Safety
Critical medical devices should be plugged into these outlets.
What are emergency "red" outlets?
A patient safety event that is not primarily related to the natural course of the patient's illness or underlying condition that reaches a patient and results in death, permanent harm, or severe harm.
What is a Serious Safety Event (SSE)?
Most effective way to prevent the spread of infection
Occurrence reporting program to report employee injury.
What is Vigilanz?
Who is EVERYONE?
Affirmative duty of all health care providers and all agents and employees of the health care facility to report events and close calls.
What is recognize and report in vigilanz?
As an employee you have just been exposed to blood while in an emergency situation where gloves were not available. What is the best product to perform hand hygiene?
What is soap and water?
Any act of threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site.
What is Workplace Violence?
Once opened glucose test strips must be dated
What is 180 days?
Circumstances that increase the probability of a patient safety event occurring.
What is unsafe condition?
Gown, Mask, Eyewear, gloves
What is what order should PPE be put on?
Hospital staff with training in de-escalation skills who provide an organizational, patient focused response to behavioral emergencies.
What is BERT team?
Limited to 12 total per smoke compartment
What is Gas Cylinders or oxygen?
Opportunity to gather as a group and openly discuss patient safety issues in a safe, confidential, and legally protected environment.
What is a safe table?
An employee is going in to examine a patient with RSV What is the appropriate PPE?
What is surgical mask, face shield/protective eyewear, and Gloves?
Early signs of agitation in a patient
7 Rights of Medication Administration
Right Patient, drug, dose, time, route, reason, documentation
Sets a structure for Patient Safety Organizations, establishes voluntary reporting systems, and defines federal protection afforded to the work conducted in partnership with a PSO.
What is the Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Act (2005)?
# of percent of all hospital admissions that result in healthcare-associated infections
What is 5%?
4 principles of CPI
What is Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security