Standards
Quality Geeks
Patient Safety
QIPSS Functions
Hand Hygiene
100

11th-15th November 2019.

When is RBWH accrediting?

100

Recognition that an event occurred that might have led to an adverse event.

What is a near miss?


100

Three essential parts of Patient ID.

What are name, DOB, UR number?

100

Coordinate the development and review of all hospital, service line and department procedures, guidelines, protocols, pathways and standing orders.

Who are PPP team?

100

Number of moments in hand hygiene.            

What is 5?

200

Number of standards in NSQHS Standards 2nd edition.              

What is 8?

200

An injury resulting from medical intervention, an injury that is not a result of the patients underlying condition.  

What is an adverse event?

200

Communication problems, inadequate information flow, human problems.

What is most common root causes of medical errors?

200

Responsible for incident reporting and management support, incident analysis using HESPS, RCA and clinical review, and RiskMan support and training

Who are Incident Management Team?

200


What is PPE?

300

2 standards that underlie all standards.

What is Clinical Governance and Partnering with Consumers?

300

An event that had a serious negative patient outcome (unexpected death, serious physical or psychological injury, or serious risk).

What is a sentinel event?

300

One of the most common types of medical errors.          

What is medication error?

300

Facilitates consumer feedback, working with consumers and staff to provide quality customer service and ensures the rights and legitimate interests of consumers and the health service are protected by facilitating resolution of complaints and conveyance of compliments.

Who are Patient Liaison team?

300

Perform hand wash before a procedure.                                    

What is moment 2?

400

Framework used by assessors to comprehensively review hospital services.

What is PICMoRS?

400

An in-depth analysis of an error to assess the event and identify causes and possible solutions.

What is a root-cause analysis?

400

Impaired mobility or cognition, age, certain medications, and frequent need for toileting/incontinence.

What are factors that increase risk of falls?

400

Responsible for reviewing all hospital related deaths as well as facilitating the timely release of deceased patients.

Who are Mortality Review team?

400

Hand hygiene comes under this standard.

What is standard 3 Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated Infection?

500

Governing body responsible for overall implementation of national standards.

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care?

500

Non-profit membership organisation that analyses and publishes information comparing organisations and provides opportunity through networking and collaboration for organisations to identify opportunities to improve operational practices.

What is HRT?

500

Raises awareness for health workers regarding the close link between communication and patient safety.

What is CAPS?

500

Indicator used to measure healthcare quality and patient outcomes. The statistical tool predicts the likelihood of a patient outcome, and then plots the difference between the predicted and actual outcome.

What is VLAD?

500

Single most important way to prevent the spread of disease

What is hand washing?