Measure Up
Safety Check
National Patient Safety Goals
Nurses do it with care
Infection Section
100
This is given within one hour of surgical incision
What is the appropriate prophylactic antibiotic?
100
Rescue, Activate, Contain, Evacuate
What is What to do in the event of Fire? - RACE
100
L, R, QD, QOD, MSO4, and u are all examples of these.
What are Unapproved or Banned abbreviations?
100
NSI is the acronym for this:
What is Nursing Sensitive Indicators?
100
These "bugs" play hard to get.
What are MDROs? (Multi-drug resistant organisms)
200
The only approved instrument for peri-operative hair removal
What are clippers?
200
Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
What is How to use a fire extinguisher? - PASS
200
Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation
What is SBAR? Or, how we perform "handoff communication"?
200
All of our post anesthesia/sedation patients "fall" into this category:
What is HIGH fall risk (greater than 11 points on the fall risk assessment)?
200
What we do before and after any contact with patient or patient care equipment or "crossing the threshold" of a pt. care area?
What is wash hands? Hand Hygiene?
300
Medication, strength or concentration, amount, time and date, Initials
What is how we label any medication that is transferred from it's original container?
300
Name, Date of Birth, Medical Record Number are acceptable to use for this.
What is patient identification? Using 2 patient identifiers?
300
The term for listing all patient medications (including herbals and supplements), meds to be discontinued, meds to continue, and new medications.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
300
We adhere to strict asepsis and protocol to prevent this HAI (hospital aquired infection)
What is: (any are acceptable) CAUTI (catheter associated UTI) - CLABSI (central line associated bloodstream infection) - VAP (ventilator associated pneumonia) - SSI (surgical site infection)
300
This is the PPE (personal protective equipment) we must put on when entering the room of a patient with contact precautions.
What are gown and gloves?
400
This must be equal or greater than 36 degrees celsius within 15 minutes after surgery.
What is the patient's temperature? - or normothermia?
400
F.A.S.T.
What is the acronym to quickly assess for a stroke - Face asymmetry, Arm drifting, Speech, Time
400
We WRITE DOWN and then READ BACK all of these.
What is a Telephone or Verbal order?
400
The link on the CareWeb where an incident is reported (i.e. pt. fall or injury, employee exposure).
What is the PSN or Patient Safety Network?
400
28 days
What is how long multi-dose vials are good after opening? (including insulins)
500
SCIP "measures" are a subset of this group mandated by CMS
What are Core Measures?
500
Where you find specific safety information about a chemical that is used in our work area
What is an SDS - Safety Data Sheet? Or, Hazardous Communication Book? OR under MSDS on the Careweb?
500
The part of Universal Protocol during which the Circulator and the Anesthesia Team verify the following: Pt. ID, allergies, and risks; Surgical site marking, procedure and consent; Monitoring and suction equipment are functional; Appropriate medication and fluids available
What is the Pre-Induction Surgical Safety Checklist?
500
UK Healthcare is striving to acheive this "attractive" distinction by improving the quality of patient care.
What is Magnet designation?
500
The organism for which just using the waterless hand cleanser is not sufficient.
What is Clostridium difficile? (C-diff)
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