All things IP
The Care Environment
Documentation
Standards of Care
Potpourri
100

Amount of time an area or object needs to remain wet when disinfecting with purple Prime wipes.

What is 1 minute?

100

This number of drinking vessels and snacks that are allowed per person at the nurse's station in patient care areas.

What is zero?

100

The name and concentration of the medication, the date, initials of staff.

What is the information you need to put on a label for medication on the field?

100

This is what RACE stands for.

(What is...)

R-Rescue those in immediate danger
A-Alarm-use red pull box and dial 88
C-Contain-close doors and place blankets under them
E-Evacuate to the next smoke compartment in hospital or out of building
E-Extinguish if safe PASS (pull, aim, squeeze, sweep)

100

What you do if a surveyor asks you a question and you are not sure of the answer.

What is access your resources?  (Check the policy and procedure, ask your charge nurse, supervisor, manager, or CNS, etc.)

200

In order to prevent SSI, the proper surgical site must be wiped with CHG for this long.

What is 3 minutes?

200

Bleach wipe solution just splashed into your co-workers eye. Where you could find information related to how to help them.

What is Connect, Patient and Community Care, Best and Safest Care, Material Safety Data Sheets?

200

WHEN you would document the waste in the Omnicell machine by entering your user name and password.
(HINT:  before or after the other person destroys the product)

What is after?

200

Making sure the correct surgery is done on the correct patient, at the correct place on the patient’s body. Marking the correct place on the patient’s body where the surgery is to be done and performing a time out are part of this standard.

What is the Universal Protocol?

200

This is our current safety event reporting system for patients, non-patient, environmental events?

What is Origami?

300

This is the 2 step process to cleaning the glucometer.

Clean the machine with one wipe and use a second one to disinfect it? (wipe left to right 3 times & up and down 3 times; 4 min wet time, allow to fully dry)

300

Increased end-tidal CO2, muscle rigidity, hypercarbia, tachycardia, increased temperature may indicate this condition.

What is a Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis?


300

Where you document when restraints are discontinued

What is in the restraints flowsheet under the restraint type. (Must document on this flowsheet every 2 hours for non-violent restraints and every 15 minutes for violent restraints).

300

Name a situation where you would use soap and water instead of hand sanitizer.

What is when visibly soiled, after using the restroom, and with patients with C Diff or Norovirus.

300

This is done prior to a procedure, when changing staff, when items are added, before closure of a cavity or organ, at the end of the case, and upon team request.

What is a surgical count?

400

This PPE item must be discarded between patients (and should not become a beard or necklace).

What is a mask?

400

How far away from the ceiling/sprinkler heads supplies need to be kept.

What is 18 inches?

400

When and how often are pain assessments completed?

What is every 2-4 hours; before and after pain relieving interventions?

400

Go here to figure out if a provider is credentialed to perform a procedure.

What is Connect (Corporate Services, Request Center, Provider Privilege Verification)

400

This percentage of US adults have difficulty using health information.

What is 90%?

500

This must be worn by anyone who is scrubbed and in the sterile area in case of splashing.

What is a eye protection?

500

Name 2 things that can never be blocked by equipment

What is medical gas valves, fire alarms and extinguishers, code carts, exits, corridors


500
What is the frequency of vital signs (all) for PACU or post-op

What is every 15 min?

What is every hour and prior to discharge?

500

Name 2 patient identifiers and a time that you would use them.

What is First and Last Name, date of birth and MRN?

Use when administering all medications, blood products, obtaining lab specimens, procedures/treatments, and feeds.

500

Where you find sound alike/look alike medication lists.

What is in the Medication Management Policy.

On the MAR it also indicates:
“Warning: Look-alike : sound-alike drug name”

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