Walking Patients
When you are walking a patient that is short of breath, in severe pain, having pain to hip down to toes, and you walk them, I think it would be best if you put how far you walked them.
While it may be a documentation request, I see this alot and I think its going to be more of a patient care investigation. If you have a patient with severe dyspnea, and you write walked to cot, I will probably be following that up and find out why you walked someone in distress.
I am a realist and know most people walk. But that doesn't mean that a person with leg pain or hip pain should. I think there is a difference between walking a patient 3 step and through 2 rooms, downs a set of stairs, and to the waiting cot.
I cringe every time I see this wondering how far did they actually walk the patient with chest pain rather than take a few minutes to get a stair chair. Thereby increasing the myocardial oxygen demand on the heart.