NUR 209 EXAM #1 | QUESTIONS & 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED) |
LATEST UPDATE | GRADE A+
Active Error
🗸🗸🗸: errors caused by the actions of frontline staff, usually with immediate result
Latent Error
🗸🗸🗸: may be due to equipment design issues, faulty maintenance, or poor
organizational structure
Culture of safety
🗸🗸🗸: where every member of an organization contributes to the safety of its patients
and employees
Just culture
🗸🗸🗸: an approach to error evaluation that examines the nature of the error to assist in
determining the appropriate response to the individual who made the error
1
,Near misses
🗸🗸🗸: events where an error was likely to occur if the situation had not been corrected
2021 Patient Safety Goals (Joint Commission)
🗸🗸🗸: Identify patients correctly
Improve staff communication
Use medicines safely
Use alarms safely
Prevent infection
Identify patient safety risks
Prevent mistakes in surgery
QSEN competencies
🗸🗸🗸: Patient-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Quality improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
Environmental Factors of Safety
🗸🗸🗸: Pollution
2
,Ionizing radiation
Terrorism
Home
Workplace
Community
Physiologic Factors of Safety
🗸🗸🗸: Primary systems involved in protection and safety are musculoskeletal;
neurologic and sensory; cardiovascular and respiratory; immune and integumentary
Safety Aspects Primarily Under Nursing Responsibility
🗸🗸🗸: - Using at least 2 patient identifiers
- Reporting critical test and values on a timely basis
- Recording and communicating accurate patient medication information
- Complying with and reinforcing appropriate hand hygiene guidelines
- Implementing evidence-based practice guidelines to prevent HAI's
- Provide safety education for the home, workplace and community
- Provide a safe environment in the healthcare setting
Mistake-proofing
🗸🗸🗸: use of mechanisms or devices that make it difficult to perform an error
3
, Ex: tubing connections that are not interchangeable between enteral and intravenous
connections
TeamSTEPPS
🗸🗸🗸: Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety
Care Bundles
🗸🗸🗸: combination of patient care elements into "bundles" that are consistently used
as a whole
Teaching adults to prevent falls
🗸🗸🗸: Remove throw rugs
Ensure stairways are well lighted
Remove clutter
Install handrails
Avoid use of unstable ladders
Never attempt to do anything beyond reach or physical ability
Clean damp areas
Asphyxiation
🗸🗸🗸: suffocation
4
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED) |
LATEST UPDATE | GRADE A+
Active Error
🗸🗸🗸: errors caused by the actions of frontline staff, usually with immediate result
Latent Error
🗸🗸🗸: may be due to equipment design issues, faulty maintenance, or poor
organizational structure
Culture of safety
🗸🗸🗸: where every member of an organization contributes to the safety of its patients
and employees
Just culture
🗸🗸🗸: an approach to error evaluation that examines the nature of the error to assist in
determining the appropriate response to the individual who made the error
1
,Near misses
🗸🗸🗸: events where an error was likely to occur if the situation had not been corrected
2021 Patient Safety Goals (Joint Commission)
🗸🗸🗸: Identify patients correctly
Improve staff communication
Use medicines safely
Use alarms safely
Prevent infection
Identify patient safety risks
Prevent mistakes in surgery
QSEN competencies
🗸🗸🗸: Patient-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Quality improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
Environmental Factors of Safety
🗸🗸🗸: Pollution
2
,Ionizing radiation
Terrorism
Home
Workplace
Community
Physiologic Factors of Safety
🗸🗸🗸: Primary systems involved in protection and safety are musculoskeletal;
neurologic and sensory; cardiovascular and respiratory; immune and integumentary
Safety Aspects Primarily Under Nursing Responsibility
🗸🗸🗸: - Using at least 2 patient identifiers
- Reporting critical test and values on a timely basis
- Recording and communicating accurate patient medication information
- Complying with and reinforcing appropriate hand hygiene guidelines
- Implementing evidence-based practice guidelines to prevent HAI's
- Provide safety education for the home, workplace and community
- Provide a safe environment in the healthcare setting
Mistake-proofing
🗸🗸🗸: use of mechanisms or devices that make it difficult to perform an error
3
, Ex: tubing connections that are not interchangeable between enteral and intravenous
connections
TeamSTEPPS
🗸🗸🗸: Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety
Care Bundles
🗸🗸🗸: combination of patient care elements into "bundles" that are consistently used
as a whole
Teaching adults to prevent falls
🗸🗸🗸: Remove throw rugs
Ensure stairways are well lighted
Remove clutter
Install handrails
Avoid use of unstable ladders
Never attempt to do anything beyond reach or physical ability
Clean damp areas
Asphyxiation
🗸🗸🗸: suffocation
4
