This customizable document, Sedation, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Leadership 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.

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	PURPOSE: To provide guidelines for patient management of all procedures requiring the use of sedation throughout the facility. DEFINITION: Sedation is produced by the administration of pharmacologic agents. The patient under sedation has a depressed level of consciousness, but retains the ability to maintain a patent airway independently and continuously, and respond purposefully to physical stimulation and/or command. The following are definitions for the four 4 levels of sedation and anesthesia: Minimal sedation anxiolysis: A drug-induced state during which patients respond normally to...
Second excerpt:
	...before administration of the sedative. Documentation may consist of a written note in the chart by the LIP. A pre-sedation plan of care will be documented by the LIP in the patient's medical record prior to administration of sedation. The LIP administering moderate and deep sedation must have privileges for clinical administration of this category of drugs, with these individuals at a minimum receiving competency-based education, training and experience in evaluating patients before...