Hospital Glucometers assigned to Isolation Patients
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My hospital has started scoping a project to assign a Hospital owned Glucometer (we use Nova Statstrip) to inpatients that are in isolation.
Our POC office is thinking this will be a disaster trying to keep track of those glucometers. Our patient equipment team said they would not be able to "check out" or "check in" glucometers to keep track of these for us. So it truly would be the POC team trying to keep track of these isolation glucometers daily. We are a large 550 bed hospital. Our current set up with glucometers is each inpatient unit has a certain # of glucometers at their nursing stations based on the # of rooms, level of care, and unit layout.
My hospital has started scoping a project to assign a Hospital owned Glucometer (we use Nova Statstrip) to inpatients that are in isolation.
Our POC office is thinking this will be a disaster trying to keep track of those glucometers. Our patient equipment team said they would not be able to "check out" or "check in" glucometers to keep track of these for us. So it truly would be the POC team trying to keep track of these isolation glucometers daily. We are a large 550 bed hospital. Our current set up with glucometers is each inpatient unit has a certain # of glucometers at their nursing stations based on the # of rooms, level of care, and unit layout.
We already have glucometers on inpatient units getting lost on a weekly basis.
When our POC team brainstorms we can only come up with a long list of issues this would cause the POC team, and can't think of a way we could successfully make this work without causing us daily issues. We also don't have a POC member on site 24/7 to check out a meter to new isolation patients.
Does anyone's organization assign hospital glucose meters to certain patients during their admission? I would love to hear if your organization does or does not assign glucometers to inpatients. And if your organization does, how do you make it work?
Thank you!
Does anyone's organization assign hospital glucose meters to certain patients during their admission? I would love to hear if your organization does or does not assign glucometers to inpatients. And if your organization does, how do you make it work?
Thank you!
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Personally I don't understand the issue, if your facility is willing to purchase enough meters to be able to assign individual glucometers to a specific patients than what is the issue? I would not expect it to be the equipment team or POC team's responsibility to track these meters with the patient, it would be the floor/nursing's role. Nursing would place a specific glucometer in the patient's room and inform the users that that meter is for that patient.
"We already have glucometers on inpatient units getting lost on a weekly basis."
Unless I'm missing something, sounds like the POC dept is attempting to take on responsibility that belong to the floor/user's.
Escalated to cost with meter replacement and I believe this action due to connection with $$$$ has been given some attention by higher level management. We shall see.