VTE Core Measures were initiated for hospital inpatients to have what impact on care
What is to prevent DVT and PE?
100
This is what SCIP stands for
What is Surgical Care Improvement Project?
100
Name two actions you can take to prevent having a stroke.
What are don't smoke (or quit), eat a healthy diet, maintain a healthy weight, be physically active, manage high blood pressure and cholesterol, minimize alcohol consumption
100
Inova has a new event reporting system to replace Quantros called...
What is Safety Always?
200
Name two acceptable methods for hand hygiene.
What are hand washing with soap and water or using waterless foam sanitizer?
200
Name the two types of VTE prophylaxis
What are mechanical and pharmacological?
200
If this level is above .06, consider initating AMI Core Measures.
What is troponin level?
200
This type of medication for high cholesterol should be ordered for every stroke patient.
What is a statin?
200
True or False: The event reporting system is only used to report actual events of harm to patients.
What is False. The event reporting system is used to capture Great Catches, unsafe conditions, employee incidents or injuries and other adverse or unintended conditions.
300
True or False: All staff in clinical care areas may not have nails longer than 1/4" and may not have artifical nails or gel-based manicures.
What is TRUE. This includes unit secretaries and is designed to keep the clinical carea area clean and safe for patients.
300
If this diagnostic "picture" is abnormal, implementation of Pneumonia Core Measures should be considered.
What is a chest x-ray?
300
Stroke patients should recieve prophylaxis for this within 24 hrs.
What is VTE?
300
SBAR is a handoff communication tool designed to prevent communication errors. Name what SBAR stands for.
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendations
400
Name two times when you MUST wash with soap and water (not use foam).
What are after using the restroom, after caring for patients with C Diff or after any contact with blood, body fluids, wound dressings, mucous membranes or non-intact skin.
400
True or False: Patients on comfort care measures only should be placed on VTE prophylaxis.
What is False. They are an excluded population, WHEN documented as such on day of or day after hospital arrival.
400
Unless there is a contraindication, a patient should be prescribed an ACE or ARB if is below 40%.
What is ejection fraction?
400
There is an acronym for the 4 key signs and symptoms of a stroke- name it and the signs/symptoms it stands for/
What is FAST? Face droop, Arrm weak, Speech impaired, Time to call 911
400
Name two concepts associated with a high reliability organization.
What are preoccupation with failure, deference to expertise, resilience, mindfulness, sensitivity to operations, reluctance to simplify?
500
PPE stands for what type of important gear and name three prices of gear you might need to care for a patient with certain exposure precautions.
What is Personal protective equipment/gloves, mask, gown, splash shield.
500
True or False: Heparin or warfarin can be used as monotherapy treatment for acute VTE.
What is False. Warfarin onset is too slow to be used as monotherapy so should be used as an overlap therapy in conjunction with heparin.
500
Difficulty breathing/shortness of breath is a trigger for which 3 Core Measures?
What are AMI/HF/PNU?
500
A stroke patient should recieve this if they have atrial fib/flutter.
What is anticoagulation therapy?
500
At Inova, the most frequently reporting category of adverse event reported is...