Governance
This is a patient safety initiative currently taking place within the adult inpatient units?
What is falls prevention initiatives?
This is completed every 2 years with your manager to review your progress within the organization looking at opportunities for growth and development.
What are performance reviews?
This assessment tool helps to identify a falls risk for an admitted patient and must be completed within 12 hours of admission to the inpatient units across the organization.
What is the Morse Falls Risk Assessment?
Use of these two and completion of this is completed before all invasive procedures.
What are patient identifiers and procedure verification?
These are examples of high-alert medications often found in the mental health units. (Provide examples of these medications.)
What are insulin, anticoagulants, or opioids?
This allows patients and families to provide feedback and express any concerns which is then used to improve care.
What is patient relations?
This is available to all employees to help maintain or improve your health, offered through Homewood.
What is the employee and family assistance program?
This standardized, evidence-based assessment tool helps identify the risk of developing pressure injuries. There are 6 assessment categories: Sensory perception, moisture, activity, mobility, nutrition, friction and shear.
What is the Braden Scale and the 6 assessment categories?
This is a common medical procedure used to treat severe, treatment-resistant mental health conditions such as severe major depression or catatonia.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
What is an independent double check/verification?
What is equitable and culturally safe care for patients and families?
This is where staff can stay up to date on new important information such as changes and updates to safety information, human resources policies, etc.
What is Connections?
Unilateral swelling in one leg, ankle, or foot, pain or tenderness (aching, cramping, or soreness in calf, thigh), warmth, skin discolouration or redness OR sudden SOB, rapid irregular heartbeat, coughing, dizziness or fainting are examples of these.
What are the signs and symptoms of a deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism?
This is required prior to any treatment followed by the care team.
What is consent?
Completing this helps to prevent medication prescribing errors.
What is the best possible medication history during admission, transfer and discharge?
What is data and performance indicators?
This is where licenses are tracked, with reminder messages available when coming up for expiry (usually q2years).
What is eSchedule?
This is completed usually by the pharmacy technician and documented, sources include outpatient pharmacies, family, patient and community records. It is completed on admission and when required during care transitions.
This is how staff communicate critical information from one unit to another.
What is standardized handoff (TOA - transfer of accountability) and documenting this through the General TOA/shift report.
This is how we safely waste opioids on our unit.
What is dual signage for wasting medication?
The use of this helps staff prepare for emergencies and diasters?
This system allows staff to report hazards, near misses and other occurences within the organization, with follow up completed by the leadership team.
What is RL6 or the Incident Reporting System (IRS)?
What is the Columbia - Suicide Severity Rating Scale and how often is it completed in the MHAP?
This tool is an intrahospital patient TOA tool that promotes communication between sending unit to diagnostic imaging and cardiorespiratory when not accompanied by nurse escort.
What is the ticket-to-ride?
Halton Healthcare has an advanced medication system with computerized Provider Order Entry where staff have access to medications here and use this to ensure the correct medication is administered to the correct patient.
What is the electronic medication administration record and bedside medication verification?