CHECKLIST FOR INTRA- HOSPITAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENT
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Criteria
Position the patient
Check the files of patient
Check the peripheral line is patent and secure
Check Peripheral Line, date & Time and labeled
Check I.V Tubings are secured
Check I.V Tubings Date & Time and labelled
Checking the wound drain secured.
Checking the wound drain for date & time.
Urinary catheter is secured and urine bag
placed below the patient not over the patient
Urinary Catheter Date & Time labeled
Check if the syringes placed near the bed side
for use is labeled properly
Check Oxygen Cylinder & Flow meter function
and empty cylinders are filled before transport.
Check mobile Suction apparatus is functioning
Checking documentation for the sick patient
And any new orders to be implemented
Checking the back of the sick patient for any
bedsore and document
Checking the medicine label and drops of the
infusions going on
Ensure Nominal Register is documented if
patient transferred out of unit.
Ensure that the patients are receiving the diets
at the right time.
Check if all Medications are administered and
documented
Check if any abnormal ABGs are informed to
physician and corrected.
Ensure that the patients on naso-gastric tube
feedings receive the feeds at the correct time.
Naso-gastric tube is in position and secure
Ensure that for Discharge patients discharge
advice is written in the nurses Chart.
Ensure that ID band is there for all Patients.
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