HCB Shipboard Question and answers 100% correct HCB Shipboard
Discharge planning - correct answer to reduce hospital length of stay and unplanned readmission to hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of services following discharge from hospital
Airborne - correct answer infectious ...
HCB Shipboard
Discharge planning - correct answer ✔to reduce hospital length of stay and
unplanned readmission to hospital, and to improve the co-ordination of
services following discharge from hospital
Airborne - correct answer ✔infectious agents that remain infectious over long
distances when suspended in the air
CDC - correct answer ✔Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
provides facilities and services for the investigation, identification, prevention,
and control of disease
Cohorting - correct answer ✔grouping patients infected or colonized with the
same infectious agent together to confine their care to one area and prevent
contact with susceptible patients
Droplet - correct answer ✔small drop, such as a particle of moisture
discharged from the mouth during coughing, sneezing, or speaking
HICPAC - correct answer ✔Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory
Committee; provides advice and guidance to the CDC and the Secretary of
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the practice
of infection control and strategies for surveillance, prevention, and control of
healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance and related events
in United States healthcare settings
JCAHO - correct answer ✔Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations; provides accreditation to U.S. hospitals and other health care
facilities
,Ambulate - correct answer ✔to move from place to place
Gait - correct answer ✔manner of walking or moving on foot
Shift report - correct answer ✔exchanging essential patient care information
with other nursing staff at change of shift
IRECs are normally retired ___ years after the last inpatient discharge -
correct answer ✔2
Purpose of documenting patient care - correct answer ✔ensure they meet
the highest standards of completeness, promptness, clinical pertinence, and
standards of the JCAHO
Information to be documented in a nursing note - correct answer ✔date,
medication, treatments, and sign all notes
NAVMED 6550/8 - correct answer ✔Medication Administration Record
How long is a NAVMED 6550/8 good for? - correct answer ✔7 days
The top, back side portion of the NAVMED 6550/8 is meant for what? - correct
answer ✔one-time, STAT (immediate), and preoperative medications
Although all medications are documented on the MAR, documentation of
PRN, STAT, and one-time medications are required on what as well? - correct
answer ✔Nursing Notes
,NAVMED 6550/12 - correct answer ✔Patient Profile
SF 508 - correct answer ✔Doctor's Orders
What must be updated when the physician updates, discontinues, changes, or
adds new orders? - correct answer ✔NAVMED 6550/12 (Patient Profile)
SF 509 - correct answer ✔Progress Notes
How long is a SF 509 good for? - correct answer ✔2 days
SF 510 - correct answer ✔Nursing Notes
What is the most common format for writing nursing notes? - correct answer
✔Block format
What is the second, less common, method for writing nursing notes? - correct
answer ✔charting by exception
What must be written when adding an entry that was late or forgotten while
writing a nursing note? - correct answer ✔Late entry
SF 558 - correct answer ✔Emergency Care and Treatment
DD Form 792 - correct answer ✔24-hour Intake and Output Worksheet
, Standard precautions - correct answer ✔formerly known as universal
precautions; concepts in which all body fluids are assumed to be infected with
blood-borne pathogens. Developed by the CDC to facilitate breaking the chain
of infection
When was "universal precautions" changed to "standard precautions?" -
correct answer ✔1996
Examples of blood-borne pathogens - correct answer ✔HIV, Hepatitis A and
B
How are blood-borne pathogens transmitted? - correct answer ✔patient to
provider, provider to patient, and equipment to patient
What should be used for every patient contact? - correct answer ✔standard
precautions
Tier 2 isolation precautions - correct answer ✔based on mode of
transmission; three categories: contact precautions, droplet precautions, and
airborne precautions
Isolation precautions - correct answer ✔1. hand hygiene before entering and
after leaving the room of a patient in isolation
2. use of gown, gloves, mask by HCW and visitors according to standard
precautions and as indicated for suspected or proven infections for which
transmission precautions are recommended
3. don PPE upon entry to the room and doff PPE before exiting room
4. dispose of contaminated supplies and equipment
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