To prevent hospital acquired infection, this should be used with every patient every time….
What is Standard Precautions? or What is hand hygiene?
100
Anyone administering medications by any route should use these 2 patient identifiers as a minimum.
What is Name and Date of Birth?
100
This could be a drug or medication when its intentions are to use it as a restriction to manage a patient’s behavior or restrict the freedom of movement. When using this, you will need a new order each time you need it. You would perform an assessment every 30 minutes for the duration.
What is a chemical restraint?
100
The amount of time on an ECG strip represented by a little block.
What is 0.4 seconds?
100
You would use this acronym during a fire to help respond safely and correctly to the event.
What is RACE?
200
Handwashing
What is performed to prevent infection spread
200
Your 1 year old patient weighs 19 pounds. Convert this to kilograms (kg) ______ kg
What is 41.8 kg?
200
This is required for every time we need to use one, runs out every 24 hours, and can never be “as needed”.
What is a Medical Surgical restraint order?
200
Little block
Memory method
6 second method
What ways to calculate heart rate on an ECG strip?
200
This is the first thing you should do upon coming up to a scene prior to even touching a patient.
What is Scene Safety assessment?
300
Be prepared – Anticipate injury risks. Prepare the patient and organize the work area with prevention in mind.
Be aware – Keep exposed sharps in view and under your control. Visually inspect for unprotected sharps in trays, beds and waste receptacles.
Dispose with care – Be responsible for the sharps you use. Activate safety features. Dispose in sharps containers.
What is "Sharps Safety"?
300
You have to administer a varicella vaccine to a 12 month old. Your office is short staffed today. You have the child’s father read the label back to you to double check your medication, because it is in a pre-filled syringe, this will be OK today.
What is No or False?
300
Examples of this might be room selection, bringing the patient to the nurse’s station, a sitter, a contract or re-orientation.
What is an alternative to a restraint?
300
A chaotic, variable picture of electrical impulses coming from various focal points all through the heart. This leads to lack of any mechanical pump and essentially the heart just quivering in the chest. (show picture of strip)
What is ventricular fibrillation?
300
This report shall be filled out after any occurrence which results in or could have resulted in injury to an employee, this will be required by your employer.
What is an Employee Accident/incident report?
400
15 seconds
What is the minimum time needed to wash or gel your hands?
400
Type of medication
Depth of tissue penetration required
Volume of medications
Viscosity of medication
Size of the patient
What are considerations when choosing a syringe and needle?
400
Whenever a restraint is applied, this on line reporting tool should also be completed (not part of the patient record).
You would use this program to log a medical device malfunction, medical supplies issue or a patient accident/incident.
What is RL Solutions?
500
Utilizing a tissue, or turning into upper arm, rather than into ones hands.
What is cough etiquette?
500
Patient
Drug
Dose
Route
Time
You could add documentation & Right to Refuse.
What are 5 patient rights?
500
This type of restraint requires we provide continuous face to face monitoring, re-evaluate the continued need every 2 hours, and release the restraint, one limb at a time.
What is a Restraint for violent or self-destructive behavior?
500
The rhythm where P waves are regular and are at an atrial rate, and QRS are wide, regular and at a ventricular rate, but there is no correlation/marriage between the Ps & QRS complexes. (Show image)
What is 3rd degree heart block?
500
This is Blue Hill Memorial Hospital’s safety officer.