RNSG 1125 SAFETY EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+ GRADED. Buy Quality Materials!
Define Safety
freedom from accidental injury
protection from harm or injury
Describe Safety
ensuring patient safety involves the establishment of operational systems and process that minimize errors
Safe Care
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RNSG 1125 SAFETY EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS A+ GRADED. Buy Quality Materials!
Define Safety
freedom from accidental injury
protection from harm or injury
Describe Safety
ensuring patient safety involves the establishment of operational systems and process
that minimize errors
Safe Care
avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them
adverse event
Unintended harm by an act of commission or omission rather than as a result of disease
process
near miss
Error of commission or omission that could have harmed a patient, but harm did not
occur as a result of chance
sentinel error
unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury
Categories of Errors
Diagnostic
Treatment
Preventive
Communication
Diagnostic Errors
the result of a delay in diagnosis, failure to employ indicated tests, use of outmoded
tests, or failure to act on results of monitoring or testing
Treatment errors
occur in the performance of an operation, procedure, or test; in the administration of a
treatment; in the dose or method of administering a drug; or in avoidable delay in
treatment or in responding to an abnormal test result
Preventative errors
occur when there are failures to provide any of the following: prophylactic treatment,
adequate monitoring, or follow-up treatment
Communication Errors
are another group of errors that occur from failure of communication
Scope of errors
latent
active
Active Errors
errors that were done by the provider
Latent Errors
Defects in the design and organization of processes and systems that can lead to
failures and errors (often unrecognized)
Example of Active Error
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