RAPID FIRE
RESPONSIBILITY
CODES
DISEASE
DEPARTMENTS
100
Performed at bedside
What is clinical tasks?
100
Relaying requests to nursing personnel and greeting them when they come to the station.
What is the responsibilities regarding patients?
100
Fire in hospital
What is code red?
100
TB
What is Tuberculosis?
100
Responsible for keeping the hospitals surroundings, equipment and furnishings in good order.
What is the maintenance department?
200
Anything away from the bedside.
What is nonclinical tasks?
200
Assist in looking for patients and provide information about the location of bathrooms, visitors lounge and the cafeteria.
What is the responsibilities regarding visitors?
200
Child missing or abducted
What is code amber?
200
Used to protect patients with decreased immune system function by reducing their risks of exposure to potentially infectious organisms.
What is Reverse or Protective Isolation?
200
Maintaining a clean, sanitary, and pleasant environment.
What is environmental services/housekeeping services?
300
The process of transmitting feelings, images and ideas from the mind of one person to the mind of another person or persons by the use of speech, signals, writing or behavior.
What is communication?
300
Ordering, scheduling, and coordinating diagnostic procedures and treatments while relaying messages and information to the appropriate place.
What is responsibility regarding other departments?
300
An aggressive or violent person
What is code white?
300
TB, Measles, Chicken Pox, and Meningitis
What is infections that requires patients to be placed in airborne isolation?
300
Purchases and distributes supplies that are used by the nursing units and hospital departments.
What is the stores department/material management/central supply?
400
1. doctors 2. nursing staff 3. patients 4. visitors 5. hospital departments
What is the 5 people NUA's deal with?
400
Communicate all new doctors orders, or messages and relay/process orders.
What is the responsibilities regarding nursing staff?
400
A mass casualties
What is code orange?
400
Infections acquired by patients whose resistance has been decreased by such disorders as diabetes, AIDS, or cancer
What is opportunistic infections?
400
Responsible for the cleaning and sterilization of hospital equipment used by the medical and nursing staff throughout the hospital.
What is medical device reprocessing department?
500
World war II experienced shortages of nurses leading to an overload of paperwork
What is the event that led to the "NUA" position?
500
Enter orders into the computer system, place calls to and receive calls from doctors offices.
What is the responsibilities regarding doctors?
500
System failure in the hospital ventilation system
What is code grey?
500
Infections acquired by patients while they are in the hospital
What is nosocomial infections?
500
Maintains upkeep and repair of monitoring equipment in the hospital.
What is bio-medical engineering department?
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