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?
Laws written and enacted by legislative bodies in order to regulate behavior.
What is statutory law?
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?
Civil wrongful acts or omissions made against a person or property causing harm
What is a tort?
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?
What is an older population, larger population, or racial shift?
The frequency that restraint orders must be renewed by physicians.
What is every 24 hours?
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?
The name of the intentional tort that occurs when a nurse threatens to take away a patient's pain medications if they don't get out of bed.
What is assult?
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
All the information required in order for a patient to give full informed consent (PAR-BRO)
What is procedure, alternatives, risks, benefits, right to refuse, and operators?