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quality Answered!!!

Identify the Joint Commission 2015 National Patient Safety Goals for Critical Access Hospitals

- Identify patients correctly
- Improve staff communication
- Use medications safely
- Use alarms safely
- Prevent infection
- Prevent mistakes in surgery

Identify Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs that influence a person's safety

- Oxygen
- Nutrition
- Optimum temperature

List the physical hazards in the environment that threaten a person's safety (5)

- MVA's (leading cause)
- Poison
- Falls
- Fire
- Disasters

Pathogen

any microorganism capable of producing an illness with the most common means of transmission by the
hands

Immunization

Reduces and in some cases prevents the transmission of disease from person to person

Pollutant

A harmful chemical or waste material discharged into the water, soil, or air

In addition to being knowledgable about the environment, nurses must be familiar with: (4)

- A Patients Developmental level
- Mobility, sensory, and Cognitive status
- Lifestyle choices
- Knowledge of common Safety Precautions

, Identify the individual risk factors that can pose a threat to safety

- Lifestyle
- Impaired mobility
- Sensory or communication impairment
- Lack of sensory awareness

Identify the specific assessments to perform when considering possible threats to patient safety

- Activity and exercise
- Medication history
- History of falls
- Home maintenance

Identify actual or potential nursing diagnoses that apply to patients whose safety is threatened (7)

- Risk for Falls
- Impaired home maintenance
- Risk of injury
- Deficient knowledge
- Risk for poisoning
- Risk for suffocation
- Risk for trauma

Specific Risks to the Patient's Safety within the Health Care Environment:

- Falls
- Patient-inherent accidents
- Procedure-related accidents
- Equipment-related accidents

Falls:

result in minor to severe injuries such as bruises, hip fractures, or head trauma that result in reduced
mobility and independence and increase the risk for premature death.
- Patients who have underlying disease states are more susceptible to fall-related injuries.

Patient-inherent accidents

are classified as self-induced. (seizures, burns, inflicted cuts)

Procedure-Related Accidents:

accidents occur during therapy
- includes medication administration errors, IV therapy errors, improper application of external devices,
and improper performance of procedures.
- The potential for infection is reduced when surgical asepsis is used for sterile dressing changes or any
invasive procedure such as insertion of a urinary catheter.

Equipment-Related Accidents:

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