NU 410 Final Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Update 2025-2026
1. Identify patients correctly
2. Improve staff communication
3. Use medicines safely
4. Use alarms safely
5. Prevent infections
6. Identify patient safety risks
7. Prevent mistakes in surgery - Answers Hospital National Patient Safety Goals
Use at least two ways to ID patients (name and DOB) - Answers Ways to ID patients correctly
Get important test results to the right staff person on time - Answers Ways to improve staff
communication
1. Before a procedure, label medicines that aren't labeled
2. Take extra care with patients who take medicines to thin their blood
3. Record and pass along correct information about a patient's medicine - Answers Ways to use
medicine safely
Make improvements to ensure that alarms on medical equipment are heard ad responded to on
time - Answers Ways to use alarms safely
1. Use hand cleaning guidelines from the Center's of Disease Control
2. Use proven guidelines to prevent infections that are difficult to treat
3. Use proven guidelines to prevent infections of the blood from central lines
4. Use proven guidelines to prevent infection after surgery
5. Use proven guidelines to prevent infections of the urinary tract that are caused by catheters -
Answers Ways to prevent infections
Find out which patients are most likely to try to commit suicide - Answers Ways to identify
patient safety risks
1. Make sure that the correct surgery is done on the correct patient at the correct place on the
patient's body
2. Mark the correct place on the patient's body where the surgery is to be done
,3. Pause before the surgery to make sure that a mistake is not being made - Answers Ways to
prevent mistakes in surgery
Hospitalist - Answers The inpatient physician who works exclusively in the hospital
1. Patient care
2. Teaching
3. Researchers
4. Leadership - Answers Roles of Hospitalist
St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, NM - Answers First hospital to have a hospitalist
1. Established MD
2. MD training
3. Support
4. Communication system
5. Guidelines/Audits
6. Data Analysis - Answers Initial hospitalists program included
1. Decreased LOS
2. Better quality of care
3. Improved patient satisfaction
4. Cost effective
5. Better communication
6. Benefits outpatients care - Answers Advantages of having a hospitalist
1. Patient focused
2. Hospitalist coordinates patient care
3. ED physician consults with the patient's primary MD
4. Primary MD communicates things
5. Hospitalists assess patient
6. Hospitalist becomes the primary decision maker
, 7. Hospitalist keeps primary MD updated
8. Primary physician received treatment plan and follow up needs - Answers Guidelines for
Hospitalist care
1. Glycemic control
2. Venous Thromboembolism
3. Care for a community-acquired pneumonia
4. Standardized procedures for discharge and communication
5. Peri-operative beta blockade protocol
6. Medication Reconciliation - Answers Hospitalist quality improvement programs
Magnet Hospital Phenomenon - Answers An award granted by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center, must meet certain criteria, and is the highest honor
1. ANA member association
2. Organization of Nurses Executives
3. State board of Nursing
4. Consumer protection organizations
5. State health departments
6. US department of Labor - Answers Three year application process includes representatives
from:
False, revisited every 3-4 years - Answers T/F: Magnet status is permanent
University of Washington - Answers First magnet hospital
1. Government praise (grants)
2. Attracts and retains nurses - Answers Advantages of having the magnet hospital status
1. Decreased mortality rates
2. Decreased LOS
3. Increased satisfaction
4. Decreased incidence of needlesticks
5. Decreased burnout rates
1. Identify patients correctly
2. Improve staff communication
3. Use medicines safely
4. Use alarms safely
5. Prevent infections
6. Identify patient safety risks
7. Prevent mistakes in surgery - Answers Hospital National Patient Safety Goals
Use at least two ways to ID patients (name and DOB) - Answers Ways to ID patients correctly
Get important test results to the right staff person on time - Answers Ways to improve staff
communication
1. Before a procedure, label medicines that aren't labeled
2. Take extra care with patients who take medicines to thin their blood
3. Record and pass along correct information about a patient's medicine - Answers Ways to use
medicine safely
Make improvements to ensure that alarms on medical equipment are heard ad responded to on
time - Answers Ways to use alarms safely
1. Use hand cleaning guidelines from the Center's of Disease Control
2. Use proven guidelines to prevent infections that are difficult to treat
3. Use proven guidelines to prevent infections of the blood from central lines
4. Use proven guidelines to prevent infection after surgery
5. Use proven guidelines to prevent infections of the urinary tract that are caused by catheters -
Answers Ways to prevent infections
Find out which patients are most likely to try to commit suicide - Answers Ways to identify
patient safety risks
1. Make sure that the correct surgery is done on the correct patient at the correct place on the
patient's body
2. Mark the correct place on the patient's body where the surgery is to be done
,3. Pause before the surgery to make sure that a mistake is not being made - Answers Ways to
prevent mistakes in surgery
Hospitalist - Answers The inpatient physician who works exclusively in the hospital
1. Patient care
2. Teaching
3. Researchers
4. Leadership - Answers Roles of Hospitalist
St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, NM - Answers First hospital to have a hospitalist
1. Established MD
2. MD training
3. Support
4. Communication system
5. Guidelines/Audits
6. Data Analysis - Answers Initial hospitalists program included
1. Decreased LOS
2. Better quality of care
3. Improved patient satisfaction
4. Cost effective
5. Better communication
6. Benefits outpatients care - Answers Advantages of having a hospitalist
1. Patient focused
2. Hospitalist coordinates patient care
3. ED physician consults with the patient's primary MD
4. Primary MD communicates things
5. Hospitalists assess patient
6. Hospitalist becomes the primary decision maker
, 7. Hospitalist keeps primary MD updated
8. Primary physician received treatment plan and follow up needs - Answers Guidelines for
Hospitalist care
1. Glycemic control
2. Venous Thromboembolism
3. Care for a community-acquired pneumonia
4. Standardized procedures for discharge and communication
5. Peri-operative beta blockade protocol
6. Medication Reconciliation - Answers Hospitalist quality improvement programs
Magnet Hospital Phenomenon - Answers An award granted by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center, must meet certain criteria, and is the highest honor
1. ANA member association
2. Organization of Nurses Executives
3. State board of Nursing
4. Consumer protection organizations
5. State health departments
6. US department of Labor - Answers Three year application process includes representatives
from:
False, revisited every 3-4 years - Answers T/F: Magnet status is permanent
University of Washington - Answers First magnet hospital
1. Government praise (grants)
2. Attracts and retains nurses - Answers Advantages of having the magnet hospital status
1. Decreased mortality rates
2. Decreased LOS
3. Increased satisfaction
4. Decreased incidence of needlesticks
5. Decreased burnout rates
