Type: | Policy Owner: | Procedure | [COE <Service Segment>] CoE? COVID Response Team |
Title: | Document # | Revision Level: | Revision Date: | Approval: | Conduct Individual COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring: 24-Hour Residential | TBD | 1.0 | 2/20/2020 | TBD |
Conduct Individual COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring: 24-Hour ResidentialProcess Time: ## Minutes
Note: This process establishes a minimum standard for Mosaic operations and does not replace local or state requirements that exceed those outlined herein.
When to Use: Minimum of every 24 hours Where to Complete: All Mosaic locations Performed by (Role): Any member of Mosaic Workforce? Materials Required: None |
Work Instructions:
1. | - Check for signs of serious illness; continue to step 2.
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Chest pain or pressure
- Difficulty staying awake
| 2. | - If signs of serious illness are present - Seek medical care immediately and proceed to step 8. - If no signs of serious illness then continue to step 3. | 3. | - Review symptom list below and determine answer (yes or no) for each:
- If answer is "yes" to one or more of the listed symptoms then continue to step 4.
- If answer is "no" to all of the listed symptoms then (document and?) proceed to step 8.
Common Symptom List: (Recommend moving this list to a separate article and linking)
- Fever
- A fever may be measured by thermometer or it may be subjective (person feels or looks feverish)
| - New or worsening cough
- Often dry hacking type of cough
| - New, worse or different than usual headaches
| - Fatigue
- More tired than usual, increased sleepiness
| - Muscle or body aches
- Complaints of body hurting or demonstrates increased difficulty in moving and transferring
| - New Loss of taste or smell
- States food tasted bad (like gasoline, rotten, or not at all)
- May notice decreased appetite compared to usual
| - Sore Throat
- Complains of sore throat or may be seen to have an exaggerated swallow
- May point to throat when asked where the hurt is
- May also see poor appetite, request for warm/cold foods that soothe the throat
| | - Nausea
- Complains of being sick to their stomach, poor appetite or meal refusals
| - Diarrhea
- Loose watery stools, more than 3 times in one day (Rule out stool around a fecal impaction if more than 3 days since normal bowel movement
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| 4. | - Follow State Change of Condition Protocols; continue to step 5.
- (link to state specifics?)
| 5. | - Start Quarantine 10R1; continue to step 6.
- (Link to Quarantine 10R1 process)
| 6. | - Initiate Transmission-Based Precautions; continue to step 7.
- (Link to Transmission-Based Precautions)
| 7. | - Increase Frequency of Vital Signs Monitoring to ??; continue to step 8.
- (Where/how is this change of cadence documented/shared with others? COVID-19 Action Steps states "Care Plan for Protocol - should this link to a sub process?)
| 8. | - Increase Frequency of COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring to ??; then continue to step 9. | 9. | - Check state/agency requirements for GER
- If completing a GER is required by state/agency, then complete GER and continue to step 10.
- If completing a GER is not required by state/ agency then proceed to step 10.
| 10. | - End Process
- (Where/how is symptom monitoring documented for no symptoms? Is documentation required?)
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