This is the part missing from pictured droplet isolation set up.
What is the droplet sign on the door frame? (not inside the caddy--needs to be magnetized to the doorframe)
After giving IV pain medicine, this is the time frame that pain reassessment must be completed within.
What is 30 minutes?
These signs are required to be displayed outside a patient's room for 48 hours after the patient receives these types of medication...
What are Hazardous Medications?
(Precautions JUST needed for Category 1: Antineoplastic and Category 2: Non-Antineoplastic, not Category 3: Reproductive Risk)
Policy: Hazardous Drug Handling
What is the open date and the expiration date (90 days after the open date)?
Name one of the 5 Hazardous Medication Precautions used when handling urine, stool, emesis, or soiled linens of a patient receiving Category 1 or Category 2 medications.
What are double gloves, chemo gown, flush and rush, mask when splash is possible, and dispose of PPE and wash hands with soap and water?
These two elements must be written on a label attached to patient's food when food is placed in our refrigerator.
What are the patient's initials and date?
The patient has an order that reads "ambulate patient 3x per day." This is the flowsheet area where each ambulation must be documented.
What is Activity Management?
(will accept Daily Cares)
After disposal of trace antineoplastic medication waste or spill of any hazardous medication waste, this is the location to place the yellow bin/bag for pick up and replacement by EVS.
What is the soiled utility room?
When opening a new bottle of glucometer strips, the expiration date needs to be printed on the bottle and taped over so it doesn't smudge. This is the amount of time the glucometer strips are good for after opening.
What is 6 months?
After labeling patient's food, this is the amount of time it can be left in the refrigerator before being disposed of or given back.
What is 3 days?
How frequently IV tubing must be replaced.
What is every 96 hours?--per our policy
(Best practice to change secondaries that are disconnected from primary every 24 hours)
(Place change date and initials on tubing stickers when hanging)
Policy:Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion and Maintenance
On MSO, this patient population requires q 4 vital signs. (multiple correct answers)
What are patients on telemetry, patients on oxygen, patients admitted in the last 24 hours, and patients who had surgery in the last 24 hours?
This is the time frame a nurse has to get a physician order for non-violent or violent restraints.
What is 15 minutes?
Policy: Restraint and Seclusion Use and Application
Time frame AND Chart Location for documenting critical results.
What are one hour and Provider Notification on Assessment Flowsheet?
A patient is in 4-point restraints. A __ : __ sitter is required at all times until the restraint is released.
What is 1:1?
This oxygen tank is _______. (empty or full)
What is empty?
(any oxygen tank that at less than the green "full" tick marks is considered empty and should be placed in that rack)
Place to document notification of physician for patient decompensation.
What is the "Notes" activity in Epic?
(Provider notification at bottom of assessment flowsheet is not adequate documentation for complex patient issues.)
To ensure that response to fire is never delayed, ______ ________s must never be blocked by beds or other equipment in the hallways.
What are fire extinguishers?
(would accept fire doors--both apply!)
The frequency of dressing changes on peripheral IV catheters.
What is every 7 days?
(Dressings must be dated and timed, and date of next dressing change documented in Epic)
Policy: Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion and Maintenance
When applying a PIV dressing, these elements must be written on the dressing.
What are time and date?
Policy: Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion and Maintenance
The location of chemoprotective gowns and the hazardous medication spill kit.
What is the isolation clean supply room?
(Spill kit utilized when >5 mL of hazardous medication is spilled)
The flowsheet where use of Voyce translator is documented.
What is "Interpreter"?
Policy: Effective Communication for Limited English Proficiency Patients and Patients with Communication Disabilities (Interpreter Services)
This is the area of MSO where the eyewash station can be found.
What is the ante room of room 386?
This acronym identifies the more in-depth assessment that must occur for a sitter to be released after a patient screens "potential risk" after completing the ASQ (suicide screening) on admission.
What is BSA (Brief Safety Assessment)
(Done by a PATHS clinician or ER Social Worker)
If you have to use the eyewash station d/t splash or contamination, this is where to find the Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for the particular contaminant.
What is Pardee Intranet?