Safety
How many patient identifiers must be used to verify a patient's identity before providing care.
What is two?
The person the UAP should notify if a patient's vital signs are out of range.
Who is the nurse?
Something that often occurs with toileting and the reason patients should wear non-skid footwear when toileting.
What are falls?
A position a patient should never be restrained in.
What is prone (face down)?
How many people should talk to an escalated patient.
What is one?
Where money that a patient brings to the unit is sent.
What is security?
An emergency code that is called when a patient stops breathing.
What is Code Blue?
Occurs when something other than air gets into the airways.
What is aspiration?
An object that must always be readily available when a patient is in restraints.
What is a restraint key?
Where any linen contaminated with bodily fluids must go.
What is the biohazard container?
The two types of rounds done on BHAC units.
What are environmental rounds and safety rounds?
The positions used for the three blood pressure measurements obtained in orthostatic vital signs?
What are lying - standing - standing?
Where to look to find more information about collecting a clean catch urine specimen or other procedures.
What is Lippincott?
The type of observation a patient in restraints must be on.
What is 1:1?
When a nurse (RN or LPN) entrusts authority and responsibility for a task to another qualified staff member, such as an MHT or BHS.
What is delegation?
How far apart safety rounds must be performed on our patients.
What is 10-20 minutes?
The unit of measurement used to record pulse rate.
What are beats/minute?
Coughing or feeling short of breath while eating, painful swallowing, excessive saliva, repeated bouts of pneumonia.
What are symptoms of aspiration?
How often the nurse must assess patients in mechanical restraints.
What is every 15 minutes?
"Why" questions and false reassurances.
What are non-therapeutic communication techniques?
How close a 1:1/constant observation caregiver must be to the patient?
What is close enough to intervene without delay?
Smoking, caffeinated beverages, alcohol, exercise
What are things that should be avoided 30 minutes prior to a blood pressure measurement?
The minimum amount of time that someone at risk for aspiration should sit upright after eating.
What is thirty minutes?
What is one finger?
The listener communicates interest through verbal and nonverbal communication and verifies his/her understanding of the message.
What is active listening?