Safety / Security
This is the name of the Privacy and Confidentiality Policy?
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
2 minute wet contact time.
What are Purple Top Super Sani Wipes?
Eighteen inches below the bottom of any activated sprinkler head.
How far from the ceiling must items be stored in offices and storage areas?
Drawing medication up into a normal saline syringe.
What is considered unsafe practice?
The form you send with patients as "hand-off" communication.
What is SBAR form?
It is locked and out of sight, and not visible to the public.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI).
It is used to identify potential hazards and how to work safely with the chemical products.
What is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)?
Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
What does the PASS acronym stand for and how to use a fire extinguisher?
Process when administering high risk drugs like insulin or TPA or blood transfusion.
What is Independent Double Verification?
CHG cloth wipes prior to transfer to surgery.
What is the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection?
The correct patient, correct site/ side marked, correct procedure, completed consent form if appropriate, and correct patient positioning.
What is required for procedural time-out?
Performed for all ED and Inpatient Units that may care for patients with suicide precautions.
What is a Suicide Ligature Risk Assessment (SLRA)?
Physician reviews list of pre-hospital medications, including over-the counter and herbal/natural products within 24 hours of admission.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
Medications that have been identified through national literature as having the greatest frequency of misuse, coupled with the highest severity of harm when administered improperly.
What are high alert medications?
5 minutes
What is the Kill time for bleach wipes?
Name and Date of Birth/ MRN#
What are the TWO patient identifiers?
A coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics-Antibiotic stewardship), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections causes by multidrug-resistant organisms.
What is Antimicrobial Stewardship?
Identify patients correctly.
Improve staff communication.
Use medicines safely.
Use alarms safely.
Prevent infection.
Identify patient safety risks.
Prevent mistakes in surgery.
What is Hospital National Patient Safety Goals?
They must be stored:In a locked area, In an area monitored by licensed personnel that could not be accessed by unauthorized persons without being noticed. They must not be left unattended and accessible, On top of a cart, On a countertop, In a patient’s room. They should not be stored in clothing pockets.
What is Prefilled normal saline syringes?
Call physician or licensed member of the healthcare team within 30 minutes.
What to do when you receive a critical result from the lab?
Before patient contact
Before aseptic task (ie: dressing change, line insertions, etc.)
After body fluid exposure
After contact with patient surroundings
After patient contact
What are your "Five moments of hand hygiene"?
Non-sharp biomedical waste contaminated with blood and/or body fluids, including but not limited to bloody gloves, empty tubing, and absorbent materials.
What is disposed of in biomedical waste red bags?
A horizontal evacuation must be implemented due to a fire. Patients, visitors and staff are moved into an adjacent smoke compartment on the same floor.
What is meant by code “red stat”?
Monitor, assess with documentation EVERY 2 HOURS for circulation, breathing/airway, skin and comfort needs.
How frequently must RNs monitor/observe a patient in NON-Violent Restraints?
Pre-procedure Verification, Site Marking and Time Out are used for patient's safety to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong person surgery.
What is Universal Protocol?