Safety & Quality Nur2

Question 1

Harmful or unintended effect of a medication, diagnostic test, or therapeutic intervention

Answer 1

Adverse event

Question 2

Study of how drugs enter the body, reach their site of action, are metabolized, and exit from the body.

Answer 2

Pharmacokinetics

Question 3

An unanticipated event in a health care setting that results in death or serious harm to a patient unrelated to the natural course of the patient’s illness

Answer 3

Sentinel event

Question 4

Mechanisms of action and effects of a drug on the body; includes the onset, peak, and duration of effect of a drug

Answer 4

Pharmacodynamics

Question 5

An error of commission (did not provide care correctly) or omission (did not provide care) that could have harmed the patient, but serious harm did not occur as a result of chance

Answer 5

Near miss

Question 6

result of a delay in diagnosis, failure to employ indicated tests, use of outmoded tests, or failure to act on results of monitoring or testing

Answer 6

Diagnostic error

Question 7

Lack of communication or a lack of clarity in communication

Answer 7

Communication failure

Question 8

Failure to provide prophylactic treatment and inadequate monitoring or follow-up of treatment.

Answer 8

Preventative error

Question 9

Error occurring in the performance of an operation, procedure, or test; in administering a treatment; in the dose or method of administering a drug; or in avoidable delay in treatment or in responding to an abnormal test.

Answer 9

Treatment error