Policies and Procedures Manual

Table of Contents

Introduction   i

Abuse

Admissions

Advance Directives

Airborne Precautions

Ambulation

Blood Glucose Monitoring

Bowel Movement Protocol

Care Conferences

Contact Precautions

Dental Care

Dining Room – Meals

Director of Nursing – Job Description

      Discharges

Droplet Precautions

Elopement

Falls, Post-Fall Protocol

Falls – Prevention and Risk Reduction

Falls – Risk Assessment and Identification

Falls – Quality Assurance

Feeding Tubes

Glasses

Hearing Aids

Hydration

Incident Reports

Incontinence Care

Infection Control Nurse – Job Description

Influenza Immunization

Informed Consent

Intravenous Therapy

Laboratory Services

MDS Coordinator – Job Description

Medication Administration

Medication Errors

Medication Storage

Medications – Adverse Consequences

Medications - Antipsychotics

Medications - Anxiolytics

Medications - Narcotics

Medications - Pharmacy

Medications – Pharmacy Consultant

Medications, Self-administration

Needles and Sharps

Nursing Documentation

Oxygen

Pain Care

Pneumonia Vaccine

Pressure Ulcers

Quality Assurance Director – Job Description

Range of Motion 

Restraints Program

Restraints – Consent

Restraints – Criteria

Restraints – Definitions

Restraints – Monitoring

Skin Assessment

Smoking

Staff Development Director – Job Description

Standard Precautions

Suctioning

Toileting Programs

Tracheostomy Care

Transfers and Lifts

Tuberculosis Testing

Urinary Catheter Care

Urinary Catheter Insertion

Urinary Catheter Monitoring and Documentation

Violence

Weight Loss

References   v

CD is in the back of the manual