Medication Safety
These must be used before administering any medication to a patient.
What are two patient identifiers?
This is considered the easiest way to prevent the transmission of microorganisms.
What is hand hygiene?
CAMP-V and this other scale are the two tools identified by VCH for screening adult patients for fall risk.
What is the Morse Fall Scale?
Clinically significant events occurring during the shift are summarized in this section of the patient's chart.
What are Patient Key Activities (PKA)?
This service provided by VCH can assist patients, families, staff, medical staff, and leaders with ethically challenging healthcare decisions.
What is Ethics Services?
Scanning the patient's wristband and each medication at the bedside is part of this medication-safety process.
What is Closed Loop Medication Management?
These infection-prevention practices are used for every patient, every time, regardless of diagnosis or infectious status.
What are Routine Practices?
SAFE stands for
S: afe environment
A: ssistance with mobility
F: amily-centred care and this final component (E)
What is appropriate Equipment?
Before giving report, the outgoing nurse checks this record for any medications that are overdue, due or being held.
What is the MAR?
Clinical, Organizational, and Public Health are the three versions of this structured ethical decision-making resource.
What are the Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks (EDMFs)?
Before programming an infusion, this patient-specific number should be entered into the smart pump.
What is the patient's MRN?
This assessment should be performed before patient care to determine your risk of exposure and the PPE required.
What is a Point-of-Care Risk Assessment (PCRA)?
This standardized tool is used to assess a patient's risk for developing a pressure injury.
What is the Braden Risk Assessment?
The outgoing nurse uses Care Compass and THIS list to check for overdue tasks before handover.
What is the Single Patient Task List?
This confidential, Ethicist-led process supports staff and leaders following ethically challenging situations.
What is a Moral CARE Debrief?
Medication errors, near misses, and “good catches” are reported through this system.
What is PSLS?
When your hands are visibly soiled, this method of hand hygiene is preferred over alcohol-based hand rub.
What is washing with soap and water?
For an at-risk patient with a Braden score of 18 or less, the Braden assessment is repeated at this interval.
What is every 48 hours?
During verbal handover, the incoming nurse must be provided an opportunity to do this before handover is complete.
What is ask questions and seek clarification?
Goals of Care conversations seek to understand a patient's values, beliefs, goals, preferences, and most importantly this central question.
What matters most to the patient/client?
Admission, transfer, and discharge are the three points in acute care when this medication-safety process is completed.
What is Medication Reconciliation (MedRec)?
MRSA, C. difficile, CPO, surgical-site infections, and bloodstream infections are examples of these infections monitored by VCH.
What are healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)?
Discovery of one of these skin associated complications that was not previously identified requires a PSLS report.
What is a new pressure injury?
These four points in a patient's healthcare journey are specifically identified as care transitions where standardized information transfer is required.
What are admission, handover, transfer, and discharge?
This guide is identified by VCH as a framework to help clinicians engage patients in Goals of Care conversations.
What is the Serious Illness Conversation (SIC) Guide?