Environment of Care
This is the process to follow during a fire.
What is RACE?
This is the single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection.
What is Handwashing?
This is the process all hospital personnel have the responsibility to protect patient's confidentiality at all times.
What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPAA form?
What is How do you protect Patient Privacy?
This type of medication is not in your OR Anesthesia cart.
What are controlled substances?
This must be verified by the Anesthesia Care Team before bringing the patient to the OR.
What is the Patient idendity?
Surgical Fires occur when these 3 things happen.
What is the Fire Triad?
Ignition Source
Oxygen
Fuel Source
Gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields and face shields are all examples of this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
This item should be given to all new patients, to inform them about their right to be treated with respect, to be involved in decisions related to their care, and that they must also treat our staff with courtesy and respect.
What are the Patient’s Rights & Responsibilities or Patient's Handbook?
This clinical posters contains medication names such as Cefazolin, Epinephrine, Tamoxifen, Dexamethasone.
What is Medications with potential look-alike/sound-alike confusion, or SALAD?
Before doing a Nerve Block, you need to mark this.
What is the correct block site?
The process for using a fire extinguisher.
What is PASS?
This infection control practice considers all patients to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens, and requires PPE to be used when coming into contact with ALL patients blood, urine, or other body fluids.
What are Universal Precautions?
This is used for non-English speaking patients and hearing/visually impaired patients whose preferred language is not English.
What is Interpretative Services?
“U”, “IU” and “QD” all appear on this list.
What is the “Do not Use” Abbreviation List?
The Joint Commission comes to review this.
What is Patient Chart?
What are Hospital Procedures (Manuals)?
Fire Risk is part of this "Procedure".
What is Time out?
All of these, with the exception of vaccines, must be disposed of after 28 days after opening.
What are multi-use vials?
This is the process to follow when documenting preferred language usage.
The following must be charted: ID number, language line and the name of on-site interpreter.
This is the process of securing controlled substances.
What is the pyxis?
Doing this process before starting a patient procedure is important to identify any missing information, and prevent errors.
What is a time-out?
This type of safety exercise prepares staff to keep employees, patients and visitors safe in the case of loss of power, earthquake, or other unexpected events.
What are emergency or disaster drills?
What is Emergency Preparedness Plan?
This process should be used to disinfect medical instruments that cannot be passed through an autoclave machine.
What is high level chemical disinfection?
This is a way for patients to formally communicate what type of healthcare they want if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity, and to appoint a person to make such decisions on their behalf.
What is an Advance Directive?
If medications on this list are given to a patient, specific precautions must be taken, because they have a higher possibility of causing harm.
What is the "high alert medication list?"
This posters explains two patient identifiers, infections control, correct site correct procedure, medication safety, improving effective communication, etc.
What is the "National Patient Safety Goals"?