Tips of the Week
Dwell time for contact-plus precautions
What is 4 minutes?
Due to aspects of fire suppression, Nothing is to be placed above this
What is the yellow line in the clean utility room?
The fall risk level associated with an active zone 2 bed alarm and having a yellow blanket
What is High Risk?
This department is called to pick up the reusable sharps that you placed in an enzymatic solution
Who is CSR?
The name of one of Jillian's dogs
Who is Rusty or Roxanne?
Name and Date of Birth
What are the two patient identifiers?
Cabinets and doors must be locked to protect these
What are medications and syringes?
Pain, Position, Potty, and Personal Belongings
What are the 4 P's associated with fall prevention?
Risk of Suicide, having unstable blood glucose levels, changes in mental status, and an inability to provide self care
What are contraindications to a patient using their insulin pump?
The route that Epinephrine is given for an anaphylactic reaction
What is intramuscular?
The length of time needed to wash your hands
What is 20 seconds or two happy birthdays?
These values must be reported within thirty minutes
What are critical values?
This person must be notified for the post fall huddle
Who is Donna ?
Blood glucose levels, insulin boluses, basal rates, and the cumulative dosage
What are the values from a patient using an insulin pump that the nurse is responsible to document?
The legal amount of marijuana that is allowed on campus
What is zero?
This protocol is used to ensure that surgery is performed on the correct patient and correct body part
What is the universal protocol?
The temperature of the blanket warmer.
What is 120 degrees?
The name of Shawn's dog
Who is Maggie?
Hives, itching, swollen tongue and lips, periorbital and conjunctival edema,
What are symptoms of an anaphylactic reaction?
The medical intervention needed for a patient who is OSA positive and taking an opioid or sedative
What is the need to wear a continuous pulse oximeter?
These are placed on the outside of syringes to properly identify the syringes contents
What are labels?
The minimum level of PSI needed for an oxygen tank to be considered "in use"
What is 500 psi?
This type of reporting offers an opportunity to make sure that the bed alarm is appropriately set.
What is bedside reporting?
This department is called for non-compliance to the marijuana policy
Who is security?
The medical intervention needed for a patient who is OSA positive and not ordered for an opioid or sedative
What is no telemetry or pulse oximetry?