Patient Safety
This must be verified before any procedure?
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 patient identity using proper identifiers?
This culture encourages reporting errors without fear of punishment.
What is a Just Culture?
This is the single most important way to prevent infection spread.
What is hand hygiene?
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 patient safety event.
What is a Root Cause Analysis (RCA)?
RCA has since sunset.
BONUS: 10PTS **What is the new name of the DHA Analysis?
These must be worn when exposure to blood or saliva is expected.
What is PPE?
DAILY DOUBLE:
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 clinic leadership and through the safety reporting system?
This ensures clear communication of critical information?
What is SBAR?
BONUS: 7PTS
Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation
This type of instrument must always be sterile.
What are critical instruments?
A sterilization pouch is wet after a cycle-what should you do?
What is consider it contaminated and DO NOT USE?
BONUS: 5PTS
**Immediate next steps?
This should be done if a patient has a known allergy before treatment begins.
What is verify and document allergy status?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Sceneario Based:
A provider skips the time-out due to being behind schedule - what is the correct action?
What is "stop the line" 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?
BONUS: 6PTS
**CaviWipes - wet contact time?
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 in JPSR and implement corrective action(s)?
This must be monitored when sedation or anesthesia is used.
What are vital signs and patient response?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This should be done after removing gloves.
What is hand hygiene?
**BONUS 5PTS
How long do you wash your hands?
There is no No label on sterilization load - what do you do?
DO NOT USE instruments / send for reprocessing.