Emergency Response
The meaning of the acronym PASS
What is Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep?
The most important way to help prevent illness/ spread of infection
What is proper hand hygiene?
The 5 Rights of Medication Administration
What are Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time
These are what the initials SDS stand and they're located online and in the dirty utility room
What are the Safety Data Sheets.
The two patient identifiers we use
What are full name and date of birth
The meaning of RACE
What is Rescue, Activate, Contain, Evacuate/Extinguish?
The proper way to transport and clean instruments
What is using a biohazard bin with a lid to transfer out of the room, put on gloves, rinse soiled instruments with water, place instruments directly into the grey tote (with biohazard flag) leaving all hinged instruments open, spray with enzymatic cleaner 10-12 times, replace lid on grey container, take off PPE, and wipe out transport container with PDI wipe?
Situations in which medications are labeled
What are: if the medication is drawn up outside of the room, The medication leaves your hand at any point prior to it being given, you pour a liquid into a basin or cup, you are drawing up medication for more than one patient
Something that should not be kept in storage rooms because they can contain bugs
What are corrugated cardboard boxes
The amount of time staff has to alert the physician of a critical lab result
What is 30 minutes
A situation in which patients are moved to a safe area away from windows
What is a Weather Alert: Tornado Warning?
How often the rooms are cleaned.
What is between each patient and thoroughly at the end of the day?
This is what needs to be filed when there is a near miss or mediation variance occurs
What is a Midas report?
(Physician should also be notified. Do NOT put in patient chart that Midas form filled out)
Shouldn't be done with doors
What is propped open
Things that are included on the label of a medication you are drawing up
What are medication name, strength, amount (dosage), expiration date and time
It's kept at the front desk and in the nurses station and contain information about what to do in certain safety events
What is the Safety Kardex?
How we know the rooms are clean
What it is when we turn off the lights in the room?
Medications such as tramadol and trazodone that are often labeled with "tall man" letters are called
What are look alike- sound alike medications?
(Should be separated and labeled as high risk)
Things equipment should not be placed in front of
What are fire doors/pulls, extinguishers, medical gas shut off valves, or electrical panels
Ways to maintain a safe environment for patients at risk of suicide
What are constant observation, removing all potentially harmful items from the patient room
(sheets will be put in the nurse stations and in the rooms)
A situation in which you inform law enforcement, remain calm, Evacuate or hide out, and take action as a last resort
What is a Security Alert- Armed Intruder?
The amount of time we clean with/use the purple wipes to ensure equipment is properly cleaned
What is 2 minutes?
(check the label of different PDI wipes for proper times)
The number of days that Multi-dose medication vials may be used for
What is 28 days?
(must be labeled with expiration date once opened)
Things service requests should be sent in for
Furnishings and walls/coverings that aren't intact, dirty air vents or fans, ceiling tiles/lights that aren't intact or are stained.
How we make sure that we are doing the right procedure on the right patient
We complete a time-out prior to the procedure