Hospital Safety Issues
Types include: MRSA, UTI, Sepsis, and C. Diff.
What are Infections?
Focuses on lack of harm avoiding bad events, and makes it less likely that mistakes happen.
What is Safety?
A-B-C-D-F
What is hospital grading scale.
Number of LGBT Health Clinics in East Tennessee.
What is "0" [none / zero]?
Country on the verge of vaccination tipping point.
What is the United States?
People who intervene to prevent patient safety errors.
Who are Doctors, Nurses, and Hospital Staff?
Focus is on efficient, effective, purposeful care that gets the job done at the right time.
What is Quality?
An independent non-profit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the US health system. Where hospital safety is graded.
What is Leapfrog?
Population most likely to be bullied at school, seriously consider suicide, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
Who are Sexual Minority Youth.
Sexually transmitted infection that was nearly eradicated in the 1990s but is now on the rise.
What is syphilis.
Leaving an object inside a patient, an accidental cut or tear, or a blood leakage.
What are Problems with Surgery?
Telephone calls, conversations, interruptions, and noise.
What are distractions.
What does QSEN stand for?
What is Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Unconscious attitude or stereotype that affect understanding, actions, or decisions. Influenced by experiences with a particular social group.
What is implicit bias?
Group that faces challenges such as inadequate training and personal discomfort with death.
Who are clinicians working with end-of-life patients?
Dangerous bed sores, falls causing broking hips, a collapsed lung, or an air bubble in the blood.
What are Safety Problems?
Being listened to by doctors and nurses and having doctors and nurses demonstrate professional knowledge and skills.
What are caring behaviors - or - caring behaviors that make patients feel safe?
1 in 4 chance of experiencing injury, harm or death when admitted to a hospital.
What is a Medicare patient?
Population most concerned with heart disease, cancer, HIV, STDs, depression, and mPox.
Who are gay and bisexual men?
Conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect health outcomes.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
Safe medication administration, handwashing, communication, and teamwork.
What are Practices to Prevent Errors?
Concept borrowed from airline industry to provide a safe zone for high-risk procedures such as medication administration or pre-procedure interventions.
What is a sterile cockpit?
Talk to someone immediately, report the incident to the Chief Nursing Officer and/or state Board of Nursing.
What you do if you see an error made in the hospital?
A common expression of oppression, occurs when the standard of a dominant group is considered to be the norm.
What is cultural imperialism?
Strategies to improve community conditions by using tactics such as laws, policies, and regulations that create community conditions that improve health for all people.
What is upstream - community impact?