Basic Safety
Name and date of birth
What are ways to identify a patient?
Responsible for enforcing safety standards in the workplace.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
Most common injury in healthcare workers.
What is a back injury?
Pull, aim, squeeze and sweep.
How do you use a fire extinguisher to put out a fire?
List information such as precautions and possible hazards of a chemical.
What is a SDS (safety data sheet)?
Focus on preventing injury, illness and infection.
What is safety?
Responsible for protection of the environment-oversees removal and disposal of biohazards.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
Short pivots and moving in direction of travel.
How should an employee and patient should move their feet in a safe transfer?
The fire exit is blocked.
What is go to the secondary exit?
The study of preventing safety by adapting the environment.
What is ergonomics?
Efficient, timely and effective.
What is quality healthcare?
Responsible for regulating food and drugs sold in the US.
What it the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
Hips and knees
What should you bend when lifting?
Close the windows and doors.
How do you contain a fire?
Failure to take reasonable steps to prevent loss or injury.
What is medical negligence?
Hallways and public restrooms
What should be cleaned daily?
Responsible for administration of federal government insurance programs and updating HIPAA regulations
What is CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)?
Position lying on the stomach.
What is prone?
Vomiting and diarrhea 4-48 hours after this event.
What is acquiring a foodborne illness?
Failing to providing services per the standards of a governing body and thus intentionally causing harm.
What is medical malpractice?
Substance abuse, impaired hearing and physical disabilities.
What are internal factors that affect patient safety?
Ensures that healthcare systems provide quality patient care.
What is JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)?
Position for patients for eating or with respiratory symptoms.
What is Fowler's?
Steps in responding to a fire.
What is RACE-rescue, alarm, confine, evacuate or extinguish?
An unanticipated event in a healthcare setting resulting in death or serious injury.
What is a sentinel event?