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✔✔Since 2006, the Joint Commission has expanded on their goal to improve the
effectiveness among caregivers by
Addressing the issue of timely reporting
Developing opportunities to ask and respond to questions
Reporting all laboratory results within a specified time frame
Having the "recipient" of all verbal orders verify accuracy by "reading back" -
✔✔Developing opportunities to ask and respond to questions
✔✔ When giving medications always check the patient, the drug, the dose, the route,
and the
Doctor
Temperature
Last eating episode
Time - ✔✔Time
✔✔To support the goal for patients to be actively involved in their own care, The Joint
Commission requested caregivers in Critical Access Hospitals to
Encourage patients and their families to report safety concerns
Ask patients to give them a list of all their medications
Educate the staff on oxygen hazards
Have patients mark their bodies to indicate the correct surgical site - ✔✔Encourage
patients and their families to report safety concerns
✔✔Reports of Incidents must be given to the facility's Risk Manager
At the end of every month
Within 3 calendar days
Quarterly
At the end of every day - ✔✔Within 3 days
✔✔Which of the following is NOT accurate regarding FMEA?
The goal is to redesign the process to minimize failure risk and enhance patient safety
Multiple control measures may be placed in a process to control one hazard
Criticality equals failure frequency multiplied by failure severity, multiplied by failure
detectability
A control measure is generally used only one time in a specific process - ✔✔A control
measure is generally used only one time in a specific process
✔✔Children are the population group most prone to overdose.
True
False - ✔✔t