Downloadable Policies and Procedures
The Center for Professional Excellence / Education's staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides downloadable versions of various policies and procedures to help nurses and other health care professionals.
You can download the following policies and procedures in portable document format (.pdf):
- Acetaminophin Policy (12k)
- Achieving Optimal Comfort Case Studies (25k)
- Admitting Information into the Pathway (74k)
- Air Emboli Article (5520k)
- Alarm Systems for Patient-Related Electronic Devices, Policy I-117 (50k)
- Assessing Implanted Ports (37k)
- Assessing Pathways (71k)
- Central Venous Catheters (CVCs), Policy II-111 (47k)
- Central Venous Catheter Care (CVC) Policy III-303 (66k)
- Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Dressing Change (25k)
- Central Venous Catheter Care (CVC) Procedure (35k)
- Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Emergency Care (39k)
- Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Hub Entry with Blood Draw (36k)
- Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Hub Entry without Blood Draw (35k)
- Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Program Information (62k)
- Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Site Care Procedure: De-accessing an Accessed Port (25k)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale (19k)
- Comfort Measures (23k)
- Comfort Pain Scale (31k)
- Criteria-Based Competency Process (15k)
- Discarding Volumes by Type of CVC (1308K)
- Documentation of PICC (133k)
- Emergency Care of Central Venous Catheter (CVC) by licensed and non-nursing personnel, Policy IP-B3 (39k)
- Emergency Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Care by Non-RN Personnel (17k)
- Emergent Care of Central Venous Catheter (CVC) by RNs (24k)
- Emergent Care of Implanted Port by RN Personnel (21k)
- Epidural Analgesia Techniques, Policy II-114 (46k)
- EVD Documentation (68k)
- Guidelines for Charting by Exception, Policy IV-105 (61k)
- Hemodialysis and Apheresis Catheter Care Policy (38k)
- Heparinization or Blood Draw from a Capped CVC (36k)
- High Alert Medications, Policy II-118 (78k)
- Hourly Checks for Patients with Invasive Lines (75k)
- Interviewing Caregivers Checklist (21k)
- Intravenous Push Drug Administration Policy, Policy V-131 (14k)
- Manifold Entry Change (32k)
- Monitoring and Alarm Notification Nurse Call System and Stat View, Policy II-121 (87k)
- Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS), Ages Birth to One Year (22k)
- NSAID-COX-2 Inhibitors Information (12k)
- Nurse Call System Competency Checklist (29k)
- Opiates / Narcotics Information (11k)
- Oucher Pain Scale, Ages 3 to 12 (12k)
- Pain Management Policy, Policy I-226 (46k)
- Pain Management Policy, Policy V-301 (35k)
- Parent, Nurse and Patient Controlled Analgesia, Policy II-115 (24k)
- PICC Dressing Change Procedure (37k)
- PICC Removal Procedure (34k)
- Procedural Sedation / Anesthesia Guidelines, Policy V-114 (48k)
- Urinary Catheterization / Bladder Irrigation (36k), Policy III-701
- Vascular Access Management Article (2047k)
- Vesicant Chemotherapy Extravasation, Policy II-113 (44k)
- Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Ages 8 Years to Adult (11k)
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