Environment of Care
These machines have an infection control risk due to waterborne pathogens. Attention to cleaning, disinfection, and maintenance to prevent build-up of water deposits, mold, and other biologics.
What are ice machines?
Organizational and departmental orientation provides education and training to this segment of staff.
Who are contracted staff?
This is a Federal Law that protects individuals from the misuse of their health information.
What is HIPAA?
The NFPA is an acronym of this organization.
What is the National Fire Protection Association?
Hospitals minimize the risk of infection when storing and disposing of this.
What is infectious waste?
While these may be used for additional comfort of the patient, such as those with respiratory distress or post cardiac surgery, they may indicate to surveyors that a temperature control or ventilation problem exists.
What are fans in patient care areas?
All employees must display this in their area of expertise.
What is competency?
The hospital discloses health information only as authorized by these two parties.
Who are patients and laws/regulations?
Computers in the hallway may only be considered "in use" for this amount of time.
What is 30-minutes?
This is critically important in reducing healthcare associated infections.
What is hand hygiene?
Environment of Care is made up of these three elements.
What are buildings (space), equipment, and people?
The hospital orients staff on this before staff provides care, treatment, and services.
What is sensitivity to cultural diversity?
The hospital protects against unauthorized access, use, and disclosure of this information?
What is health information?
The Joint Commission requires Burke Rehabilitation Hospital to comply with this code to ensure fire safety.
What is the Life Safety Code?
This is a simple and safe way to prevent yourself and others from contracting harmful diseases.
What is a vaccination?
Burke must have a written plan for how resources and assets are documented, tracked, and monitored and how they will locate (on-site and off-site inventories) during a disaster/emergency incident.
What are the requirements regarding an emergency inventory?
This segment of staff is always upheld to the same standards as contracted staff.
Who are volunteers?
This may only be used when required to demonstrate the level of precision of a value being reported.
What is a trailing zero?
Designated as emergency medical equipment, these may only be stored in corridors.
What are crash carts?
MDRO is an acronym of this risk.
What are multidrug resistant organisms?
The Joint Commission requires these to be inspected once per calendar month.
What are fire extinguishers?
Accredited organizations are required to monitor these based on defined performance expectations.
What are contractual services?
This title appears on CLIA Certificates .
What is, Laboratory Director?
These must be removed from an egress corridor in the event of an emergency.
What is "in use" equipment?
This is implemented in addition to standard precautions when a multidrug-resistant organism or infectious illness is identified or suspected in order to protect patients.
What are transmission-based precautions?