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National Patient Safety Goals - ANSWER -
goals designed to focus on client safety, safe Clinical alarm systems - ANSWER -audible
and effective delivery of health care, and alert devices that are built into med equipment,
recommendations to avoid adverse outcomes their function is to provide a warning of a
potentially serious event that is occurring, other
feature is that they warn when there is machine
malfunction
2 client identifiers - ANSWER -this is the
first part of the NPSG to identify every client
using 2 identifiers accurately, may consist of
clients name, date of birth, hospital ID number, Alarm fatigue - ANSWER -sensory overload
telephone number, or alternate client specific from noise pollution created in part by the
documentation numerous distress alerts
Barcode scanning - ANSWER -used at the Hospital acquired infection - ANSWER -an
time of med administration when both the med infection a client develops during an admission to
and the clients facility issued ID band are an acute care facility
scanned to ensure the right med is being
administered to the right client
Suicide - ANSWER -death resulting from
self injurious behaviors performed with the intent
Critical results - ANSWER -lab or to die
diagnostic procedure result that are outside the
expected reference range and can be life
threatening or potentially fatal if not immediately
improved Adverse event - ANSWER -a situation or
circumstance that caused unexpected harm to
the client
Anticoagulant meds - ANSWER -meds that
inhibit the bloods ability to clot
Time-out - ANSWER -a joint commission
mandated pause taken by all personnel in the
procedure or operating room, allows identifying
Med reconciliation - ANSWER -the process the correct client, site and the procedure to be
when the physician assesses the current home performed
meds with the newly prescribed drugs, must be
completed on client admission, transfer, or
discharge from the hospital
Standards of Compliance - ANSWER -
Former National Safety Goals that have been
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routinely adopted by healthcare professionals
and are now retired. PPE - ANSWER -specially designed
equipment that is meant to protect the health
care worker from contamination, blood or body
fluids
Hourly rounding - ANSWER -the practice of
scheduling a member of the nursing staff to see
the client and proactively address their needs
such as toileting, positioning, pain and safety Older adults - ANSWER -a person who is
checks 65 years of age or older
Rapid response team - ANSWER -a Clients at high risk - ANSWER -clients with
dedicated group whose responsibility is to bring an increased safety risk, population can vary in
proactively critical care to the bedside age, medical or behavioral conditions, can also
include people with disabilities
Near miss event - ANSWER -a potential
error or close call that could have caused harm Communication disability - ANSWER -a
but was caught and avoided persons inability to interact with others in ways
that staff will understand
Client safety event - ANSWER -an
unexpected event or circumstance that occurred RACE - ANSWER -stands for rescue,
that did not cause harm to the client but had the alarm, contain and extinguish in the event of a
potential to fire
Sentinel event - ANSWER -a critical, PASS - ANSWER -stands for pull, aim,
unexpected adverse event or circumstance that squeeze, and sweep, used to describe the steps
cause severe physical or psychological harm or to activate and use a fire extinguisher
death of the client appropriately
Incident report - ANSWER -a tool used to Lateral evacuation - ANSWER -clients,
report and adverse event, a sentinel event, a visitors, and staff who are threatened by fire are
client safety event, or a near miss moved on the same floor to a safe location
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