Level 5: One-to-One Care
The patient requires at least one to one continuous nursing supervision and observation for 24 hours a day.
Nursing Theme 2 - Respiration
- Respiratory or CNS depression, or compromise, requiring mechanical or invasive ventilation
- Emergency, or temporary, tracheostomy requiring constant monitoring and one-to-one care
- Complicated airway requiring constant monitoring and frequent intervention
- Monitoring and interventions in immediate post cardiac or respiratory arrest
- Patients needing advanced respiratory and therapeutic support of multiple
organs