Terms
Safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, equitable nursing care.
What is Health Care Quality?
The year TJC mandated hospital wide safety standards.
What is 2001?
Name types of people who are at a greater risk for falls.
Who is the infant & toddler, school aged child, adolescent, elderly, impaired mobility, cognitively unstable, sensory impaired, previous fall history
A term for a drug that makes a patient drowsy and unable to function, serving as a form of restraint.
What is chemical restraint?
The process of drug movement through the body
What is Pharmacokinetics?
A process of identifying, analyzing, treating, and evaluating real and potential hazards.
What is Risk Management?
TJC's National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) include standards such as
What is identifying patients correctly, using medications correctly, reducing falls & pressure injuries, and preventing infection?
List FOUR extrinsic factors related to falls or injuries.
What is communication, education, physical hazards, competency?
A "sheetbelt" is considered a legal restraint.
FALSE
When the body chemically changes drugs into a form that can be excreted
What is Metabolism?
Name THREE types of errors that can occur in health care.
What is sentinel event, near miss, medication error, placebo effect?
The yearly document issued by TJC.
NPSG
The continuum of care into many settings in which a nurse and patient interact.
What is Environmental Safety?
The time frame for a new order for restraint use.
What is 24 hours max?
The term that relates to a drug's highest concentration in the blood.
What is Peak?
The review of giving a patient the wrong medication.
What is root cause analysis and the process of learning from consequences.
List FOUR ways to ensure patient privacy.
What are curtains, closed doors, maintaining confidentiality, logging out of computers, shredding patent information, consent forms, verifying the patient?
The way in which you measure circulation for patient wrist restraints.
What is the two finger method?
ORDER: Ceflacor 0.5mg PO BID
ON HAND: Ceflacor 500mg
List how much of the medication you will administer.
What is 1 Capsule?
An environment in which reporting of errors is promoted.
What is a culture of safety?
Name the MD's order for your patient.
MS 2.0mg IV QD for incisional pain.
What is Morphine Sulfate 2 mg IV daily for incisional pain?
The type of nurse that makes a GREAT nurse.
What is a SAFE nurse?
The method used to teach patients and family members about the need of restraints.
What is the teach back method?
Order: Phenobarbitol 30mg PO STAT
ON HAND: 15mg
List how much of the medication you will administer.
What is 2 Tablets?