Environment of Care and Life Safety
The person responsible for maintaining a safe and functional environment.
Who is everyone?
The five rights of medication administration.
What is right patient, drug, dose, route, and time?
Must be laundered twice per year if they are hung in patient care areas
What are curtains?
Where Staff privileges and BLS certificates are maintained
What is MEDDAC B Credentials Dept?
These are two unique patient identifiers used for EVERY patient.
What is FULL NAME and DATE OF BIRTH?
The acronym to guide the use of a fire extinguisher - Must include what each letter of the acronym represents.
What is PASS?
P- Pull the pin
A-Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire
S-Squeeze the handle
S-Sweep slowly side to side
U,u
IU
Q.D., QD, q.d., qd
Q.O.D., QOD, q.o.d, qod
Trailing zero (X.0 mg)
Lack of leading zero (.X mg)
MS, MSO4, MgSO4
What are unapproved abbreviations?
Type of storage material/container that is not allowed in storage or patient care area.
What are original shipping/corrugated/cardboard boxes?
A trained person who acts as a support and witness for a patient and a provider during a sensitive exam or procedure.
What is a chaperone?
The organization's tool that's used to self-report potential events, near misses, and actual events.
What is Joint Patient Safety Reporting (JPSR)?
The minimum number of unobstructed inches needed from the ceiling so that sprinklers will work properly and for electrical panel clearance.
What is 18 & 36 inches?
The system used to report all vaccine adverse events.
What is Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)?
Instructions on how equipment must be cleaned, high level disinfected, reprocessed or sterilized.
What is manufacturer's instructions for use (IFU)?
This code has procedures for water and electrical failures?
What is code yellow?
The term for conducting a pre-procedure verification process, marking the procedure site, and performing a time-out.
What is Universal Protocol?
The organizations way to identify staff, contractors, and vendors in the facility.
The number of days multidose vials must be labeled after opening.
What is 28?
MEDDAC Bavaria's preferred location to find manufactures instructions for use online.
What is oneSOURCE?
The correct physical location to label patient specimens.
What is in front of the patient?
The organization's service utilized for communication with patients who speak a primary language other than English.
What is the Language Line?
A book with detailed informational documents that were made by the manufacturer of hazardous chemicals and timeframe to review such book.
What is Safety Data Sheet book and annually?
The process of comparing a patient's medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking.
What is medication reconciliation?
The proper sequence for donning full PPE.
What is gown, mask, eye protection, and then gloves?
Privately owned ________ equipment will only be used if inspected by the proponent Safety Officer, being in excellent working condition, and with a MEDDACB approval sticker.
What is electrical equipment?
A stand-up, checklist-driven planning meeting; can last from 5-15 minutes. It is a routine, planned event to communicate, collaborate and coordinate on the medical or operational plan.
What is Unit-Based Huddle (UBH)?