Patient Safety
These items must be verified using two patient identifiers before any procedure or medication administration.
What are the patient's name and date of birth?
The minimum time you should wash your hands with soap and water?
Charting should be done this often when caring for a patient.
What is in real time/as close to real time as possible?
This is the phrase used when a facility goes into lockdown.
What is Code Yellow
This must be labeled with date and time once opened.
What is an expiration label?
The color coded wrist band that indicates a fall risk.
What is yellow?
This type of isolation precaution is used for C-Diff?
What is Enteric Precautions?
If a documentation error is made, you should never do this.
What is white it out?
The three main steps in a fire response.
These items must be unplugged or replaced if found with exposed wires or damage.
This process is used to reduce harm by checking meds a patient is already taking upon admission.
What is medication reconciliation?
Before entering and after leaving a patients room, you must perform this.
What is hand hygiene?
The phrase "if it wasn't documented..."
What is "..it wasn't done."
This type of drill is conducted to test response to a mass casualty event.
What is a disaster drill?
The distance that emergency equipment (crash cart) must be kept free from obstruction.
What is 3 feet?
This is the universal protocol to prevent wrong-site, wrong-procedure, or wrong-person surgery.
What is time-out?
The number of seconds alcohol-based hand sanitizer should be rubbed in to be effective.
What is 15-30 seconds?
This acronym is used to organize communication in charting and handoffs.
What is SBAR?
Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation.
The number to activate an emergency response team.
What is *77?
Sharps containers should be replaced when they are this full.
What is 2/3 full?
This patient safety goal ensures that alarms on medical equipment are heard and responded to in a timely manner.
What is improving clinical alarm safety?
This organization provides the guidelines for standard and transmission-based precautions.
What is the CDC?
What is signed with name and credentials?
The acronym P.A.S.S is used when operating this device.
What is a fire extinguisher?
(Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep)
All oxygen tanks must be stored like this when not in use.
What is secured and upright?