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NURS 2047 Week 2 Questions with CompleteSolutions
What is Patient Safety? Correct Answer-- based on the right to respect
and dignity.
- HCP's have an obligation to treat all clients with respect and dignity.
- change in culture requires a change in mindset.
- shift from the blame culture to patient safety culture is required in
today's practice.
Baker and Norton study involves? Correct Answer-- study in 2004
- to determine the extent of medical errors in Canadian hospitals
- involved 20 hospital sand 5 provinces
- 1/13 patients experienced an adverse event
- out of the 185,000 adverse events that occur each year, 70,000 are
preventable.
- human limitations/human error: communication breakdown, fatigue,
workload, complexity of processes, reliance on memory over checklists.
- systemic problems rather than individual acts.
- if the error is not acknowledged, there is a missed opportunity to learn
and improve patient safety.
What are some examples of the Nature of adverse events? Correct
Answer-- medication
- familiarity of adult protocols and not peds.
- miscommunication
, - lack of coordination of care
- lack of scope
- depth and focus on documentation
- educating novices while ensuring competency and safety.
A culture of patient safety involves.... Correct Answer-- leadership is
one of the most important factors in ensuring a culture of safety and
transparency.
- leaders must demonstrate commitment through articulated values and
actions
- people must be made accountable and are recognized for providing an
opportunity for learning and ensuring that mistakes do not happen again.
- often, a series of events or missteps precedes errors.
A Patient's and Family's Right to Know Correct Answer-- disclosure of
error
- disclosure is the process by which HCP's communicate an adverse
event to the patient.
- the disclosure process needs to be open and transparent.
- absence of full disclosure of medical errors results in repetition of these
same errors.
Harm Correct Answer-"an outcome that negatively affects a patient's
health and/or quality of life"
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