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Manual: Home Infusion Therapy Policy and Procedure Manual (Ver 4) Department: INFUSION THERAPY SERVICES External Reference: (JC PC.5.10)
This customizable document, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Home Infusion Therapy Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools. MCN’s templates save you time, money and resources, rather than developing healthcare policy and procedure manuals from scratch. Here is some sample content from Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR):
| | POLICY:
Any client found without pulse or respiration, who does not have a Do Not Resuscitate Order, will be resuscitated.
PROCEDURE:
The staff member will establish that the client is without pulse and respirations.
The staff member will utilize American Heart Association procedures when doing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation CPR.
The staff member will ask the caregiver to call 911. If no caretaker is present, the staff member will call 911 and start CPR. For pediatric clients, the staff member will give two 2 minutes of CPR five 5] cycles: one 1] cycle is 30 compressions and two 2]... |
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| | ...is present.
When talking to a 911 operator, the staff member will state that CPR has been started, give the address of the client and then resume CPR until paramedics arrival on scene.
The staff member will give the paramedics the client's medical history.
The nurse will notify the physician, agency and family members after the appropriate support staff has arrived.
REFERENCE:
2005 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular... |
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