Insider’s scoop | Improving dyspnea
Homecare Insider, May 23, 2016
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Measurement of improvement in dyspnea is based on one OASIS item, M1400, When Is the Patient Dyspneic or Noticeably Short of Breath? A patient identified as 0, no dyspnea at start of care or resumption of care, is excluded from statistical sampling.
Dyspnea is known as the sixth vital sign in nursing. This item identifies the level of exertion or activity that results in the patient becoming dyspneic, or short of breath. If the patient is on oxygen continuously, assessment of the patient should be with the oxygen in place. If the oxygen is used intermittently (no matter what was ordered), the patient should be assessed without the oxygen. Assessment of the patient with intermittent O2 at night for positional dyspnea or orthopnea (breathlessness in the recumbent position) should be assessed without the O2 and should be answered 4, At rest during day or night.
The time frame for this item includes the day of assessment that consists of the 24 hours preceding the visit and the visit itself.
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