NUR 2206 Exam 8
- AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Answer Produce evidence to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable; TeamSTEPPS came from this agency
- Medical asepsis (clean technique)
Answer practice used to remove or destroy germs and to prevent their spread from one person or place to another person or place
- Surgical asepsis (sterile technique)
Answer procedures to completely eliminate the presence of pathogens from objects and areas
- To Err is Human Report
Answer 98,000 lives lost each yr from med. errors in hospitals in US; building a culture of safety
5. QSEN
Answer -Patient Centered Care
-Teamwork and Collaboration -EBP -Quality Improvement -Safety -Informatics
- Science of safety
- Human error 1 / 3
Answer
-Human and Systems factors
- Adverse Event (AE)
Answer an injury related to a drug
- Sentinel Event
Answer AE in which death/serious harm to a pt occurs
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Answer identifies the causal or contributing factors under- lying adverse events etc.
- Unsafe practices
Answer -Work arounds
-Dangerous abbreviations -Relying on memory
- culture of safety
Answer commitment to safety at all levels of an organization
- Sterile body cavities
Answer circulatory system, urinary tract, spinal fluid, inside body cavities
- Unsterile body cavities
Answer respiratory tract, GI tract, skin
- Principles of surgical asepsis 2 / 3
Answer
- edges of wrappers (1 inch) covering sterile supplies or outer lips of bottles containing sterile
solutions are not considered sterile
-Raise working surface to waist height -keep sterile gloves b/t nipple line and waist
- unused opened sterile supplies must be discarded or re-sterilized
- your back is considered contaminated (even if gowned)
-expired sterile packages are considered unsterile
- Environmental safety
Answer -Falls
use alert bracelet, bed alarms, call bell in reach
-Fire
RACE- Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Evacuate/Extinguish
-Poisoning
call poison control for any home remedy; keep pills w/safety caps
-Suffocation
keep plastic bags away from children
-Firearms
lock and keep out of reach of children
-Equiment-related accidents
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