Intervention Strategies
Member of nursing staff goes see the client, address any needs such as toileting, positioning, pain, and safety checks
What is hourly rounding?
Acronym stands for rescue, alarm, contain, and extinguish in the event of a fire.
What is R.A.C.E?
Falls
Older adults
Placing the client alone in a securely locked room.
What is seclusion?
A device with locking wheels that is used to lift clients out of bed or chair. It has a sling to cradle clients.
What is a hoyer lift?
A tool used to report an adverse event, sentinel event, client safety event, or near miss.
What is an occurrence (incident) report?
Acronym stands for pull, aim, squeeze, and sweep. Used to describe the steps to activate and use a fire extinguisher appropriately.
What is P.A.S.S?
Burns from hot liquids, poisonings and choking, drowning.
Infants/preschool-age children
Limit movements such as concave mattresses, lapboards that are attached to chairs, bed enclosures, and having all four bed rails up.
What are barrier restraints?
A mobile lift, with locking breaks, that takes the client from a sitting to standing position.
What is a Sit-to-stand lift?
Equipment that is meant to protect the healthcare worker from contamination, blood or body fluids. Contains masks, eye protection, gown, gloves, and hair caps.
What is PPE?
Clients, visitors and staff who are threatened by fire are moved on the same floor of a safe location.
What is lateral evacuation?
Sports injuries
school-age children
The manual holding or immobilizing the client using physical strength (E.g, swaddling wrap)
What is physical restraint?
They are lifts mounted in the ceiling that are used to lift and transfer clients in and out of bed or the chair. It has a sling to cradle clients.
What is a Ceiling lift?
A fall prevention tool that can attach to the bed, chair, or person. Alarm will ring when the client attempts to move from their current environment.
What are movement alarms?
Clients, visitors and staff threatened by fire are relocated to a different floor.
What is vertical evacuation?
Workplace accidents
Middle-aged adults
The administration of medications to reduce client movement or control behavior. ( E.g., benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, and neuromuscular blocking agents)
What is chemical restraint?
A device put on a patient who has mobility issues, by a caregiver prior to that caregiver moving the patient.
What is a gait belt?
A dedicated group whose responsibility is to bring proactively critical care to the bedside.
What is rapid response team (RTT)?
This type of fire extinguisher is multipurpose.
What is ABC?
Peer bullying and violence
Adolescents
Physical device that is applied to a person to restrict their movement. Consists of straps, fabric, leather devices that can fasten around the client's wrist or ankles, linens, belts, jackets, vests, and hand mittens can also be used.
What is mechanical restraint?
A smaller version of the turnsheet or glide sheet. They are meant for movement of body parts as in an obese client’s extremities.
What is a PolyGlide Sheet?