Category 1: WHY IT MATTERS
The main reason we use two person‑specific identifiers.
What is to ensure the client receives the intended service or procedure?
The number of identifiers required for client identification.
What is two?
In registration, staff must ask clients for these two details to create a record.
What are first and last name and full date of birth?
How unconscious or trauma patients are initially identified.
What is using a temporary name and ID number with an armband?
This identifier should not be used because it is not client‑specific.
What is room or bed number?
The two types of errors this practice is designed to prevent
What are errors such as medication errors, privacy breaches, allergic reactions, or wrong‑person procedures?
Two commonly used person‑specific identifiers.
What are name and date of birth?
For inpatient or emergency patients, identifiers are verified against this item.
What is the ID band?
When temporary identifiers must be replaced.
What is as soon as formal identification is confirmed?
Photos used for identification must be updated at this frequency.
What is annually or with a change in appearance?
The two key steps that explain the intent of the identifier requirement.
What are identify the individual and verify the service or treatment?
An identifier that should never be used on its own.
What is room number or bed number?
What outpatient clients without armbands are asked to do to confirm identity.
What is verbally provide their name and date of birth?
How many bands neonates should have after birth.
What are two identification bands (or three to four bands total)?
For high‑risk medications like methadone, medication labels must include this.
What are two person‑specific identifiers?
One example of a serious outcome that proper identification helps prevent.
What is discharge to the wrong family / wrong‑person procedure / medication error?
This identifier may be used only when the client is well known to staff.
What is facial recognition?
What residential care staff must compare when identifying a client without an armband
What are the client and the photo on the “Who Am I?” sheet or MAR?
What must happen if one infant identification band is missing.
What is checking the remaining band against the mother’s wristband?
If an infant has no identification bands, nurses must do this before re‑banding.
What is account for all other infants on the unit?
This describes why using two identifiers is considered a proven safety practice.
What is that it reduces patient harm and improves safety outcomes?
What must match between the client, the service order, and items like specimen containers or medications.
What are the same two person‑specific identifiers?
Before immunization in public health, staff must ask for these two identifiers.
What are first and last name and full date of birth?
Who can confirm identity for clients with severe communication challenges.
What are caregivers (supported by photos or facial recognition if well known)?
When surgical patient identification may be temporarily placed on the forehead.
What is when standard identification placement isn’t possible?