Safety
An online system used to report patient and visitor injuries or adverse events, including potential events (near miss).
What is a SAFE report?
This is used to encrypt confidential emails.
What is #secure?
This term defines our physical surroundings, i.e. the clinic, office, or hospital site in which we work.
What is Environment of Care (EOC)?
This is the online system that houses all of UVMMC policies and procedures.
What is PolicyStat?
5 rights of medication administration.
What is right patients, drug, dose, time, route.
This standard is followed Whenever administering meds or blood products, taking samples and specimens for testing, or providing any other treatments or procedures.
What is the use of two patient identifiers?
This term refers to both a living will and durable power of attorney.
What is Advanced Directives?
All used instruments being transported need to be placed in this.
What is a leak proof and puncture proof container-shuttle bin?
This is the term used to define specimen testing done outside the confines of the lab. May include blood glucose testing, urine pregnancy testing, or rapid strep testing.
What is Point of Care Testing?
Disposal container for non controlled pharmaceutical waste.
What is the black bin?
The correct process for labeling blood or other specimens collected in the clinic.
What is applying the label presence of the patient, at the time of collection?
Should be documented with every call with an interpreter.
What is an interpreter ID number?
These are substances that pose a health risk or physical dander.
What are Hazardous Materials?
Clearly defined and measurable goals that help hospitals and critical access hospitals improve safety, quality, and outcomes.
What are National Performance Goals?
Number of identifiers needed to confirm patient identity.
What is 2?
What is one year after opening.
Patient access to transportation, food insecurity or house insecurity.
What are heath related social needs?
This information is located on the UVMMC intranet. Each sheet describes in detail the chemical makeup and how to treat an exposure to the hazardous material we have on site. Cleaning solutions are a common item. It is commonly known by the acronym MSDS.
What are Material Safety Data Sheets?
The time needed to effectively disinfect equipment.
What is dwell time?
What needs to be confirmed in Epic prior to medication pretaration?
What is an order?
This should be done in real time during procedures 3 times per month.
What is a procedural audit?
This should be reviewed with patient at every visit.
What is fall risk?
The presence of this, located on a piece of medical equipment, ensures that it is safe for patient use.
What is a current TSP sticker?
Staff should be doing this before patient contact and aseptic task, after bodily fluid exposure risk, after patient contact and after contact with patient surroundings.
What is appropriate hand hygiene?
28 day rule applies to multi-dose, injectable medication vials.
What is Beyond Use Date (BUD)?