Standardized Procedure for UTI: General Policy

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Standardized procedure for UTI: GENERAL POLICY
1. Purpose
A. The components of BRN’s ( Standardized procedure for Obstetrics(UTI) )
guidelines for Obstetrics(UTI) provide a purpose to build a standardized
procedure to perform certain functions when you are not provided with the
immediate supervision of a physician.
2. Development and review
A. IDC ( interdisciplinary committee) consisting of physicians and administrative
representatives is a medium whose efforts helped in the development of all standardized
procedures.
B. IDC will approve all the standardized procedures, review them every 3 years and
will make sure that the approval sheets of all professionals are covered by the procedures, signed
and dated (Nursinglicensure.org, 2019).
C. An agreement to the standardized procedures will be represented by all the
supervising physicians upon hire and will be evidenced by a signed and dated approval sheet.
3. Scope and setting
A. The NPs may have different specialities. They may operate different functions
according to their training speciality area including management, assessment, x-rays, physical
therapies, diet management, treatment of chronic illness and appraisal of health status, being
aware of the fact that the features provided may not be limited to ordering laboratory procedures
(Chcf.org, 2018).
B. Management of medication regimens and such standardized procedure functions are
performed under the direct or indirect availability of consulting physicians.
4. Education and training/qualifications
● A current California registered nursing license is must for every NP performing
standardized procedure functions
● A graduation certificate of an approved Nurse Practitioner program is needed
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● NPs must be certified by CA BRN
● A current healthcare provider card is needed which must be provided by American Heart
Association
● All the NPs must complete competency validation checklist upto hire which will be
reviewed and updated annually by the IDC
5. Supervision and evaluation
● An individual physician is not allowed to supervise more than 4 NPs at a single time
● In the time period of one week, supervising physicians have to review the cases of a
minimum of 10% of the NPs. Then a documentary has to be prepared regarding the
supervised cases within a time period of 30 days (Gopee, 2015).
● The selection of the cases will be random unless a medical professional requests for the
review of a selected case
● The evaluation of nurses’ competence will be done in three stages in performance of
standardized procedure functions. The first one is INITIAL in which the nurse manager
evaluate from the feedbacks collected from colleagues and physicians after the time span
of 3 months, 6 months and 12 months. The second and third stages are ROUTINE and
FOLLOW-UP in which same procedure of evaluation is followed but the time span is
annually after the first year in case of ROUTINE. In case of FOLLOW-UP, evaluation is
carried out at appropriate intervals until acceptable skills are acquired (Salvatore et al.,
2011).
6. Consultations
Consultation from physicians is obtained during individual procedures or when there is a doubt
in an appropriate.
7. Patient records
NPs have to make a documentary of a complete electronic medical record of each patient. The
record will also contain the information related to the existing clinic and medical staff policies.
Protocol
1. Definition
Obstetrics is the field or branch of medicine and surgery which deals with childbirth and
midwifery. Urinary Tract Infections(UTI), as the name, it is a type of infection which that arises
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