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The National Weather service has issued a Tornado Warning for Marion County. Patients must be escorted to areas without windows due to this drill being in effect.
What is Code Tornado Warning?
A co-worker has dropped a vial of biopsy preservative. This book will be used to decide how the chemical must be cleaned up by maintenance.
What is the Safety Data Sheets (SDS)?
A patient calls stating his insurance no longer covers his prescribed insulin. A list of insulins can be found in this protocol to prescribe without consulting with the provider.
What is the Substitution of Insulin Protocol?
Exams rooms must be decontaminated this often to meet the Decontamination Protocol Guidelines.
What is at least 1 time a day?
This must be written on test strips and multi-dose vials when opened.
What is the beyond use date (BUD)?
Area in which staff and patients go to during an active shooter drill.
What is a safe room?
You would need to refer to this protocol if you accidently stuck yourself with a contaminated needle after patient use.
What is the Bloodborne Pathogen protocol?
An urgent call is received by the triage nurse, but the patient's provider is on vacation. There are no providers at the location of the triage nurse. Who should be consulted?
Who is the on-call physician?
Sharps containers are considered full and need emptied when they are this full.
What is 2/3 full?
A patient has not been seen in over a year, but is requesting a refill. What protocol would I need to review to know what steps to take?
What is the Prescription Refill Protocol?
Rescue patients in immediate danger, pull the alarm and call 911, close doors and windows and evacuate are all steps done in this code.
What is Code Fire Alert?
This is where employees are sent after being exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
What is the Worksite Care Clinic?
If a patient's test result is normal, you may do this instead of trying to contact patient.
What is send a normal result letter in the mail?
Multi-Dose vials are viable for this amount of time.
What is 28 days?
Back office cannot fill these prescriptions per the Medication Refill protocol?
What are controlled substances?
Binder in which code information is kept.
What is the Emergency & Safety Manual?
A patient goes unresponsive in the waiting room. Who is responsible for calling 9-1-1 per Management of Medical Emergencies protocol?
Who is the front office staff?
Life-span of A1c Controls.
What is 90 days?
Sani-Cloths should be allowed this long to dry.
What is 3 minutes?
Life-span of single-dose vials after being opened.
What is 0 days? Must be discarded after use.
All codes are ended by this cue.
What is "All Clear"?
An agitated patient is in the office and will not leave. You should proceed by doing this.
What is call 9-1-1?
Document samples in this many places when dispensed.
What is 3?
Wash eye or mucous membrane with water for this long after being contaminated with bodily fluids.
What is 15 minutes?
A copy of this document is given to all patients prior to them receiving the flu vaccine.
What is the Vaccine Information Sheet (VIS)?