Safety and quality
These are clearly defined and measurable goals that help hospitals improve safety, quality, and outcomes.
What are National Patient Safety Goals?
New grad report stress related to lack of this skill?
What is delegation skills?
Patient handling, awkward postures, and repetitive motion are all causes of these injuries.
What are ergonomic injuries?
According to reports, nurses are at high risk for this due to close proximity to patients.
What is workplace violence?
Rhinitis, wheezing, SOB, and anaphylaxis are serious reactions of what?
What is latex allergy?
This organization requires employers to keep records of job-related illnesses and accidents and conducts workplace inspections.
What is OSHA?
Rotating night shifts can disrupt these biological patterns.
What are circadian rhythms?
Nurses should use this equipment to reduce risk when moving patients.
What are mechanical lifts or assistive devices?
Pacing, clenched fists, and rapid angry speech are examples of this.
What are behaviors indicating potential for violence?
This is the first step immediately following a needlestick.
What is wash with soap and water?
These precautions apply to blood, body fluids, non-intact skin, and mucous membranes.
What are standard precautions?
Lack of support and poor stress management techniques contribute to this among new nurses.
What is workplace stress?
This repetitive injury is common in people who spend long hours at keyboards.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?
One reason violence is underreported is that nurses believe it is this.
What is “part of the job”?
Time-consuming paperwork
Fear/lack of support
Lack of institutional response
Lack of polices
This triage category includes patients who cannot follow commands, have life-threatening conditions, and may have respirations greater than 30 or delayed capillary refill.
What is Red (Immediate)?
Hand hygiene is considered the most important method to prevent this.
What is transmission of disease?
This workplace factor has been shown to significantly increase nurse error rates when shifts extend beyond it.
What is working overtime or extended hours?
These specific body areas are most commonly affected by ergonomic injuries in nurses due to lifting and positioning patients.
What are the back, neck, shoulders, or knees?
Confront, report, document, and seek support are tactics to fight this workplace issue.
What is sexual harassment?
This category describes patients who can follow commands but cannot walk and require medical care, though their condition is not immediately life-threatening.
What is Yellow (Delayed)?
Allows follow this when reporting quality and safety issues.
The chain of command
Error rates increase significantly after working more than this number of hours in a shift.
What is 12 hours?
To protect the lower back, nurses should avoid bending at the waist and instead do this to lower their center of gravity.
What is squat or flex the knees?
This non-verbal cue, involving a patient standing too close or "towering" over a nurse, is often a precursor to physical aggression.
What is encroachment of personal space?
These patients are able to walk and are often referred to as the “walking wounded.”
What is Green (Minor)?