Patient Safety Awareness Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• distractions: medical staff should avoid these when administering medications.
• pause: _ before the surgery to make sure that a mistake is not being made
• hazardous: always know what medication you are administering and comply with ppe if appropriate. this is especially important with _ medications.
• antibiotic: cdc noted improving the use is a public health imperative.
• uti: a type of infection that is monitored by pharmacy and infection control.
• label: before a procedure, you should _ medicines
• blood: take extra care with patients who take medicines to thin their _ .
• jpsr: _ system standardizes event capture and data management on medical errors and close calls/near misses for the military and veterans health systems.
• deaths: research shows that washing hands with soap and water could reduce _ from diarrheal disease by up to 50%
• surgery: make sure that the correct _ is done on the correct patient and at the correct place on the patient’s body.