Capstone Flashcards
What does a culture of safety promote?
A culture of safety promotes openness and reporting errors.
This helps in decreasing the amount of adverse events.
What is the role of the Risk Management Department?
The Risk Management Department identifies, prevents, tracks, and manages events.
What are Service Occurrences?
Unsatisfactory service.
What are Near Misses?
Events that almost occur.
What are Serious Incidents?
Minor injuries and significant disruption.
What are Sentinel Events?
Unexpected death or major injury.
What is Failure to Rescue?
The most severe event where a complication leads to death.
What is the QSEN Institute?
A collaborative of healthcare professionals focused on education, practice, and scholarship to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
What are the QSEN Competencies?
Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidenced Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety, Informatics.
What is Patient Centered Care?
Recognizing the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
What is Teamwork and Collaboration?
Functioning effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
What is Evidenced Based Practice (EBP)?
Integrating best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
What is Quality Improvement (QI)?
Using data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and using improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
What does Safety entail in healthcare?
Minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
What is Informatics in healthcare?
Using information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
What is Infection Control?
Preventing cross-contamination of organisms.
What are the rights of healthcare team members regarding hazardous materials?
Employees have the right to refuse to work in an unsafe environment if there is danger to health.
What are some prevention strategies for hazardous materials?
Staff education, policies and procedures, appropriate room assignments, standard precautions, and yearly education on safety.
What is required for Equipment Safety?
Training for all healthcare-related equipment and ensuring all equipment is working at the beginning of the shift.
What are some risk factors for falls?
Decreased mobility, strength, balance, incontinence, cognitive, sensory perception, and medications.
What are seizure precautions?
Implementing measures for clients with a history of seizures, including having oxygen and suction available.
What are the risks related to restraints?
Death, pressure injury, incontinence, and pneumonia due to immobility.
What is a Home Hazard Safety Evaluation?
Performed when there are factors that increase the risk for injury to a client in the home.
What are the types of risks for infants and toddlers?
Aspiration, water safety, suffocation, falls, poisoning, MVA, and burns.
What are the types of risks for adolescents?
MVA, burns, depression/anxiety, and hazards related to smoking, alcohol, drugs.
What are ergonomic principles?
Relate to an object’s quality that contributes to function, safety, comfort, and ease of use.
What is the significance of body mechanics?
Proper use of muscles to maintain balance and support, preventing injury.
