2023 Perioperative Annual Competency

This team can be activated in response to a behavioral health emergency and activates clinical members plus security.

• Code BERT

• Code Airway

• Code Pink

• Code Stork

This type of loop should be avoided in a foley catheter tubing.

• Independent

• Double

• Triple

• Dependent loop

This can be activated in response to a patient visitor who is causing a disturbance.

• Code Red

• Code Purple

• Code Blue

• Code Gold

Staff must do this when there is broken equipment on the unit.

• Leave the equipment in service and tell the next shift it isn't working.

• Do nothing; the leader is responsible for addressing the broken item.

• Remove the item from service, tag it, notify a leader, and enter a work order.

• Call the rapid response nurse to address the broken equipment.

This nurse must do this if the central line dressing is solied or loose.

• Change the dressing

• Add another tegaderm over the loose dressing.

• Nothing, the dressing will be changed every 7 days.

• Delegate to the charge nurse

This is the number one must dial to request a rapid response or code blue?

• 5500

• 4444

• 2222

• 911

Orthostatic __________ is associated with an increase risk of falls.

• Dizziness

• Hypertension

• Hypotension

• Numbness

The nurse must notify a provider of a critical value within__ minutes of receiving the call from lab:

• 1

• 10

• 60

• 45

Nurses must have documentation of this when administering a high risk/high alert medication:

• A witness

• Consent form

• Pain score

• RASS Score

Temporary verbal orders for medications can only be accepted in these types of situations:

• Typical

• Standard

• Emergency

• Non-Urgent