UHealth People
Who is Anna Kemp or Ladisbel Leyva?
Who is a Risk Manager at your location?
Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
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.
Patient Name and Date of Birth
What is TJC?
The Joint Commission
A VALID and current government issued photo identification is required to do this.
What is patient registration?
Who is Maureen Fagan?
The Chief Experience Officer
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. Updated and published yearly.
What are the National Patient Safety Goals?
The online incident reporting system to report events to Risk Management.
What is Quantros?
What is AHCA?
Agency for Healthcare Administration?
During registration, the patient is asked to do this before affixing the armband.
What is verify and initial the information is correct?
Who is Dr. David Sinclair?
The Patient Safety Officer for UHealth
This has consistently been the #1 National Patient Safety Goal since 2003.
Patient Identification
What number do you dial in an active shooter scenario?
What is 911?
What is CMS?
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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)?
Who is Ellie Smith, DNP?
The Chief Nursing Officer for UHealth
Name and Date of Birth
What are the two patient identifiers to be used?
The name of the protocol to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgery.
What is the Universal Protocol?
What is DOH?
The Department of Health
Involve the patient in every step of patient care by doing this.
What is ASK-MATCH-VERIFY?
Who is Dr. Edward Abraham?
CEO of UHealth
What is a Near Miss (aka Good Catch)?
An unplanned event that did not result in injury illness or damage, but had the potential to do so
Three steps that involve the patient in verifying patient identification.
What is ASK-MATCH-VERIFY?
What is CDC?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
TRUE or FALSE:
A patient arrives to registration without a valid ID and is allowed to proceed for scheduled care knowing they will bring the ID tomorrow.
FALSE!
A valid and current ID is required at the time of registration. Without proper required documents, a patient will be rescheduled for care.