Glycemic Management
Allowed time frame from blood glucose level check (accucheck) to insulin administration
What is 30 minutes?
An immediate, silent alert to security located on every unit
What is the Panic Alarm?
Right patient, right time, right medication, right dose, right route
What are the Five Rights of Medication Administration?
Approved wipe color for CDIFF
What is orange?
Maximum number of sticks any one nurse should attempt to insert peripheral IV prior to seeking assistance from other resources
What is 2?
This is required prior to omitting/holding an insulin dose
What is a physician’s order?
Must be obtained before application or, in emergency situations, during/immediately (within a few minutes) after application of restraints
What is a physician restraint order?
Medications for which an early or late administration of greater than 30 minutes, might cause harm or have a significant negative impact on the intended therapeutic or pharmacological effect
What are Time Critical Medications?
5 moments of hand hygiene
What are before touching patient, before clean/aspectic procedure, after body fluid exposure risk, after touching a patient, after touching patient surroundings?
Rapid Response Phone Number
What is 2911?
Percentage of meal a patient should eat prior to administration of prandial insulin
What is 50%?
Included interventions documented every 2 hours during the restraint period
What are hydration, nutrition, hygiene, elimination, and range of motion?
“On time” administration of time critical meds
What is within 30 minutes before or after scheduled administration time?
Required isolation PPE status for all Code Blues
What is Special Droplet/Contact Precaution or COVID?
Approved biomedical waste bag tie off methods
What is overhand knot or gooseneck zip-tie?
Required glucose recheck timeframes for hypoglycemia events
What is Recheck BG 15 minutes after treatment. If BG <80 mg/dL, continue treatment and rechecks q 15 minutes. Once patient has three consecutive BG >80 mg/dL x 3, then resume scheduled blood glucose monitoring?
Documented pain reassessment intervals for IV, IM and PO interventions
What is 30 (IV/IM) and 60 (PO) minutes?
Yellow paper used as part of patient education process for new medications
What is the Golden Ticket?
Used to reduced risk of hospital acquired infections for every patient every day
What is CHG?
Timeframe Sepsis Best Practice Advisory alert must be completed from notification
What is 15 minutes?
Appropriate bedtime or post hypoglycemic event snack for diabetes
What is 1 carbohydrate and 1 protein exchange?
An important safety feature to implement to prevent patient falls?
What is iBed awareness and bed cords?
2 components required for patient medication education
What are indication and possible side effects?
CHG pericare/catheter care frequency
What is BID, 10-14 hours apart?
Communication timeframe for critical results
What is 15 to 30 minutes?