Medication Safety
Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Time, and Right Route
What are the five rights of medication administration?
The Joint Commission wants to speak with these personnel
What is the Staff?
Name and Date of Birth
What are the two approved patient identifiers?
18 inches from the bottom of the sprinkler head
What limitations are placed on storage room shelving and equipment?
The best way to stop the spread of infection
What is handwashing?
Assessed at each patient encounter with vital signs using FACES or Numeric scale.
How is pain assessed?
The frequency at which The Joint Commission visits an organization
What is every three years?
An occurrence that results in serious patient harm, often loss of limb or life
What is a Sentinel Event?
Items may not be placed in front of or blocking within 3 feet of these structures
What are Breaker Panels, Fire Alarm Pull Stations, Fire Extinguishers?
Patient care items (such as blood pressure cuffs) should be cleaned at this frequency to prevent the spread of infection
What is after each patient?
This process must be completed any time you transfer a medication from its original container if not for immediate administration
What is Labeling?
Ricky Cross
Who is our HIPAA Privacy Officer?
Before an invasive procedure the team stops to ensure they have the correct patient, procedure, site, and necessary equipment using this process
What is a Time Out?
The definition of the acronym RACE
A Sharps Container is changed when it reaches this point
What is 3/4 Full?
This must be done at every visit and include medications currently taking as well as supplements, vitamins and herbals
What is the Medication Reconciliation?
The method in which Surveyors analyze a hospital or clinic by following individual patients through their hospitalization
What is a Tracer?
An event or mistake that does not reach the patient and does not cause harm
What is a Near Miss?
These informational pages are found in a binder on your unit to describe the use and precautions needed for each chemical stored on the unit
What are the Safety Data Sheets (SDS)?
These items should not be placed directly on the floor
What are Supplies (especially cardboard boxes)?
Twice a day or every four hours in some instances
How often do we check refrigerator temperatures?
Words that should be avoided when speaking with a surveyor
What are Usually, Attempt, Try, Sometimes?
What is Family Advocacy?
Rating placards are found on the doorjam or on the door itself
How do you identify a fire door?
The process to clean instruments in preparation for sterilization
What is to remove gross debris and spray with prepzyme to keep wet?