Safety First
Call bell within reach and bed lowered to knee height are examples.
What are fall risk reduction strategies
This can be used for patients undergoing subsequent visits in hospital as an alternate method of identification
What is a photograph
When communicating with a non-English speaking patient or family member to discuss complex care plans, staff must utilize this specialized service rather than relying on family members to translate.
What are Language Interpretation Services
Before entering room; Before sterile procedure; After body fluid exposure; After touching patient or environment
BONUS: How is this measured
What are The Four Moments for Hand Hygiene
Bonus: Hand Hygiene Audits; Glo Germ Exercises
This assessment should be done prior to oral intake to ensure patient can safely consume fluids and food.
What is a swallowing screen
This is the colour of the armband placed to alert for increased risk for falls
What is Orange?
Used prior to the provision of any intervention/procedure or med administration to properly identify the patient
what are 2 patient identifiers
To ensure safe transitions and prevent misunderstandings, staff should begin planning for this critical transition starting on Day 1 of a patient's admission.
What is Discharge Planning
According to CKHA's IPAC policy regarding hand hygiene, frontline clinical staff must avoid wearing these on their hands/nails due to the risk of harbouring bacteria and tearing gloves.
What are chipped nail polish, gel/acrylic/ artificial nails, or rings with stones?
You can consult this policy and/or group if you have a situation you are unsure about, and feel uncomfortable with.
What is the Ethics Policy and Framework | What is the Ethics Committee?
This area of documentation is completed in the EMR with any fall.
What is the Post Fall Evaluation?
Upon entering any patient room or beginning any interaction, you should share this:
What is Name, Role, Function
To verify that a patient or caregiver truly understands key instructions—such as new medication times or wound care steps—staff should ask them to explain it back in their own words using this communication technique.
What is the Teach-Back Method?
When using soap, this is how long you should lather your hands during handwashing.
Bonus: When should you wash your hands instead of using sanitizer?
What is 15 seconds
Bonus: When hands are soiled
If you have a piece of equipment that is not working as it should, you would submit a work order to one of these teams
What are Biomedical Engineering and Engineering teams?
BONUS: Provide examples of equipment that each cares for.
This validated tool is used to assess risk for pressure injuries
BONUS: When should this be completed?
What is the Braden score
BONUS: Upon admission and on every shift.
This is not considered a reliable patient identifier
What is an unconfirmed home address
When a family member or visitor phones the unit asking for clinical updates on a patient, staff must first verify this before sharing any personal health information over the phone.
What is Patient Consent/ Confidentiality
These additional precautions are used with infections such as MRSA and VRE
What are contact precautions
Your admitted patient has facial drooping, slurred speech and Lt arm weakness that started 15 minutes ago.
What is, call a CODE STROKE - INPATIENT?
Falls risk assessment done on admission, at least daily and with a change in patient's condition
What is the Morse Falls Scale
Add on: What scale is used on PEDS or inpatient psychiatry.
These colourful items are used to visually communicate key information about our patients
What are Armbands.
White = | Purple = | Orange =
This occurs at every shift change, or handover and must be clearly documented in the chart.
What is the Transfer of Accountability
This ensures the equipment you are working with is clean.
What are clean/dirty tags | What are clean/dirty utility rooms/ spaces
Specific items measured in each area; discussed by managers with their teams, and discussed at each level of leadership. They inform us on how we're doing.
What are performance metrics/ KPIs
BONUS: Provide examples in your department.