Basic Guidelines & Government Regulations
Agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment
What is the EPA?
The two pieces of information that are used to identify a patient
What is their name and birth date?
Avoiding negative outcomes, like injury
What is safety?
The most common type of injury health care workers experience.
What is back injury?
The part of a fire where the nozzle of a fire extinguisher should be pointed at
What is the base of the fire?
How often high traffic areas in a health care facility should be cleaned
What is daily?
True or false: a health care worker should validate the patient's concerns when initiating conversation with them.
What is true?
A health care worker should immediately do this after a safety violation.
What is report it to the supervisor?
The position where a patient is lying on their back.
What is supine?
SDS stands for
What is Safety Data Sheet?
What is OSHA?
A health care worker should do this before entering a patient's room.
What is knock and ask for permission to come in?
When a licensed professional causes harm to a patient by failing to provide services per the standards set by the governing body
What is medical malpractice?
True or false: The best way to push an object is by leaning into the object with your body weight.
What is true?
Opening a window during a fire does this.
What is feed the fire?
A rule made and maintained by an authority
What is a regulation?
Before administering treatment, a health care worker must do this.
What is explain the procedure to the patient?
Where a victim of an accident should be interviewed by a health care worker
What is a private, confidential setting?
What are patients in rehab and geriatric patients?
True or false: Evacuation plans should be placed in hidden places in a facility where nobody can see them.
What is false?
One of the responsibilities of health care regulatory agencies
What is providing information about industry change?
You shouldn't use this type of language when explaining procedures to a patient.
What is medical language?
Failing to take reasonable care of steps to prevent loss or injury to another person
What is medical negligence?
Your feet should be this far apart when lifting.
What is shoulder-width apart?
It typically takes this long for foodborne illness symptoms to appear.
What is 4 to 48 hours?