Blue = Emergency Resuscitation; Pink = Infant abduction; Amber = Child abduction; Green = Manpower assistance; Black = Bomb threat; and Purple = Person with weapon.
Examples include q.d., 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 Patient Advocate.
Who is TSgt Amy Richmond?
200
Location of Incident and Near Miss Reports.
Where is the MedWeb?
200
Topics presented 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 annual National Patient Safety Goals?
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
TJC.
What is "The Joint Commission"?
200
This score is used at admission to help determine a patient's risk for falls.
What is the Fall Risk score?
300
Major McLaury
Who is the Infection Control Officer?
300
Who - what - where - when - why - and steps taken to prevent a recurrence. These items should ideally be included when submitting . . .
What is an incident report?
300
Ephedrine and epinephrine. Fentanyl and Sufentanil. Humalog and Novolog. Taxol and Taxotere. Lamisil and Lamictal. Zyprexa and Zyrtec.
What What are Look Alike/Sound Alike Medications?
300
The primary objective of SBAR is to provide a standardized form of communication between caregivers in providing accurate, clear and complete information during transitions (“hand-offs”) in patient care. The acronym SBAR represents . . .
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR)?
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
If after reporting a Serious event, an employee believes appropriate action was not taken, an employee may submit an anonymous report to the Patient Safety Authority. The anonymous report is located . . .
Where is the Patient Safety office or the MedWeb
400
- "clear" - "concise" - "complete" - These items are generally recognized as the 3-Cs of . . .
What is DOCUMENTATION?
400
The process of obtaining a telephone order from a physician involves this process.
What is Read Back?
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
Performing this action is the number one evidence-based method toward infection prevention.
What is Hand Washing or Standard Precautions?
500
The name of the Quality Director.
Who is Ms. Irene Larson?
500
The Team that can be initiated to help the staff/patient BEFORE there is an actual emergency.
What is the Rapid Response Team?
500
Pediatric medication doses for emergencies.
What should be on every crash cart?
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 Med Tech working with a patient who is about to have a small procedure done and you notice that one of the sterile packages has a tear in it. You quickly alert the nurse and replace with a new sterile tray. This action has prevented an error from occurring and is called....