This QuickHit was informed by a Connected Care Live consult from a home and community care provider inquiring how to use a nasal atomizer to deliver intranasal medication.
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This QuickHit was informed by a Connected Care Live consult from a community/home care provider that asked about a change in an infant's neurological status.
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This QuickHit was informed by a Connected Care Live consult from a Community/Home Care Provider seeking assistance with the assessment of a child, who was later diagnosed with sepsis.
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HINT: How to accurately measure a child’s height and weight at home?
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This QuickHiT comes from questions from community/home care providers regarding the routine maintenance of indwelling urinary catheters.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from Connected Care Live consults from home and community nurses inquiring about how to sign up for Connected Care workshops and online webinars.
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This week’s QuickHit! comes from a consult initiated by a home care nurse who asked for help in assessing pain in a child with neurocognitive impairment and who is nonverbal.
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Use the appropriate size insulin syringe and double check the dose when administering subcutaneous Low-Molecular Weight Heparins (LMWH).
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When engaging in patient-specific consults, Connected Care Resource Nurses (CCRNs) will use the PAT to confirm that the encounter is not an emergency. This is achieved by partnering with the home care nurses in completing a PAT.
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This QuickHiT comes from Connected Care Resource Nurses who identify it as a potential risk when they receive consults from home care nurses seeking up-to-date orders for a child with medical complexity/technology dependence.
Connected Care Live is a service delivered by SickKids nurses who have expert knowledge and access to high-quality resources, but as Registered Nurses, they cannot give an order to be carried out as part of the child’s medical plan of care.
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