Infection Control
This is the minimum number of seconds you should rub your hands together when washing with soap and water.
What is 20 seconds?
This color of non-slip socks is universally used in most hospitals to visually identify a patient who is at high risk for falls.
What is yellow?
The fifth vital sign.
What is pain?
This legal phrase reminds professionals that if a procedure or conversation isn't written down, legally it never happened. (Nikki loves it)
If it isn't documented, it wasnt done.
This system uses a muscular organ to pump oxygen, nutrients, and blood through a network of vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
When removing standard PPE, this item is typically taken off first to avoid contaminating your hands or clothes.
What are gloves?
To prevent entrapment and accidental falls, a patient's bed should always be kept in this position when a clinician leaves the room.
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What is the lowest position?
(With wheels locked)
The minimum duration for hand washing.
What is 20 seconds?
Eye contact is an example of what?
What is active listening?
This system captures oxygen from the air and removes carbon dioxide waste.
What is the respiratory system?
This type of transmission precaution requires healthcare workers to wear an N95 respirator before entering the patient's room.
What are airborne precautions?
Healthcare workers must never leave a patient who is designated as this level of fall risk alone in the shower.
What is high fall risk?
A patient with right sided hemiparesis should have their wheelchair placed here.
What is the left side?
Clinical note format.
What are SOAP notes?
This system breaks down food into tiny nutrients that your body can use for energy.
What is the digestive system?
This spore-forming bacteria is highly resistant to alcohol-based hand rubs and requires environmental disinfection with bleach.
What is Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)?
This is the specific moment in the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene that protects both the healthcare worker and the healthcare environment from contamination after touching a patient.
The two areas of the body that should be washed first when performing a complete bath (and how).
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What are the face and eyes?
(Inner to outer corners)
Patient records are classified as this type of binding document used in legal proceedings and court cases.
The respiratory and circulatory system do what during physical activity?
The respiratory system takes in oxygen that the circulatory system then pumps to active muscles.
The five main principles of infection control.
What is hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), environmental cleaning, respiratory hygiene, and safe waste and sharps disposal?
Patients should be instructed to use these securely mounted wall fixtures for balance.
What are grab bars?
q2h, to prevent pressure ulcers.
To ensure accuracy during verbal or telephone orders, the receiver must perform this final verification step before executing the order.
What is repeat back?
The function of each blood component.
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Plasma - Regulatory medium
WBC - Protection
RBC - Transport oxygen
Platelets - Stop bleeding
(Plasma, leukocytes, thrombocytes, erythrocytes)