History of Patient Safety
The phrase "first, do no harm" is the foundation of which oath that all physicians vow to follow?
What is The Hippocratic Oath?
1 in 31 hospitalized patients experience this potentially fatal complication.
What is a hospital-acquired, or nosocomial, infection?
Verifying drug, food, and environmental allergies is an essential part of patient safety. An allergy to this antibiotic might alter your treatment plan for a child with Group A streptococcus.
What is penicillin?
This report, released in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), highlighted the prevalence of deaths from medical error in the United States.
What is "To Err is Human"?
This infection, which is responsible for nearly 20,000 deaths annually, is resistant to many antibiotics and spread through direct contact.
What is MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)?
This debrief technique allows the provider to restate the patient's chief complaint, the pertinent medical history, the provider's assessment, and whatever recommendations the provider might have.
What is "SBAR"?
What is permanent harm?
This federal agency enforces patient safety standards through monitoring and harm reduction techniques, in order for hospitals to be covered under health plans.
What is Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
This infection, spread through spores, causes severe diarrhea, fever, and toxic megacolon.
What is Clostridium difficile?
This method prevents patient harm by verifying the right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time for medications administration.
What is "Five Rights"?
This type of infection can be found in wounds, in patients following the use of a Foley catheter or other in-dwelling, and creates a blue-green film that smells like grapes.
What is Pseudomonas?
This oversight organization is responsible for creating annual National Patient Safety Goals.
What is the Joint Commission?
This invisible source of infection can be found on indwelling catheters, implants, central lines, and other hospital equipment, and is incredibly difficult to treat.
What is biofilm?
This patient safety technique should be used before and after touching a patient or their surroundings.
What is hand hygiene?
When obtaining consent for a procedure regarding a pediatric patient, whose consent must be obtained?
What is the parent (or legal guardian)?