Environment of Care
Infection Control
Patient Rights
Medication Safety
Potpourri
100
This is how often a fire drill must be conducted each year at a hospital.
What is once per shift per quarter? The hospital conducts fire drills once per shift per quarter in each building defined as a health care occupancy by the Life Safety Code. The hospital conducts quarterly fire drills in each building defined as an ambulatory health care occupancy by the Life Safety Code.
100
This is the single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection.
What is Handwashing /Hand Hygiene?
100
Patients learn about their privacy rights by getting “hip” to this form.
What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPAA form?
100
The hospital maintains this list, that includes medication strength and dosage, and is readily available to those involved in medication management.
What is the formulary?
100
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
What are patient identifiers? What are: a. Name and MRN or b. Name and CSN (account number) or c. Name and Date of Birth
200
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 for.
What is SDS?
200
Gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields and face shields are all examples of this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
200
This item is should be 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 or Patient's Handbook?
200
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?
200
It tells you whether a piece of patient equipment has been serviced recently, and is safe to use during patient care.
What is a biomed sticker?
300
This intranet tool is the best way to notify the Facilities Department that something is broken or unsafe.
What is the Work order Request?
300
This infection control practice considers all patients to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens, and requires PPE to be used when coming into contact with ALL patients blood, urine, or other body fluids.
What are Universal Precautions?
300
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?
300
“U”, “IU” and “QD” all appear on this list.
What is the “Do not Use” Abbreviation List?
300
A robust approach using multiple, complementary strategies to achieve the goal of always conducting the correct procedure on the correct person, at the correct site and requires active involvement among all members of the procedure team for success.
What is Universal Protocol?
400
These inspections are conducted by the Facilities Department to identify and list repairs that need to be performed.
What are Environmental Rounds?
400
All of these, with the exception of vaccines, must be disposed of after 28 days after opening.
What are multi-use vials?
400
IUD insertion, lumbar punture, incision and drainage, and moderate sedation are all examples of procedures that require obtaining this from the patient before the procedure is performed.
What is informed consent?
400
Effective 2017, the hospital's program includes this core elements: - Leadership commitment - Accountability - Drug expertise - Action: systemic evaluation of ongoing treatment need - Monitoring information on prescribing and resistance patterns. - Reporting: on use and resistance to all hospital staff - Education: practitioners, staff, and patients on resistance and optimal prescribing.
What is the antibiotic stewardship program?
400
Doing this process before starting a patient procedure is important to identify any missing information, and prevent errors.
What is a time-out?
500
This type of safety exercise prepares staff to keep employees, patients and visitors safe in the case of loss of power, earthquake, or other unexpected events.
What are emergency or disaster drills?
500
This process should be used to disinfect medical instruments that cannot be passed through an autoclave machine.
What is high level chemical disinfection?
500
This is a way for patients to formally communicate what type of healthcare they want if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity, and to appoint a person to make such decisions on their behalf.
What is an Advance Directive?
500
Those medications involved in a high percentage of errors and/or sentinel events, as well as medications that carry a higher risk for abuse or other adverse outcomes, specific precautions must be taken, because they have a higher possibility of causing harm.
What are "high alert/hazardous medications?"
500
This term is defined as “the procedures, actions, and processes that a medical professional is licensed to perform”.
What is the “scope of practice”?
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