Reduce Healthcare Infections
This is the number 1 way to prevent infections
What is hand hygiene?
This is when we conduct a final assessment that the correct patient, site, and procedure are identified.
What is a "time out"?
This is what is done when any medication or solution is found unlabeled.
What is discard?
These patients at SMC that are deemed as a possible threat to themselves wear this color gown.
What is purple?
This is done on every inpatient in our organization, every day.
What is a CHG bath?
This is done prior to surgery or procedures, when a laterality comes into question.
What is site marking?
The hospital uses only oral unit-dose products, prefilled syringes, or premixed infusion bags when these types of products are available.
What are anticoagulation medications?
All patients that present to an OSU facility who are being evaluated or treated for behavioral health conditions as their primary reason for care need this
What is a validated screening tool?
After a CHG bath is done on each patient, this happens next
What is document in the patients chart?
This is the person responsible for marking the procedure site
What is a Licensed Independent Practitioner who is ultimately accountable for the procedure and will be present when the procedure is performed.
This is a process of comparing the medications a patient is taking (or should be taking) with newly ordered medications.
What is medication reconciliation?
Policies and procedures addressing the care of patients identified as at risk for suicide should include the following
- Training and competence assessment of staff who care for patients at risk for suicide
- Guidelines for reassessment
- Monitoring patients who are at high risk for suicide
This is who you contact if you ever have a question or concern about your patients isolation status or test results
Who is epidemiology?
During the time-out, the team members agree on the following:
What is
- Correct patient identity
- The correct site
- The procedure to be done
The hospital addresses anticoagulation safety practices through the following:
Establishing a process to identify, respond to, and report adverse drug events, including adverse drug event outcomes
Evaluating anticoagulation safety practices, taking actions to improve safety practices, and measuring the effectiveness of those actions in a time frame determined by the hospital
When patients are at high risk for suicide these rules should be followed:
What is: one-to-one monitoring, removing objects that pose a risk for self-harm,assessing objects brought into a room by visitors, and using safe transportation procedures when moving patients to other parts of the hospital?
Clinical Epidemiology conducts and reports surveillance on healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) which include: (name 3)
Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLA-BSIs), Ventilator Associated Pneumonias (VAPs), Surgical Site Infections (SSIs), Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs), MRSA, VRE, C. difficile, influenza and other organisms of epidemiologic
At SMC, name the person responsible for marking the patient prior to surgery, and the appropriate markings needed.
What is the attending physicians and their initials?
In Perioperative and other procedural settings both on and off the sterile field, medication or solution labels include the following: (4 out of 6)
- Medication or solution name
- Strength
- Amount of medication or solution containing medication (if not apparent from the container)
- Diluent name and volume (if not apparent from the container)
- Expiration date when not used within 24 hours
- Expiration time when expiration occurs in less than 24 hours
A suicidal assessment directly talks about (4 out of 6)
- Suicidal ideation
- Plan
- Intent
- Suicidal or self-harm behaviors
- Risk factors
- Protective factors.