Environment of Care
This is how often a fire drill must be conducted each year at every clinic site.
What is Twice?
This is the single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection.
What is Handwashing?
Patients learn about their privacy rights by getting “hip” to this form.
What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPAA form?
Acceptable patient identifiers
What are name and date of birth?
Our method of improving performance is known as
What is the PDCA Cycle?
When do you complete a fall risk assessment?
What is upon admission, every shift, and after a fall?
Someone has accidentally spilled a chemical in your work area! How do you get information on how the spill should be handled?
What is the MSDS?
Gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields and face shields are all examples of this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
This item is 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 care process involves finding out what medications a patient is taking, comparing them to what has been taken in the past, documenting any changes, and checking for safety issues.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
It tells you whether a piece of patient equipment has been serviced recently, and is safe to use during patient care.
What is the biomed sticker?
You have administered PO pain medication to your patient. When do you reassess the patients' pain?
What is within 1 hour?
This intranet tool is the best way to notify the Facilities Department that something is broken or unsafe.
What is TMS?
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?
Before we provide any type of care to patients, patients must read and sign this document at the time of admission.
What is the Consent to Treat Form?
“U”, “IU” and “QD” all appear on this list.
What is the “Do not Use” Abbreviation List?
Clinic staff keep their medical emergency response skills sharp through these exercises done twice a month.
What are Mock Codes?
Time frame allowed to report critical results to the provider.
What is 30 minutes?
These inspections are conducted by the Facilities Department to identify and list repairs that need to be performed.
What are Environmental Rounds?
What type of hand hygiene is effective against C-Diff spores?
What is soap and water?
How are errors in patient care reported?
What is ERS?
What processes are in place to prevent med errors?
What are 2 patient identifiers, barcode scanning, pharmacy order verification, and witness?
Doing this process before starting a patient procedure is important to identify any missing information, and prevent errors.
What is a time-out?
The use of verbal orders is limited to?
What is emergent situations?
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 type of isolation is used for measles?
What is airborne?
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 at our hospital, specific precautions must be taken, because they have a higher possibility of causing harm.
What is the "high alert medication list?"
This term is defined as “the procedures, actions, and processes that a medical professional is licensed to perform”.
What is the “scope of practice”
How often is pain assessed?
What is upon admission, with any change in condition, throughout the shift, with reassessments after interventions.
Where are the eye wash stations located in your facility?
What is the gym, lab, & the service hall?
What type of mask is needed for airborne isolation?
What is an N95 respiratory?
A patient wants to go home without being discharged. What must be signed?
What is an AMA Form?
How do you dispose of medications?
What is place it in the RX Destroyer?
Name a PI project your department is working on.
What are scanning compliance, falls, & hand hygiene?
Who is responsible for documenting in the IPOC?
What is each discipline involved in the treatment of the patient?
What do the acronyms PASS and RACE stand for?
What is pull, aim, squeeze, sweep, & rescue, alarm, contain/confine, extinguish/evacuate?
When do you perform hand hygiene?
What is before and after entering a patient room, before and after providing care or performing a procedure, & after removing gloves.
Who is notified when patients have a complaint or grievance?
Who is your immediate supervisor or the Director of Quality?
How do we identify medications properly that look-alike or sound alike?
What is "TALL MAN" lettering?
Who is the facility safety officer?
Who is Brad White?
What does SBAR stand for and when is it used?
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation; what is when calling a provider related to a change in condition?