Reviewing the current medications that the patient has taken prior to admission.
What is medication Reconcilliation
100
What is an essential strategy for preventing the spread of health care associated infections.
What is Hand Hygiene.
100
Who has a role in preventing patient falls?
Physicians, CNA's, Nurses, Unit Secretaries Administration, Therapists...everyone
200
Hospitals can enhance safety by correctly identifying the following before surgery
What is...
Right Patient
Appropriate Procedure
Correct Site
200
When do we do a handoff report?
transfer from floor to floor
Shift to shift
Patient going for procedure
200
Do we Label all medications, medication containers,and other solutions on and off the sterile field in a procedural area?
Yes
200
What is the acronym for catheter associated urinary tract infection which is a 2014 NPSG regarding the prevention of hospital acquired UTI.
What is CAUTI
200
Who is responsible for educating families?
What is Everyone
300
When admitting a patient who do we Identify as a patient safety risk?
Patients who are most likely to try to commit suicide.
300
You received a call from the lab. They report to you a Potassium 6.1mEq/L?
Critical test result needs to be called to the MD.
300
What are the components that are required for labeling medications on a sterile field?
Medication Name, Strength, Quanity,Diluent and volume, Expiration date
300
Who is required to perform Hand Hygiene?
What is Everyone
300
If a patient falls...how do we identify if they are now high risk?
What is Red falling star, red socks, red arm band, low bed, mats, bed alarm
400
We do what to eliminate transfusion errors related to patient misidentification? (give one example)
Use a two-person vertification process.
Match the blood or blood component to the order.
Match the patient to the blood or blood component.
400
"I understand that you want the patient John Jones to recieve a 20cc/kg fluid bolus" now.(Repeating what you heard)
What is Readback order
400
What lab do you draw to assess the patient's baseline coagulation status?
What is PT INR.
400
What is the acronym for Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection which is a 2014 NPSG regarding the prevention of hospital acquired BSI's.
What is CLABSI
400
What is the new 2014 National Patient safety goal?
What is Alarm Management: Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.
500
What do we do before the procedure to make sure it is the right patient, the right procedure, the right time, the right place?
What is timeout.
500
Nurse is taking a patient to CT, will be gone for 60 minutes, and informs her peers the status and needs of her other patients while she is off the unit
What is handoff communication.
500
Heparin and Coumadin are...
what is Anticoagulants
500
What are examples of multidrug-resistant gram negative bacteria
What is
MRSA
VRE
500
When do we first identify a patient as a fall risk?