WHY?
This process is to ensure patients are safe and engaging in treatment.
What is closing patient room doors during programming hours?
This process occurs at intake or when a family member drops off patient belongings. The process ensures the patients receive their belongings at discharge.
What is accurate documentation of patient inventory?
Completed every 12 minutes on every patient
What is patient observation rounds
A protocol to minimize patient to patient transfer of (Hospital Acquired Infection) HAI via medical equipment.
What is cleaning medical equipment after each patient use?
The reason linen carts are not kept in the hallway
What is ligature risk?
These are completed on patients every 15 minutes after chemical restraints and by physician order
What are patient vitals
The process that creates structure on the unit, provides treatment according to governing body requirements, and delivers treatment the patient has a right to.
What is the following the programming schedule?
This is a an observation level that requires staff to be at an arms length away from the patient as all times due to the severity of their symptomology and likelihood that they may hurt themselves or someone else.
What is a 1:1 observation?
This process limits transfer of HAIs (Hospital Acquired Infections), and ensures proper use of PPE
What is donning and doffing PPE?
We use paper garbage cans for this reason
What is a safety risk, ligature, self harm, weapon.
What are patient allergies
The law that requires a patient to be on a legal status at all times during their admission to the facility.
What is the Baker Act Law?
The appropriate monitoring for a patient in seclusion to ensure patient safety, observation of presentation to conclude seclusion and documentation on presentation during seclusion.
What is constant monitoring?
This process limits contaminating patient food and ensures all food is labeled with expiration and safe to give to patients.
What is using separate refrigerators for patient use and staff use?
Staff phone restrictions in patient care areas for these reasons
What is confidentiality, professionalism, and minimize distractions
This is required to complete after any patient event
Education what a patient is started on a medication at our facility.
What is first dose requirement?
A process that includes to employees reviewing each patient presentation and events occurred in the last shift.
What is handoff?
This medication should be discarded after used once by policy
The reason MHTs must spread out in the dining room with continuous monitoring
What is patient safety. Counting sharps, monitoring meal percentage consumed, identifying escalating patients, etc.
This document outlines what the patient is working on, gives meaning to the patient's admission and ties all the clinical components into one document
What is the Master Treatment Plan?
The time between any PRN given and the required check in to determine effectiveness.
This type of monitoring is a requirement when a patient is in their room for any reason.
What is hallway monitoring?
This process is completed to ensure safe use of glucose medication and supplies.
What is labeling glucose strips and vials?