An injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug
What is Adverse Drug Event
100
One of the most important things you can do to protect patients from infection.
What is wash your hands.
100
The length of time allowed for an infusion of packed red blood cells
What is 4 hours
100
The patient safety officer at BRRH
Who is Kim Dillon
100
The process that occurs when a patient or patient's surrogate is informed that an adverse event occurred
What is disclosure of unanticipated outcome
200
The most crucial step to take to prevent medical errors and keep patient's safe in transitions of care
What is handoff communication
200
One way to prevent this from occurring is to ensure that the need for it's use is evaluated daily and discontinued as soon as possible
What is catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI's)
200
One way to prevent this is to ensure that healthcare workers work reasonable shift hours and get enough sleep between shifts
What is healthcare worker fatigue
200
A family member approaches you and tells you her mom is "not right". You determine that the patient has a change in condition and call for a special team to respond
What is rapid response team
200
An event that is reported in the incident reporting system but did not reach the patient, employee or visitors. It was "caught" before this occurred.
What is a near miss
300
When this occurs you will need to run, hide and as a last resort, fight
What is an active shooter
300
Use this when a patient is known or suspected to be infected or colonized with a microorganisms that can be transmitted
What is contact precautions
300
Medical or hospital staff have reasonable cause to suspect that a child, vulnerable adult or elderly person has been subjected to abuse may use this hotline number to report it
What is 1-800-96 abuse
300
When you need help to facilitate patient care or hospital issues. (i.e..transfers to another facility, physician not responding) you should go up this line of authority
What is chain of command
300
A process of information exchange between the physician and the patient/patient decision maker that results in their authorization to perform an invasive procedure
What is informed consent
400
A serious patient safety event that reaches a patient and causes any of the following:
Death
Permanent Harm
Severe temporary harm
What is a sentinel event or a code 15
400
When an exposure to a patient's bodily fluids occurs, an employee needs to contact the Employee Health Nurse and immediate Supervisor and be evaluated for exposure to ____
What is bloodborne pathogens
400
Medical errors such as wrong site surgery are less likely to occur when patients confirm their treatment
What is patient involvement
400
Boca Raton Regional Hospital delivers the highest quality patient care with unrelenting attention to clinical excellence, patient satisfaction and patient safety.
What is our mission statement
400
After an adverse event occurs, the team involved gathers and discusses what happened. The primary focus is on identifying the system failure that occurred.
What is root cause analysis (RCA)
500
To feel empowered to stop a process/procedure from occurring when you feel it will cause harm to the patient no matter who is asking for this process/procedure to occur.
What is "stop the line"
500
A staph bacterium infection that is resistant to most antibiotics.
What is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
500
The name of the scale used to determine a patient's risk for skin breakdown
What is BRADEN scale
500
Topics originated at the joint commission to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety
What is National Patient Safety Goals
500
A proactive approach to identify weaknesses in our system or processes and develop risk reduction techniques