Introduction
Hospital policies and procedures are a set of expectations for how you are supposed to perform certain aspects of your job. They provide for consistency of practice and to promote safety for patients and staff.
As a new nurse at our facility, you need to know how to locate policies and procedures pertinent to your unit. Through this WebQuest you will discover the location of policies, save key policies as your favorites, and explore procedures in Clinical Key.
Consider the following Hospital National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) for 2020 as you embark on this WebQuest:
- Identify patients correctly.
- Improve staff communication.
- Use medicines safely.
- Use alarms safely.
- Prevent infection.
- Identify patient safety risks.
- Prevent mistakes in surgery (not covered in WebQuest).
Task
As part of your assignment, you will need to complete the following LEARN modules:
- PSF PKUS 10/12: Preventing Medication Errors
- PSF Patient Identification Policy
- PSF Safety Behaviors for Error Prevention: CUS and Stop the Line
- CEN Alarm Safety for Clinical Staff
- PSF PKNA 2013 8/13: Hand Hygiene
- CEN Prevent The Fall: Centura's Falls Prevention Program for Nursing
After completing the LEARN modules you need to find the following policies through My Virtual Workplace:
- Patient Identification
- Documentation of Patient Care
- Acceptable and Unacceptable Abbreviations
- Medication Administration and Documentation
- Medication Labeling
- High Alert Medication
- LASA- Look Alike and Sound Alike Medications
- Cardiac Monitoring- Adult
- High Risk Clinical Alarm Safety
- Hand Hygiene
- Indwelling Urinary Catheter Care and Maintenance
- Fall Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Management
- Safe Patient Handling and Movement
- Nurse Screening for Swallow Safety
- At-Risk Patients and Behavioral Health Precautions- Colorado
- Occurence Reporting
* This is not an all-inclusive list of policies you need to know.
Process
To complete your tasks, follow this process:
- Log in to My Virtual Workplace.
- Complete LEARN modules listed under the task for this WebQuest.
- Access Policies & Procedures under the Reference Tab.
- Find the policies from the list under the task for this WebQuest.
- Logout and Login to Policies & Procedures to save favorites.
- Complete these questions and submit your answers to Julie Lavender via email or printed.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. How do you add and view favorite policies? What are the steps? | 1. |
| 2. Take a screenshot of your favorite list and paste it here. | 2. Paste screenshot |
| 3. How do you access Clinical Key for Nursing? | 3. Paste URL |
| 4. According to Clinical Key for Nursing, what is the Alert for Urinary Catheter: External Female - CE? | 4. |
Evaluation
You must submit your answers for documentation of completion of this WebQuest. This is a requirement of your orientation.
Conclusion
Through this WebQuest, you learned how to locate pertinent policies and save them to your favorites. You also discovered how to access Clinical Key for Nursing to review procedures. These are critical resources that you will need to access in your practice to provide quality and safe care to your patients. Thank you for your time and effort to complete the assigned tasks.