NSG2113 Final Exam 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
Top 3 causes of death in Canada - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Cancer
2. Heart disease
3. Patient safety incidents
Procedure-related accidents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hospital acquired infections (any
tube that goes into a patient poses a risk)
Performing surgery in wrong anatomical location
Equipment-related accidents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Issues with mechanical aspect of
equipment
Patient-inherent accidents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔accidents (other than falls) in which a
patient is the primary reason for the accident
Number 1 cause of patients injuries in the hospital - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Falls
,A lot of acute care hospitals work with adults
They usually have multiple issues going on (ex: diabetes and heart disease) →
putting them in a new environment increases the risk of falls
Infectious agents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Viruses that may spread rapidly through the
unit
Over the next 30 years, it is expected that: a patients safety incident (PSI) will
occur in Canada nearly every minute, and a resulting a death nearly every ______ -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔13 minutes
What is the most prevalent patient safety incident in the acute care system in
Canada? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Falls and infections are the most common causes
Adverse event (AE) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔is a type of injury that most frequently is
due to an error in medical or surgical treatment rather than the underlying medical
condition of the patient. Adverse events may be preventable when there is a failure
to follow accepted practice at a system or individual level.
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,- unintended injury, prolonged hospitalization, or physical disability that results
from medical or surgical patient management.
- complications resulting from prolonged hospitalization or by factors inherent in
the healthcare system.
Sentinel event: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When someone dies from an unexpected
outcome
Near miss: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When person could have had a bad outcome but
somehow avoided it
Swiss Cheese Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- All sorts of barriers in place (both
physical and not) so errors don't happen
- Maybe there's some issues with the barriers → "holes get poked into barriers"
EX.
- Don't have all the allergies of the patient
- Not enough supervision/mentors for new nurses
- Broken machines
What happens when the nurse/doctor makes a mistake? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Focus
is always on prevention
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, - Patient-Inherent accidents
- Equipment related accidents
MEDICATION ERRORS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Labels - End user does not usually
design how the medications look.
Illegible writing
Unapproved abbreviations (morph for morphine)
Symbols
- Agencies will have a set of symbols/abbreviations they use so its important to
stick to symbols used by the agency you work at in order to not confuse others
Risk to Patient Safety: FALLS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fall: is an abrupt, uncontrolled,
downward change in position, in which the potential for injury exists or in which
an actual injury occurs
Near fall: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a potential fall that is prevented through purposeful
actions
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Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
Top 3 causes of death in Canada - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Cancer
2. Heart disease
3. Patient safety incidents
Procedure-related accidents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hospital acquired infections (any
tube that goes into a patient poses a risk)
Performing surgery in wrong anatomical location
Equipment-related accidents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Issues with mechanical aspect of
equipment
Patient-inherent accidents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔accidents (other than falls) in which a
patient is the primary reason for the accident
Number 1 cause of patients injuries in the hospital - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Falls
,A lot of acute care hospitals work with adults
They usually have multiple issues going on (ex: diabetes and heart disease) →
putting them in a new environment increases the risk of falls
Infectious agents - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Viruses that may spread rapidly through the
unit
Over the next 30 years, it is expected that: a patients safety incident (PSI) will
occur in Canada nearly every minute, and a resulting a death nearly every ______ -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔13 minutes
What is the most prevalent patient safety incident in the acute care system in
Canada? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Falls and infections are the most common causes
Adverse event (AE) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔is a type of injury that most frequently is
due to an error in medical or surgical treatment rather than the underlying medical
condition of the patient. Adverse events may be preventable when there is a failure
to follow accepted practice at a system or individual level.
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,- unintended injury, prolonged hospitalization, or physical disability that results
from medical or surgical patient management.
- complications resulting from prolonged hospitalization or by factors inherent in
the healthcare system.
Sentinel event: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When someone dies from an unexpected
outcome
Near miss: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When person could have had a bad outcome but
somehow avoided it
Swiss Cheese Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- All sorts of barriers in place (both
physical and not) so errors don't happen
- Maybe there's some issues with the barriers → "holes get poked into barriers"
EX.
- Don't have all the allergies of the patient
- Not enough supervision/mentors for new nurses
- Broken machines
What happens when the nurse/doctor makes a mistake? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Focus
is always on prevention
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, - Patient-Inherent accidents
- Equipment related accidents
MEDICATION ERRORS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Labels - End user does not usually
design how the medications look.
Illegible writing
Unapproved abbreviations (morph for morphine)
Symbols
- Agencies will have a set of symbols/abbreviations they use so its important to
stick to symbols used by the agency you work at in order to not confuse others
Risk to Patient Safety: FALLS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fall: is an abrupt, uncontrolled,
downward change in position, in which the potential for injury exists or in which
an actual injury occurs
Near fall: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a potential fall that is prevented through purposeful
actions
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