MED-SURG. CH.1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the scope of medical-surgical nursing? - Answers -to promote health and
prevent illness or injury in patients from 18 to older than 100
Recipients of care in mutually trusting relationships with nurses and other members of
the health care team. - Answers -Patients
This requires that health care organizations create a culture of safety and offers peer
evaluation for accreditation every 3 yrs for all health care agencies and more often for
acute care hospitals - Answers -The Joint Commission
These require health care organizations to focus on specific priority safety practices -
Answers -National Patient Safety Goals
What is medical harm? - Answers -errors caused by all members of the health care
team that lead to pt injury or death
What is another name for the Rapid Response Team (RRT)? - Answers -Medical
Emergency Team (MET)
What do Rapid Response Teams (RRT) do? - Answers -provide care to pts before a
respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs
When would you call the RRT? - Answers -Whenever a pt has a slow or sudden
deterioration in clinical condition
What are the five core competencies to ensure pt safety and quality care? - Answers -
Provide pt-centered care; collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team;
implement evidence-based practice; use quality improvement in pt care; use informatics
in pt care
What is the primary concern of medical-surgical nursing? - Answers -To meet the
biologic, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs of the adult pt in a mutually trusting,
respectful, and caring relationship
What are collaborative nursing functions? - Answers -Those that are mutually
determined by the nurse and physicial such as activity limitations & Those that are
directed or prescribed by the health care provider, but require nursing judgement to
perform (like meds)
What are Independent nursing functions? - Answers -Those that are initiated and
carried out without direction from the health care provider
What is caring? - Answers -a process, set of actions, and attitude that show genuine
physical and emotional concern for others
What is the scope of medical-surgical nursing? - Answers -to promote health and
prevent illness or injury in patients from 18 to older than 100
Recipients of care in mutually trusting relationships with nurses and other members of
the health care team. - Answers -Patients
This requires that health care organizations create a culture of safety and offers peer
evaluation for accreditation every 3 yrs for all health care agencies and more often for
acute care hospitals - Answers -The Joint Commission
These require health care organizations to focus on specific priority safety practices -
Answers -National Patient Safety Goals
What is medical harm? - Answers -errors caused by all members of the health care
team that lead to pt injury or death
What is another name for the Rapid Response Team (RRT)? - Answers -Medical
Emergency Team (MET)
What do Rapid Response Teams (RRT) do? - Answers -provide care to pts before a
respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs
When would you call the RRT? - Answers -Whenever a pt has a slow or sudden
deterioration in clinical condition
What are the five core competencies to ensure pt safety and quality care? - Answers -
Provide pt-centered care; collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team;
implement evidence-based practice; use quality improvement in pt care; use informatics
in pt care
What is the primary concern of medical-surgical nursing? - Answers -To meet the
biologic, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs of the adult pt in a mutually trusting,
respectful, and caring relationship
What are collaborative nursing functions? - Answers -Those that are mutually
determined by the nurse and physicial such as activity limitations & Those that are
directed or prescribed by the health care provider, but require nursing judgement to
perform (like meds)
What are Independent nursing functions? - Answers -Those that are initiated and
carried out without direction from the health care provider
What is caring? - Answers -a process, set of actions, and attitude that show genuine
physical and emotional concern for others
