Acute Care
Mystery Topics
QI/PI
Infection Control
100

This level of care is provided during a severe episode of illness (such as surgery or injury).

What is Acute Care?

100

Pneumonia that presents more than 48 hours after endotracheal intubation.

What is Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia (VAP)?

100

This measures changes in performances with the goal of achieving desired results.

What is performance improvement?

100

During Wartime, this person was one of the first to have used an ICU approach.

Who is Florence Nightingale?

200

Care of an individual health problem 

What is care at the Micro level? 

200

The First cohort study on C V D to incorporate women.

What is the Framingham Heart study?

200

This term provides short- hand testing of change.

What is the PDSA cycle?

200

Study of the frequency, distribution, cause, and control of disease and injury

What is Epidemiology?

300

The level of prevention commonly delivered in hospitals

What is Tertiary Prevention?

300

Implementation of Mammograms, Colonoscopies, and vision examinations.

What are types of secondary prevention?

300

This  organization developed patient safety initiatives based on the IOM Report.

What is the Institute for Healthcare Improvement?

300
Use of this technique prevents CAUTI.

What is aseptic technique?

400

Examples are Length of stays, infection rates and re-admission rates. 

What is population data in acute care setting?

400

Doing this Task for 20 seconds while singing Happy Birthday twice

What is hand washing?

400

Data points that capture trends for infection rates.  

What are surveillance methods?

400

Caused by pathogens acquired as a consequence of a health-care intervention.

What are Health Care Acquired Infections (HAI's)?

500

Example includes education on flu vaccinations in a community.

What is Macro health?

500

This pathway reduces the patient’s surgical stress response, and facilitates recovery.

What is ERAS: Early Recovery After Surgery protocol?

500

This part of the cycle asks "Does it work?"

What is the "Study" part of the PDSA Cycle?

500

Life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.

What is Sepsis?