t assess the patient correctly when it comes to grading their sedation level. Looking at our flowsheet it could be set up better to make it easier to understand.
Is under-staffing an issue? You mentioned that there is a high turn over employee rate in the ICU. It is tempting to over sedate patients if it is necessary to care for more than 2 patients.
We are in need of staff, but our unit does a good job at sticking with a nurse to patient ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 depending on acuity. We take 3 patients rarely.