All things IP
Amount of time an area or object needs to remain wet when disinfecting with purple Prime wipes.
What is 1 minute?
This number of drinking vessels are allowed per person at the nurse's station in patient care areas.
What is zero?
Where to document or check for a patient's home bladder cath information.
What is the Treatment Team Sticky Note?
This is what RACE stands for.
(What is...)
R-Rescue those in immediate danger
A-Alarm-use red pull box and dial 88
C-Contain-close doors and place blankets under them
E-Evacuate to the next smoke compartment in hospital or out of building
E-Extinguish if safe PASS (pull, aim, squeeze, sweep)
What you do if a surveyor asks you a question and you are not sure of the answer.
What is access your resources? (Check the policy and procedure, ask your charge nurse, supervisor, manager, or CNS, etc.)
In order to prevent SSI, the proper sites must be wiped with CHG for this long.
What is 3 minutes?
Bleach wipe solution just splashed into your co-workers eye. Where you could find information related to how to help them.
What is Connect, Patient and Community Care, Best and Safest Care, Material Safety Data Sheets?
WHEN you would document the waste in the Omnicell machine by entering your user name and password.
(HINT: before or after the other RN destroys the product)
What is after?
True or false: A peeling CVAD dressing can be reinforced?
What is false. A dressing change is required; dressings cannot be reinforced.
This is our current safety event reporting system for patients, non-patient, environmental events?
What is Origami?
This is the 2 step process to cleaning the glucometer.
Clean the machine with one wipe and use a second one to disinfect it? (wipe left to right 3 times & up and down 3 times; 4 min wet time, allow to fully dry)
It is important to check our supplies and nutrition items regularly for these.
What are expiration dates?
Where you document when restraints are discontinued
What is in the restraints flowsheet under the restraint type. (Must document on this flowsheet every 2 hours for non-violent restraints and every 15 minutes for violent restraints).
Name a situation where you would use soap and water instead of hand sanitizer.
What is when visibly soiled, after using the restroom, and with patients with C Diff or Norovirus.
Name something that you can do to practice proper specimen labeling?
What is label the specimen in front of the patient in the room and verify 2 patient identifiers.
This PPE item must be discarded between patients (and should not become a beard or necklace).
What is a mask?
How far away from the ceiling/sprinkler heads supplies need to be kept.
What is 18 inches?
When and how often are pain assessments completed?
What is every 2-4 hours; before and after pain relieving interventions?
Go here to figure out if a provider is credentialed to perform a procedure.
What is Connect (Corporate Services, Request Center, Provider Privilege Verification)
This percentage of US adults have difficulty using health information.
What is 90%?
All patients having surgery at or below the level of the neck should have what prior to surgery, unless contraindiated?
What is a CHG bath?
How you know that a piece of medical equipment has been inspected for safe use.
What is
-We high level inspect equipment and functioning before use
-All equipment is inspected and tracked by Clinical Engineering
-Maintenance data can be found online
-We know how to enter a work order if needed
What is every 15 min?
What is every hour and prior to discharge?
Name 2 patient identifiers and a time that you would use them.
What is First and Last Name
Date of Birth: In the case of multiple births, medical record number must be used instead.
Use when administering all medications, blood products, obtaining lab specimens, procedures/treatments, and feeds.
Where you find sound alike/look alike medication lists.
What is in the med room or in the Medication Management Policy.
On the MAR it also indications:
“Warning: Look-alike : sound-alike drug name”