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CCNA: Critical Care Nursing Internal Audit Checklist

by Mustafa Qaraqei, from the Community

This internal audit checklist supports critical care nursing administration across intensive and neonatal care units. It helps teams verify patient identification, communication, and management of high‑alert medications, along with pre‑ and post‑surgical safety checks. The template reinforces infection prevention, PPE use, hand hygiene, equipment and tubing labelling, waste segregation, and negative‑pressure monitoring. It also covers falls prevention, environmental and storage controls, crash cart readiness, MSDS compliance, medication room controls including LASA and narcotics, and clean and dirty utility standards. Use it to standardize audits, document findings, and drive continuous quality improvement in critical care settings.

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