Patient Safety
This document is used in clinical areas to assist patients/clients in maintaining safety (ie for therapeutic leaves, falls prevention, etc).
What is a Safety Plan?
PPE is used widely at Homewood Health Centre. When removing mask, gloves, gown, which item is removed last?
What is a mask?
Code Blue is called when a patient is found in cardiac arrest, ________ arrest, or has the potential to arrest in the absence of intervention.
What is Respiratory Arrest?
Patients/Clients have the right to be ____________ of their illness and ___________ in the assessment of their needs and treatment.
What is informed and participate?
Before putting on and removing PPE, you should always perform _______ ______.
What is hand hygiene?
Who is responsible for bringing the crash cart to the location of a Code Blue?
What is the Designated Unit?
This Homewood employee will collaborate with the appropriate staff and leadership teams to ensure a coordinated approach is taken to address patient/client concerns.
What is the Patient Relations Advisor?
PPE is used widely at Homewood Health Centre. When donning PPE, which item is put on last?
What are gloves?
In addition to any available physician, which clinical staff respond to Code Blue?
What is RN from each unit (except Trillium1 and MacKinnon 2)?
We have adopted the Y-O-D-A framework to assist in thinking through an ethical dilemma. What does YODA stand for?
What is You - Observe - Deliberate - Act?
When entering a patient's room, perform a Risk Assessment to determine what PPE should be worn for the situation. This is indicated by the _______ ___________ sign located on the patient's room door.
(Hint 2 words)
What are Additional Precautions?
In the absence of knowing the code status, this must be initiated.
What is CPR?