EXAM 2 Flashcards
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What is IOMs 5 core competencies for heath care professionals?
- Provide patient centered care
- Work in interdisciplinary or interprofessional teams
- Employ evidence based practice
- Apply quality improvement
- Utilize informatics
This is a independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits hospitals
The joint commission (JCAHO)
What does TJC set as far as standards for hospitals?
They set high standards for hospitals to increase quality care
Hospitals are responsible for reporting data on their performance based on the:
National Quality Improvement Goals
What is The Joint Commissions’ (TJC) definition of Quality Improvement?
An approach to the continuous study and improvement of the process of providing health care services to meet the needs of patients and others and inform health care policy
What led to an increased awareness of U.S. medical errors?
a report issued in November 1999 by the U. S. Institute of Medicine (IOM)
__________ Americans die every year from medical errors
44,000 (could be as high as 98,000)
More people die from medication errors than:
- MVA
- Breast cancer
- AIDS
What are serious problems with healthcare?
- safety
- quality
- waste
- inefficiency
This report focused on patient safety issues
To Err is human (1999)
This report focused on additional quality problems
Crossing the quality chasm (2001)
This report combined patient and nurse safety issues:
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment for Nurses (2004)
What happens when errors occur and why is it so important?
- increased cost for pt/hospital and insurance co.
- decrease bonuses or incentives for nurses
- decreased trust from pts
Medicare and medicaid will no longer pay for:
- preventable complications
- hospital acquired
complications (HAC) - serious reportable events
(SREs)
Use _________ to discuss safety and errors:
common language
We need to have ______ standards
data
What kind of systems should be in place?
reporting systems
The 8th leading cause of death in a hospital is:
medication errors
What is included on the official do not use lists for acronyms?
- U/u (units)
- IU (international unit)
- QD (daily)
- QOD (every other day)
- Trailing zeros (write X mg)
- MS (morphine sulfate)
- MSO4 (magnesium sulfate)
What does “pc” mean?
after meals
What does “ac” mean?
before meals
What does “HS” mean?
hour sleep
What are some clinical safety terms?
- Safety
- Error
- Adverse event (no allergies noted but pt breaks out in rash after medication; not fatal and not expected)/Side effect (less serious; unexpected side effect)
- Misuse (pt allergic to medication but was given the medication)
- Overuse (pt has been given too much of the medication or too many meds)
- Underuse (pt doesn’t have insurance so a inferior medication is used)
- Near miss (could have happened but was caught)
- Sentinel event (an event that should not happen)
- Root cause analysis (understanding what the real issue is)
The IOM recommends using _______ to evaluate why patients are harmed by medical care:
PSRS