Healthcare Quality
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What is the unit based Quality Bulletin Board?
Definition of SSI.
What is a Surgical Site Infection?
United States federal legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
What is HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
The number to call a Code Blue.
What is 8-1-1?
A sudden, unintentional descent, with or without injury to the patient, that results in the patient coming to rest on the floor, on or against some other surface, on another person, or on an object?
What is the NDNQI definition of a fall or reportable fall?
Who can enter a safety incident in RL solutions?
a. Nurses
b. Doctors
c. Leadership
d. Anyone
What is Anyone?
The number one way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is Handwashing?
Part of the US Department of Health and Human Services that oversees many federal healthcare programs, including those that involve health information technology such as the meaningful use incentive program for electronic health records.
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS?
What do you do if your patient has a sudden change in condition?
What is call a MET?
A fall in which any staff member was with the patient, and attempted to minimize the impact of the fall by slowing the patient’s descent.
What is an assisted fall?
RL Solutions
What is the name of the UCHealth incident reporting system?
True or False: All UCHealth Employees are required to receive annual Influenza Vaccine.
What is True?
An independent, not-for-profit group in the United States that administers voluntary accreditation programs for hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Yellow gown, yellow nonslip socks, yellow signage on door, yellow wristband, or banner
What are items that help you identify a high fall risk patient?
When a patients falls intentionally or falsely claim to have fallen for various reasons, including seeking attention or obtaining pain medication.
What is a suspected intentional?
If a patient speaks Spanish and needs to have a consent signed, does the patient sign the Spanish or English version?
What is the patient should sign the version of their preferred language, and the physician should sign the English version, both go into the chart?
Name two hospital acquired infections that are reported to National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI),
What are CAUTI, CLABSI, Multidrug Resistant Organisms, Ventilator Associated Events (VAE), Ventilatory Associated Pneumonia (VAP)?
__________ should be notified if a patient is missing.
Who is the Nursing House Supervisor (NHS)?
What Patient Safety Goal includes: Record and pass along correct information about a patient’s medicines. Find out what medicines the patient is taking. Compare those medicines to new medicines prescribed to the patient. Make sure the patient knows which medicines to take when they are at home. Tell the patient it is important to bring an up-to-date list of medicines every time they visit a doctor.
Use Medicines Safely - Medication Reconcilitation
Events “in which an infant, toddler, or preschooler who is learning to stand, walk, run, or pivot falls as part of the developmental process of acquiring these skills.”
What is a developmental fall?
True or False. A pressure injury on the ear is automatically considered a stage 3 pressure injury.
What is True?
SIRS Criteria with signs of organ dysfunction.
What is Severe Sepsis?
Name three State Reportable Conditions.
What are Abuse (Physical, Sexual, Verbal); Anesthesia complication; Brain Injury or Spinal cord injury (as a result of an occurrence, i.e. fall); Burns: second or third degree burns as a result of an occurrence, i.e. fire); Death as a result of an occurrence; Drug Diversion (intentional); Malfunction or Misuse of Equipment causing adverse or potentially adverse effects; Missing Person/Elopement: at risk and missing after search conducted OR missing more than 8 hours, regardless of risk; AMA is not a missing person or elopement; Neglect of an at risk patient only; Patient property - deliberate misplacement, exploiting or wrongful use of patient property; Transfusion - life-threatening reaction from a transfusion of blood or blood products.
Name two patient identifiers that should be utilized to correctly identify a patient prior to any treatment or transport.
What are name, date of birth, medical record number?
True or False: If a behavioral health patient falls, is the fall always categorized as "behavioral".
What is False? Just because they are a behavioral health patient does not mean the fall is behavioral