Environment of Care
The hospital conducts fire drills at this frequency
What is once per shift per quarter in each building
Listed under the "Pressure Ulcer HAC", wheelchair/bedbound patients, patients with trachs, and patients with cast require you to document this care plan.
What is "Potential for Altered Skin Integrity"?
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
What are patient identifiers?
Prior to a patient having an invasive procedure, the practitioner must correctly identify that the following 3 things are correct:
What is:
1. Correct Patient
2. Correct Procedure
3. Correct site
These oxygen tanks belong to Anesthesia and therefore are their responsibility to maintain and check.
What are the oxygen tanks under the bed?
The process of comparing a patient's medication orders to all of the medications that the patient is taking. It can only be done by a physician (not a nurse!!)
What is Medication Reconciliation?
The 3 parts of the defibrillator check.
What is the self check done each morning at 3, the cord check and the paddle check?
During the conversation the doctor has with the caregiver, in order for the procedure to be considered "informed" the doctor should have discussed these these 4 things:
What are:
1. Risks
2. Benefits
3. Side Effects
4. Alternatives
The frequency that COA's Biomedical Engineering Department inspects tests and maintains all medical equipment and the indication it has been completed.
What is annually and the Orange Biomed Sticker
The emergency telephone number at COA
What is 89288?
In order to "update" and History and Physical, the surgeon must say these 3 things:
What is:
1. I have reviewed the patient history
2. I have reassessed the patient
3. No changes have occurred in the patient's condition since the H&P was completed or they must document the changes.
In areas where hazardous materials are used, this must be available to quickly RINSE out the hazardous materials from affected area, must be a combination of cold and hot water, and must be checked weekly
What are eyewash stations?
Patients should be placed on these types of isolation if they have COVID.
What are Droplet and Contact?
Considered the "Source of Truth" for your medications and should be on hand in some way when you get medications out of the pyxis.
What is the order?
Your best response to an active shooter
What is Run, Hide, Fight
A nonverbal pain assessment scale and it's 5 parts
What is FLACC
Face
Legs
Activity
Cry
Consolability
The frequency ice machines are cleaned
What is Annual maintenance, Quarterly inspection and Monthly drain flush to be done by Engineering and Maintenance and weekly exterior cleaning to be done by the department?
What is 2 minutes and 4 minutes?
The Non-emergent form of communication at COA and is the format for the Hand Off of Care used in Surgical Services
What is IPASS
I-Illness
P-Patient Summary
A-Action List
S-Situational Awareness
S-Synthesis (read back)
Holding a Kleenex at the crack of these closed doors will tell you if the room is working properly
An assessment tool designed to identify patients with limited reading ability who need help reading health related materials
What is SILS
Single
Item
Literacy
Screener
These are the acceptable gas cylinder storage requirements at COA
What are:
1. Full-unopened and used
2. Partial-opened and greater than 500psi
3. Empty-opened and less than 500psi
The color gloves you would use to discontinue an IV for a patient with a Mirena IUD
What are regular blue gloves because they are chemo rated?
Type of lettering used to distinguish LASA medications
What is "Tall Man" lettering?
The Fire plan for COA and what the letters stand for.
What is
1. RACE-Remove/Rescue, Activate, Contain, Extinguish/Evacuate
2. PASS-Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep
This software program used by the hospital let's you know that a surgeon has privileges to perform a particular surgery or procedure and it's location
What is "MD Staff" located on the X Drive?