Across
- 7. This is an inter-disciplinary program at NSHA whose purpose is to optimize the use of antimicrobials in order to achieve best patient outcomes, reduce risk of infections, stabilize levels of antibiotic resistance and promote patient safety.
- 8. The system you use to document a patient safety event or adverse event. (Hint: this meets the ROP for Patient safety Incident Disclosure)
- 9. Process by which one nurses checks the calculations, route, dose etc of a medication and then another nurses repeats the process (discussed in the high alert medication policy)
- 10. This is often used as an effective communication tool to provide information to other health care providers (when calling a physician or transferring a pt) and meets the ROP for information transfer.
Down
- 1. Magnesium sulfate (in concentrations greater than 20%) is an example of this:
- 2. This is a high alert medication that is an area of focus of patient safety. In fact it has its own ROP
- 3. Process used every single time you give a medication or provide care to a patient to ensure you have the right patient, right medication etc. There is a new policy on the OP3 site as of October 2nd.
- 4. Humpty Dumpty is the pediatric assessment scale for what risk factor (hint: meets an ROP)
- 5. This document identifies patient safety as a strategic priority in NSHA. The document includes a range of approaches and resources to identify, assess, address and evaluate patient safety issues
- 6. This is the intranet site you look to FIRST when looking up a policy related to your clinical practice.