Safety and Safe Patient Handling

Question 1

What are the principles of safe design?

Answer 1

standardized, create checklists, learn when things go wrong

Question 2

What is Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model?

Answer 2

• human systems are like layers of Swiss cheese
• each layers is a defense against a potential failure/mistake
• there are holes in the defenses
• these holes can allow a “spear” (aka tragic event) can pierce through all the layers and direly affect the patient

Question 3

What is Normalization of Deviance?

Answer 3

the process where behaviors or practices that are initially considered unacceptable gradually become accepted and seen as normal within a group or organization

Question 4

When you lift patients, one should not life more than _____ pounds.

Answer 4

35

Question 5

What are the barriers to not manually handling/lifting of patients?

Answer 5

time

Question 6

What are the negative outcomes to manually lifting patients?

Answer 6

injury