Infection Prevention
Helps to reduce hospital required infections: Before touching a patient, Before clean/aseptic procedure, After body fluid exposure, After touching a patient, After touching a patient's surroundings.
What are the 5 moments of hand hygiene?
This is the online system used to report patient and visitor injuries or adverse events, including potential events (near miss)
What is clear sight?
What does the acronym PASS stand for?
What is pull, aim, squeeze and sweep?
This clinical care process involves finding out what medications a patient is taking, comparing them to what has been taken in the past, documenting any changes, and checking for safety issues.
What is medication reconciliation?
If patient does not speak English, this needs to be utilized and documented.
What is the cyracom phone and interpreter ID number?
Name of process for pre-cleaning instruments at point of use.
What is a high level disinfecting process?
These goals help improve patient safety: Improve the accuracy of patient identification, improve the effectiveness of communication among, caregivers, Improve the safety of medication and alarm safety
What are National PAtient Safety Goals?
When staff is instructed to run, hide and fight.
What is an active shooter response?
When a patient is asked their name and birth date.
What is 2 identifiers.
ECG's, telemetry strips and consent can be found here in EPIC.
What is the media tab?
The amount of time an item needs to stay wet in order to disinfect.
What is wet time? ( Please refer to container)
Restraint orders need to be renewed this frequently.
What is every 24 hours?
O2 tanks that are > 1900 are stored in this oxygen rack.
What is the full O2 Rack?
The use of barcodes, look alike/sound like list, pharmacy double checks
What has been done to reduce medication errors & usage of high risk meds?
Document 15-30 minutes after an IV dose, or 60 minutes after a PO dose.
What is pain reassessment documentation?
These two actions, when performed have been proven to decrease transmission of infection within the hospital.
What is hand washing and changing gloves between tasks?
Managing telemetry alarms, low batteries, and call bells.
What is alarm fatigue?
This device monitors room pressure.
What is Ball in the wall?
Patients that are started on Tikosyn, need this completed and evaluated by cardiology prior to the next dose.
What is an ECG?
The is the process in which the correct patient, correct procedure, correct site, correct patient position and availability of implants or special equipment is confirmed through pre-operative verification. It includes site marking and conducting a final time out immediately prior to an invasive procedure
What is time out?
This function must be performed prior to and after donning and doffing PPE.
What is hand hygiene?
Consistent demonstration of excellence in quality and safety for every patient, every time.
What is a High Reliability Organization?
Equipment that is covered with bags.
What is clean equipment?
This anticoagulation requires a dual sign off for initiation as well as titration.
What is heparin?
This needs to be assessed on admission and at change in level of care.
What is learning needs assessment?