SSI

Measure Up

100

This is given within one hour of surgical incision

What is the appropriate prophylactic antibiotic?

200

The only approved instrument for peri-operative hair removal

What are clippers?

300

Medication, strength or concentration, amount, time and date, Initials

What is how we label any medication that is transferred from it's original container?

400

This must be equal or greater than 36 degrees celsius within 15 minutes after surgery.

What is the patient's temperature? - or normothermia?

500

SCIP "measures" are a subset of this group mandated by CMS

What are Core Measures?

Safety Check

100

Rescue, Activate, Contain, Evacuate

What is What to do in the event of Fire? - RACE

200

Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep

What is How to use a fire extinguisher? - PASS

300

Name, Date of Birth, Medical Record Number are acceptable to use for this.

What is patient identification? Using 2 patient identifiers?

400

F.A.S.T.

What is the acronym to quickly assess for a stroke - Face asymmetry, Arm drifting, Speech, Time

500

Where you find specific safety information about a chemical that is used in our work area

What is an MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheet? Or, Hazardous Communication Book?

National Patient Safety Goals

100

L, R, QD, QOD, MSO4, and u are all examples of these.

What are Unapproved or Banned abbreviations?

200

Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation

What is SBAR? Or, how we perform "handoff communication"?

300

The term for listing all patient medications (including herbals and supplements), meds to be discontinued, meds to continue, and new medications.

What is Medication Reconciliation?

400

We WRITE DOWN and then READ BACK all of these.

What is a Telephone or Verbal order?

500

The part of Universal Protocol during which the Circulator and the Anesthesia Team verify the following: Pt. ID, allergies, and risks; Surgical site marking, procedure and consent; Monitoring and suction equipment are functional; Appropriate medication and fluids available

What is the Pre-Induction Surgical Safety Checklist?

Nurses do it with care

100

NSI is the acronym for this:

What is Nursing Sensitive Indicators?

200

All of our post anesthesia/sedation patients "fall" into this category:

What is HIGH fall risk (greater than 11 points on the fall risk assessment)?

300

We adhere to strict asepsis and protocol to prevent this HAI (hospital aquired infection)

What is: (any are acceptable) CAUTI (catheter associated UTI) - CLABSI (central line associated bloodstream infection) - VAP (ventilator associated pneumonia) - SSI (surgical site infection)

400

The link on the CareWeb where an incident is reported (i.e. pt. fall or injury, employee exposure).

What is the PSN or Patient Safety Network?

500

What is the acronym POU stand for?

What is Point of Use Care for Instrumentation in the OR. Clean at the time of use.

Infection Section

100

These "bugs" play hard to get.

What are MDROs? (Multi-drug resistant organisms)

200

What we do before and after any contact with patient or patient care equipment

What is wash hands?

300

This is the PPE (personal protective equipment) we must put on when entering the room of a patient with contact precautions.

What are gown and gloves?

400

28 days

What is how long multi-dose vials are good after opening? (including insulins)

500

The organism for which just using the waterless hand cleanser is not sufficient.

What is Clostridium difficile? (C-diff)