Safety

Question 1

What is safety? What is safety as a nursing concept?

Answer 1

Safety: basic human needs, second only to survival needs such as oxygen, nutrition, and fluids.

Nursing Safety: concept of safety is fundamental to providing safe, effective, high-quality care to your clients.

Question 2

What are factors that affect safety? (9 factors)

Answer 2

1. Age
2. Lifestyle
3. Cognition
4. Balance, Gait, and Mobility
5. Ability to Communicate
6. Visual Acuity
7. Illness/Disease State
8. Emotional Health
9. Safety Awareness

Question 3

What developmental factors affect Infant/Toddlers?

Answer 3

• Cannot recognize the danger

- Totally dependent

Question 4

What developmental factors affect safety in Preschoolers?

Answer 4

• Playtime begins to extend to outdoors

- More adventurous

Question 5

What developmental factors affect safety in School-Age children?

Answer 5

• Try new activities without practice

- Stranger danger

Question 6

What developmental factors affect safety in Adolescents?

Answer 6

• False Confidence
• “Industructable”
• Risk-taking behaviors

Question 7

What developmental factors affect safety in adults?

Answer 7

• Exposed to injury in the workplace

- Lifestyle choices impact health

Question 8

What developmental factors affect safety in older adults?

Answer 8

• Loss of muscle strength
• Slowing reflexes
• Sensory losses

Question 9

What is the Morse Fall Scale (MFS)? What are the areas of fall risk that
are identified by the MFS?

Answer 9

Rapid and simple method of assessing a patient’s likelihood of falling.

1. History of falling
2. secondary diagnosis
3. ambulatory aid
4. IV therapy/heparin (saline) lock
5. Gait
6. Mental status