Exam 25: Safety

The nurse manager is developing a training guide and identifies which organization that is the best for resources to help develop guidelines to prevent exposure to hazardous situations and decrease the risk of injury in the workplace?

The nurse is teaching a student nurse about restraint use in patients. Which statement by the student nurse indicates a learning need regarding restraints?

The nurse is concerned about helping the patient find resources to obtain assistive equipment to be used in the home. Which team member should the nurse contact first?

The nurse displays an understanding of high-risk populations for MRSA when identifying which group as the lowest risk?

Which collaborative team member would be most effective in assisting the nurse to identify medication alternatives that are less likely to cause drowsiness and dizziness to reduce the risk of falls in the elderly patient?

The nurse recognizes that a patient is using a portable generator in the house as a power source. What source of poisoning does the nurse appropriately identify?

The staff nurse knows that many health care facilities use the fire emergency response defined by which acronym?

The nurse is caring for a confused, combative patient. Which action would be considered last by the nurse to control behavior of the client?

The nurse knows that which assessment tool is not used to assess fall risk?

The nurse knows changes in which body system affect overall mobility increasing the propensity of falling?

The nursing instructor asks the student nurse to identify what Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded project that focuses on nurses' increased attention to patient safety?

The nurse is educating the patient about the proper disposal of medications in the home. Which statement by the patient indicates a good understanding of the information?

Which statement by the nurse correctly identifies the UAP role in patient restraint use?

The nurse is educating parents about firearm safety. Which parent statement indicates to the nurse a need for further education?

The nurse is explaining the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) to the student nurse. Which answers indicate that the student has a good understanding of these goals?

The patient has a nursing diagnosis of Risk for Falls. The nurse identifies which goal to be most important?

The ER nurse is triaging a patient with suspected poisoning. Who should the nurse anticipate contacting first?

Which statement by the patient indicates to the nurse a teaching need regarding safety in the home?

The nurse recognizes conversations about safe sexual practices, including the consequences of unprotected sex such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, are important to begin in what patient population?

The nurse is visiting a patient with cardiac disease who has been experiencing increased episodes of shortness of breath when exercise is attempted. The nurse is concerned that the patient's decrease in activity may lead to which outcome?