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Is the Early Warning Score (EWS) Needed?
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Mind Map on Is the Early Warning Score (EWS) Needed?, created by smartie1973 on 23/10/2013.
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Is the Early Warning Score (EWS) Needed?
Communication and Documentation
Are the charts clear?
Competency
Training
Confidence in talking to the doctor
Reassure the patient
Manual or electronic? (3)
Competence
Human error (8)
Response to score
Healthcare assistant reporting to the nurse
Leave the patient alone?
Nurse reports to the doctor?
Doctor reviews the patient?
How often?
Dependent of the score
Blood pressure
Choosing the right size cuff
Respiratory rate
Patients awareness
Depth and Rhythm
Tachypnoea/Bradypnoea/Apnoea
Using accessory muscles
Reposition
Pain
Analgesia
Reassess
Secret check
Assessment
Temperature
Pulse
Manual or electronic
Amplitude (Volume)
Weak and thready
ypovolaemia, cardiogenic shock
Intravenous fluids
Bounding puise
Sepsis, carbon dioxide retention
Administer oxygen
Intravenous fluids
blood cultures
monitor output (12)
Irregular
Cardiac arrhythmia
Affecting factors
Age/Gender/Exercise/Fever/Medications/Hypovolaemia/Stress/Position/Pathology (1)
Palliative patients
Should the be scored?
Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsiveness (AVPU) (11)
Output
Oxygen saturation
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD)
Carbon Monoxide poisoning (4)
training
Equipment
Knowledge
Are we being de-skilled?
Compliance
Ethical issues
Educate the patient
Patients understanding
Patient declines...What next?
Consent
Mental Capacity Act (MCA) (2005) REFERENCE
Accountability
Contraindications
Pregnancy, under 16's
Physiological response differs
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
Disturbed physiology
Oxygen saturations 88-92%
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) (11)
Guidelines
National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (7)
Evidence Based Practice
Cost Effectiveness
Trust policy
Royal College of Physicians (3)
Score 1-4 monitor 4-6 hourly
Score 5-6 monitor hourly
Score 7+ monitor constantly
Patient centered care
Health promotion
Causes of hypertension (13)
Salt/exercise/smoking/alcohol/weight/stress (2, 13)
Saving lives (9)
Clinical judgment
How often?
Patient safety
Knowledge base
Red flags
Hypertension
Whitecoat syndrome (3)
Pyrexia
Oxygen saturation
Positioning
Altered respiratory
Patients awareness
Tacycardia/Bradycardia
Reassurance
Alert, Verbal. Pain. Unresponsive
Glasgow Coma Scale
Pain (10)
Is the early warning score a substitute for clinical judgement (6)
Student Number: 10021107
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