NUR 2206 Exam 1
- What is patient safety?
Answer prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of errors
- To Err is Human
Answer challenged the healthcare system to focus on medical errors
- false
Answer a nurse should avoid restraints true or false
a nurse should always resort to using restraints
- Why is patient safety important?
Answer •REDUCES THE RISK FOR ILLNESS & INJURY
• REDUCE LENGTH OF STAY (LOS)
• PROMOTES PATIENT WELL-BEING
• PROTECTS THE STAFF
- TeamSTEPPS
Answer Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety
6. SBAR
Answer Situation Background Assessment Recommendation 1 / 4
(a part of TeamSTEPPS)
- Medical error
Answer the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim
- Quality and Safety in Nursing Education (QSEN) 6 competencies
Answer pa- tient-centered care, teamwork/collaboration, EBP, quality improvement, safety, in- formatics
- work arounds
- taking shortcuts from the expectations to achieve the same result in an easier/faster method
Answer
- these often occur as a result of poorly designed processes or equipment in a facility
- dangerous abbreviations
- certain abbreviations can mean different things than intended which can decrease patient
Answer
safety and harm the pt
- KSAs
Answer knowledge, skills, attitudes
- Adverse Event (AE)
Answer injury caused by medical care
- Adverse Drug Event (ADE)
Answer adverse event involving medication use (allergic reaction, side effects not expected)
- Sentinel Event 2 / 4
Answer adverse event that causes death or serious harm to patient; usually event is not expected/anticipated (fall and break a hip)
- Medication Errors
Answer preventable event related to mistake in prescribing, dispens- ing, and/or administering medications
- Root Cause Analysis
Answer process of identifying the cause and factors contributing to adverse events; identifying underlying problems that increase the likelihood of errors while avoiding focusing mistakes by individuals
- Reporting of Errors
Answer Blame-free, non-punitive reporting systems aimed at de- creasing errors and improving quality care and patient safety
- Communication
Answer Interprofessional communication (IPC) and SBAR
- Organizational error reporting systems
Answer data from errors is shared with the team
- Culture of Safety and Sammer Article
- Talks about how safety has seven subcultures
Answer
- Leadership 3 / 4
- Teamwork
- Evidence-based
- Communication
- Learning
- Just
- Patient-centered
- Talks about how the entire healthcare team is in charge of patient safety
- Preventable medical errors are responsible for A LOT of deaths and the best
- Rounding
Answer pain, potty, position; check on patients frequently
- Huddles
Answer group meetings before and during shift
- Peer checking
Answer help out your peers
- Checklists
Answer safety strategy to ensure completing every task
- Mnemonics
Answer help remember tasks and eliminate errors
- 60 second situational awareness
Answer what to look for when you first walk into the patient's room (IV lines, clutter, call button, etc.)
- Safety enhancing techniques
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