Patient Safety
This is the number one patient safety goal before administering a medication.
What is using two patient identifiers?
The single most effective way to prevent healthcare-associated infections.
What is hand hygiene?
Patients at risk should be repositioned at least every ____ hours.
What is 2 hours?
A temperature greater than _____ may be an early sign of infection.
What is 100.4°F
Name the five rights of medication administration.
What are right patient, right drug (medication), right dose, right route, right time.
This intervention is required for patients identified as high fall risk.
What is activating a bed alarm?
Daily chlorhexidine bathing helps reduce this line-associated infection.
What is CLABSI?
This assessment tool is commonly used to evaluate pressure injury risk.
What is the Braden Scale?
Elevated lactate levels may indicate this.
What is poor tissue perfusion?
The provider asks, "What do you think is happening?" Which SBAR section is this?
What is Assessment?
A medication was almost given to the wrong patient but was caught before administration. This is called a ______.
What is a near miss?
This device should be removed as soon as it is no longer necessary to reduce infection risk.
What is a Foley catheter?
Moisture from this condition significantly increases skin breakdown risk.
What is incontinence?
Name two signs of sepsis.
What are fever, tachycardia, hypotension, altered mental status, or tachypnea?
This quality methodology uses Plan, Do, Study, Act cycles.
What is PDSA?
What should you do if interrupted during medication preparation?
What is restart your safety check process before administration?
Before accessing a central line, nurses should perform this action for at least 15 seconds.
What is scrub the hub?
Name two bony prominences commonly affected by pressure injuries.
What are heels, sacrum, hips, elbows, or occiput?
How often should you do vital signs for an elevated lactate level?
What Q1 until it is under 2.
A patient says, "That pill doesn't look like what I take at home." What should you do?
What is stop and verify the medication before administration?
This communication tool is recommended when escalating patient concerns.
What is SBAR?
Name three interventions that reduce CAUTI risk.
What are proper catheter care, daily necessity evaluation, and early catheter removal?
This stage of pressure injury presents as full-thickness skin loss with visible adipose tissue.
What is Stage 3?
What bundle element should occur rapidly after sepsis is identified?
What is obtaining cultures, administering antibiotics, and fluid resuscitation (fluid bolus based on weight of the patient)?
Your patient's IV pump is alarming while another patient is calling for pain medication. What should you do first?
What is assess the IV alarm to determine if there is an immediate safety concern?