People and Things
Katrina Harding
Who is the Chief, Clinical Quality Improvement /Joint Commission?
Examples include QD., qod, U, IU, MS, MSO4, MgSO4, the use of a trailing zero (x.0 mg) or lack of leading zero (.xmg).
What is the DO NOT USE ABBREVIATIONS list?
Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
What you must do to medication or solution which is transferred from the original packaging to another container.
What is label the container?
These two patient identifiers are used prior to administering medications, performing treatments, obtaining and labeling any specimens at bedside, and prior to administering any blood products.
What is the patient's NAME and DATE OF BIRTH (DOB)?
Patient Safety Report form
What is filed to report an unusual patient incident?
Drugs, which by the nature of their name, are involved in a high percentage of medication errors or other adverse outcomes. Examples include Novolog and Novolin-R, Oxycodone and Oxycontin, Hydromorphone and Morphine, Heparin and Hespan
What are Look Alike - Sound Alike medications?
Topics originated by the Joint Commission to promote and enforce major changes in patient safety in thousands of participating health care organizations in the United States.
What are the National Patient Safety Goals?
An interdisciplinary process comparing a complete list of medications that the patient has been taking prior to admission, with the medications that will be provided during hospitalization; performed at pre-admission, admission and/or at time of transfer or discharge.
What is MEDICATION RECONCILIATION?
An assessment of patients' health care literacy is also required. Be sure that your documentation includes not only the provision of education or materials, but also the patient's understanding of the material.
What is "How do I document patient teaching or educational material I provide to patients?
Col. Albert Brewer
Who is the Hospital Safety Chief?
The primary objective of SBAR is to provide a standardized form of communication between caregivers in providing accurate, clear and complete information during transitions (“hand-offs”) in patient care. The acronym SBAR represents . . .
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR)?
Hospital( HAP)
Primary Care Medical Home ( PCMH)
Behavioral Health (BH)
What are Womack- Accredited Joint Commission Programs?
All personnel permitted to administer medications must check for the following five "rights" of medication administration.
What is " How do we assure safe medication administration"
The Patient "Bill of Rights" pamphlet is available for both staff and patients throughout the facility and contains detailed information about patient rights. We give patients this booklet during the admission process. Rights and Responsibilities of the Patient are posted throughout the hospital and outlying clinics
Provide safe, high quality, cost-effective care ensuring zero harm for patients, staff, and visitors that generates readiness and positive outcomes.
What is our Mission?
Examples include central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), surgical site infections (SSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), clostridium difficile infection (CDI), methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
What are Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)?
Notify your supervisor immediately and report to the ER if appropriate, with the Safety Report completed by your Supervisor. Supervisors contact the FECA representative at 1-866-792-7620 and they will send you the link to create the CA-1
What is What happens if I am injured on the job?
1. Assessing patient needs
2. Planning care, treatment, and services
3. Providing the care, treatment, and services the patient needs
4. Coordinating care, treatment, and services
If the employee are aware of information that could be classified as PHI, but are not in the authorized capacity to disclose such information and/or have not confirmed that the requestor is entitled to the PHI, the employees are to respond as follows: " In order to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and out of respect for our patients and their families, I am unable to release any information at this time." The employees can then refer the person to the Patient administration, who has the authority to release the information.
What is How should I Respond to Requests For PHI?
" All people always experience the safest, highest quality, best-care across all settings."
What is Joint Commission's Vision
An RCA is a comprehensive and systemic analysis used to identify the root cause(s), casual and contributing factors that underline variation in a process or system performance including the occurrence or possible occurrence of a reportable event. The Acronym RCA stands for...?
What is a Root Cause Analysis?
Unit in-services, continuing education program, relias Health courses, Joint knowledge online (JKO) courses, the Hospital Library, and Temporary Duty (TDY) for training. The Hospital Education and Staff Department (HESD) is responsible for 68W competencies, BLS, ACLS, PALS and other mandatory training.
What continuing education or professional development is available to me?
In addition to vital signs, the patient's reason for the visit, immunization status, current medication, pain level, etc. are minimal requirements for all settings. Additional assessments such as potentials for assault, abuse or suicide, using screening tools and questions such as "Do you feel safe at home?" , or hospital approved suicidal screening tool (Columbia suicide severity rating scale). Patients seen in Behavioral Health or the Substance Use Disorder Clinical Care (SUDCC) have a more defined assessment.
What are some critical elements that must be assessed on all patients?
You are a nurse and approached by a family member of one of your patients. She indicates that her Mom (patient) appears to be "not right." After assessing the patient you determine you need help. Who do you call for additional assistance?
What is the Rapid Response Team?