BIPAP/CPAP Task
Task items replaced iTISS as a sampler of specific "nursing workload" items that the medicine program continues to track as QA indicators.
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 none during the stay on your ward.
- These items are included in: S_AllDiagnoses table which is in CCMDB.mdb.
Possible entries for BiPAP/CPAP:
Patient managed?
If a patient managing their own BiPAP then this should not be marked. However, if it was started during this admission, mark it.
- Hi Trish I need clarification from you I was told that you only mark BiPap/CPap if it was a new start in that admission. And if they came in with their own machine you did not mark it as yes regardless if the nurse assisted with it.So now I am told differently and I am quite upset if I have been told wrong. So what does "started " mean in the above sentence?
- thanks for putting the question out here. The workload we track is for a new starts as instructed above. Patient manages own but nurse helping, not tracking. That is how medicine drew the line for this item.
Optiflow
Optiflow is not CPAP or BIPAP so don't mark this task for patients with Optiflow.