SUNSHINE RECOMMENDATIONS

WHY???
Lets improve ourselves!! Not just for NABH accreditation

What am I doing here???

I am here just to enlighten you over SUNSHINE policies regarding documentation of the in patient details 1) Integrated in-patient initial assessment form 2) Drug Order sheet 3) Surgical patient Record 4) Intra Hospital Referral form 5) Admission Note

INTEGRATED IN-PATIENT INITIAL ASSESSMENT

Please make sure that this is filled as soon as the patient is admitted in the hospital

PART-A
Has to be duly filled by the Nurse in charge and make sure that it is filled by the time the treating surgeon comes!

PART-B
To be duly filled by the attending doctor! Simple MBBS Stuff

Discharge Planning
Need to be completed at admission

PLAN OF CARE
PLAN OF CARE MEDICAL/CONSERVATIVE Tick boxes make the job easy, its going to take only a few SURGICALof your time minutes

Sign and date your work

A good artist always signs off Consultants need to countersign every admission within 24 hours

Our Time frames

Field of activity OP Time frame 2 HOURS
Responsible Person

Registrars

CASUALTY

30 min, as per triage level

CMO-Nurses-Registrars

IP

WITHIN 1 HOUR

Nurses initial assessment

IP

WITHIN 24 HOURS

Registrar Dietician-DMOConsultants

DRUG ORDER SHEET

Please please. Write your prescriptions in capitals (I mean CAPITALS)

Do check for allergies You can specify the times

Dont just sign Date it please No trade names please

DRUG ORDER SHEET

Instruction by telephone from a prescriber to a nurse to administer a medicine previously not prescribed is unacceptable in normal circumstances.
Sunshine hospital medication prescription and administration policy

VERBAL orders
A verbal order shall be issued only by anybody who is a Consultant or above that and none other than that.. Before closing the conversation (telephone or person) the nurse or duty medical officer shall read back the order to the doctor and confirm if the written down order is correct, in case of drugs she shall even spell the drug to recheck with the consultant and then close it. Doctor who issued the verbal order within 24 hrs should counter sign that verbal order

WHAT TO MENTION SEPARATELY

1) Parenteral infusions other than the medications (like IV fluids, TPN) 2) Stat medications 3) SOS medications

No trade names please

Dont just sign Date it please

No abbreviations, all caps please

SURGICAL PATIENT RECORD

An exhaustive booklet of 16 pages (BUT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!) Make sure that the first 4.5 pages are duly filled before the patient reaches OT!

TIME OUT
All work should cease during a period of time when all members of the operative / procedural team,using active communication, confirms correct patient, correct procedure, correct site and side, sterility of the equipment availability of all items needed for anaesthesia and surgery antibiotic prophylaxis any patient allergies.

Donot start operating before this checklist is done MAKE TIMEOUT A HABIT

CONSENT
Please make sure it is taken by the treating doctor/ team member but not the nurse incharge!!!

Another important part of the consent process

Doctors need to Countersign

SURGEONS NOTES

Admission Note
We need to explain to the pt Disease Inv needed Treatment process Cost ( estimated) Probable outcomes This form takes care of all this Please fill this at admission

Please fill in the orders Inv requested Plan of care Spl instructions Preop orders This form is for the pt to go from OPD / Casualty to the ward

Admission Note
This part need to be filled in by Front Office / Patient counselor

Intra Hospital Referral form

Once completed this will go into the case sheet The visiting consultant will have a better idea why he is there in the first place

OTHER THINGS WE NEED - Contd

Discharge summary to be given to all patients including LAMA, MLC etc Discharge summary to contain reason for admission, findings, diagnosis, patients condition at discharge, investigation results, procedure, treatment given, follow up advice, how to obtain urgent care

OTHER THINGS WE NEED

Credentialing and Privileging

CODES
Emergency Codes
CODE BLUE RED BLACK PURPLE PINK MEANING MEDICAL EMERGENCY FIRE BOMB THREAT SECURITY THREAT CHILD ABDUCTION

Grey

External Disaster/ Mass Emergency

HIC
HIC MANUAL Available on every desktop Antibiotic policy Hand Hygiene Surveillance Tool kit Needle stick injury

VULNERABLE PATIENTS
Admission and Discharge criteria for ICU Who all are Vulnerable patients and care of such of patients
Geriatric patients (>65 years of age) Pediatric patients (<16 years of age) Mentally challenged patients Physically challenged patients Comatose patients

IS IT THAT DIFFICULT ???

10 COMMANDMENTS
Write Medications Order in Capital Letters. Document your visit with Notes Duly Signed with the Date, Time, Signature and Name. Avoid Verbal Orders. Use of Alcohol Hand Rub Before And After Each Patient Examination. Make a Habit of patient and Family education as Part of Care.

10 COMMANDMENTS
Ensure Informed Consent for all Procedures. Assess and Reassess Patient as per Hospital Policy. Prepare/ Counter Sign Discharge Summaries and Talk to Patient Regarding Discharge Instructions Follow-up and Care at Home. Prescribe as per Hospital Formulary and Follow the Antibiotic Policy.

Have Formal Meetings/ Briefings with the other Specialists when more than One Doctor is treating the Patient.

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