Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
100
During this activity, correct surgery, correct patient, correct surgical site are verified by the entire surgical team.
What is a "Time Out?"
100
Examples include QD., qod, U, IU, MS, MSO4, MgSO4, the use of a trailing zero (x.0 mg) or lack of leading zero (.xmg).
What is the DO NOT USE ABBREVIATIONS list?
100
The scale used during nursing admission to determine a patient's risk for skin breakdown.
What is the BRADEN scale?
200
Ruben De la Vega
Who is the Compliance Officer at Bascom Palmer?
200
A survey that measures staff member's perception of patient safety and is conducted every other year.
What is a Patient Safety Culture Survey?
200
An interdisciplinary process comparing a complete list of medications that the patient has been taking prior to admission, with the medications that will be provided during hospitalization; performed at pre-admission, admission and/or at time of transfer or discharge.
What is MEDICATION RECONCILIATION?
200
Novolog and Novolin-R, Oxycodone and Oxycontin, Hydromorphone and Morphine, Heparin and Hespan are just a few examples
What are Look Alike - Sound Alike medications?
200
You'll hear this overhead call for assistance if a patient fall occurs.
What is Code Autumn?
300
Joanne Martin
Who is the Patient Safety Officer at Bascom Palmer?
300
An event that did not reach the patient
What is a NEAR MISS?
300
What you must do to medication or solution which is transferred from the original packaging to another container.
What is label the container?
300
Dialogue between the physician and the patient about a procedure, the risks & benefits, and alternatives.
What is Informed Consent?
300
These two patient identifiers are used prior to administering medications, performing treatments, obtaining and labeling any specimens at bedside, and prior to administering any blood products.
What is the patient's NAME and DATE OF BIRTH (DOB)?
400
Billy Williams
Who is Safety Officer at Bascom Palmer?
400
Name and Date of Birth
What are two patient identifiers?
400
The process of obtaining a verbal telephone order from a physician involves these three steps.
What is:
1. write down the order
2. read-back the order
3. verify the order as written with the prescribing individual.
400
Examples include central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), surgical site infections (SSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), clostridium difficile infection (CDI), methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
What are Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)?
400
White = Patient Identification
Red = Allergy
Orange = Blood
Purple clip = DNR
Yellow clip = fall risk
What are SHS standardized color-coded wrist bands?
500
Ileana Dopico-Dunbar
Who is the Patient Advocate at Bascom Palmer?
500
Topics originated by the Joint Commission to promote and enforce major changes in patient safety in thousands of participating health care organizations in the United States.
What are the National Patient Safety Goals?
500
A consistent source of information regarding medications.
What is Micromedix?
500
A systematic, proactive method for evaluating a process to identify the parts of the process that are most in need of change. The acronym FMEA stands for this.
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?
500
You are approached by a family member who indicates that her Mom (your patient) appears to be "not right." After assessing the patient you determine a rapid decline in the patient's status and you need help. You might call for this team.