Workplace Violence
Also known as bullying and is described as a negative defining statement told to the victim or about the victim.
What is verbal abuse?
You should check a patient's name, DOB/medical record number prior to performing a procedure, dispensing medication, offering food, collecting a specimen, or transitioning a patient to a different level of care.
What is safety absolute?
This software system provides a mechanism for all members of the healthcare team, at all levels within the organization, to report real-time events occurring in the hospital environment that harm, or have the potential to harm, an individual.
What is the RL System?
These three areas outside the hospital, home medications can be discarded.
What is a pharmacy, police station, or medication take-back event?
When a patient experiences dizziness when standing up this is called.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
Unjust or prejudicial treatment of an individual with a particular attribute or personal characteristic which can be legally protected.
What is discrimination?
What is PPE?
This number represents the number of staff members that are needed when using a mechanical lift
What is 2?
The 2010 Affordable Care Act made compliance programs MANDATORY for these providers.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Offensive jokes, physical assaults, harassment, intimidation, or sexual assault are example of.
What is offensive conduct?
What is Protected Health Information?
The acronym CHAMP stand for this?
What is C - Communicate clearly H - Hand-off effectively A - Attention to detail M - Mentor each other P - Practice and accept?
This is a common risk for taking NSAIDs (Ibuprofen, Naproxen).
What are gastric side effects?
What is a gait belt?
This red sign posted over a patient’s bed is used to help guide staff in providing safety during a patient’s eating and drinking process.
What is individual swallowing/ aspiration precaution?
You should always do this when entering or leaving a patient's room.
What is wash your hands?
A cup of coffee has this many mls.
What is 240 ml?
At Bristol Health, who is responsible for compliance with the laws, rules and regulations that govern our operations.
Who is everyone!
Waving fists, throwing objects, verbal or written threats, physical attacks such as slapping, hitting, biting, kicking, pushing, and biting are examples of.
What are threatening actions?
What is health insurance portability and accountability act?
You should practice this high reliability behavior when you are unclear about something.
What is ask a clarifying question?
This represents the non proprietary name of a drug.
What is the generic name?
When patients wear yellow socks, it means this.
What is 'the patient is a fall risk'?
This is a mode of transportation that is not to be used during a fire alarm.
What is the elevator?
This is the length of time one should rub your hands during washing.
What is 20 seconds?
Specific lab tests that the RN can anticipate will be ordered prior to beginning antibiotic therapy.
What is a Culture and/or sensitivity?
This allows employees to anonymously report feedback and report compliance issues.
What is the compliance hotline?
Unreasonable behaviour that creates risk to the physical or mental health or safety to an individual.
What is bullying?
This is another term for decubitus ulcer.
What is pressure ulcer?
What does S.T.A.R. stand for? STOP, THINK, ACT, REVIEW?
This is what you must do to a medication or solution that has been transferred from the original packaging to another container.
What is label the new container?
This is the meaning of the magnet on the patient doorway that is a falling star.
What is the patient is a fall risk?
You can notify these individuals or departments if you personally have experienced 2 significant losses in your family and you are having a hard time coping or paying attention throughout your shift.
What are 1. EAP, your hospital Chaplain, a trusted co worker or friend?
This is the PPE that is removed first prior to leaving an isolation room.
What are gloves?
What is 3 months?
What Bristol Health document details the standards of behavior that all workforce member must follow and help us to put the Bristol Health Values into Practice?
What is the Bristol Health Code of Conduct?
Threats, verbal abuse, physical assaults or homicide, harassment, intimidation, or sexual assaults are all example of this.
What is violence in the workplace?
These are the only staff members that can hook up or remove oxygen from a patient.
Who are licensed healthcare workers?
The letter ‘C’ in the acronym CHAMP represents this.
What is communicate clearly?
This device is in place of recapping needles.
What is a needle safety device?
This is the bedside documentation tool used by Nursing Staff (RNs, PCAs) to determine Patient’s ability to transfer and ambulate.
What is the Egress test?
Validating someone else's emotions is an example of this.
What is Empathy?
A person with C-Diff will be on this type of precautions.
What is Contact Precautions?
The name of the scale used at time of admission to determine a patient's risk for skin breakdown.
What is the BRADEN scale?
Emails being mailed outside of the “bristolhospital.org” domain that contain Patient Health or other Sensitive Information MUST be encrypted prior to being mailed. This series of letters must be included in the Subject Line of an email, with no spaces, in order to encrypt the data in that email?
What is BHSECURE?
An action (verbal, written or physical) intended to cause or causing death or serious bodily injury to oneself or others, or damage to property.
What is workplace violence?
The acronym SBAR stands for this.
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR)?
This area of the hospital represents the highest risk for occuring violence.
What is the Emergency Department?
These are the six rights of safe medication administration.
What are 1. The right pt. 2. Right Meds. 3. Right dose. 4. The right time. 5. The right route. 6. Right documentation?
You should always sit up, stretch and move your arms and legs before doing this.
What is getting out of bed?
Examples include central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), surgical site infections (SSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), clostridium difficile infection (CDI), methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
What are Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)?
This medical emergency team responds to hospitalized patients with early signs of deterioration.
What is the Rapid Response Team?
What is a locked shred bin?
Workplace health and safety education trainings should be directed toward this type of employee?
What are 'all employees'?
This is the licensed individual who can take a critical result via telephone regarding an inpatient on the floor.
Who is a registered nurse?
This is the minimum amount of space in front of and to the sides of a fire alarm pull station.
What is 36"?
This is the system that can prevent human error during the medication administration process.
What is bar coding/medication scanning?
Proper fit by a physical therapist or nurse is necessary prior to using this device.
What is a cane or walker?
If you cannot wheel a patient's bed down the hallway in a straight line then this is blocked.
What is the egress?
This is the cleaning agent that must be used on surfaces for patients who have C'DIFF.
What is 10% BLEACH?
Drugs, which by the nature of their name, are involved in a high percentage of medication errors or other adverse outcomes. Examples: DOBUTamine vs DOPamine; buPROPion vs busPIRone;
What are Look Alike - Sound Alike medications?
This protects people who report unethical or illegal behavior from retaliation or retribution.
What is the Whistleblowers' Provision of the False Claims Act?