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Patient Safety Week Jeopardy

Patient Safety Week Jeopardy. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. The Usual Suspects. Its Gotta Be “Right”. Med Rec or Med Wreck. By The Numbers. Potporrui. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 20 Points.

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Patient Safety Week Jeopardy

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  1. Patient Safety Week Jeopardy Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. The Usual Suspects Its Gotta Be “Right” Med Rec or Med Wreck By The Numbers Potporrui 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Most medication errors resulting in harm are caused by confusing these two drugs

  5. What are Morphine and Hydromorphone? As compiled by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada

  6. This drug tops the list of medications most likely to cause harm as a consequence of a medication error

  7. What is Insulin? As compiled by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada

  8. Three of the top ten drugs most likely to cause harm as a result of a medication error are from this class

  9. What are anti-coagulants (Heparin,Warfarin, Dalteparin)

  10. This popular antihypertensive isn’t inhibited about being number ten on the list

  11. What is Ramipril? As compiled by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada

  12. Because of its high risk potential, Health Canada recommends disposing this top ten narcotic down the toilet

  13. Fentanyl Transdermal 2005 Public Advisory still on the Health Canada website

  14. Failure to identify this “right” is rarely involved in medication errors reported as causing harm

  15. What is the “right patient” Wrong drug and wrong dose are # 1 and # 2

  16. To obtain the maximum benefit, anti-Parkinson’s drugs should be given with this “right” in mind

  17. The right time

  18. You would have been “right” if you answered 5 to this question before 2008

  19. How many “rights” of safe medication administration are there according to the College of Nurses Now there are 8

  20. After making sure it’s the “right route”, this intramuscular site is the preferred location for most adults

  21. What is ventrogluteal? Dorsogluteal is the least recommended

  22. One of three new “rights” in the updated standards, this is the one least likely to be written in the Doctors’ Orders

  23. What is the right reason? Right frequency and right site are the other two

  24. Dr. House would have no problem breaking into a patient’s medicine cupboard to improve a “BPMH”

  25. What is a Best Possible Medication History He would also have to check with their pharmacy, talk with them and their family, contact any other healthcare providers and or institutions, and check their medication administration record from any other unit

  26. “ADE”

  27. What is an adverse drug event

  28. According to a recent Quebec study, this percentage of ADE’s are caused by medication “irreconciliation” between hospitals and LTC facilities

  29. What is 20% 95% of

  30. What you have when the physician has made an intentional choice to add, change the dose or route or discontinue a medication and their choice is clearly documented

  31. What is an intentional discrepancy Documented intentional discrepancies are considered best practice in medication reconciliation.

  32. This category of discrepancies accounts for most discrepancies and is generally not considered a “med error”

  33. What are “undocumented intentional discrepancies” An unintentional discrepancy is one in which the physician unintentionally changed the dose or route, added or omitted a medication the patient was taking prior to admission. These are medication errors and can lead to adverse drug events (ADEs)

  34. At 7.5% our rate is better than many, but not better than the rate of every country in the world

  35. What is the percentage of persons admitted to hospital in Canada who will experience an adverse event Worldwide rates are between 2.9 and 16.6

  36. The percentage of patients in a Canadian Hospital who will receive the wrong medication or the wrong dose

  37. What is 1 in 9

  38. Medication errors rank here on the top ten list of causes of death in North America

  39. What is 8 In Canada, medication errors and other hospital related adverse events cause more deaths than MVAs, breast cancer and HIV combined

  40. 3300 members of this age group die in Canada each year as a result of a medication error

  41. Who are the Elderly

  42. Of between 4-8, 5-10, 9-13, 10-14, what is number of regularly scheduled medications that residents of LTC facilities take daily

  43. What is 9-13 Remember, many may one day be your patient as well. With PRNs, some take as many as 21different medications as often as 4 times daily

  44. What is Avandia

  45. When it comes to abbreviations, this list is the most important one to know

  46. What is the ISMP “Do NOT Use List”

  47. Of the major categories of infusion pump errors, this one leads the list at 58%

  48. What is incorrect flow rate Over 62% of these are overdose errors

  49. Besides beginning with the letter “G”, garlic, ginseng, gingko biloba, ginger and green tea have this in common

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