BIPAP/CPAP Task

BIPAP/CPAP 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.

• possible entries: (None, Yes)

• TASK items replaced iTISS as a sampler of specific "nursing workload" items that the medicine program wanted to continue to track. If a patient managing there own task item then this should not be marked as a nursing workload item.

• BiPAP or CPAP – this TASK should be marked as NO, for a patient who runs there own machine and has been doing this at home prior to hospital admission. There is no nursing workload associated was a patient managing their own task.

• BIPAP or CPAP = YES if this was newly started during hospital admission.

TOstryzniuk 20:25, 21 October 2008 (CDT)

• • Trish, prior to this latest edition of the Task we here at the Vic had always understood this to be a "yes" or "no" question. With this new information it will impact on the method of data collection. Do you wish us to change the method of our collection now or as Dr. Roberts stated in the June/08 meeting go back to how you were collecting?TAngell 10:50, 17 November 2008 (CST)
    • Can you further explain your concern? I am not sure what you are getting at in regards to this one?TOstryzniuk 00:46, 19 November 2008 (CST)
      • We had been collecting all patients who were on CPAP/BiPAP on the medicine wards. Not just the new CPAP/BiPAP patients. With this new information in the wiki, I understand that we are now only to collect the patients who have been newly ordered to have CPAP/BiPAP on this admission to the hospital. Will this schew any of the data we have previously collected and impact negatively any future data we collect in the Task?TAngell 09:12, 19 November 2008 (CST)