Level 4: Urgent Care
The patient is in a highly unstable and unpredictable condition either
related to their primary problem or an exacerbation of other related factors.
Clinical Descriptors
- Requiring a similar level of nursing care as a patient within a typical high dependency environment, for example, a bed dedicated to high risk patients
- Patients requiring two-to-one care for 24 hours or one-to-one care for the majority of the day
- Requires highly skilled, proactive intervention to prevent the patient deteriorating or requires urgent intervention due to a rapidly changing condition or ongoing instability
- Deteriorating or compromised single organ system
- Maintain and stabilise prior to urgent transfer
- Pre-operative invasive monitoring and extended post operative optimisation
- Severe infection or sepsis