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 receiving this form.
What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPAA form?
This form is used by providers to document medications that patients take on an ongoing basis.
What is the medication list?
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
What are patient identifiers?
Someone has accidentally spilled a chemical in your work area! But not to worry, you can get information on how the spill should be handled by looking for the chemical name where?
What is SDS ?
Gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields and face shields are all examples of this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
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 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?
This is a simple lab test performed and resulted within the unit.
What is a Waived Test?
( urine chemistry dipstick, urine ketones, whole blood glucose, fecal occult blood, HbA1C, Influneza A and B, rapid strept, RSV )
This intranet tool is the best way to notify the Facilities Department that something is broken or unsafe.
What is the Maintenance Request Form?
This type of room is where a patient with known or suspected COVID-19 should be cared for with the door closed.
What is a Negative Pressure Isolation room?
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?
“U”, “IU” and “QD” all appear on this list.
What is the “Do not Use” Abbreviation List?
Staff keep their medical emergency response skills sharp through these excercises.
What are Mock Codes?
These inspections are conducted by the Maintenance Department to identify and list repairs that need to be performed.
What are Environmental Rounds?
Persons entering the room of a patient with known or suspected COVID 19 should where this.
What are PPE? (gown, gloves, mask, goggles or face shield, or CAPR)
Lumbar Punctures, incision and drainage, and PICC lines are all examples of procedures that require obtaining this from the patient before the procedure is performed.
What is informed consent?
When a sample medication is dispensed to a patient, the provider verifies that it is the correct medication, and what else?
What are the name of the sample medication, the dose, and dosing instructions?
This is done after an intervention is provided, or a after a painful procedure, or any time the patient's condition changes that might be cause the patient to hurt.
What is pain reassessment?
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?
A negative pressure room is checked by whom and how often when a patient requires negative pressure room isolation?
What is Nursing and daily?
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, specific precautions must be taken, because they have a higher possibility of causing harm.
What is the "high alert medication list?"
This document includes progress towards goals specific to the patient
What is the individualized "care plan"?