HSC MICU Collection Guide
This article contains collection information specific to the IICU at HSC.
Please make sure you document information at the most general level that is applicable, i.e. don't code something that affects all collection at HSC in the program or unit level articles.
See the following for more general information:
Ward contacts
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Collector "base"
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Location of patient chart components
The unit is divided into three sections:
- front 1-10
- back 11-15 and 19-20
- CCU 16,17,18
There are two main desk front and back. The filled in TISS sheets green sheets and test information will be kept in a white binder at each desk. The TISS sheets still in progress will be on a clip board at each desk. Test information is kept for 5 days and then the collector can discard into confidential waste.
There is a Black log book for all MICU patients kept at the front desk. Do not change the numbers as the unit keeps their own data on patients and the numbers collectors use are different.
The green log book for CCU is kept at the back desk.CCU patients are identified by green marker over the serial number on the collector's data collection log and by writing CCU in the index beside the log number.On May 1,2015 we discontinued the shared number system. Numbers are sequential for patients logs.
A white board by the front desk lists the patients. It also lists who is on the transfer list and other valuable info.
Echo dates need to be obtained from the chart and are often done in this unit.
Green Sheets are kept on the rounds table. Collectors should check daily to make sure each patient has one stamped up. The clerks are very good at this but occasionally one gets missed. After your pt file is complete the green sheets can be discarded into confidential waste. We no longer hand these in to the main office.
The ward clerks will order the TISS and green sheets if you ask them.Monitor to see if they are getting low.
Overflows
If a MICU patient overflows into another unit, it is still MICU patient in the location on the laptop. Return to the MICU is not a transfer.