Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
100
Date of Birth & Medical Record Number
What are two acceptable patient identifiers?
100
Essential to protecting your back
What is utilizing proper body mechanics?
100
Protecting the patients airway and minimizing injuries
What are seizure precautions?
200
A form used to report adverse events, or specific events which are inconsistent with routine patient care.
What are incident or occurrence reports?
200
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?
200
What the World Health Organization states that about 3 millions health care workers worldwide are exposed to each year
What are blood-borne pathogens?
200
This always requires a time limited order
What are restraints?
300
When properly used, this device grounds stray electrical currents to prevent electrical shocks
What is a three pronged plug?
300
The primary goal of nursing education.
What is training safe and competent nurses who are accountable for their actions?
300
Drugs, which by the nature of their name, are involved in a high percentage of medication errors or other adverse outcomes. Examples include Novolog and Novolin-R, Oxycodone and Oxycontin, Hydromorphone and Morphine, Heparin and Hespan.
What are Look Alike - Sound Alike Medications?
300
Three of the seven Student Nurse Unsafe Events identified in the ANA Code 125
1. Harm to Patient,
2. Medication errors
3. Falls
4. Acting beyond your authorized role
5. Not prepared for assigned tasks
6. Didn't report abnormal vital signs & assessment findings
7. Gave medication without the presence of instructor or precepting nurse
300
Leaving side rails up, ensuring that call lights and food trays are within a patient's reach.
What are ways to prevent falls?
400
The fire safety acronym R.A.C.E. stands for this
What is Rescue, Alarm, Contain and Extinguish
400
A form that provides toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipments and spill handling procedures on a particular substance.
What are Material Safety Data Sheets or MSDS?
400
Provided to protect the nurse from infectious and/or dangerous materials
What are Personal Protective Equipment?
500
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 or Nosocomial Infections?
500
The adverse patient event most frequently reported by hospitals to the Patient Safety Commission in 2009 and 2010.
What are falls?
500
One continuous, unremitting seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes