Facilities Management
The best way to notify the facilities department that something is broken or unsafe.
What is a maintenance request form? (Recommend direct phone call or face to face report if situation may harm staff or patient.)
How patients learn about their privacy rights by getting “hip to this form.
What is the patient notification of privacy/HIPAA form?
This form is used by providers to document medications that patients take on an ongoing basis?
What is the medication list?
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
What are patient identifiers?
Number of times a fire drill must be conducted each year in acute hospital settings.
What is one per month quarterly for each shift?
Information given to all new patients, to inform them about their right to be treated with respect, to be involved in decisions related to their care and they must also treat staff with courtesy and respect.
What is the patient’s rights and responsibility handbook?
The medications that are given routinely when requested by a patient and has specific times between doses?
What is PRN medications?
Facility staff keep their medical emergency response skills sharp through these exercises done twice a year.
What are Mock Codes?
These inspections are conducted by the facilities department and by administrative officers on call to identify and list repairs that need to be performed.
What are environmental rounds?
Before the hospital can provide any type of care of to patients, all patients must read or be informed of the content of this document which they must sign on admission to the facility prior to any care being performed.
What is the consent for treatment Form?
“U”, “IU” and “QD” all appear on this list.
What is the “Do not Use” Abbreviation List?
This term is defined as “the procedures, actions, and processes that a medical professional is licensed to perform”.
What is the “scope of practice”?
This time of exercise prepares staff to keep visitors safe in the case of loss of power, earthquake, or unexpected events.
What is emergency or disaster drills?
This activity must be performed with staff and patient after each restraint/seclusion of patients.
What is a Debrief?
If medications on this list are given to a patient at our facility, specific precautions must be taken, because they have a higher possibility of causing harm.
What is the "high alert medication list?"
It tells you whether a piece of patient equipment has been serviced recently and is safe to use during patient care.
What is a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) sticker?
Someone accidentally spilled a chemical in your work area where would you find information on how the spill should be handled?
What is the MSDS manual?
Document that patients can have prepared to formally communicate the type of healthcare they want if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity and to appoint a person to make such decisions on their behalf.
What is an advance Directives?
This clinical care process involves finding out what medications a patient is taking, comparing them to what has been taken in the past, documenting any changes, and checking for safety issues.
What is Medication Reconciliation?
Contains mandatory requirements for manufacturers, importers, and device user facilities to report certain device – related adverse events and product problems to Regulatory bodies?
What is Medical Device Reporting?