Patient Safety Trivia Questions: Quiz!

Consider and treat all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious. Attention to hand hygiene, correct use of Personal Protective Equipment, and practicing standard & transmission-based precautions are not essential for health care workers in providing a safe infection control environment for all.

Patient Rights are an important component of the federal HIPPAA privacy rule.  Be knowledgeable about using, disclosing, and discarding Protected Health Information. do not talk about patient information in public places (elevators/cafeteria/etc) with co-workers or non-authorized persons.

MRSA is a staph infection that is resistant to treatment with usual antibiotics. MRSA is spread between patients by healthcare workers and others by hands, clothes, and shared equipment. Be attentive to hand hygiene and correct those who don't. Apply consistent and good cleaning practices in all areas.

Health Care-Associated Infections (HAI) that cause death or major permanent loss will be treated as sentinel events.

Labeling occurs when any medication or solution is transferred from the original packaging to another container.

A nurse can remove the patient from suicide precautions.

You must write "daily" or "every other day" instead of QD or QOD.

Medication reconciliation is completed only on admission and at discharge.

As long as the patient knows who they are, you don't have to verify the 2 identifiers.

The final "time-out" can occur in the pre-operative area just prior to going into the surgery room.

Universal Protocol is to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery.

It is not mandatory to educate the patient and family about hand hygiene and respiratory hygiene practices and contact precautions upon admission.

If my patient is at risk for falls they should have a yellow arm band on their wrist.