NUFT 204 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔environmental safety - ✔✔A patient's environment includes physical and
psychosocial factors that influence or affect the life and survival of that patient
A safe environment protects the staff to function optimally
✔✔Physical hazards include - ✔✔threaten a person's safety and often result in physical
or psychological injury or death.
Motor vehicle accidents
Poison
Falls
Fire (RACE)
Disasters
✔✔Transmission of pathogens - ✔✔Pathogens and parasites pose a threat to patient
safety
Educate patients about hand hygiene & Immunization
✔✔Factors influencing patient safety - ✔✔Patient's developmental level
Mobility, sensory, and cognitive status
Lifestyle choices
Knowledge of common safety precautions
✔✔Individual risk factors that pose a threat to safety - ✔✔Lifestyle
Impaired mobility
Sensory or communication impairment
Lack of safety awareness
✔✔4 major risks to a patient's safety within the health care environment - ✔✔Falls
Patient-inherent accidents
Procedure-related accidents
Equipment-related accident
✔✔Patient safety assessment: 4 most possible threats in patient safety to look for -
✔✔activity and exercise
medication history
history of falls
home maintenance
✔✔Nursing diagnoses for patients with safety risk - ✔✔Risk for falls
Impaired home maintenance
Risk for injury
Deficient knowledge
Risk for poisoning
, Risk for suffocation
Risk for trauma
✔✔Planning process for patient safety - ✔✔Goals and outcomes
Prevent and minimize safety threats
Are measurable and realistic
May include active patient participation
Setting priorities
Teamwork and collaboration
✔✔Acute and Restorative Care - ✔✔Restraints
-physical
-chemical
-ongoing assessment
-objectives
Side rails
-increase pt mobility/stability
-most commonly used to restrain
-can cause falls or death
✔✔side rails - ✔✔Increase patient mobility and/or stability
Most commonly used as restraint
Can cause falls or death
✔✔Acute care safety - ✔✔Fires
Electrical hazards
Seizures
Radiation
Disasters
✔✔RACE (fire safety) - ✔✔R—Rescue anyone in immediate danger.
A—Activate the alarm to notify persons.
C—Confine the fire by closing doors and windows & turn off oxygen & electrical
equipment.
E—extinguish fire.
✔✔Patient safety evaluation - ✔✔Patient outcomes
Monitor care by the health care team.
Measure outcomes for each diagnosis.
Continually assess needs for additional support
✔✔SOLER - ✔✔Sit squarely
open posture
lean in towards other
eye contact
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔environmental safety - ✔✔A patient's environment includes physical and
psychosocial factors that influence or affect the life and survival of that patient
A safe environment protects the staff to function optimally
✔✔Physical hazards include - ✔✔threaten a person's safety and often result in physical
or psychological injury or death.
Motor vehicle accidents
Poison
Falls
Fire (RACE)
Disasters
✔✔Transmission of pathogens - ✔✔Pathogens and parasites pose a threat to patient
safety
Educate patients about hand hygiene & Immunization
✔✔Factors influencing patient safety - ✔✔Patient's developmental level
Mobility, sensory, and cognitive status
Lifestyle choices
Knowledge of common safety precautions
✔✔Individual risk factors that pose a threat to safety - ✔✔Lifestyle
Impaired mobility
Sensory or communication impairment
Lack of safety awareness
✔✔4 major risks to a patient's safety within the health care environment - ✔✔Falls
Patient-inherent accidents
Procedure-related accidents
Equipment-related accident
✔✔Patient safety assessment: 4 most possible threats in patient safety to look for -
✔✔activity and exercise
medication history
history of falls
home maintenance
✔✔Nursing diagnoses for patients with safety risk - ✔✔Risk for falls
Impaired home maintenance
Risk for injury
Deficient knowledge
Risk for poisoning
, Risk for suffocation
Risk for trauma
✔✔Planning process for patient safety - ✔✔Goals and outcomes
Prevent and minimize safety threats
Are measurable and realistic
May include active patient participation
Setting priorities
Teamwork and collaboration
✔✔Acute and Restorative Care - ✔✔Restraints
-physical
-chemical
-ongoing assessment
-objectives
Side rails
-increase pt mobility/stability
-most commonly used to restrain
-can cause falls or death
✔✔side rails - ✔✔Increase patient mobility and/or stability
Most commonly used as restraint
Can cause falls or death
✔✔Acute care safety - ✔✔Fires
Electrical hazards
Seizures
Radiation
Disasters
✔✔RACE (fire safety) - ✔✔R—Rescue anyone in immediate danger.
A—Activate the alarm to notify persons.
C—Confine the fire by closing doors and windows & turn off oxygen & electrical
equipment.
E—extinguish fire.
✔✔Patient safety evaluation - ✔✔Patient outcomes
Monitor care by the health care team.
Measure outcomes for each diagnosis.
Continually assess needs for additional support
✔✔SOLER - ✔✔Sit squarely
open posture
lean in towards other
eye contact
