Essential actions Flashcards
What’s the Essential Action 1?
Correct identification of the patient.
In hospitalized patients, what are the two standardized identifiers?
Full name and date of birth.
In which locations must patient identifiers be present?
- Bedside card (must include allergies, blood type).
- Wristband or bracelet (newborns must have mom’s and their info).
What should the personal do if the patient is unable to identify themselves?
Verify with family members or caregivers.
What’s the Essential Action 2?
Communication Improvement between professionals, patients and caregivers.
What’s the objective of the Listen-write-read-confirm process?
Reduce medical errors in verbal or telephone instructions.
In a situation of an emergency or critical communication on the telephone, what should the receiver do?
Listens to the instructiones and repeat them out loud.
What tool should be used during patient transfer to ensure effective communication?
SAER or SBAR technique
What’s the Esssential Action 3?
Safety in Medication Process
A medical prescrption must include:
- Full name and signature of the prescriber
- Date
- Full name of the patient
- Generic name of drug
- Pharmaceutical presentation of the drug
- Frequency and route of administration
- Duration of treatment
True or false:
High-risk medications can be stored with other meds.
False, high-risk meds should be stored separately.
What’s the Essential Action 4?
Safety in Procedures
What should the surgeon do before entering the operating room?
Mark the area on the skin where the surgery will take place. It is best to do this with a family member or caregiver present.
Before the patient leave the operating room, the surgical team must confirm:
- Procedure performed
- Proper labeling of samples
- Resolution of any issues
- Reporting of adverse events
Before initiating non-surgical procedures, the team must:
Make sure the correct procedures, patient identification and identify some risk
What’s the Essential Action 5?
Reducing the risk of health-care associated infections.
What’s the Essential Action 6?
Reducing the risk of patient injury due to falls.
The fall risk shouldn’t be re-evaluated every time there’s a change or modification in pharmacological treatment.
False.
How to prevent falls?
- Bed & stretcher: Side rails and check funcionality
- Transport: Wheelchairs with brakes
- Call or emergency buttons
What’s the Essential Action 7?
Prevention, Reporting and Analysis of near misses, adverse events and sentinels.
What’s the Essential Action 8?
Patient Safety Culture.
