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?
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?
The hospital must undergo an on-site survey at least every _ year(s)
What is 3?
In areas that have sprinklers installed, we need this many inches of clearance below the sprinkler head.
What is 18?
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 is the Patient’s Rights & Responsibilities or Patient's Handbook?
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
What are patient identifiers?
It tells you whether a piece of patient equipment has been serviced recently, and is safe to use during patient care.
What is an ISS sticker?
This intranet tool is the best way to notify the Facilities department that something is broken or unsafe.
What is an Engineering Work Order?
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 their first visit, and annually from then on.
What is the Consent to Treat form?
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?
Staff keep their medical emergency response skills sharp through these excercises done twice a year.
What are Mock Codes?
Means of Egress standard states corridors must be clear of obstructions for fire rescue. A corridor must be this many feet wide to allow two hospital beds to pass.
What is 8?
All of these, with the exception of vaccines, must be disposed of 28 days after opening.
What are multi-use vials?
The goal is to improve staff communications by getting important test results to the right staff person within this many minutes.
What is 20?
A written fire response plan must include how to use a fire extinguisher. PASS stands for this:
What is Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep?
This priority includes standards for antimicrobial stewardship, catheter-associated UTI, and central-line infections.
What is infection prevention?
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/Healthcare Proxy?
“U”, “IU” and “QD” all appear on this list.
What 3 items are on the Do Not Use Abbreviation 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?