National Patient Safety Goals
The goals promote patient safety and are updated annually by The Joint Commission
What are National Patient Safety Goals?
Number of minutes to flush eyes using eye wash if exposed to hazardous materials
What is 15 minutes
What is Donning and Doffing
The maximum number of duty hours that a resident is limited to work?
Eighty hours/week.
In the absence of a physician a restraint can be initiated only under the supervision of this category of staff
Who is a registered profession nurse (RN)
This Goal is based on Joint Commission Standard and became a National Patient Safety Goal in July of 2023.
What is National Patient Safety Goal 16 or What is Improve Health Care Equity or What is Health Equity
What is VOICE
it is the time that a disinfectant needs to stay wet on a surface to ensure efficacy
What is wet time or Contact time
A process which involves comparing the patient’s list of home medications to the physician’s admission, transfer, and/or discharge medication orders. It must be performed on admission and/or transfer or discharge.
What is MEDICATION RECONCILIATION
When restraints have been placed under RN supervision for emergency purposes, the following type of assessment must be obtained as soon as possible.
What is Face to Face Assessment
Improvement in our performance on this National Patient Safety Goal is the primary focus of South Brooklyn Health for 2024
What is National Patient Safety Goal 1 or what is Two Patient Identifiers or What is Improve the accuracy of Patient identification
What you must do to identify a medication or solution which is transferred from the original packaging to another container.
What is label the container or Place a label
Automated Hand Hygiene Monitoring System currently used at South Brooklyn Health which must be worn by staff who enter and exit a patient's room
What is Biovigil or What is the Biovigil Badge
A discharge summary is to be completed either on the day of the patient's discharge or within this many days of the discharge.
What is 30 days
Patients placed in restraints for violent or self destructive reasons must be placed on this type of observation
What is a 1:1 or what is 1:1 observation
If a patient who is on telemetry must leave the unit to go for a test the following is required by a provider if it is determined that the patient can go for the test without a cardiac monitor in place
What is a discontinuation order or order to discontinue telemetry
The name of the scale used at time of admission to determine a patient's risk for skin breakdown.
What is the BRADEN scale?
Wet time for Super Sani Cloth Germicidal Wipes aka Purple top wipes which can kill bacteria, viruses and other blood borne pathogens
What is two minutes
A history and physical examination must be performed on admission for every patient within this time frame
What is 24 hours
When restraints have been placed under RN supervision for emergency purposes, a face to face assessment and written order must be obtained within this number of minutes.
What is 30 minutes
The Time-out performed prior to a surgical procedure forms part of this protocol which was instituted to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery
What is the Universal Protocol
FMEA is a systematic, proactive method for evaluating a process to identify the parts of the process that are most in need of change. The acronym FMEA represents
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?
Wet time for Super Sani Cloth bleach wipes which can kill pathogenic organisms such as Clostridium Difficile
4 minutes
True or False. Medical students may provide official documentation of inpatient history and physical examination in the medical record.
False.
Medical students may not provide official documentation of inpatient history and physical examination.
No restraints should be used on children of this age and below
What is age 9 or what is 9