UHealth People
Georgianna Barley
Who is a Risk Manager at your location?
Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
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 are Patient Name and Date of Birth?
TJC
What is the The Joint Commission?
A VALID and current government issued photo identification is required to do this.
What is patient registration?
Maureen Fagan
Who is the Chief Experience Officer?
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. Updated and published yearly.
What are the National Patient Safety Goals?
The online incident reporting system to report events to Risk Management.
What is Quantros?
AHCA
What is the Agency for Healthcare Administration?
During registration, the patient is asked to do this before affixing the armband.
What is verify and initial the information is correct?
Dr. David Sinclair
Who is the Patient Safety Officer for UHealth?
This has consistently been the #1 National Patient Safety Goal since 2003.
What is Patient Identification?
What number do you dial in an active shooter scenario?
What is 911?
CMS
What is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
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)?
Ellie Smith, DNP
Who is the Chief Nursing Officer for UHealth?
Name and Date of Birth
What are the two patient identifiers to be used?
The name of the protocol to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgery.
What is the Universal Protocol?
DOH
What is the Department of Health?
Involve the patient in every step of patient care by doing this.
What is ASK-MATCH-VERIFY?
Dr. Edward Abraham
Who is the CEO of UHealth?
Near Miss (aka Good Catch)
What is an unplanned event that did not result in injury illness or damage, but had the potential to do so?
Three steps that involve the patient in verifying patient identification.
What is ASK-MATCH-VERIFY?
An action taken to identify the root cause of an event or process that could have or did have an adverse outcome
What is Root Cause Analysis?
TRUE or FALSE:
A patient arrives to registration without a valid ID and is allowed to proceed for scheduled care knowing they will bring the ID for the next time.
What is false?
(A valid and current ID is required at the time of registration. Without proper required documents, services will not be rendered.)