Environment & Emergencies
Infection Prevention
Safety First!
Provision of Care
Survey Potpourri
100
Notification of smoke or fire
What is code red?
100
The #1 way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
100
This is the online system used to report patient and visitor injuries or adverse events, including potential events (near miss).
What is eRRF system?
100
These are used to help keep our patient safe and require q2 hour safety documentation by our nursing staff?
What are (non-behavioral) restraints?
100
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. We use the PDSA cycle to help facilitate this.
What is performance or process improvement?
200
This provides you with information about the chemical make up of a product, as well as its health hazards and the required PPE and can be found on the safety page of the intranet site.
What is Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
200
Items such as masks, gloves and eyewear used to protect employees
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
200
This is National Patient Safety Goal is followed whenever administering meds or blood products, taking samples and specimens for testing, or providing any other treatments or procedures
What is two patient identifiers?
200
This is the term used to define specimen testing done outside the confines of the lab. May include blood glucose testing, urine pregnancy testing, or rapid strep testing.
What is point of care testing (POCT)?
200
An "illegal" power strip in the hospital will not have this colored dot on it, which indicates that it is medical or hospital grade power strip.
What is green?
300
This system is used to manage a disaster or other event in the medical center, and is used by other hospitals and first responders.
What is the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)?
300
Contaminated waste, such as gloves, gauze, etc. that may contain blood or OPIM must be disposed of here.
What is a red bag lined biohazardous waste container?
300
These cannot be blocked by any items at any time throughout the facility. Many of these have signs to help you remember.
What are electrical panels, medical gas shut off valves, exit signs, fire extinguishers, fire alarm pull stations?
300
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 and notification to the physician. For laboratory results, it applies to both point of care and central lab processing.
What are critical values? (CANNOT leave a message!)
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
Too many of these in one fire compartment or stored in a dirty utility room or storage is co-mingled full/empty, we would receive a finding.
What are oxygen tanks?
400
The length of time a disinfectant's label states that it must remain wet.
What is dwell time (or contact time)?
400

This is used when hands are not visibly soiled and before and after using gloves

What is alcohol-based handrubs?

400
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 Universal Protocol?
400
Contact plus precautions are used when this bacteria is identified.
What is C. Diff?
500
Spaces in the hospital, such as ORs, SPD, clean and dirty utility rooms, and sterile storage areas have monitoring requirements for temperature, humidity, and this.
What is air pressure?
500
Hep B, Hep C, and HIV
What are bloodborne pathogens?
500
This is an unexpected occurrence involving death, serious physical or psychological injury, or risk thereof.
What is a sentinel event?
500

This tool is used for adult critically ill patients who are unable to self-report pain.

What is CPOT?

500
This term is being used a lot with Joint Commission and teamwork, consistency, and standardized workflows help us ensure this.
What is highly reliable?
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