Exam 16: The Impact of Technology

As the head nurse involved in leading determination of which patient surveillance systems to acquire for your unit, one of your aims is to avoid adverse events through the implementation of appropriate technology.This particular aim recognizes that:

When assessing the appropriateness of adopting WL COWs for a nursing unit, you need to consider the advantages, which include:

The clinic nurse has just accessed a client's chart on the computer.The resident comes over and asks her to stay logged on because he needs to add a note to that client's chart.She should say:

Despite the implementation of bar-code medication administration (BCMA) on your busy medical unit, you notice that the number of medication errors has not significantly decreased.Which of the following reasons might explain the lack of change in errors?

You are in the process of designing a patient education program that will provide education and monitoring for patients with hypertension.To support your planning, you draw out and present patient data from: