Chemical Safety
This is a set of documents used to identify the hazards, PPE, storage and emergency information of the chemicals we work with.
What is Safety Data Sheet or SDS?
True of False: You can leave your cart unattended in patient care areas as long as you will only be gone a few minutes.
This is what the acronyms R.A.C.E and P.A.S.S stand for. Follow these in the event of a fire.
What is Rescue, Alert/Alarm, Contain/Confine, Evacuate/Extinguish and Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep?
This action must be completed before entry and after exiting a patient room.
What is hand hygiene?
We refer to these things as the 7 steps of cleaning.
What is pull trash and Linen, high Dust, damp wipe all contact surfaces, clean restroom, dust mop floors, damp mop floors and perform a final Check?
The amount of a time a surface has to remain wet to ensure proper disinfection is referred to as dwell time. Our 4 main chemicals have these dwell times.
What is Oxivir wipes - 1 minute, Defender - 4 minutes, Purple top Sani clothes - 2 minutes, orange top bleach wipes - 4 minutes?
These are things that cannot be stored on your cart or in your closet.
What is ANY food or drink?
In an active shooter situation this 3 word response highlights what you should do to remain safe.
What is Run, Hide, Fight?
The acronym PHI means this.
What is Protected Health Information?
This must be placed before wet mopping a floor.
What is a wet floor sign?
All the chemical containers we use must have this.
What is a label?
These 2 things should be completed after you are done using your cart.
What is cleaning and stocking it?
These pieces of equipment help protect you, your coworkers and other patients from infectious diseases.
What is PPE?
What is read the signage?
What is hand hygiene?
What is follow PPE instructions?
What is follow isolation cleaning protocols?
We exchange the red sharps container when they reach this level.
What is 3/4 full?
True or False: It is safe to mix two cleaning chemicals together if they are both approved for hospital cleaning.
What is false? Never mix chemicals for any reason.
During a missing person or child abduction you will hear an overhead page indicating a missing person, a description, and location. These actions help ensure the safety of the missing individual.
What is check rooms in your area?
Monitor elevators, stairwells and exterior exits.
Observe and question anyone suspicious or fitting the description given on the overhead page.
This acronym exists to protect patient confidentiality.
What is HIPPA?
True or False: You can mix regular trash with medical waste.
What is False? Those items always need to stay separate.
This is what you should do if you accidentally splash some chemicals in your eye.
True or False: Clean supplies and soiled mops and rags and trash can be stored together.
What is false? They must be separated at all times.
True or False: It's okay to park your cart, a bed, or your trash bin in front of an exit door.
What is False? Exit doors, fire pull stations, fire extinguishers, and electrical panels must be free of obstruction at all times.
The acronym A.I.D.E.T stands for these 5 things we must do when entering and cleaning an occupied patient room.
What is Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank you?
Those gray, fuzzy, hairy clumps we hate to see are called this.
What are dust bunnies?