Emergency Preparedness
The three actions to remember during an active shooter are Avoid, Barricade, and ______.
What is Confront?
Housing, food, transportation, utilities, education, access to healthcare, and socioeconomic status are all examples of this.
What are Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)?
If the electronic system goes down, where can staff find the downtime forms?
Where is the nursing station?
What two identifiers should the patient state without prompting?
What are their full legal name and date of birth?
Name one way an employee can be alerted to an emergency at NYP.
What is NYP Alert, a supervisor/manager, or SnapComms?
For inpatients at NYP, which members of the care team ask standardized SDoH questions?
Who are Social Work and Care Management?
What is the contact/wet time for the purple-top alcohol wipes?
What is 2 minutes?
After the patient states their name and DOB, what should staff compare this information to?
What is the patient's ID band?
True or False: Only clinical staff are expected to report to the hospital during an emergency incident.
What is False — all employees, regardless of position, are expected to be available?
Poverty, unequal access to healthcare, lack of education, and racism can contribute to these.
What are health inequities?
What is the contact/wet time for the orange-top bleach wipes?
What is 4 minutes?
When an ID band is worn, what are the two unique identifiers used for patient verification?
What are full legal name and MRN?
You cannot safely leave during an active shooter event. What should you do?
What is Barricade yourself in a safe location?
The location where staff can find information about their patients’ SDoH in Epic
What is Healthy Planet Wheel?
True or False: Wearing gloves eliminates the need for hand hygiene.
What is False? Hand hygiene should be performed before putting on gloves and after removing them.
True or False: A staff member can use the patient’s room number as one of the two unique identifiers for patient verification.
What is False? The room number is not a unique patient identifier.