CNA Baseline Postoperative/Post Procedure Care

 CNA Baseline Postoperative/Post Procedure Care

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Description

Assists the professional nursing staff in caring for the post-op patient
Behavioral Criteria

    Assist the patient out of bed to chair
    Encourages coughing and deep breathing exercises
    Encourages use of incentive spirometer
    Assists patient to ambulate
    Reports complaints of pain to nursing staff
    Reports patient's tolerance for increase in activity to nursing staff
    Reports significant decrease in urine output to nursing staff
    Applies sequential compression stocking as ordered
    Takes vital signs and documents in Electronic Health Record
    Reports changes in condition to nursing staff

Evidence of Achievement

Direct observation of competency in all areas through patient care or simulation / case study; documentation in electronic health record accurate and complete
References

    Toolbox (Policy/Procedure)
        Prevention of Respiratory Complications with ICOUGH
    Carter,P. (2007). Lippincott's essentials for nursing assistants: a humanistic approach to caregiving. Philadephia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    Hegner, B., Acello, B., Caldwell, E. (2008). Nursing assistant: a nursing process approach. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning
    DiGiulio, M., Jackson, D., & Keogh, J. (2007). Medical-surgical Nursing Demystified. McGraw-Hill Professional