Capstone

Question 1

What does a culture of safety promote?

Answer 1

A culture of safety promotes openness and reporting errors.

This helps in decreasing the amount of adverse events.

Question 2

What is the role of the Risk Management Department?

Answer 2

The Risk Management Department identifies, prevents, tracks, and manages events.

Question 3

What are Service Occurrences?

Answer 3

Unsatisfactory service.

Question 4

What are Near Misses?

Answer 4

Events that almost occur.

Question 5

What are Serious Incidents?

Answer 5

Minor injuries and significant disruption.

Question 6

What are Sentinel Events?

Answer 6

Unexpected death or major injury.

Question 7

What is Failure to Rescue?

Answer 7

The most severe event where a complication leads to death.

Question 8

What is the QSEN Institute?

Answer 8

A collaborative of healthcare professionals focused on education, practice, and scholarship to improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.

Question 9

What are the QSEN Competencies?

Answer 9

Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidenced Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety, Informatics.

Question 10

What is Patient Centered Care?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

What is Teamwork and Collaboration?

Answer 11

Functioning effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

Question 12

What is Evidenced Based Practice (EBP)?

Answer 12

Integrating best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

Question 13

What is Quality Improvement (QI)?

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

What does Safety entail in healthcare?

Answer 14

Minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Question 15

What is Informatics in healthcare?

Answer 15

Using information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Question 16

What is Infection Control?

Answer 16

Preventing cross-contamination of organisms.

Question 17

What are the rights of healthcare team members regarding hazardous materials?

Answer 17

Employees have the right to refuse to work in an unsafe environment if there is danger to health.

Question 18

What are some prevention strategies for hazardous materials?

Answer 18

Staff education, policies and procedures, appropriate room assignments, standard precautions, and yearly education on safety.

Question 19

What is required for Equipment Safety?

Answer 19

Training for all healthcare-related equipment and ensuring all equipment is working at the beginning of the shift.

Question 20

What are some risk factors for falls?

Answer 20

Decreased mobility, strength, balance, incontinence, cognitive, sensory perception, and medications.

Question 21

What are seizure precautions?

Answer 21

Implementing measures for clients with a history of seizures, including having oxygen and suction available.

Question 22

What are the risks related to restraints?

Answer 22

Death, pressure injury, incontinence, and pneumonia due to immobility.

Question 23

What is a Home Hazard Safety Evaluation?

Answer 23

Performed when there are factors that increase the risk for injury to a client in the home.

Question 24

What are the types of risks for infants and toddlers?

Answer 24

Aspiration, water safety, suffocation, falls, poisoning, MVA, and burns.

Question 25

What are the types of risks for adolescents?

Answer 25

MVA, burns, depression/anxiety, and hazards related to smoking, alcohol, drugs.

Question 26

What are ergonomic principles?

Answer 26

Relate to an object’s quality that contributes to function, safety, comfort, and ease of use.

Question 27

What is the significance of body mechanics?

Answer 27

Proper use of muscles to maintain balance and support, preventing injury.