Food and Drink
Hand Hygiene
PPE
Equipment Cleaning/Disinfection
Environment
100
These items should be absent in patient care areas.
What are TM food and drink?
100
An OT is leaving a patient room to retrieve a walker for a BH patient. The OT performed HH upon exiting the room. The OT returns with the walker, enters the room and sets the walker up for patient to get to group therapy. Upon exiting the room the TM performs HH.
What is NOT the expected compliance with Hand Hygiene for retrieving equipment for patient?
100
A tool to use on Caregiver Connect site under Infection Prevention
What are Transmission- Based Isolation Grid? What is Isolation signage?
100
A DNV survey is being conducted in the Outpatient therapy area. They ask "What is used to clean the weight machine"? The PT shows them a bottle of Lysol, brought in from home.
What is NOT hospital-approved disinfectant (such as Caviwipes?
100
Frequency the Infection Preventionist does Environmental Rounding in the PM&R department?
What is Quarterly?
200
These items should be stored in a manner to prevent contamination and separated from equipment or supplies.
What is potable ice, water, food for patients?
200
Speech Therapy is doing a swallow evaluation on a patient and the food tray is at the desk. The ST performs Hand hygiene before picking up the tray, before entering patient's room and while exiting the room after the session.
What IS the expected compliance with hand Hygiene for tray delivery?
200
All team members should be able to locate this policy related to infection prevention and isolation in Policy Tech
What is "Standard and Transmission Based Precautions"?
200
This ultrasound gel packaging should not be used on patient's that are in contact precautions, have open wounds or critically ill patients according to the Aquasonic Gel IFU.
What is Aquasonic Gel Multi-use packaging?
200
Needs to be corrected in this picture.
What are items stored too close to Hand washing sink?
300
If a PT/OT outpatient treatment areas performs these services, it is important staff can speak to how to dispose of these "sharp" instruments.
What is Dry needling or acupuncture?
300
A patient for the session needs to use the treadmill. They perform hand hygiene only after using the treadmill.
What is NOT the expected hand hygiene compliance for patient using exercise equipment.
300
Placing a Droplet Mask on a patient with suspected COVID-19, or other respiratory illness while transporting to XRAY.
What is Source Control?
300
Terron is rounding and taking inventory of equipment for 2022. A therapist hands him a foam cushion and asks to tape the tear in the material to save a few dollars.
What is Do not Tape equipment or surfaces as the tape can harbor bacteria and leave residue which is not cleanable?
300
It is encouraged to place this when you find something broken, needing repaired, scuffed or worn?
What is a Facility Service Request?
400
This regulatory agency prohibits consumption of food and drink in areas involving exposure or potential exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material.
What is OSHA?
400
While leading a group exercise class, the PT needs to check vitals on the participants before and after. Hand hygiene is performed at the start of the screen and end of screening all the patients.
What is NOT the expected compliance for TM hand hygiene?
400
Gloves, faceshield, disposable gown, googles, droplet mask, N95, Personal Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR)
What are PPE?
400
A physical therapist is cleaning the equipment room walkers. They stack the dirty walkers on one side of the room and stack clean on a different side of the room, always cleaning the dirty first and moving to clean.
What is moving from dirty to clean?
400
Your department leader has ordered several new pieces of equipment for the unit on Amazon. All the items come in corrugated boxes. Terron has asked the boxes do not come into the department because boxes can harbor these potential infectious agents.
What are moisture, water, vermin and bacteria ?
500
A employee sets a dressing change down on a table and then throws away. A few minutes later an employee uses the table to eat lunch. This could be a potential event called?
What is Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure?
500
Infection prevention is rounding on the unit (with her clipboard of course) and stops and taps their badge at you. You smile, and perform Hand Hygiene.
What IS hand hygiene compliance with reminding TM who fail to meet expectations?
500
DNV surveyor observes an Occupational Therapist wearing gloves while performing assessment with a patient. The OT moves to a different area with gloves on to assist a different patient with their walker.
What is improper hygiene practices?
500
This material when placed on equipment leaves a sticky residue behind when removed, can harbor bacteria and encouraged NOT to use on equiptment.
What is TAPE?
500
This material should be use on paper signs that are hung in patient care areas because they are easily cleanable.
What are laminator sheets?