Safety/Fall Prevention
Before leaving a patient's bedside, the nurse must ensure the bed is in this position.
What is the lowest, locked position?
This universal color code is activated overhead when an adult patient experiences a cardiac or respiratory arrest.
What is a code blue?
What is a written guide that organizes patient care activities?
What is a nursing care plan?
Where can you find water for the patient?
What is the nutrition room?
How many Sharp acute care hospitals are there?
What is 4 (or 5) hospitals?
This electronic safety device must be left directly within the patient's reach every single time a nurse leaves the room.
What is the call light?
This code is paged out if a fire or smoke is detected in the building.
What is code red?
There are ___ components to the nursing care plan?
What is 6?
Where can you find the charge nurse?
What is the front nurses station?
Sharp Memorial Hospital operates as the system's only designated one of these critical emergency tiers.
This mechanical alert device should be activated immediately for any confused, high-risk patient left alone in bed or a chair.
What is the bed or chair alarm?
Called when an aggressive, combative, or physically abusive person requires immediate security team intervention.
What is a code green?
Nurses prioritize multiple nursing diagnoses by utilizing this famous psychological framework of human needs.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Where can you find the crash cart?
What is clean utility A?
The patient-centered care philosophy taught across Sharp HealthCare that emphasizes treating people, not just patients
What is the Sharp Experience?
This universal piece of visual identification is placed directly onto a high-fall-risk patient’s wrist or feet to alert all members of the healthcare team.
What is the yellow wristband and yellow socks?
At many healthcare facilities, you must dial 0 and this symbol three times on a house phone to manually activate a facility-wide overhead page
What is "***"
What is the format for nursing care plans goals?
What are SMART goals?
What is the code to all the doors on the unit?
What is '541'?
When did Sharp Memorial open?
What is 1955?
To minimize tripping hazards, walkways must be completely free of these two common hospital items.
What is clutter and unsecured cords/tubing?
Security forces are activated under this code for an active shooter or an individual displaying a weapon.
What is a code silver?
The standard three-part NANDA nursing diagnosis statement consists of these three parts:
What is the problem, etiology, and symptoms?
How many rooms are on the unit?
What is 32 rooms?
This namesake of Sharp Memorial Hospital was a 22-year-old World War II bomber pilot who lost his life in combat.
Who is Donald N. Sharp?