INFECTION CONTROL
The Autoclave and Trophon are examples of this type of infection control.
What is High Level Disfection? HLD
This should be posted in the waiting room.
What is the patient's right poster?
The location where you label patient specimens.
What is in front of the patient?
What are the last four digits of their SS #?
This must be worn above the waist.
What is a name badge?
Before and after every patient contact, before and after eating or drinking, after using the bathroom.
What is perform hand hygiene?
This list of goals should be posted throughout the clinic. At Patterson Place it is posted in the provider work rooms, at the CMA station, in the urine alcove and at BC posted in the waiting room and on the door coming back into the clinic and RN/CMA work station, provider work room.
What is the Ambulatory Patient Safety Goals poster?
Why do you ask name and dob?
What is the PDC Corporate Project of double identifiers?
This person is our Medical Director.
Who is Angel Nieves?
Staff now how to report a security emergency?
What is the panic button?
Objects and environmental surfaces that are frequently touched in pt care areas(beds, carts, bp cuffs) are disinfected with an EPA hospital approved disinfectant per provided guidelines per policy
What is staff are responsible for cleaning each room and equipment between every patient?
This book is located in the CMA station at both locations and includes the clinics scope of care, tornado drills, HICS Plan, Severe Weather Plan, etc.
What is the RED book?
Performed before every procedure.
What is a time out?
What are the Six Rights to Medication Administration?
Remove, Activate, Close or Confine, Extinguish or Evaucate
What is RACE? or What are the steps for if there is a fire?
C. Difficile, diarrhea, visible contamination of hands or gloves
When do you wash your hands with soap and water?
How we articulate patient access for language, hearing or visual interpreters.
What is Fluent?
This is where we prepare medications for administration.
What is in front of the patient or in the med prep area?
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
Unattended computer screens are not left open, charts and patient information are kept face down, screen protectors.
How is PHI (patient information) protected?
Tuberculosis, SARS, MERS
When should staff implement special respiratory precautions?
If a patient codes in the clinic we do not honor these?
What is a DNR/Advanced Directive?
Medication name, strength of medication, date and time prepared, initials of person that prepared it, patient's name.
What is what needs to be on the label for medications not drawn up in front of the patient?
How do we implement down time procedure?
What is the down time computer and using down time forms in the clinic?
Safety concerns are reported here within 24 hours of discovering issue.
What is RL6 or Safety Reporting System?