Amount of time you should wash your hands.
What is 20 seconds?
This code is for Respiratory or Cardiac Arrest.
What is Code Blue?
Any individual who presents at an Emergency Department and requests medical assistance must receive a medical screening exam.
What is EMTALA? (Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act)
Website where APS and OCS contact information can be located.
What is State of Alaska Department of Health?
There is an imminent delivery happening without a medical provider, you will call this code.
What is Code Stork?
Number of villages in Alaska.
What is 270?
Call this type of code hoping to prevent a code blue.
What is Rapid Response?
This department has the keys for shred bins.
What is EVS?
2 acceptable patient identifiers.
What is full name and DOB?
When you hear this code called, it is NEVER a drill.
What is Code Silver, violent person with a weapon?
The middle ground between a highly punitive system and a system with no accountability.
What is Just Culture?
I have spotted a fire on my unit. I will call this code.
What is Code Red?
Anyone that has patient contact & suspects abuse or neglect of a child or vulnerable adult.
What is Mandated Reporter?
This requires patient and witness signatures after risks & benefits of a procedure have been discussed by patient and provider.
What is Informed Consent?
This where you will find all FHP policies.
What is MCN Policy Manager on the Loop?
Event reporting document.
What is Verge?
This acronym describes how to operate a fire extinguisher.
What is PASS? Pull, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep.
Failure to provide essential care, access to essential care when someone is unable to obtain essential care for themselves.
What is neglect?
Making a list of all medications that a patient takes prior to receiving care and updating the list after patient has received care and may or may not have been prescribed new medications.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
This where you will go to do your assigned courses upon hire and annually.
What is HealthStream?
Place to find Verge Solutions.
What is The Loop?
You suspect a child or infant has been abducted from your unit. You will call.
What is a code pink?
This is the organization where you report that Grandma was abandoned in the ED.
What is Adult Protective Services?
A safety process where two nurses independently verify high-alert medication orders, calculations, and preparations without influencing each other.
What is Independent Nurse Double Check?
This how often you need to complete your RQI exercises.
What is every quarter?