Abuse
The first step when abuse is suspected. When any staff witnesses or is informed about a resident abuse, they must first protect the resident by intervening and stopping further abuse.
What is assuring resident safety?
A program designed to provide orientation, ongoing training and practice drills so that each employee can promptly and accurately carry out a specific role in case of an emergency.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Program
One of the most important ways healthcare providers can prevent the spread of illness.
What is handwashing
A Quality Assurance & Process Improvement plan, intended to use best practice approaches in improving the outcomes of an area identified in need of improvement.
What is 'QAPI'
A document that provides information on the properties of hazardous chemicals and how they affect health and safety in the workplace.
What is a Safety Data Sheet
A process taken at the time of hire by our Human Resources Department to assure that the applicant does not pose an unacceptable risk to residents, employees or other members of the Mill Pond community.
What is a background check
The steps in using a fire extinguisher include: Pulling the pin, Aiming at the base of the fire, sweeping in a side to side motion until flames are extinguished
UTIs, Pneumonia, and soft tissue infections are a significant source of morbidity and mortality for residents living in long term care facilities and account for _____% of infections.
What is 75% of infections.
Emergency Room visits, Re-hospitalization, Percentage of short-stay residents who made improvement in physical function and locomotion, Percentage of long-stay (stays of greater than or equal to 101 days) residents whose ability to move independently worsened, Percentage of long-stay residents who received an anti-anxiety or hypnotic medication
What are Quality Measures
**information captured on the MDS, and reported back to CMS to demonstrate the quality of care we provide to our residents, this is able to be viewed by the public**
A late evening nutritional supplement, as there must be no more than 14 hours between a substantial evening meal and breakfast the following day.
What is a bedtime snack
All cases of maltreatment or potential maltreatment must be reported immediately to an employee's supervisor who will then report it immediately to the Administrator (Dawn) or Clinical Administrator (Heather) to submit a self report on an allegation of abuse to the Department of Inspections & Appeals.
What is a 2 hours
A device which broadcasts continuous weather information directly from the nearest National Weather Service office. NWR broadcasts official Weather Service warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What is a weather radio
A set of commitments and actions by healthcare workers designed to “optimize the treatment of infections while reducing the adverse events associated with antibiotic use.”
Ref. CDC.gov
What is Antibiotic Stewardship
A tool to help consumers select and compare skilled nursing facilities. Created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2008, the tool uses information from Health Care Surveys (both standard and complaint), Quality Measures, and Staffing reports.
What is the 5 Star Quality Rating System
Guidelines regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors to ensure safe and sanitary storage, handling, and consumption.
What is Food Safety & Handling Policy
The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish.
What is abuse
A kit with specific items to be used in an emergency- including extension cords, flashlights, batteries, reflector vests & hard hats, patient identification labels and important resident information to be used if needing to evacuate and relocate residents to safety.
What is an Emergency Tote
A set of surveillance definitions to monitor and assess for infections.
What is McGeer's criteria
1. Design & Scope
2. Governance & Leadership
3. Feedback, Data Systems & Monitoring
4. Performance Improvement Projects
5. Systematic Analysis & Systematic Action
What are the QAPI 5 Elements
Equipment designed for use for devices that draw low powered loads such as computers and clocks, they are not intended for use with high load equipment such as refrigerators, coffee pots, space heaters, microwave ovens, etc. These devices should never to be used with medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, tube feeding and IV equipment, low-loss air mattresses and like equipment.
What is a power strip
The failure of the facility, its employees or service providers to provide goods and services to a resident that are necessary to avoid physical harm, pain, mental anguish, or emotional distress.
What is neglect.
The most critical part of any emergency is to provide brief, concise information and instructions out to the campus/community quickly and accurately.
What are call tree procedures
An RN who specializes in the prevention of an infection, or infection control procedures.
What is an Infections Preventionist
An interdisciplinary group whose goal & objective is Process Improvement on a specific issue.
Who is a QAPI Committee
The Privacy Rule, a Federal law, giving patients rights over their health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive health information. The Privacy Rule applies to all forms of individuals' protected health information, whether electronic, written, or oral.
What is the HIPAA Law