Regulatory Acronyms
TJC
What is The Joint Commission?
This is the single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
What is where all policies and procedures can be found?
Immediately (medication)
What is when medication administration should be documented?
DHSR
What is the Division of Health Service Regulation?
Examples of this include gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields and face shields.
What is PPE - Personal Protective Equipment?
u, qd, od, qid, qod, ms - unapproved abbreviations
What is Abbreviations and Symbols Use - NH-IM-8000?
90 minutes (pain)
What is when pain reassessment must be done after pain intervention.
True or False...A minor can translate for a parent if the minor is 13 yrs old, clearly fluent in both languages and the parent consents to using the minor as the interpreter.
What is FALSE!
ESC
What is Evidence of Standards Compliance?
This infection control practice considers all patients to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens, and requires PPE to be used when coming into contact with ALL patients blood, urine, or other body fluids.
What are Universal Precautions?
Name and date of birth - two patient identifiers.
What is Patient Identification - NH-PC-PS-1650?
1 hour (restraints)
What is when the face-to-face must be completed after applying violent restraints?
This intervention must only be used as a last resort to keep patients and/or team members safe when all alternatives have failed.
What is restraints/seclusion?
CMS
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
This activity is conducted weekly to flush water through pipes to prevent water-borne infectious organisms (like Legionella) to grow in stagnant water.
What is Water Wednesday?
One pill splitter is used per patient.
Medication Administration - NH-MM-502?
1 hour (critical results)
What is when the receiving department must notify the provider of a critical result (when appropriate per policy)?
This is the online system used to report patient injuries, adverse events and potential events (near misses).
What is the eRL system?
IJ
What is Immediate Jeopardy?
Soiled utility rooms (pressure relationship)
What type of utility room must be negative pressure?
Definition: A sudden, unintentional descent, with or without injury to the patient, that results in the patient coming to rest on the floor, on or against some other surface (e.g., a counter), on another person, or on an object (e.g., a trash can)
What is Fall Assessment, Prevention and Management-Outpatient - NH-PC-PS-1901?
24 hours (assessment)
What is when an initial inpatient assessment must be completed?