Safety
Adverse events tend to increase when there are less managerial staff.
What is correlation between less managers and increase adverse events?
Detailed orders/ordersets that follow the CMS mandate for hospitals to ensure proper funding
What is a core measure?
Nurse works in same job for over 20 years.
What is the steady state of employment?
A document about an employee that attempts to 'sell' their abilities.
What is a resume?
Infection precaution designation for a patient with positive C-Diff.
What is contact-enteric precautions?
Nurse executives attend safety meetings to decrease fall numbers.
What is meant by pushing safety efforts from top down?
A designation of hospitals that requires empirical data to support patient outcomes and actions and mandates a percentage of BSN-prepared nurses
What is Magnet status?
What is assertive communication?
A document about an employee that is typically used for experienced candidates
What is a curriculum vitae?
Regular public relations, command center, adequate supplies stock
What is disaster preparedness?
The primary focus of hospital safety
What is the patient?
Provides resources for nursing education programs that helps to guide nursing competency.
What is QSEN?
Accepting a position outside of your established skill set that portrays you as an innovative, adaptable leader.
What is a solid career path?
Listing of candidate information that reflects knowledge, skills, and background in relation to a specific position.
What is a resume?
Right patient, dose, medication, route
What are 4 rights of safe medication administration?
Questioning the patient or staff member about their knowledge.
What is the best way to assess knowledge?
Provide networking opportunities and support for nurse's in government
What are professional associations?
A nurse preceptor gives her orientee a bad evaluation because she reported the preceptor for extended breaks.
What is vertical violence?
opposing interests, lack of shared attitudes, and inadequate communication
What differences lead to vertical violence?
medication scanning, patient identification, and medication protocols
What are medication safety prevention strategies?
A means of communication within healthcare that provides consistency.
What is SBAR?
Reviewed annually in order to comply with TJC standards for patient safety.
What is the list of approved abbreviations?
Special knowledge beyond basic licensure in nursing
What is a certification?
personal relations, violence by strangers, coworkers, patients
What are the categories of workplace violence?
During the disaster response, the triaged patient is tagged using a black identification tag.
What is a deceased patient triage procedure?