Environment of Care and Life Safety
The person responsible for maintaining a safe and functional environment.
Who is everyone?
The five rights of medication administration.
What is right patient, drug, dose, route, and time?
What is washing your hands and 30 seconds?
Location of Staff and Residency privileges.
What is MACH SharePoint?
These are two unique patient identifiers used for EVERY patient.
What is NAME and DATE OF BIRTH?
The acronym to guide the use of a fire extinguisher - Must include what each letter of the acronym represents.
What is PASS?
P- Pull the pin
A-Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire
S-Squeeze the handle
S-Sweep slowly side to side
U,u
IU
Q.D., QD, q.d., qd
Q.O.D., QOD, q.o.d, qod
Trailing zero (X.0 mg)
Lack of leading zero (.X mg)
MS, MSO4, MgSO4
What are unapproved abbreviations?
Type of storage material/container that is not allowed in storage or patient care area.
What are original shipping boxes?
This item is prohibited from wearing outside immediate clinic area, requires covering with jacket or white coat.
What is hospital landered scrubs?
The organization's tool that's used to self-report potential events, near misses, and actual events.
What is Joint Patient Safety Reporting (JPSR)?
The minimum number of unobstructed inches needed from the ceiling so that sprinklers will work properly and for electrical panel clearance.
What is 18 & 36 inches?
The system used to report all vaccine adverse events.
What is Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)?
Instructions on how equipment must be cleaned, high level disinfected, reprocessed or sterilized.
What is manufactures instructions for use (IFU)?
We are the preferred choice for achieving medical readiness, for training and sustaining medical skills, for delivering and receiving healthcare, for contributing to our community, and for developing leaders.
What is MACH's Vision?
The term for conducting a pre-procedure verification process, marking the procedure site, and performing a time-out.
What is Universal Protocol?
The organizations way to identify staff, contractors, and vendors in the facility.
The number of days multidose vials must be labeled after opening.
What is 28?
Procedure for decontaminating semicritical items that will come in contact with mucous membrane or nonintact skin.
What is high-level disinfection?
The number of covered drinks allowed in patient care areas.
What is one.
The organization's contracted service utilized for communication with patients who speak a primary language other than English.
Who is Latitude Prime?
A book with detailed informational documents that were made by the manufacturer of hazardous chemicals and timeframe to review such book.
What is Safety Data Sheet book and annually?
The process of comparing a patient's medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking.
What is medication reconciliation?
The proper sequence for donning full PPE.
What is gown, mask, eye protection, and then gloves?
These yellow and green gas adaptors are considered single use.
What are Christmas trees?
A stand-up, checklist-driven planning meeting; can take up to 20 minutes. It is a routine, planned event to communicate, collaborate and coordinate on the medical or operational plan.
What is Unit-Based Huddle (UBH)?