Professional Practice
Patient Experience
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Mental Health
Code Blue
100

A framework aligned with the NH strategic plan through incorporating its 4 pillars to build a healthier Niagara.

What is the Professional Practice Framework?
100

A collaborative work team that creatively delivers results. Comprised of staff, physicians, and leaders, who undertake improvement action plans within the respective work area.

What is a Unit Based Team?
100
Type of assessment tool used to measure falls risk.
What is Morse Falls Risk Assessment?
100

Way of describing severity of substance use from no use/total abstinence to dependence.

What is Spectrum of Substance Use or Spectrum?
100
Contains a defibrillator, oxygen, suction, and medications...to name a few.
What is an arrest cart?
200

A nursing committee mandated to support and advance nursing within the areas of practice, regulation, leadership, quality and patient safety, evidence based practice, education, innovation, and research.

What is the Nursing Advisory Committee or NAC?
200
Program specific interprofessional process focusing on the 5 P's.
What is We Round?
200
Tool used to measure degree of risk for altered skin integrity.
What is the Braden Scale?
200

NRT, Suboxone, Methadone Maintenance Therapy, Naloxone OD Prevention kits are examples of this.

What is Harm Reduction?
200
We prefer to read it.
What is NEWS or Niagara Early Warning Signs?
300

An interprofessional committee mandated to advance and support both discipline specific and interdisciplinary professional practice at Niagara Health.

What is the Interprofessional Advisory Committee or IAC?

300
Motto used to help remind staff of process for properly identifying their client.
What is We Check ID. Every patient. Two Times. Everytime?
300
Yes to features 1 and 2 plus 3 or 4.
What is a positive CAM tool?
300
Anxiety, changes in blood pressure, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, seizures, and hallucinations are examples of this.
What is withdrawal?
300
Emergency Resource Spot on Sourcenet.
What is Atlas?
400
Niagara Health became a designate of this standing in 2003.
What is a Best Practice Spotlight Organization?
400

Phrase used by Valerie Billingham to describe the need for staff to identify patients as partners in care.

What is "Nothing About me. Without me"?
400
SBAR tool used to communicate education tips.
What is Professional Practice Education Tip or PPET?
400
Morphine, fentanyl, and methadone are examples of this.
What is an opioid?
400
Extension to call a code at NH.
What is 55555?
500

“the provision of comprehensive health services to patients by multiple health caregivers, who work collaboratively to deliver quality care within and across settings”

What is Interprofessional Care/Practice?
500
Easiest, least expensive way of controlling infection.
What is the 4 moments of hand hygiene or hand hygiene?
500
Tool used to assess for withdrawal of alcohol.
What is Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment or CIWA?
500
Harm reduction strategy used in the treatment of a opioid overdose.
What is naloxone or narcan?
500
Most critical action that should be performed immediately when encountering an unresponsive patient.
What is compressions or CPR?