HealthStream Fire Safety

If you are unable to put out a fire with a single portable extinguisher, you should:

Confine the fire and prepare to evacuate

A water extinguisher is always the best choice for fires involving wood, cloth, paper or plastic.

False

Damaged electronic devices (heat), oxygen (oxygen), and linens (fuel) are three of the many sources found in the healthcare setting that would complete the fire triangle.

True

Fire doors and partitions help contain fires and decrease the need for patient evacutuation.

True

A fire has broken out. You have been given orders to begin evacuation of your unit. Which of the following patients should you evacuate firs?

A bedridden patient in a room next to the room of fire origin

Which of the following can help prevent the spread of smoke and fire from a room?

All of these answers

The Life Safety Code (LSC) requires that:

All of these are requirements of the LSC

You enter a patient's room and discover a small fire burning on the bed. The patient appears to have fallen asleep while smoking You should immediately:

Call out for help to remove the patient from the room as quickly and safely as possible

Which of the following statements is true?

Move charts with patients

You should respond to a fire emergency using the _______ protocol.

RACE

When using alcohol-based hand rubs, rubbing your hands until they are dry can help decrease the risk of fire.

True

You discover a fire in a patient's room. You should try to put out the fire before removing the patient.

True