ASSESSMENT WITH CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses - answer ✔✔-what does QSEN stand for
- Patient-centered care
(recognize + advocate for the patient and tailor care to them
- Quality improvement
( constantly asking " is there a better way to do this?")
- Teamwork + collaboration
( working with other healthcare professionals with open communication, respect, and shared decision
making)
- Evidence-based practice
(using the most recent evidence to care for patients)
- Safety
(caring for patients with minimal risks)
- Informatics
(mitigate errors, minimizing medical errors through technology) - answer ✔✔-QSEN competencies
- Safe
- Timely
- Effective
- Efficient
, - Equitable
- Patient-Centered - answer ✔✔-Institute of Medicine (IOM) 6 Aims (STEEP)
- The report released from the IOM in 2000 stated that up to 98,000 patients a year die due to medical
errors
- The report + the 6 aims focus to improve safe care - answer ✔✔-Historical underpinnings of the IOM
report?
1) care based on continuous healing relationships
2) care customized to patient needs and values
3) the patient is the source of control
4) knowledge is shared, and information flows freely
5) decision making is evidence based
6) Safety is a system property
7) transparency is necessary
8) needs are anticipated
9) waste is continually decreased
10) cooperation among clinicians is a priority - answer ✔✔-IOM's 10 simple rules
- The centers for medicare and medicaid services (CMS)
- The joint commission (TJC or JACHO)
- State licensing authorities - answer ✔✔-Regulatory + Accreditation Agencies
- Provides the standard measures of care for a specific unit or procedure for patients
- keeps hospitals "in line"
- Has a website where patients can write and complain of negligence or any compliant, and TJC will
investigate - answer ✔✔-The Joint Commission
- TJC sentinel event standard
- Sentinel event: anything that can go wrong