Rapid Response
These individuals are permitted to call a Rapid Response.
Who is everyone?
When you should massage the skin over bones.
What is never?
The most important person at BID Needham.
Who is the patient?
Examples of these include bending hips and knees for stability and elevating bed height to promote good posture while boosting.
What are good body mechanics?
Getting patients out of bed to a chair at least twice daily with meals and, when possible, encourage patients to walk.
What should we always do for patients?
What you would call in the event that a visitor falls.
What is a Rapid Response?
In the direction of hair growth.
What is the way you shave male patients?
No fear of reporting concerns, open communication, learning from mistakes, reporting safety concerns.
What is Culture of Safety?
Ensuring call bell in reach, 3 bed rails up, bed/chair alarm on, personal items within reach, and asking “Is there anything else I can do for you before I leave the room?”
What are things that should be done before leaving a patient’s room who you have just mobilized and they are on Fall Precautions?
Increasing ambulation, supervising ambulation, increasing time out of bed, avoiding hazards in the environment, wearing the right footwear, avoiding restraints, using hearing aides, glasses and dentures.
What are ways to keep patients from falling in the hospital?
This is the type of fall that you would call a Rapid Response for.
What are all falls?
When you should secure a Foley catheter.
What is always?
The most important thing we do to keep our patients safe.
What is handwashing?
Device used for guiding patients and helping to stabilize patients during transfers and walking.
What is a gait belt?
Ask patient to lie in bed with the head flat for a minimum of 3 minutes, and preferably 5 minutes.
What should you do before checking orthostatic vital signs.
Glucometer, Specialist on Call Monitor, stretcher, Coagucheck INR, code cart, cardiac monitor/defibrillator, portable suction.
What is the equipment you need in a Code Stroke?
The name of the ointment you should use for incontinence care.
What is Criticaid Clear (or Criticaid Clear Antifungal)?
Name and Date of Birth.
What are 2 patient identifiers?
Stand to the side of the patient and slightly behind.
What should you do when walking a patient?
Accurate IO's, accurate STANDING weights, checking room air oxygen sat at rest and walking, checking orthostatic BPs, providing low salt diet.
What are ways to help patients with heart failure?
The reason you avoid giving food in the event of a stroke.
What is due to risk of aspiration?
When you should use pink basins as a one time use only.
What is always?
The department responsible for patient safety at BID Needham.
What are all departments!
When should a gait belt be cleaned with germicidal spray/wipes.
What is between each patient use.
Hand hygiene, avoiding the use of Foley catheters, keeping Foley bags off the floor, ambulating patients, cleaning equipment between patient use, using proper precautions.
What are some ways to help patients avoid developing infections in the hospital?