Operational Standards
Organization that established operational standards specifically for laboratory testing
What is The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute?
The primary goal of patient care technicians
What is keeping patients safe?
Type of equipment you should never use
Legal responsibility of patient care technicians pertaining to abuse and neglect
What is reporting any suspicion of abuse ?
Most important thing to do in an emergency
What is remaining calm?
Organization that has operational standards that focus on continual improvement of patient safety and quality of care
What is the Joint Commission?
When a risk for falls assessment is made
What is at the time of admission to a healthcare facility?
Time when all side rails should be up
What is transporting a patient in a bed or a gurney?
Any action that has the potential to cause harm to another person
What is abuse?
What a PCT must do if they are with a patient during an emergency such as active shooting
What is staying and hiding with the patient, hiding until help arrives?
Organization that develops operational standards for infection control
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Ways to prevent falls (2 minimum)
What are making sure patients wear non-skid shoes (slippers), removing clutter in patient’s path, ensuring patients know how to use call light, using a gait belt for assistance, cleaning up spilled fluids on the floor, using canes and walkers?
Restraints can only be used after what
What is after all other preventative measures have been attempted and the physician has ordered them?
Failure to deliver care that individuals need to maintain health and safety and meet basic human needs
What is neglect?
3 things you can do in case of an active shooter situation
What is run, hide, fight?
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Ways to prevent burns (2 minimum)
What is checking the temperature of bath and shower to see if it’s between 40.5 and 43.3 degrees Celsius, warning patients when foods or beverages are hot, making sure hot drinks have a lid on them, never allowing patients to sleep with heating pad, and placing a cloth/towel between any heating apparatus and patient skin?
Must ensure restraints are ______ to prevent injury to bony prominences and skin
What is padded restraints?
Types of abuse (2 minimum)
What is physical, financial, sexual, verbal, psychological, and nemotional abuse?
If you can’t run and you must hide, what things must you do?
What is locking the doors, turning off cell-phones, staying with patients, and hiding from shooter’s view?
A national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patient’s perspectives of hospital care.
What is the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey?
Way to alert nurses and staff members that a patient has fall risk
What is providing a wristband that alerts patient is at fall risk?
Name additional precautions to take with restraints (2 minimum)
What is do not attach restraints to side rails, attach restraints with easy-to-release knots or buckles, check on patients every 15 minutes and check blood flow, make sure patients can reach call light, remove restraints every 2 hours to reposition patients, assist them with ROM exercises, report to charge nurse
Indications of possible abuse (3 minimum)
What are signs of malnourishment, physical signs of trauma, undue anxiety, caregiver control, lack of personal care, lack of concentration, dehydration, signs of withdrawal, emotional changes, inability to complete tasks?
What option is the last resort in case of an active shooter situation and what things can you do
What is fighting, acting physical aggressive, trying to incapacitate the shooter, and throwing items at the shooter?