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Emergency Cart Checking 7660 |
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DEFINITION: Systematic review of the contents of an emergency cart at established time intervals |
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Compare equipment on cart with list of designated equipment |
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Locate all designated equipment and supplies on cart |
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Ensure that equipment is operational |
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Clean equipment, as needed |
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Verify current expiration date on all supplies and medications |
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Replace missing or outdated supplies and equipment |
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Document cart check, per agency policy |
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Replace equipment, supplies, and medications as technology and guidelines are updated |
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Instruct new nursing staff on proper emergency cart checking procedures |
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Copeland, W.M. (1990). Be prepared. Hospitals should develop methods to ensure emergency equipment is workable and available. Health Progress, 71(6), 80-81. |
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Shanaberger, C.J. (1988). Equipment failure is often human failure. Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 13(1), 124-125. |
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Figure 7.4
Emergency cart checking, NIC. An example of indirect care.
Source: NIC. second edition. |
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several of the indirect-care interventions are indeed considered in a different category by nurses responding to the surveys (see figure 7.4). |
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Administrative tasks as care are even more controversial. In interviews, one of the NIC collaborators whose main tasks are administrative expected that NIC would eventually also contain those kinds of interventions. "Nursing is very different in that when you make changes it involves many people, so the need for managers and supervision and coordination of planned change is so much more a part of nursing, there are so many more people that are a part of changing nursing. I think anything that reflects nursing, needs to reflect those kind of things." A majority of the design team and consulting group, however, was not sure whether administrative care was typical for nurses and thus whether it belonged in a nursing classification. "The administrators are not actually nursing. When they are not there, the nursing continues without them." Or in the words of Gloria Bulechek, "management science is a different discipline, all managers have to manage people and it is not unique to nursing." For the latter group, |
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