Thanks to everyone who tested their Environmental Services knowledge with the special quiz! Congratulations to the winners below:
- Jennifer Sands
- Alisia Wylie
- Prina Solanki
- Melodie Day
- Pamela Gibson
- Michelle Smithson
- Dona Blankenship
Curious if you got the answers right? Find out below:
What is the “dwell” time for the sanitizer HDQL 10 used to sanitize surfaces, including the patient bed?
10 minutes
There are 16 categories on safety data sheets, which can be found for every chemical used in Environmental Services. What are the two most important categories that every Environmental Services employee needs to know before using the chemical?
Personal protective equipment to wear and first aid exposure steps
Environmental Services employees clean in a specific order to help eliminate cross contamination. Place the steps below in order.
- Accept room request in Epic.
- Perform hand hygiene.
- Put on personal protective equipment.
- Remove trash.
- High dust patient room.
- Sanitize entire bed.
- Sanitize patient bathroom.
- Create and place duck origami.
- Place Wet floor sign.
- Wet mop the floor.
After every dismissal room cleaning, a dock origami is placed in the room to greet the next patient. How many wash clothes are needed to create the duck?
Two