Before Your Register... It will be helpful to have the following information at hand before you begin:
Anticipated patient census for the day of the survey — In other words the maximum number of patients who could be in your facility on the day of the survey.
Units — A listing of each of the units in your facility that might be included in the survey. We suggest you include all the units that may possibly be included. Please use the name that you use within your facility (ie: 2 North, 4th Floor, Johnson Hall, etc.)
Unit Type — choose the type that most closely matches your unit in order to benchmark each unit to other similar types of units. If none of the types is applicable, please choose “other”.)
Custom Question (optional) – A question that can be answered with either “Yes” or “No” and is answered per patient.
(Ex: Is the patient diabetic? Does the patient have restraints? Did the patient have an ER stay greater than 4 hours?