Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
Two of these are used prior to administering medications, performing treatments, obtaining and labeling any specimens at bedside, and prior to administering any blood products. before any procedure, including giving medications.
What are patient identifiers?
Chief of Quality Management Services at the DVAMC.
Who is Bob Gauder?
The most frequently reported adverse patient events.
The standardized process used by nurses to ensure correct medication administration.
What are the "five rights"?
The meaning of the acronym "RCA".
What is Root Cause Analysis?
The name of the scale used at time of admission to determine a patient's risk for skin breakdown.
What is the BRADEN scale?
Dr. Thomas Hardy
Who is the Acting Director at the DVAMC?
The practice of health care in which the practitioner systematically finds, appraises, and uses the most current and valid research findings as the basis for clinical decisions.
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)?
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?
HRO is an organization that has succeeded in avoiding catastrophes in an environment where normal accidents can be expected due to risk factors and complexity. The acronym HRO represents...
A high reliability organization (HRO)