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What is Monthly?
This is how often a fire drill must be conducted each year at every clinic site
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What is Handwashing?
This is the single most effective way to prevent transmission of infection
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What is the Patient Notification of Privacy Rights/HIPAA form?
Patient learn about their privacy rights by receiving this form.
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What is the medication list?
This form is used by providers to document medications that patients take on an ongoing basis.k
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What are patient identifiers?
Before providing care to a patient, you must verify that you have the right patient using two of these.
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What is SDS?
Someone has accidentally spilled a chemical in your work area. But not to worry, you can get information on how the spill should be handled by looking ro the chemical name where?
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What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
Gloves, gowns, masks, eye shields, and face shields are all examples of this.
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What are the Patient's Rights & Responsibilities or Patient's Handbook?
This item should be given to all new patients, to inform them about their right to be treated with respect, to involved in decisions related to their care, and that they must also treat our staff with courtesy and respect.
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What is Medication Reconciliation?
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
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What is Waived Test? (blood sugar)
This is a simple lab test performed and resulted within the unit.
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What is the Maintenance Request Form?
This intranet tool is the best way to notify the Facilities Department that something something is broken or unsafe.
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What is a Negative Pressure Isolation room?
This type of room is where a patient known or suspected COVID-19 should be cared for with the door closed.
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What is the Consent to Treat Form?
Before we provide any type of care to patients, patients must read and sign this document at the time of their first visit, and annually from then on.
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What is the "Do Not Use" abbreviation list?
"U", "IU", and "QD" all appear on this list.
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What are Mock Codes?
Staff keep their medical emergency response skills sharp through these exercises.
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What are Environmental Rounds?
These inspections are conducted by the Maintenance Department to identify and list repairs that need to be performed.
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What are PPE?
Persons entering the room of a patient with known or suspected COVID-19 should wear this.
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What is informed consent?
Lumbar punctures, incision and drainage, and PICC lines are all examples of procedures that require obtaining this from the patient before the procedure is performed.
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What are the name of the medication, the dose and dosing instructions?
When a medication is dispensed to the patient, the provider verifies that it is the correct medication and what else?
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What is pain reassessment?
This is done after an intervention is provided, or after a painful procedure, or any time the patient's condition changes that might cause the patient to hurs.
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What are emergency or disaster drills?
This type of safety exercise prepares staff to keep employees, patients and visitors safe in the case of loss of power, earthquake, or other unexpected events.
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What is Nursing and daily?
A negative pressure room is checked by who and how often when a patient requires negative pressure room isolation?
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What is an Advance Directive?
This is a way for patients to formally communicate what 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.
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What is the "high alert medication list"?
If medications on this list are given to a patient, specific precautions must be taken, because they have a higher possibility of causing harm.
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What is the individualized "care plan"?
This document includes progress towards goals specific to the patient.
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