Environment Safety
How can PCT make sure that the pt’s room is free from hazard?
Keep room clean, clear floor of clutter, and secure loose cables.
What are devices use to help transfer patient?
Draw sheet, slide board, gait belt, transfer sheet, and lift.
What is essential to breaking the chain of infection?
Handwashing
PASS
Pull the pin, Aim low, Squeeze handle, sweep the unit
How to clean body fluids?
What should PCT do if there’s a faulty equipment?
- Tag equipment that is broken
Lying patient face down in a horizontal position?
Prone position
What to do with contaminated articles?
Place used tissues, soiled dressing, and soiled linen in moisture-resistant bags for proper disposal. Place dressing that can be poured, dripped, or squeezed in biohazard bags.
RACE
Rescue patients, sound alarm, confine fire, extinguish or Evacuate
What is a Safety Data Sheets?
Give information regarding storage, celan up, exposure clean up, and any other information on a chemical
Who are fall risks in different age groups?
What provided support to body or extremities of patient?
Pillows
What is A reservoir?
The atmosphere that pathogens love and thrive
What to do if you experience a needle stick?
Wash the site, then notify the nurse or charge nurse and then compete the documentation.
What is done for Surface decontamination?
Clean with 1:10 bleach solution
How long should PCT take to ask the patient if the need to use the restroom?
PCT should do hourly rounding.
What is a slide board used for?
Can help to transfer patient from bed to bed or bed to chair
How to prevent health care associated nosocomial infections?
Clean/sterile technique, handwashing, environment cleaning.
How big a fire can PCT put out?
Can only put out a fire smaller than an office sized trash bag.
What is CLIA?
Federal regulations that establish quality standards that apply to all facilities that perform diagnostics.
What should be done prior to doing anything?
Identify the patient
When to use a trapeze bar?
Helps patient to raise trunk from bed which help reposition and transfer
What do facilities require to prove immunity against?
Varicella and MMR
What is OSHA?
A federal organization that provides guidelines to help reduce safety hazards in the workplace
What is CLSI?
Goal is to develop practices standard to be used worldwide