You Can Count On Me
A count involving the sequence of Surgical site, Mayo Stand, Back Table, Basin & Items off the Sterile Field
What is a Surgical Count?
Placed on the patient upon admission and remains with the patient during their stay
What is a Patient ID Band?
Items such as tubing, empty bags, bottles, syringes, gloves, masks, and gowns, that come in contact with this type of medication must be exposed of in a yellow container.
What are Chemotherapy medications?
Restrung instruments must be sprayed with precleaning gel in ______ & ____ Position
What is unlocked & opened?
Used to document any safety concerns.
What is Incident Reporting System (SRM)?
Requires a minimum of two RNs used to review Patient readiness for surgery/Procedure
What is A Surgical Checklist?
This must be verbally and visually verified before dispensing medication to the OR/Procedural Team
What is name, amount & expiration date?
Items saturated with blood or bodily fluids are placed in this bag.
What is Biohazard bag?
An area designated for the pickup and release of surgical sharps.
What is a neutral Zone?
Identifies causative factors and interventions of surgical fires.
What is fire risk assessment?
Done at the end of surgery to verify correct specimens
What is a Debrief?
Applied to secure a patient to the bed, table or gurney before the start of a procedure.
What is Safety Strap?
Can except sharps and non-chemotherapy medications.
What is the blue pharmacy container?
Must be kept closed to maintain proper temp, humidity and air exchanges.
What is procedure/operating room doors.?
Needs to be notified for all hospital, vendor and non-hospital equipment for required safety checks.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
Adjunct Technology used to aid in surgical counts
What is SurgiCount or RFID?
Requires active and attentive participation of all team members.
What is Time out?
Example of items includes prep sticks, gloves and wrappers are placed in this bin.
What is Regular Trash?
Besides expiration dates what must you inspect before opening a sterile item.
What is package integrity?
Part of the chain of notification to ensure instrumentation is reprocessed to meet scheduled and emergent patient care needs for procedural/operating room areas.
What is a Sterile Processing?
Must be completed prior to start of the surgical procedure
What is Initial counts?
equipment used to prevent exposure to biological or chemical agents.
What is PPE?
Protected health information needs to be discarded in ________.
What is Confidential Container?
The action required when equipment is not working properly.
What is remove from use?
Communication and teamwork can improve across the healthcare system when this evidence-based framework is applied.
What is TeamSTEPPS?