Exam 20: Patient Safety

The nursing manager understands that the phrase "active failure" in regard to patient safety means a(n):

The nurse executive explains to a group of newly hired nurses that the major responsibility for preventing errors in patient care lies with the:

A manager is concerned with the number of medication errors occurring on their unit.The manager determines that these errors represent latent errors when an investigation reveals that:

A nursing manager wants to investigate the best practice research on a specific patient safety issue.The best action by the nursing manager would be to:

An accreditation body visitor is touring a facility that has been designated as a high reliability organization (HRO).The visitor could reasonably conclude that this facility's nursing staff:

A chief nursing officer (CNO)has been hired to develop a healthy work environment and culture of safety in a hospital with a long record of safety problems and poor patient outcomes.The best initial action by the CNO would be to:

The nurse knows that the primary purpose of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 was to:

The nurse explains that benefits of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 include: (Select all that apply.)

A nursing manager explains to the executive committee that reducing errors requires:

The nurse working in health care today understands the ways in which the Patient Affordable Care Act (ACA)will affect patient safety.Which are the ways this is true? (Select all that apply.)

A newly hired graduate nurse is asking the preceptor why the facility uses a standardized template for change-of-shift reports.The preceptor explains that this template is used to:

In the 2000 Institute of Medicine's milestone report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, how many patients were estimated to die each year as a result of errors occurring in a hospital setting?

A manager is counseling a nurse who has violated safety protocols several times.The most appropriate action by the manager is to:

A nurse is working with a patient who seems changed from earlier in the shift.The nurse cannot pinpoint exactly what has changed but is concerned that the patient is getting worse.The best action by the nurse would be to:

The nursing executive attempting to incorporate the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' (AACN's)Healthy Work Environment Standards would formulate which policy? The manager would create a policy to:

A nurse manager in a hospital receives Joint Commission sentinel event alerts.When one is received that concerns a process that occurs in the manager's facility, the best action by this manager is to:

A nursing executive wishes to implement a new policy based on initial National Patient Safety Goals 2002 to eliminate wrong patient, wrong site, and wrong procedure.Which action by the executive would best meet one of the goals?

A chief nursing officer (CNO)wishes to integrate the Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)model of teamwork training into the hospital where the CNO works.The first action by the CNO should be to:

A hospital has significantly reduced the number of errors and near-miss episodes it has in the past 2 years.An accreditation body visitor might conclude that error and near-miss reductions are most directly related to:

A nurse asks the manager why the nursing staff seems to have the bulk of the responsibility for preventing errors in patient care.The manager explains that the primary reason nurses are best situated to recognize and prevent errors is because they: