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 and snacks that are allowed per person at the nurse's station in patient care areas.
What is zero?
The name and concentration of the medication, the date, initials of staff.
What is the information you need to put on a label for medication on the field?
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 surgical site 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 person destroys the product)
What is after?
Making sure the correct surgery is done on the correct patient, at the correct place on the patient’s body. Marking the correct place on the patient’s body where the surgery is to be done and performing a time out are part of this standard.
What is the Universal Protocol?
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)
Increased end-tidal CO2, muscle rigidity, hypercarbia, tachycardia, increased temperature may indicate this condition.
What is a Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis?
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.
This is done prior to a procedure, when changing staff, when items are added, before closure of a cavity or organ, at the end of the case, and upon team request.
What is a surgical count?
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%?
This must be worn by anyone who is scrubbed and in the sterile area in case of splashing.
What is a eye protection?
Name 2 things that can never be blocked by equipment
What is medical gas valves, fire alarms and extinguishers, code carts, exits, corridors
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 and MRN?
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 Medication Management Policy.
On the MAR it also indicates:
“Warning: Look-alike : sound-alike drug name”