ICU Liaison Nurse Role Case-Manage patients post ICU discharge
{"Image DocumentName": "ICU Liaison Nurse Role Case-Manage patients post ICU discharge", "Image ImageDescription": "Accept referrals for unstable patients. Rapid Response System - respond to clinical marker referrals. Initially established to only case manage pts post ICU discharge. Within 3 months of commencing in this role we started receiving referrals from nursing and allied health staff for other patients on the wards who were clinically deteriorating. It wasn\u2019t long after this that referrals from medical staff started to occur and has continued to increase each year of operation. It is not uncommon to be asked by the ICU medical staff or ward medical staff to review clinically unstable patients on the ward, to assess if ICU admission is required. Whilst we receive a large proportion of referrals for unstable patients in the ward there are still others who are admitted to ICU from the ward where we have had no involvement with and have shown significant signs of clinical instability for several hours and in some cases days. It was these patients we were not referred to us that led us to come up with the clinical marker referral system. This system is based on the MET. The MET in some hospitals in Australia, has replaced the traditional resuscitation team and respond to emergency calls for all pts showing signs of pre-determine vital sign abnormality. Our clinical markers that are based on the MET criteria have been modified following a 3 month review of all unplanned admissions unto ICU to identify earlier signs of deterioration than pre arrest criteria.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}