Patient Safety
This must be verified before any procedure using at least two identifiers.
What are two patient identifiers?
Scenario Based:
A patient states their name differently than what is on the chart - what should you do?
What is stop and re-verify identity using proper identifiers?
This culture encourages reporting errors without fear of punishment.
What is a Just Culture?
⭐DAILY DOUBLE⭐
This is the single most important way to prevent infection spread.
BONUS: 6pts
**How long do you wash your hands for?
What is hand hygiene?
BONUS **20 seconds
You see a tear in your glove during a procedure - what do you do?
What is stop, remove gloves, perform hand hygiene, and replace gloves?
This process pauses the team before starting treatment to confirm safety.
What is a time-out?
Scenario Based:
During a procedure, a patient shows signs of distress -what is your first action?
What is stop treatment and assess the patient?
This process identifies the underlying cause of a serious safety sentinel event.
BONUS: 10 points
**No longer RCA - DHA new name(s) for this analysis?
What is a Root Cause Analysis (RCA)?
**CIA - Concise Incident Analysis
**CSA - Comprehensive Systematic Analysis
These must be worn when exposure to blood or saliva is expected.
PPE
Instruments were not cleaned before sterilization -what is the risk?
What is sterilization failure due to debris?
⭐DAILY DOUBLE⭐
This type of error involves performing the wrong procedure or on the wrong patient.
What is a wrong-site/wrong-patient event?
Scenario Based:
You notice a safety hazard in the clinic but no one has reported it - what should you do?
What is report it immediately to your clinic leadership and through the safety reporting system (JPSR)?
This ensures thorough and clear communication of critical information.
BONUS: 10 points.
What does it stand for? (5pts)
Example? (5pts)
What is SBAR?
Situation
Background
Assessmen
Receommendation
This type of instrument must always be sterile.
What are critical instruments?
⭐DAILY DOUBLE⭐
A sterilization pouch is wet after a cycle - what should you do?
What is consider it contaminated and DO NOT USE?
This should be done if a patient has a known allergy before treatment begins.
What is verify and document allergy status?
⭐DAILY DOUBLE⭐
Scenario Based:
A provider skips the time-out due to being behind schedule - what is the correct action?
What is stop and ensure the time-out is completed?
⭐DAILY DOUBLE⭐
This document ensures patients understand risks, benefits, and alternatives.
What is informed consent?
This is used to disinfect surfaces between patients.
What is an EPA-approved disinfectant? (CaviWipes)
A staff member forgets to wear eye protection - what is the risk?
What is exposure to splashes/splatter and potential infection?
This is required documentation after administering local anesthesia.
What is drug, dose, route, site, and patient response?
Scenario Based:
A near miss occurs with the wrong patient chart - what should be done?
What is report the near-miss and implement corrective action?
This must be monitored when sedation or anesthesia is used.
What are vital signs and patient response?
This should be done after removing gloves.
What is hand hygiene?
There is no label on serilization load - what do you do?
What is DO NOT USE instruments?
(Instruments to be reprocessed)