Study Guide Exam 1 2214.

• Priority of nursing care • ABC’s: Airway, Breathing, Circulation • Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs (Self-Actualization is the “highest need” • Patient Safety ▪ Safety and Quality of Care (IGGY page 2) • Newer programs & standards implemented to combat this growing problem that if not avoided can result in pt deaths, injuries, deaths and inc. healthcare costs: • In 2000: Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in its To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System publication that between 44,000 and 98,000 patient deaths result each year from preventable errors in acute care hospitals. • The Joint Commission: Offers peer evaluation for accreditation every 3 years for all types of U.S. health care agencies that meet their standards. • TJC requires that health care organizations create a culture of SAFETY (major focus) and encourage patients and families to become safety partners in protecting patients from harm. • In 2002, 1st NPSG published • Requires health care organizations to focus on specific priority safety practices involving establishing nursing and health system approaches to care. • Adds new goals each year. • NPSGs address high-risk issues such as safe drug administration, health care–associated infections, and communication effectiveness among health care team members. • Rapid Response Teams save lives and decrease the risk for harm by providing care to patients before a respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs. • Does not replace the Code Team who responds to patient arrests • It intervenes rapidly when needed for those who are beginning to clinically decline