Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method to prevent infection.
What is Hand Hygiene?
100
Correct surgery, correct patient, correct surgical site are all checked prior to surgery during this activity.
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 name of the scale used at time of 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
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?
200
L.A.M.P.
What is "LOOK AT ME PLEASE" - a new fall prevention program?
300
Joanne Martin
Who is the Patient Safety Officer at Bascom Palmer?
300
Near Miss
What is an event that did not reach the patient?
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
The process in which the physician communicates to the patient about a procedure, risks, benefits, and alternatives of an intended procedure.
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
Micromedex
What is a consistent source of information regarding medications?
500
FMEA is 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 represents . . .
What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)?
500
You are a nurse and approached by a family member of one of your patients. She indicates that her Mom (patient) appears to be "not right." After assessing the patient you determine you need help. Who do you call for additional assistance?