Core Area
This process confirms that all medications, allergies, and reactions are current and accurate.
What is medication and allergy reconciliation?
Sets room up for well woman exam before rooming patient.
What is anticipatory thinking?
This pharmacy can offer more patient centered services than other pharmacies.
What is La Clinica Pharmacy?
Required for all height and weight checks.
What is remove shoes and empty pockets?
When possible, avoid giving multiple injections in one limb.
What is Vaccine Administration?
Active process of observing, understanding and anticipating clinical environment.
What is situational awareness?
Documents all medications, including over the counter ones, in this place.
What is the MAR?
(Medication Administration Record)
Checks this after taking pediatric height and weight and reports abnormalities to provider.
What is the growth chart?
Anticipates provider and patient needs to support smooth clinical flow.
What is Foundational Competency?
Notices patient not able to state why they are taking new medications from specialist and notifies provider.
What is critical thinking?
This must always be verified before administering any medication.
What are the five rights of medication administration?
Commonly forgotten positioning for blood pressure checks.
What is arm at heart level?
Explains procedure to the patient in clear, trauma-informed language and answers questions to ensure understanding.
What is Point of Care (POCT and POCP)?
This is a reactive and analytical process that happens when collecting information from a patient.
What is critical thinking?
This communication tool is used to report abnormal findings promptly and accurately.
What is SBAR?
Best practice is to manually palpate this vital sign for 1 minute.
What is a pulse?
Before forwarding message to a provider completes background research adding all relevant information to reduce rework.
What is in-Basket Management?
Considers expertise of floating MA and adjusts duties appropriately.
What is situational awareness?
Does this action to escalate delayed or urgent messages.
What is speaks directly to provider?
This vital sign has always been included in the rooming standard but serves little clinical value most of the time.
What is respiration rate?