Quality
Something in your area caught on fire. Name your next steps.
Name the closest fire extinguishers and pulls.
What is RACE: Rescue, Alarm (2297) and pull alarm), Contain (close fire doors--everyone in all areas; do not move through them), Extinguish/Evacuate (PASS)
This is the single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection.
Bonus: What is your compliance?
What is Handwashing?
Patients learn about their privacy rights by getting “hip” to this form.
What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPAA form?
Where do you find the start rate for a titrating gtt?
In the order on MAR.
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
What are patient identifiers? Full Name and SSN
Someone has accidentally spilled a chemical in your work area! But not to worry, you can get information on how the spill should be handled by looking where?
What is the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Program policy (001-18).
Gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields and face shields are all examples of this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
This item is given to all new patients, to inform them about their right to be treated with respect, to be involved in decisions related to their care, and that they must also treat our staff with courtesy and respect.
What are the Patient’s Rights & Responsibilities?
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?
Identify how to find the resource you would use if you needed to complete a procedure (i.e. exchange of a suprapubic catheter) that was not explicitly covered in a policy and procedure or competency.
What is IRIS > Key Communities > eLibrary > Nursing Reference Center Plus?
OR What is Nursing Reference Center Plush through links in Connect Care?
This intranet tool is the best way to notify the Facilities Department that something is broken or unsafe.
What is a maximo.
Dr. Gales is preparing to do a bedside bronch. Name the screening that must be completed.
What is TB Screening Form?
OR bronchoscopy can be completed in Negative pressure room.
OR doctor can write in a TB screening using .phrase.
Before we provide any type of care to patients, patients must read and sign this document at the time of their first visit, and annually from then on.
What is the Consent to Treat Form?
When is pain reassessment completed after administration? What are the components of reassessment?
One hour for po pain meds, 30 minutes for iv narcotics.
Pain score, acceptable level, location, quality, POSS scale (for narcotics)
Name the flowsheet where abnormal clinical results are documented as being reported to the physician and the time in which they must be communicated.
What is Critical Results? What is 1 hour?
Describe your process for checking for expired supplies in your area.
Audience, please respond.
Talk me through your point of use process.
What are the steps of point of use competency (go through them)?
IUD insertion, tooth extractions, incision and drainage, suturing, and chest tube insertion are all examples of procedures that require obtaining this from the patient before the procedure is performed.
What is informed consent?
Describe the process for double check administration of sub q insulin.
What is verifying 5 rights and BG level, pulling meds from pyxis together, verifying insulin dose, labeling with sticker in pyxis, and documenting double check in MAR.
Completing this check off process before starting an invasive patient procedure is important to identify any missing information, and prevent errors.
What is a time-out?
Name the organizational performance improvement goals for FY19.
HINT: National Patient Safety Goals and FY19 Goals
Name some of your unit-specific contributions.
2019 National Patient Safety Goals: Identify patients correctly, Improve staff communication, Use medicines safely, Use alarms safely, Prevent infection, Identify patient safety risks, Prevent mistakes in surgery.
FY19 Goals: decrease falls with injury, decrease HAPIs by half from last year, increase HCAHPs overall rating of care to 71% by end of May.
What are the contact times for purple and bleach wipes?
What is 2 minutes and 4 minutes?
Describe how you discover if a patient has an Advance Directive.
What is the ACP banner and Admission Database?
Name the tools/posters that help us identify which meds could easily be confused or are potentially harmful if mishandled.
What are the SALAD (Sound Alike Look Alike Drugs) and HAM (High Alert Medications) posters?
Explain how to verify that the MD you are working with is competent to insert a chest tube.
What is IRIS > Local Systems > Bon Secours Virginia > Location > DePaul Medical Center > Medical Staff (click) > DMC Practitioner Privileges (DOPs)