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Safety Ch. 14 Flashcards

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What must the nurse be aware of and what is their responsibility?

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Be aware of potential safety problems.

How to report and respond when safety is threatened

Providing and maintaining a safe environment

Both protection and education are primary a nursing responsibility

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What does a safe environment imply?

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Freedom from injury with focus on preventing falls, electrical injuries, fires, burns and poisoning.

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Sentinel event

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Any unexpected occupancy involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the riskof

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When do the majority of patients fall?

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During transfers

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Who is the most at risk to fall?

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The very young 
Older adults
Individuals who become ill or who are injured 
Unfamiliar environment
History of falls
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To ensure the safety and protection of the environment of infants and children requires what?

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Protection of the child and education of the parents

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Accidents involving children and largely preventable or not preventable?
But what?

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Preventable

Parents and caregivers need to be aware of specific dangers each stage of growth and development

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What changes associated with aging increase risk of falls

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Unsteadiness in gait belt
Vision changes may affect the ability to see the height of stairs
Vertigo may occur due to disease and or medicine

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Prevention process

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  • Physical and psychological assessment
  • medication review
  • medical history review
  • inspection of patient environment
  • documentation
  • patient re- orientation
  • beds in low position
  • well lit rooms
  • call bells within reach
  • in service for staff
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Gait belts

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  • ambulating patients
  • apply gait belt securely around patients waist
  • walk to the side of the patient, one arm around waist and hand on the belt . Walk on weaker side
  • also considered as a safety reminder device
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safety reminder device (SRD)

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  • Devices used to immobilize a patient or part of the patient’s body, such as arms or hands
  • restraints
  • lap buddy
  • prevent or reduce the risk of falls
  • restrict movements
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SRDs today

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  • current trend is to decrease the use of SRDs due to legal and ethical issues
  • restraint free environment
    • orientation to surrounding
    • increased supervision
    • routine activities
    • increase activities
    • evaluate medications
    • use of weight sensitive/ electronic devices
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What are some things in the work place that can cause accidents?

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  • biologic, chemical, and physical hazards
  • laser
  • blood and body fluids
  • contaminated needles
  • radiation
  • vaccine- preventable diseases
  • violence
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the national institute for occupational safety and health (NIOSH) focuses on what?

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Safety and issues related to heath

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Hazard communication act of the occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)

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  • a federal organization that provides guidelines to help reduce safety hazards in the work place
  • requires hospitals to inform employees about the presence of or potential for harmful exposures and how to reduce the risk of exposure
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Center for disease control and prevention (CDC)

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  • federal agency that provides facilities and services for the investigation, identification, prevention, and control of disease
  • provides guidelines for working with infectious patients
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Material safety data sheets

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All employers require to make this manual available to all employees

  • list all chemicals used in facility
  • contains chemical info
  • contains safety info for each chemical
  • address and phone number for chemical manufacture
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OSHA and workplace violence

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  • According to OSHA more assaults occurs in health care setting than in other industries
  • OSHA provides guidelines for violence prevention programs
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Work place violence involves…

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Hitting/ kicking
Name calling/ gestures
Threats

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Work place violence is the ..

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The fourth leAding cause of fatal occupational injury in the US

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Work place violence risk factors

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  • possession of handguns
  • violent people seeking health care
  • mentally ill
  • pharmacies are targeted
  • gangs
  • agitated family members
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Fire safety

What’s mandatory and preventions

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  • an established fire safety program is mandatory
  • prevention includes good housekeeping, maintenance, and employee discipline
  • all employees should know the telephone number and procedure for reporting a fire, as well as the location of the nearest firefighting equipment
  • ## health care workers must know their roles in the overall evacuation plan
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Fire safety risk factors

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  • smoking in bed
  • faculty electrical equipment
    • overloaded outlets
    • faulty wiring
    • damaged/ misused electrical cords
  • fire/ burns are the leading cause of injury related death for children ages 1-4
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RACE

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Rescue and remove all patients in immediate danger

Activate the alarm

Confine the fire

Extinguish the fire using the extinguish

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Rescue

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  • swing carry method
  • don’t use elevators
  • moving non ambulatory residents
  • moving sensory and mentally impaired residents
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Alarm

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Second step is to sound the alarm
Pull the alarm
Call 911
Never hang up with dispatcher until dispatcher has repeated your message

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Confine

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Close all doors, windows and vertical opening
Stuff damp towels under door to keep smoke out
Shut off oxygen/ gas if you are directed by fire department

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Extinguish

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If the fire is in a trash can or ashtray, another it with a pillow, towel, rug or blanket

