How to talk to a surveyor
Error Prevention Skills
2024 National Patient Safety Goals
Infection Prevention
Provider & Staff Documentation
100

Where can surveyors go?

Anywhere at any time & ask anyone anything

100

How do we commit to patient safety?

Know my team, team member checking, stop-think-act-review

100

How many forms of patient identification are necessary? 

At least two

100

Appropriate PPE for airborne precautions

N95

100

What is required for all procedures?

Consent

200
Words to avoid when speaking to surveyors

Usually, always, never, & sometimes

200

How do we demonstrate clean & concise communication?

SBAR/transfer of care, closed loop communication

200

Top infection prevention practice

Good hand hygiene 

200

You are transferring a patient with rhino/entero to the PICU, what do you wear to transfer the patient?

Appropriate PPE

200

Blood administration, what is needed? 

Order, product, patient, pump

300

If you do not know the answer a surveyor is asking...

Use your resources: refer to pocket pal, phone a friend, look on Careforce but do not make up an answer

300

How do we support a questioning attitude?

Speak up using A.R.C.C.; stop & resolve

300

How to ensure medications are administered safely?

Label, accurate patient medication information

300

How often should hand hygiene be performed when seeing patients?

Entering/exiting room, visibly soiled

300

When patient has PRN medication, what needs to be documented in the MAR?

Medication indication 

400

An appropriate response to a question you do not know the answer to

"I do not know but I know how/where to find it"

400

Provider/nurse communication should be ...

Closed-loop communication 

400

Appropriate amount of time to report critical lab value

Less than 1 hour & through a PHONE CALL

400

Gray top wipe contact time

3 minutes 

400

The H&P must be completed within

24 hours of admission
500

Answer the surveyors in

Direct & concise answers

500

What does A.R.C.C. stand for?

Ask, request, concern, chain of command

500

Surgical-error prevention

Conduct pre-procedure verification with transporter

500

Orange tope wipes contact time

4 minutes 

500

At the end of shift what should be documented?

Patient's progress on the goal