Delivering leading edge patient care, research, and education.
What is UCLA's mission?
100
Quickly get critical results to the right person who can take action.
What is Improving Communication.
100
Needed for all ampule medications.
What are filter needles?
100
The most important way to prevent healthcare associated infections.
What is Hand Hygiene?
100
These are required for ALL new hires or transfers to a new position within 6 months of employment.
What are Initial Competencies?
200
Posted on each unit and provided upon admission.
What are patient rights?
200
Implementing hand washing and evidenced based guidelines.
What is Reducing Risk fo Healthcare-associated infections.
200
These must be stored separately from external drugs.
What are internal drugs?
200
These are used for all patients regardless of diagnosis.
What are Standard Precautions?
200
This is defined as "an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof."
What is a Sentinel Event?
300
Healing humankind, one patient at a time, by improving health, alleviating suffering, and delivering acts of kindness.
What is UCLA's vision?
300
Monitoring patients in the ED, screening patients during the nursing psycho-social evaluation.
What is Identifying safety risks/risk for suicide.
300
You must notify the physician immediately, report the ADR via the UCLA MC ADR online reporting system (or call x55072) and document in the patient's chart.
What is an adverse drug reaction (ADR)?
300
After assessing the patient, this staff member has the authority to initiate transmission-based precautions for 24 hours pending diagnosis.
What is the RN?
300
You use this to find references for questions about medications.
What is Micromedix, ASHP Redbook or Lexicomp?
400
Includes Pre-procedure verification, site marking and a time out. Procedural verification and site marking should be performed with patient involvement prior to leaving the perioperative area.
What is Universal Protocol.
400
Label all medications, medication containers, or other solutions on and off the sterile field.
What is improving the safety of using medication?
400
These drugs can only be used in Ambulatory care. They must be logged in with a lot number and each dose given should be recorded on the log sheet with a patient sticker.
What are sample drugs?
400
This must be cleaned and maintained according to the manufacturer's instructions to prevent transmission of diseases such as hepatitis between patients.
What is Reusable Medical Equipment?
400
This component of health care is both Visual and Auditory.
What is Patient Privacy?
500
When a significant actual or near miss event occurs we conduct a causal analysis to determine what happened, why it happened and how we can prevent it from occurring again.
What is FOCUS PDCA and lean.
500
Listening and being aware of the procedural environment. Actively listening enables the staff to respond the environment on time.
What is Reducing the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.
500
Syringes, medicine cups, and basins are labeled whenever medications are prepared but not immediately administered.
What Medication containers?
500
You will refer to this to know how to best clean, disinfect, or sterilize equipment or supplies.
What are Instructions For Use?
500
This is defined by the sedation policy as the administration of one drug, one dose, one route: one time provided the patient meets the definition of minimal sedation.