Isolation-Task

Only mark a task as performed if it was done during a patients stay on your ward. If a task was done prior to patient coming to your ward or after patient is transferred to another ward, it should be marked as no or none during the stay on your ward.

Isolation-Task

• possible entries: (None, Total) ("glove and gown" to be added)
  • Total isolation are those patient that are complete that require gloves, gown, mask; hence there should only be a few patients with this task marked

Note

The following comment can be deleted when we implement the additional "glove and gown" option: Data Collectors identified that collecting only glove, gown and mask will miss many nursing workload tasks related to isolation. This concern was based on a misunderstanding that the only reason we collect tasks is to identify nursing work load. However, this element is collected not only for nursing work load but also as a quality indicator to facilitate future work on infection control. Your comments pointed out that it would be useful to have an additional category "glove and gown", and we will add this category and update this article accordingly at the time. We decided not to code mask only isolation because it is both very common, doesn't relevantly correlate with anything, and takes very little time.

Discussion

• Any comments on the new developments under "Note"? Ttenbergen 16:04, 29 May 2009 (CDT)