  • if residents clothes on fire wrap patient tightly in large blanket to extinguish flans
  • If piece of equipment catches on fire, unplug if possible
  • shut off oxygen and remove any patient from immediate danger
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PASS

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Pull the pin
Aim at the base
Squeeze the handles
Sweep from side to side

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Type A extinguisher

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For paper, wood , or clothes fire

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Type B

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For flammable liquid fires- grease and anesthetics

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Type c

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For electrical

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Type ABC

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Any type of fire

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Disaster situation

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An uncontrolled, unexpected, psychologically shocking event

  • earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, bombings, arson, riots, and hostage taking
  • health care facilities are expected to receive victims and survivors and to assist rescuers
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External disaster

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Originates outside the health care facility and results in an influx of casualties brought to the facility

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Internal disaster

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Represents an extraordinary situation that is brought about by events within the health care facility

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Disaster manual

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Specifies department responsibilities; chain of command

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Earthquake preparedness

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Building checks
– inspect gas, electricity, water shut off valves

Protect yourself/ patients

    • duck and cover
    • emergency food and water supplies
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Disaster manual

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Emergency operations plan

Emergency management plan

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Codes

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System of notification to be transmitted rapidly

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Poisoning

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The condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation, or exposure of a poisonous(toxic) substance

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Accidental poisoning

Children

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childhood poisoning is one of the major causes of death in children under 5 years of age

According to national safety council, there are 400,000 children under the age of 6 who suffer from too much lead in their blood

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Accidental poisoning

Adults

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Changes associated with aging interfere with the individuals ability to absorb or excrete drugs

  • the older adult may share drugs with friends
  • changes in eyesight may lead to accidental ingestion
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Accidental poisoning

Hospitalized patients and those in other health care facilities can be at risk

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Cleaning solution
Disinfectant
Drugs

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Preventing poisoning

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Romove toxic agents from areas where poisoning could occur

Toxins or poisonous substances should not be removed from their original containers

Poisonous substances should be labeled conspicuously and stored properly

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Who is a valuable sources of info when poisoning is suspected or does occur?

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Poison control centera

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If poison occurs:

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Obtain history
Access the patient
Call poison control center and follow protocols
Do not induce vomiting
Wash your hands
document
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Prevention Infant abductions

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  • attach secure identically numbered bands to the infant, mother and father or sig other immediately after birth
  • footprint the infant, take color photograph, and record physical exam within 2 hours of birth
  • implement an infant security tag or abduction alarm system, like car cording system; which triggers alarm, locks doors and freezes elevators if the infant comes within 4 feet of an exit it elevator
  • transport infants only In bassinets
  • establish a tracking system to document where the infants are at all times
  • require staff to wear up to date conspicuous, color photo ID badges and require staff in direct contact with infants to wear a second form of unique ID
  • don’t publish birth announcements in local newspaper
  • control access to the maternity unit for instance, keep all unit exit doors locked and make sure they’re monitored by video surveillance cameras with date and time stamp
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Terrorism

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A violent or dangerous act used to intimidate or coerce a person or government to further a political or social agenda

A new potential environmental health threat is the possibility of a terrorist attack

– biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons

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Bioterrorism

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The use of biological agents to create fear and threat

May be overt (announced) or covert (unannounced)

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Features that should alert nurses o the possibility of a bioterrorism related outbreak include:

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  • a rapidly increasing incidence of a disease
  • an unusual increase in the number of people seeking care
  • an endemic disease rapidly emerging at an uncharacteristic time or in an unusual pattern
  • lower attacks rates among patients who had been indoors compares with people who had been outdoors
  • clusters of patients arriving from a single locale
  • large number of rapidly fatal cases
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Terrorism by nuclear exposure

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  • attack on domestic nuclear weapon facility
  • “dirty bomb”
  • source of radiation on the contaminated patient : on the body or clothing, ingested or absorbed through a skin opening
  • less than .75 Gy absored- usually no symptoms
  • 8 Gy- usually fatal
  • more than 30 Gy- always fatal
  • absorbs more than .75 Gy can develops acute radiation symptoms
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Hematopoietic

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Loss of mucosal barrier and cells lining the intestine

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Cerebrovascular/ central nervous system

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Cerebral edema, hyperpyrexia, hypotension, confusion and disorientation

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Skin

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Loss of epidermis and possibly the dermis

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Endemic

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The expected or normal incidence native to or occurring naturally to a specific area or environment

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Epidemic

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Disease that emerges rapidly at an uncharacteristic time or in an unusual pattern

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