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Let's visit some special considerations when
we're talking about obtaining a blood glucose.
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So there's something we call control tests.
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Now these need to be completed at least
every 24 hours for your meter to work properly.
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Also, anytime that you open up a test strip bottle,
we need to make sure we place our initial
when we open it and the date of expiration
because these test strips can expire.
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Also, if we end up opening up any
control vials as well to run our tests,
we need to date those as well.
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Just know that test strips usually expire
between about 6 months from opening
and those control vials will
expire about 3 months from opening.
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We of course, want to make sure
we are not using expired equipment
because this can skew our results.
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Now, if you're talking about
using a blood glucose meter,
especially when we're talking
about the acute care facilities,
you're typically going to have to
use this meter on multiple patients.
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So it's important that we
can clean this between use.
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Now some patients that require a blood
glucose may be in isolation precautions.
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So follow your facilities'
policy on how you are to do that
to make sure we don't spread infection.
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So this could be that we place
the meter in a bag for example,
while we take it in that patient's
room, and disinfect properly.
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Now supplies can be stored in a
common area and used for all clients,
kind of like we talked about for the meter.
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However, once you enter into a patient's
room, please only bring the supplies
necessary for that particular client.
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Because once we bring strips
or extra lancets in the room,
it can only be used for that client and
we don't want to waste extra supplies.
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Thanks for watching today.