Infection Prevention
These are required when entering rooms with transmission-based precautions.
What is appropriate PPE?
The maximum number of E cylinders that can be stored in a smoke compartment at once.
What is 12?
A formal or informal written complaint.
What is a patient grievance?
To care for others as we would care for those we love- to enhance their well-being and improve their health.
What is our mission statement?
This team member is responsible for performing safety, operational, and functional checks on medical equipment.
Who is Biomed?
What is the single most important way to prevent infections?
What is hand hygiene?
The acronym for how to use a fire extinguisher.
What is PASS?
Any manual method, physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment that immobilizes or reduces the ability of a patient to move his or her arms, legs, body, or head freely.
What is a restraint?
A deviation from a specific standard, requirement, or stated process ranging from an immediate jeopardy situation to a lesser concern such as a lapse in controls.
What is a nonconformity?
Any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site.
What is workplace violence?
The level of disinfection required if an ultrasound transducer is or was used for mucous membranes, non-intact skin, blood, or body fluid exposure, or used over a sterile field.
What is high-level disinfection?
This provides valuable information on chemicals as well as procedures for handing and working with a substance safely.
What are Safety Data Sheets?
This person has legal authority to make medical decisions for an incapacitated patient without an advance directive, and comes first in the hierarchy after a legally authorized representative.
Who is the patient's spouse?
The 7 actions for high reliability include safety huddles, visual mission boards, high reliability behaviors, monthly patient safety and experience meetings, essential standard work, and ___________.
What is rounding?
Riverside uses these in each department as a quick reference to help us respond when emergency situations arise.
What are Code Action Sheets?
This is used in conjunction with RH policies for use, care, cleaning, and maintaining equipment.
What is oneSource/IFU database?
Person(s) that require training on fire safety to include the locations of fire extinguishers/manual pull stations in the work area.
Who are all RH team members?
This process provides patients with clear information about a treatment or test and allows them to decide whether to proceed based on benefits and risks.
What is informed consent?
The 3 Cs of ISO.
What is consistency, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement?
A legal order issued by a Special Justice or other judicial officer granting permission to a healthcare provider to provide involuntary medical treatment to a patient in the next 24 hours.
What is a medical detention order?
This process identifies the potential for air and waterborne contaminants to spread, and then designs and implements controls to reduce the risk.
What is an Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA)?
The frequency in which eyewash stations shall be inspected.
What is weekly?
Also referred to as the "anti-dumping" statue and COBRA, this Act/policy states that the hospital shall provide appropriate medical screening examinations of any individuals who comes to the Hospital's ED and requests an exam or treatment regardless of insurance status or their ability to pay.
What is EMTALA?
This system is used to report safety concerns, near misses, and events.
What is rCare?
Employees should wear this at all times while working in the facility.
What is an identification badge?