Nursing
This is the first and most urgent intervention when a patient is found unresponsive and not breathing normally.
What is CPR?
Recognized as the single most effective method to prevent the spread of germs and illness.
This fire safety acronym used in healthcare stands for Rescue, Alarm, Contain, and Extinguish.
What is RACE?
This should always come "first".
What is safety?
This piece fo information should never be used as a patient identified because it can easily change and leads to errors.
This must be done every time you enter or exit a patient room, even if you don't plan on touching anything.
What is Hand Hygiene.
This fire extinguisher acronym in healthcare stands for Pull, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep.
What is PASS?
This essential safety step should be completed at the start of every interaction with a patient, even if you know the patient well, you should still do this.
What is verifying two patient identifiers?
This is the standard color of scrubs designated for Behavioral Health patients to promote safety and easy identification.
What is green?
These must be worn when there is a risk of exposure to blood or bodily fluids to protect both patients and teammates.
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
Healthcare accreditation requires the use of this service to help patients who do not speak or understand English communicate safety.
What is an interpreter?
Reporting these helps us to identify system issues and can prevent future incidents, even when they don't cause harm.
What are Care Events?
These two pieces of information are required to accurately verify a patients identify before providing care.
What is the patient's full name and date of birth?
These two items must be worn when entering a room under Contact Precautions to prevent the spread of harmful organisms.
What are gown and gloves?
This independent, nonprofit organization is best known for accrediting hospitals and healthcare organizations in the U.S.
What is The Joint Commission?
Lowering this item when leaving a patient's room is the simplest and most effective fall-prevention strategy.
What is the bed height to its lowest position?
These are three different ways to activate a code blue in an emergency.
What are the Ronco call system, the code blue button, and dialing 33333?
These precautions are often required for patients with respiratory infections that are highly contagious.
What are Airborne Precautions?
If you don't know the answer to a question from a surveyor you can always say ____.
What is "I don't know, but I know where to find the policy, or find someone to ask."
This standardized menthod is ued to ensure information is communicated clearly during handoffs.
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)?