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Here is some sample content from Significant Changes to Report to the Physician:

	PURPOSE: To ensure that appropriate treatment is started as soon as possible whenever a significant change in the client's status occurs. POLICY: Significant changes in the client's condition will be immediately reported to the client's physician by all RNs, case managers and LPNs/LVNs. PROCEDURE: The physician's office will be called as soon as the nurse identifies a significant change in the client's condition non-emergent. The nurse will speak directly to the physician, when possible: The nurse will speak with the physician's office nurse or whomever the physician designates, if he/she...
Second excerpt:
	...to the nurse originally placing the call to the physician. Examples of significant changes that should be reported to a physician include, but are not limited to: Deviations in client's normal baseline pulse rate, rhythm and regularity Deviations in client's normal blood pressure Deviations in client's normal respiratory rate Temperature higher than 101 degrees F Deviations in a client's normal blood sugar or blood sugar that is above or below physician's parameters Weight loss of...