Emergency Management
The organizations written document outlining the process of the hospitals ability to provide care, treatment, and service during a disaster.
What is an Emergency Operation Plan (EOP)?
These must be dated and timed to show beyond use date.
What are, medication vials?
Fire emergency
What is Code Red?
The process of finding out what medications the patient is taking, comparing them to what has been taken previously, documenting changes, and checking for safety issues.
What is, Medication Reconciliation?
Critically important to reducing healthcare associated infections.
What is, hand hygiene?
These are located in the Safety Data Sheets.
What are, hazardous substances?
Patient Privacy Rights are found here.
What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPPA Form?
Missing patient
What is Code M?
A preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional or patient.
What is, medication error and or reporting?
A simple, safe and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases.
What is, vaccination?
These are classified in three categories.
What are, hazardous spills (Minor, Conditional, and Major)?
This must be completed when a medication is given to a patient in error.
What is a Medication Error Report?
Emergency cardiac arrest
What is Code 4?
A response to a medicinal product that is noxious and unintended and that occurs at doses normally used in humans for the prophylaxis.
What is, adverse drug reaction (ADR)?
These signs are available in every nursing unit.
What are, isolation signs?
The classifaction and labeling of chemicals.
What is the Global Harmonized System?
A high possibility of harm regarding certain medications to individual patients.
What is the "High Alert Medication List?"
Person/s actively engaged in attempt to kill or killing
What is, Code Active Shooter?
If this indication is not included, this is not a complete order.
What is a PRN order?
These enhancements contribute to the colonization and transmission of pathogens to patients.
This provides the hospital with the required tools and communications to address an emergency event.
What is the Hospital Incident Command System?
U, IU, and QD all appear on this list.
What is the, "Do Not Use Abbreviation List?"
Aggressive or agitated patient
What is Code Dr. Strong?
The abbreviation IU, meaning International Unit, is often mistaken for these two other meanings.
What are, IV (intravenous) and 10 (ten)?
The combination of contact and droplets are used when the organism of concern is transmitted by both contact and droplet.
What is, contact precaution with droplet precaution?