37 - Patient Saftey

Question 1

Quality of care

Answer 1

Ability of health care services to increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and consistency with current professional knowledge

Question 2

Harmful incident

Answer 2

an incident that resulted in injury to the patient

-a fall

Question 3

Near miss

Answer 3

an incident that did not reach the patient (no harm resulted)
-Patient started falling but you put a wheelchair behind them

Question 4

No-harm incident

Answer 4

an incident that reached the patient but caused no discernible harm
-Put the wrong cream on the patient, got the wrong meal

Question 5

adverse event

Answer 5

(Patient safety incident )– could results or did results in unnecessary hard to a patient

Question 6

Swiss cheese model

Answer 6

Each slice is a barrier put in place to try to make the health care safer.
Active failures – the wholes come into contact with the patient and negatively impacts them

Question 7

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)

Answer 7

– prospective, looks to the future. Try to forsee potential failures

Question 8

Root cause analysis (RCA)

Answer 8

– take data and try to make improvements based on trends

Question 9

TeamSTEPPS

Answer 9

Based on team memebres knowing strengths and weeknesses of everyone on the team

Question 10

Critical Thinking

Answer 10

Integration of knowledge and experience.