Steps in the development and implementation of the respiratory care plan.
Where do our orders come from? How do our patients get evaluated? What therapy is the right choice? These questions can be answered by following a Respiratory Care Plan.
Steps in the development and implementation of the respiratory care plan.
Where do our orders come from? How do our patients get evaluated? What therapy is the right choice? These questions can be answered by following a Respiratory Care Plan.
Your skills are vital as a respiratory care practitioner, respiratory protocols usually begin with the doctor ordering the patient to be evaluated for respiratory care.
The collaboration with physicians and nurses to ensure the patients well-being is of the utmost importance.
The key goal of an appropriate care plan is to treat the patient's condition in the best way possible. Important steps are to: 1. Identify the problem 2. Determine cause of problem 3. Develop strategy for dealing with problem 4. Implement that strategy 5. Restore the patient's condition to as close to normal as possible. When it is not possible to restore to normal conditions, acceptable conditions must be listed as the target for care.
Care Plans may serve as a guide for individual therapies, such as aerosol therapy, broncho-pulmonary hygiene, oxygen therapy, hyperinflation techniques, suctioning, and pulse oximetry.
Once all data is compiled and a treatment plan is reached the respiratory care practitioner then calls the patient's physician to deliver the recommendations and receive a confirmation of the respiratory order.
Record any therapy given and the results of the therapy. Most common types of measurements that will be documented are the patients: breath sounds, breathing pattern, vital signs, sputum production, arterial blood gases, and chest X-ray.
