Joint Commission Readiness
This is the language consents should be obtained in.
What is the patient's preferred language?
Cleaning agent used on the skin for a blood culture.
What is chloraprep?
POCT - This should be done every 3 months.
What are the controls?
This is called when there is a violence/security alert.
What is the Gray Alert?
This how sterile processing peel packs should be upon observation.
What are instruments in an open position free of rust, tape residue, pitting, and water marks, and with a clear color change indicator?
An acceptable way to label a specimen during downtime.
What is a blank label with the patient's full name and MRN/ patient chart label, with the date and time of collection and your ID?
This is used to ensure tubing and line connection safety.
What is I-Trace?
This is called when there is an armed intruder.
Stay Away Alert
This is where you can you find the process for Restraints documentation.
What is Policystat?
These are the 3 patients identifiers used before drawing blood
What is Name, Date of Birth and MRN?
After each Accuchek test, this is how the meter is cleaned.
What is cleaning the meter with one wipe to clean and a second wipe to disinfect. Allow to dry for one minute before docking.
This will be activated by any staff member when immediate and emergent resuscitative measures are needed in any newborn.
What is a neonatal blue alert?
These are 14 measurable, high-priority objectives designed to improve patient safety, quality of care, and healthcare outcomes in hospitals and critical access hospitals. For example, social determinants of health.
What are the Joint Commission National Performance Goals?
These are examples of an unsatisfactory specimen.
What is a specimen in the incorrect tube, clotted specimen, unlabeled specimen or insufficient sample?
This should be done if a newborn’s MRN (scanband) ID band is missing, loose, or illegible.
What is replacing the band immediately and verifying identity against the mother's band with a second RN and initialing the new bands.
This is called when there is an infant/ child abduction.
What is a pink alert?