A patient is confused, trying to get out of bed, and is pulling at her IV. The nurse uses this data to provide this diagnosis.
What is risk for injury?
100
This age group is at risk for injury at home, at school, and while traveling to and from school.
Who are school aged children?
100
It is important to use one of these when assessing a patient's risk for falls.
What is a fall assessment tool?
100
While teaching parents of school-aged children about safety, it is most important to teach them to make sure this fits properly.
What is a bicycle helmet?
100
A faulty sequential compression device can cause this type of accident in the hospital.
What is an equipment-related accident?
200
When dealing with a confused patient who is repeatedly trying to pull out his foley catheter, the nurse does the following first:
Gather restraints
Try alternatives to restraints
Assess the patient
Call the physician
What is assess the patient?
200
This age group is at risk for injury associated to lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking, and hazardous work.
Who are adults?
200
It is important to make sure that you educate your patients about the risk for falls when taking these.
What are medications that can cause drowsiness?
200
Proper storage, preparation and refrigeration of food is a good way to prevent this.
What is food poisoning?
200
The nurse is preparing a patient for surgery. The nurse explains that this is the reason for writing in indelible ink on the surgical site, the word "correct".
What is to distinguish the correct surgical site.
300
The patient continues to remove her nasogastric tube throughout the night. At this point, due to the patient's behavior, the nurse is alerted to consider the need for this.
What is applying restraints?
300
These patients are at risk for injury that is directly related to the physiological changes of the aging process.
Who are the older patients?
300
After a patient fall, the nurse is responsible for completing one of these. A confidential document describing a patient accident.
What is an incident report?
300
While teaching a patient about fire safety, and how to use one of these, you educate the patient about the acronym "PASS" which means, pull, aim, squeeze, and sweep.
What is a fire extinguisher?
300
"RACE" is a fire safety acronym that stands for this.
What is rescue, activate, confine and extinguish?
400
A posey stay safe bed and an ambularm are both examples of this.
What are alternatives to restraints?
400
This age group is most at risk for injury due to suicide, motor vehicle accidents, and substance abuse.
Who are adolescents?
400
These provide excellent prevention against falls in bathrooms.
What are safety bars?
400
Help parents reduce the risk of this by teaching them to keep all medications, cleaning fluids, and batteries out of reach from children.
What is accidental poisoning?
400
A nurse was sent to a busy surgical unit and administered a wrong mediation to a patient. She classifies the error as this type of error.
What is a procedure-related or medication related accident?
500
When it comes to restraints, the optimal goal for all patients is this environment
What is a restraint free environment?
500
This age group is at risk for injury due to their growing ability to explore and oral activity.
Who are infants and toddlers?
500
Modifications in environment, such as removing obstacles from hallways and other heavily traveled areas is an example of this.
What is fall prevention?
500
To reduce the risk for falling in the home of elderly patients, teach them to make sure that they have this so they can see where they are stepping.
What is adequate lighting?
500
Safety cautious nurses know that preforming this can reduce or prevent the transmission of disease from person to person.