Safety 1st
National Patient Safety Goal
Environmentally Speaking
JC 101
Medication Musts!
100
This is the online system used to report patient and visitor injuries or adverse events, including potential events (near miss).
What is the Patient Safety Net (PSN) system?
100
This communication must be written down and repeated back.
What is a critical value result.
100
This term defines a patient with an uncleared MRSA infection.
What is XX designation on the patient label.
100
This process prevents a wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery.
What is Universal Protocol?
100
The following items must be kept locked or under constant observation at all time.
What are medications and sharps (including needles, syringes, and scalpels)?
200
This standard is followed whenever administering meds or blood products, taking samples and specimens for testing, or providing any other treatments or procedures.
What is the use of two patient identifiers? e.g. name, DOB
200
This term refers to both a living will and durable power of attorney.
What is Advanced Directives?
200
This icon is found on every desktop and is used if there is a needle stick injury.
What is the BBB exposure kit.
200
This is the information given to a new nurse or provider at change of shift or transfer of care.
What is a hand-off?
200
This is the correct protocol for handling all parenteral multi-dose medication vials, with the exception of vaccines, skin test, and patient supplied meds.
What is discard after 28 days, or with any suspected or visible contamination; Document expiration date on vial with first use.
300
This is the correct process for labeling blood or other specimens collected in the clinic.
What are the initials of the person who collected the sample and the time of collection on the label.
300
Vaium, Valproate, Valcyte, Valtrex, Valsartan
What are sound-alike medications
300
These are substances that pose a health risk or physical hazard.
What are Hazardous Materials?
300
This is a list of Joint Commission identified safety requirements which highlight problematic areas in health care and describe evidence and expert-based solutions. A new list is published annually.
What is National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG)?
300
This special category of medications require additional checking procedures prior to and during administration due to their high risk of causing injury when misused.
What are High Alert Medications?
400
This term refers to test values (laboratory, cardiology, radiology) which are defined by individual health care organizations and will typically include stat tests, panic value reports and other results which require urgent response. For laboratory results, it applies to both point of care and central lab processing.
What is Critical Values?
400
The terms OD, OS, Q.O.D. and Q.D. are examples of this.
What are Prohibited Abbreviations?
400
This information is located in each unit. Each sheet describes in detail the chemical makeup and how to treat an exposure to the hazardous material on site. Cleaning solutions are a common item. It is commonly known by the acronym MSDS.
What are Material Safety Data Sheets?
400
This is often considered the 5th vital sign.
What is pain assessment?
400
The correct process for labeling secondary medication containers includes the following four points:
What are: Name and strength of medication or solution Amount – if not apparent from container Expiration date - when not used within 24 hrs Expiration time – when it occurs in less than 24 hrs?
500
This is an unexpected occurrence involving death, serious physical or psychological injury, or risk thereof.
What is a Setinel Event?
500
This is done for every medication and every patient at every out-patient visit by the provider.
What is a medication reconciliation.
500
The presence of this, located on a piece of medical equipment, ensures that it is safe for patient use.
What is an in-date green biomed sticker.
500
This is the collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to the continuous study and improvement of the processes of providing health care services to meet the needs of consumers and others. Example: Front Desk Re-Design - to improve and maintain patient confidentiality when registering for appointments.
What is Rapid Improvement Experience (RIE)?
500
This is what will happen when you find an unlabeled syringe with a liquid in the unit Pyxis.
What is thrown away and PSN report filed.
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