UP we go!
This goal focusses on improving safety by implementing a checklist approach to ensure all necessary actions are completed before, during, and after a surgical procedure.
What is the Universal Protocol?
These four Time-outs must be completed prior to the patient leaving the surgical room.
What is the Sign-in, Fire Risk, Preprocedural, and the Debrief?
The Joint Commission created these to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern regarding patient safety.
What are the National Patient Safety Goals?
This must happen before a procedure can begin.
What is labeling?
At least ____ patient identifiers must be used when providing care, treatment, and services. Patient identifiers cannot be the patient's room number or physical location.
What is two?
This is made at or near the site and is sufficiently permanent to be visible after skin preparation and draping.
What is the surgical site mark?
During the preprocedural timeout all members participating in the procedure from the beginning should be doing this.
What is actively listening and communicating?
This is the Frequency with which TJC reviews and updates the NPGs to improve patient care and safety.
What is annually?
Medication containers include these.
What are syringes, medicine cups, and basins.
These must be reported to the responsible licensed caregiver within an established time frame.
What are critical results of test and diagnostic procedures?
This key element of the UP helps to prevent surgery on the wrong site, wrong procedure, or wrong patient.
What is pre-procedure verification?
During the preprocedural timeout, this person usually confirms that all participates of the procedure are present and in agreement?
Who is the Surgeon or the designated team leader?
Traditionally the Circulating RN.
The Joint Commission determines the ______ _______ patient Safety issues and how best to address them, including as a NPSG.
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What is highest priority?
What is transferred from the original packaging to another?
One of the most important ways to address health care associated infections (HAIs) is for health care staff to comply with these guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and/or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
What is proper hand hygiene?
This process may occur either in PATT, at the time of admission, and must be completed prior to leaving the preprocedural area and entering the procedure room.
What is the preprocedural verification process?
This organization determines the amount and type of documentation of the time-out.
What is the Hospital?
The NPSGs are developed by TJC by solicitation of input from these sources.
What are practitioners, provider organizations, purchasers, consumer groups and other stakeholders?
Due to the complex dosing, insufficient monitoring, and inconsistent patient compliance this classification of medication is more likely than others to cause harm.
What are anticoagulants?
By silencing equipment alarms healthcare workers are violating this NPSG.
What is improving the safety of clinical alarm systems?
These are the three components of the UP.
What is pre-procedure verification, site marking, and time-out?
The reason for the surgical timeout is to prevent these types of errors.
What is wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient?
The first year The Joint Commision enacted the NPSGs.
What is 2002?
This unsafe practice neglects basic principles of safe medication management, yet it is routine in many organizations.
What is not labeling all containers that contain medications on and off the sterile field?
The large number of people receiving health care who take multiple medications and supplements and the complexity of managing those medications make ____ an important safety issue.
What is medication reconciliation?