I'm working on a project at my hospital. Our hospital is trying to increase the use of "purposeful rounding", checking in on patients for specific needs such as pain, toileting, repositioning, etc. They have asked our dialysis unit to see how to best incorporate this in our practice. As we round every 30 minutes for machine checks and vitals, we haven't resisted this change.
A situation arose the other day, however, that made us rethink the practice of letting our patients sleep during the entire run if they so chose. I want to know how other Acute Care Units handle this issue. Do you let them sleep the entire run? Do you arose them once an hour to ensure they haven't had a change of LOC? Or do you arose them more frequently?
Thank you, in advance, for your responses.
Heather Dotson, RN, CDN