Infection Control | Potpourri | Medication management | Environment of Care | Patient Safety |
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The single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection
What is handwashing?
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Before providing care to a patient, you must verify you have the right patient using two of these
What are Patient Identifiers?
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This clinical care process involves finding out what medications a patient is taking, comparing them to what have been taken in the past, documenting changes and checking for safety issues
What is Medication Reconciliation?
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This type of safety exercise prepares staff to keep employee, patient and visitors safe in the case of loss of power, local industry chemical exposure or other unexpected events
What are disaster drills
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You notice a piece of equipment is not working correctly. What is you next action.
What is label with a defective sticker, describe the problem and notify Bio-med
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Gloves, gown, masks, eye shields and face shields are all examples of this
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
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It tells you whether a piece of patient equipment has been serviced recently, and is safe to use during patient care
What is Bio-Med sticker
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"U", "IU" and "QD all appear on this list
What is the "Do not Use" abbreviation list?
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What is important to remember about fire extinguisher panels?
What is - they should not be blocked
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Your patient is identified as a high fall risk. What is your immediate action to protect the patient
Add a clip to the armband, write the risk on the white board, and turn on the bed alarm to the middle picture.
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All of these, the the exception of vaccines must be disposed of 28 days after opening
What are multi-use vials
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During this process before starting a patient procedure is important to identify an missing information, and prevent errors
What is time-out?
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What is important to remember about pill splitters?
What is-they must be cleaned between use of each patient to have their own splitter.
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What should be completed after each use of a glucometer?
What is - the machine should be cleaned with a super-sani or chlorox wipe
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Application of restraints on a patient require frequent checks to maintain safety. What should be done every two hours
What is: circulation checked, ask if they need bathroom or drink or anything else.
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This infection control practice considers all patients to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens, and requires PPE to be used when coming into contact with ALL patients blood, urine or other body fluids
What are Universal Precautions
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A patient enters the ER and states that they are considering suicide. What is your first action?
Immediate one-one care
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What should happen with all medications or or off a sterile field
What is, they should be labeled with: Drug name, strength (or amount), expiration date and time.
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What is important to remember about items in the hallway/
What is- they should be on one side only and can only remain in one place for 30 minutes.
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You notice a green lid on a food tray. What does this signify?
Patient has a food allergy and tray should be checked to validate its' safety.
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This process should be used to disinfect medical instruments that cannot be passed through an autoclave machine
What is high level disinfection?
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You have just checked the patient nourishment refrigerator and noted that the temperature is out of range. What is your next action?
Notify the maintenance department.
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All PRN orders must have this?
What is an indication for use?
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What is important to note about food or drink at the desk area.
What is- it is prohibited?
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Your patient is on isolation and there is a cart outside the door. What is important to remember.
What is: PPE recommendations must be followed, patient and family educated and isolation added to the plan of care.
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