Patient safety flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on patient safety: identification, procedures, precautions and error reporting.
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- Two patient identifiers commonly used?
- Full name and date of birth. Never the room number.
- Three steps of the Universal Protocol?
- Pre-procedure verification, site marking and time-out.
- Who marks the surgical site?
- The clinician doing the procedure, with the patient involved when possible.
- When is the time-out done?
- Right before the procedure starts, with the whole team pausing.
- Common scale for fall risk in hospital?
- Morse Fall Scale.
- Basic fall prevention at the bedside?
- Bed low and locked, call light in reach, nonslip footwear.
- How to tie a restraint?
- Quick-release knot to the bed frame, never to the side rail.
- Restraint order for violent behavior in an adult: renewal?
- Every 4 hours, under CMS rules.
- High suicide risk on the unit: precautions?
- Constant one-to-one observation and removal of sharp and ligature items.
- Reducing alarm fatigue?
- Set alarm limits for each patient and change ECG electrodes daily.
- First step after a medication error?
- Assess the patient, then notify the provider.
- Incident report: mention it in the chart?
- No. Chart only the facts and care given.
- Tall man lettering helps prevent what?
- Look-alike, sound-alike drug errors.
- Receiving a critical result by phone?
- Write it down, read it back, notify the provider fast.
- Main ways to prevent blood clots in hospital?
- Early walking, anticoagulant prophylaxis or compression devices.
- Aspiration precautions: head of bed position?
- At least 30 degrees, upright for meals.
- Seizure precautions at the bedside?
- Bed low, padded rails, suction and oxygen ready.
- Oxygen fire safety at home?
- No smoking or open flames nearby, no petroleum products on the face.
- Braden score that means pressure injury risk?
- 18 or lower.
- Safe way to write doses?
- No trailing zero (1 mg) and always a leading zero (0.5 mg).