Level 5: One-to-One Care
The patient requires at least one to one continuous nursing supervision and observation for 24 hours a day.
Clinical Descriptors
- Requires a similar level of nursing care as a patient within a typical intensive care environment
- Highly unpredictable condition
- Rapid or irreversible deterioration from an unknown cause
- Requires emergency intervention and highly intensive levels of nursing care on at least a one-to-one basis for 24 hours a day
- Imminent risk of harm, requiring constant monitoring, for example: awaiting
transfer to intensive care unit