Information Transfer
In critical situations only, this can be done instead of completing the “Information Transfer Tool”
What is a direct verbal handover (or warm handover).
The name of the structure used to share key information during a Transfer of Accountability
What is the CHAT structure?
The form you must complete to send your patient to get an X-ray
What is Ticket to Ride
Two places external to QCH where patients might be discharged to:
What are: Home, LTC, or another hospital
The person who should be invited to every care transition discussion
Who is the patient/family
How the ED gets information on a patient from the ED to the receiving unit:
What is “fax it”?
The nurse responsible for updating the Care board
Who is the on-coming nurse
The person who completes The Ticket to Ride
Who is the nurse
The standard tool used in discharge documentation:
What is the GAP tool?
These two types of information must be communicated when transferring a patient
Patient’s full name and key patient safety information (ie allergies, meds, mobility)
This is when the fax should be sent to the new unit for a unit-to-unit transfer
What is “before sending the patient?
This is a bed side safety checklist completed by the oncoming nurse
What is HEAL?
Items that go with the patient when admitted
What are patient’s belongings and medications
Two places inside the hospital where you need to do a discharge, and not a unit-to-unit transfer:
What are A3 and Park Place
The place the Info Transfer policy can be found
What is the S Drive
The three things the receiving nurse does with the Information Transfer tool information when they receive it?
What are: Review the fax, sign it, and put it on the patient chart?
The four elements of the CHAT structure
What are: Condition, History, Assessment, Treatment
The musical group who recorded Ticket to Ride in 1965
Who are The Beatles
What is the colour of the discharge report that you give to the patient?
The yellow copy
What is a great way to involve patients in the care transition?
“Is there anything you would like to add or bring up before I transfer you to this nurse?”
The three key things an out-going nurse must do to in PCS to complete the Transfer of Accountability
What are: documentation up-to-date, evacuation code, document the TOA.
Train board game by days of wonder
What is Ticket to Ride