Lather, Rinse, Repeat!
This is the single most important measure to prevent the spread of infections in hospitals.
What is hand hygiene?
This is how often urinary catheter care should be completed.
What is every shift (q12h)?
These are risk factors for patient falls.
Who can enter an order for a specialty bed?
What is bedside RN?
How do you call rapid response?
The minimum amount of time recommended for scrubbing your hands with soap and water.
What is 20 seconds?
These are indications for a centrally placed IV line vs a peripherally placed IV line.
What is TPN, vasopressors, hemodynamic monitoring, dialysis, long-term IV therapy (>1 week), vesicant medications, concentrated electrolyte solution, or all peripheral access exhausted?
At DPH, this is the most common activity that patients are attempting when they fall.
What is toileting?
These practices & procedures should be implemented for patients with a Braden score of 18 or below (at-risk for pressure injury formation).
What is the Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol (PIPP) and the pressure injury clinical practice guidelines?
For a severely septic patient who is not being treated, this is how often their survival rate decreases by ~8%.
What is every hour?
You must do this before putting on gloves and after taking them off.
What is hand hygiene (e.g. clean hands with sanitizer or soap & water)?
This is the correct method for collecting a urine culture.
What is clean catch, sterile sample from foley port, or straight cath?
After a fall, this must be completed to document what happened, how it was managed, and what interventions were implemented.
What is an event report?
This is the frequency at which skin should be assessed per OH Policy #2620: Skin Care/Skin Integrity (Adult and Pediatric Inpatient).
What is on admission, when any dressings are removed or changed, when transferred to another unit, and every shift?
What measures meet SIRS criteria?
SIRS criteria met with any two of the following: temperature >100.4F, HR >90, RR >20, or WBC >12k or <4k.
This is our hand hygiene campaign slogan at DPH.
Spread Kindness Not Germs!
This is how frequently you should change IV tubing for anything other than a continuous drip.
What is every 24 hours?
This tool is used to assess fall risk during your nursing assessment.
What is Morse Fall Scale?
This prevention dressing needs to be lifted to assess underneath every shift.
What is Mepilex?
What are the components of the Sepsis bundle for the first 3 hours?
What are
Lactate drawn (repeat in 3 hours if >2)
Obtain blood cultures
Start broad-spectrum antibiotics (after blood cultures are drawn)
Initiate IVF 30 ml/kg for hypotension or if lactate >/=4 ?
The percentage of alcohol that hand sanitizer must contain to be effective against most germs.
What is 60%?
This is how often a neutral displacement valve (microclave) should be changed.
What is every 96 hours (4 days)?
These are the fall risk interventions necessary for a Morse Fall Risk score greater than 45.
What is Bed Alarm On, Fall Armband On, Gait Belt Used for Transfers, Hourly Visual Checks, Room Door Open, Toileting/Diapered Every 2 Hours - In Advance of Need, Non-Skid Socks?
These areas should be closely monitored to prevent hospital acquired pressure injuries.
What is boney prominences and beneath devices?
What are the components of the sepsis bundle for the first 6 hours?
What is
Initiation of vasopressors
Repeat lactate if >2
Central line insertion
Monitor CVP
Monitor SvVO2 ?