Patient Safety
Two patient identifiers you can use before giving a patient medications
What is name and birthday, SSN, MRN?
One example of a POC technology
What is a VS machine, glucometer, rapid test reader, bedside computer/table, bladder scanner, IV pump, breathalyzer?
Collaborating with a dietician is considered this type of teamwork.
What is interprofessional teamwork?
Believing that everyone who moves to the US should speak English is an example of this type of discrimination.
What is cultural imposition?
Encouraging children to wear a helmet while riding a bike is an example of this type of health care service.
What is preventative healthcare?
The individual that must mark the surgical site before bringing the patient into surgery.
Who is the surgeon/proceduralist?
What HIPAA stands for
What is the health insurance portability and accountability act?
This individual skill involves actively scanning and assessing elements of a situation to gain information or maintain an accurate understanding.
What is situation monitoring?
A generalization or exaggerated belief about a culture that allows for little to no individual differences or cultural variation.
What is a stereotype?
This is the amount an individual pays for their health insurance each month.
What is a premium?
The lab must be drawn and analyzed before starting a patient on Coumadin
What is INR?
One of the 5 pillars for meaningful use of technology/informatics.
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Improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and reduce health disparities.
Engage patients and their families in their health care.
Improve care coordination between health care team.
Improve population and public health.
Ensure adequate privacy and security protections?
A time-out prior to surgery is a good example of this communication tool.
What is breifing?
One of the three major population trends being observed in the US.
What is an older population, larger population, or racial shift?
The name of the idea of charging more for those that can pay for their healthcare.
The definition of a sentinel event and one example of a sentinel event
What is an unanticipated event in the healthcare setting that causes death or severe injury not related to their course of illness? What is a fall, delay in treatment, unintended retained foreign object, wrong surgery, or suicide?
The core function that is being demonstrated when a nurse looks at a patient's lab values on the computer chart and compares them to yesterday's values.
What is results management?
What is situation, background, assessment, recommendation, and readback?
When someone looks to confirm their own opinions pre-existing ideas and ignores those that do not agree.
What is confirmation bias?
Requirements for an individual to qualify for medicare.
What is an age of 65 or older OR certain diseases/disabilities?
The three leading root causes of sentinel events
What is inadequate communication, incorrect assessment of a patient's condition, and inadequate leadership/training/orientation?
The digital version of a traditional paper based medical record for individual office visits or readmissions.
What is an electronic medical record (EMR)?
Two examples of mutual support.
What is CUUS, DESC script, the 2 challenge rule, task assistance, assertive statements, or feedback?
What LEARN stands for.
What is listen, explain, acknowledge, recommend, and negotiate? When
The age children can no longer be on their parent's health insurance based on new insurance standards.