Infection Control
This familiar green device is labeled as single patient use and should be discarded when an inpatient is discharged or used for only one patient in an ambulatory setting.
What is a Christmas tree adapter?
This person is allowed to shut off medical gas zone valves
Who is Plant Engineering consulting with Respiratory?
Who you call in the event of a hazardous material spill
What is 803-SAFE?
Nursing checks these prior to administering medications, blood or when collecting blood samples and other specimens, and when providing treatments or procedures
What is 2 patient identifiers?
The contact time when cleaning with a bleach wipe for patients in contact- enteric precautions
What is a 3 min?
Cylinders which have been opened and whose content is less or equal to 999 PSI.
What is an EMPTY O2 tank or cylinder?
Per JC standards, this exists in the EMR for every medication ordered. CCHMC policy states this must be present in the order for every PRN medication and antibiotics?
What is an indication?
Used to assess the physical environment for mental health patients or suicidal patients.
What is the Environmental Safety checklist?
The cleaning process for oxygen tanks after use
What is wipe the regulator with a H2O2 wipe before leaving the patient room, allowing for a 1 minute contact time.
The highest temperature the blanket warmer can be set at?
What is 130 degrees
This practice of prescribing multiple PRN medications for the same indication without clear instructions as to which medication should be administered first, second, etc is prohibited by the Joint Commission.
What is therapeutic duplication OR concurrent medications?
Lab values significantly outside of the normal range, these are to be called to the licensed provider within an established time frame
What is critical test results?
CCHMC's name for the process used to transport dirty medical instruments back to SPD. Per JC these containers must be closed, leak proof, puncture proof and labeled with biohazard symbol
A: What is a red bin? OR What is the red bin process?
Signs stating this are posted on any door, passage, or stairway that is neither an exit nor an access to an exit (such as a dead end) but could be mistaken for an exit.
What is NO EXIT?
Share information with others, closed loop communication, help out each other when busy
What id ways to work together as a team?
This discussion between a patient and a provider explores the proposed care or treatment and the potential benefits, risks, side effects and alternatives of such
What is informed consent ?