Patient Safety
This is submitted after any deviation from routine patient care.
What is an incident report?
This is how long you are required to perform hand hygiene with alcohol-based hand sanitizer AND soap and water.
What is 20 seconds?
This is the number of minutes that must pass after administering narcotics BEFORE you can do your pain/POSS reassessment.
What is 15?
This is Paige's first born child's name.
What is Maple?
When a patient is admitted, you must complete this and mark it as completed AND reviewed.
What is the medication reconciliation?
This is the weight limit for the Sara Flex device.
What is 440lb?
This is the level of asepsis for bladder irrigation.
What is sterile/surgical?
After pulling a controlled substance, this is the amount of time the RN has to document administration of the medication.
What is 5 minutes?
This is the survey response that counts positively towards our quality metrics.
What is always?
This must be initiated when administering benzodiazepines as part of the CIWA protocol
What is continuous pulse oximetry?
This is required for HIGH fall risk patients while in the bathroom.
These team members may order isolation precautions.
These are required at the end of each shift.
What are plan of care or end of shift notes?
This is where you submit ATO requests.
What is Dimensions?
These can cause a patient's mobility status to change while in the hospital.
What are medications?
One of these is required during sensitive procedures.
What is a chaperone?
These are required to be worn when performing PD procedures.
What are gown, gloves, and mask (for team members, patient, and visitors)?
These two assessment findings must be documented AND told to the operator when initiating a Code Gold.
What are the last normal time and symptoms?
This type of open-system catheter is preferred for bladder irrigation.
What is a 3-way catheter?
You may give tacrolimus (Prograf) at its scheduled time (typically 0500) when this is done.
What is after the AM tacrolimus level draw (if ordered)?
This is anyone under the age of 18 or a person who lacks capacity to give informed consent or is unable to protect him or herself from abuse, neglect, or exploitation. This includes those who only lack momentary capacity due to sedation.
This is the percent increased risk of CAUTI for each day an indwelling catheter is in place (range value).
What is 3-7%?
This is the formula for true urine output during CBI.
What is irrigant infused - output = true UOP?
These 3 nursing quality measures are monitored.
What are falls, CLABSI rates, and CAUTI rates?
This medication can be run concurrently through the same PIV as packed red blood cells.
What is NONE?