Re: Any advice on SOP Short and Long Stay Hospitalisation Thanks

Kelly Bainbridge RVN — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:46:24 GMT

Thanks Lauren thats been a great help, think my brain is firing up a bit better now :)

Re: Any advice on SOP Short and Long Stay Hospitalisation Thanks

Lauren Innes Bsc(hons) , RVN — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:02 GMT

Have you thought about laying it out as though writing a nursing care plan? So thinking about you patient within a framework, personally I prefer the Ability Model. with the following framework:

is the patient able to eat/drink adequately?

is the patient able to toilet adequately?

Is the patient able to breath normally?

Is the patient able to maintain body temp ?

is the patient able to groom/clean itself?

level of mobility?

ability to sleep/rest?

ability to express normal behaviour?

With your short term patients (define short term routine ops?) this would be an easier assessment (hopefully) as they are generally in better health, and for your longer term patients I would imagine they would have more varied needs.

So an initial assessment on admission with follow up assessments as necessary. The findings or possible outcomes of these assessments would help you create your SOPs. I would include levels and requency of contact with Owners - update calls, visits etc and whose responsibility these calls and visits would be.

In an old practice of mine SOP for longer term patients was that the patients was assessed at least twice daily by the vet, for plans to be formulated for the Tx for that day and overnight. Progress reports to Owners in the am were the care of the case vet and for updates in the afternoon were the care of the ward nurse after discussion with the case vet. Visits were encouraged, at quieter times. An a plan was writen down and updated often.

Um, I hope this helps