Transport
Your trainee is transporting a pt on 7L of oxygen to CT. What should you advise them to do next?
Contact the RN to travel with you due to high amounts of oxygen.
It is your trainees first day in IP and they are lost downstairs, What do you do?
Go down and find them so you can show them their way. * Trying to describe where to go can often cause them to get flustered.
What are the main reasons a patient cannot come to the discharge lounge?
- Isolation patient
-Behavioral issues
-Awaiting an ambulance stretcher transport (wheelchair ok)
-Needing on-going nursing or physician care in the Lounge
What are the two primary benches to train someone on?
1. Triage
2. Hot Seat
Where can you find training paperwork?
Preceptor Teams page
You and your trainee are about to enter a elevator with a patient. What does your trainee need to know specifically?
Patient should always face the doors.
Your trainee is having a hard time navigating the floors. What is a good Landmark to teach them to understand where they are?
Yellow elevator
What visitors need to have a fast pass badge printed?
anyone going to visit a patient in the inpatient units- everyone 18 and over
When training at Hot Seat initially what kind of specimens would you give your trainee?
Receiving: Urines, swabs, blood cultures, MX/MB samples, QFGs
How can you make your trainee feel more included or comfortable during the shift?
Each lunch together and/or introduce them to all the other teammates
What are the 4 sectors you should make sure a trainee is assigned to?
AIP, ED Perimeter, procedural, discharges
You are teaching your trainee how to review order of draw and stability, where can this be found?
The Lab Catalog
What are the primary reasons that a patient is sent to the discharge lounge?
- Needing/waiting a ride home
- Waiting on meds or equipment
- Waiting on DME
Your trainee gets very overwhelmed in the first half of the day, What is an easy assignment to help ease them?
Rovering samples
What question can we ask if our trainee is having a hard time understanding the training?
What is your preferred learning style?
When delivering a body to the morgue, if a person is fitting snugly in their bag or is +/- 250lbs what additional step is needed?
Make sure that there is a blue sling underneath the body
You are training your trainee on a Heparin draw. What is important for them to know?
You must contact the nurse to have the IV paused for 10 min (best practice) before drawing.
Your trainee gets a pt with Medicaid who is not wheelchair-bound and lives in Denver, who should they call?
IntelliRide
*If wait is longer than 30 min call Lyft
You and your trainee get a solo sample with no label, and no one is on phones. What steps would you guide them to take?
1. Document on the unlabeled specimen tracker
2. Write the time on the bag/ specimen
3. Place sample in "Day 1" bucket/rack
What are at least 2 common things to inform your trainee of before starting for the day?
- Names
- Door codes
-Bathrooms
- Breaks
- Tour
You and your trainee are transporting a patient in a bed and loose power. What should you instruct the trainee to do?
1. Flip toggle switch up
2. Place the bed in neutral
You are taking your trainee to BH. What are at least 2 things you wanted them to know for their safety?
- Never leave any supplies!
- Always have RN with you
- Never use coban
- Never turn your back
Your trainee is helping a visitor who is here to visit a confidential patient. The visitor does not have/offer the required code. What should your trainee verbally say?
If the visitor does not volunteer a code, the front desk should tell the visitor "there is not a patient at the hospital under that name."
Your trainee logs into epic and they don't have the correct access. What can you do?
- Start an IT chat to place a ticket first
-If you still need help, contact management
A trainee is asked how they know if a shift is scheduled or just showing their availability. How should you respond?
Scheduled shifts will appear in Blue with a shift label. Availability will appear as the time windows in purple.