What should you assess regardless of age group?
Correct Answers: Confusion or Depression
The National Patient Safety Goal 6 is to improve the safety of clinical alarm systems. What is the
rationale for this goal?
Correct Answers: **To improve patient safety if clinical alarm systems are not properly managed**
What is an important concept of being a patient advocate?
Correct Answers: Accepting the patient's decision
Which of the following is a patient responsibility?
Correct Answers: To ask for pain relief when the pain first begins
What does sandwich generation mean?
Correct Answers: The generation responsible for caring for their parents and their children.
Which of the following if good practice when listening to patients?
Correct Answers: Show your genuine interest in the patient's replies
When delivering care, you need to determine which type of language in patients?
Correct Answers: Primary
What should you goals in end-of-life care include?
Correct Answers: Ensuring that decisions made are consistent with the values and desires of the
patient
Which of the following is accurate concerning nonverbal communication?
Correct Answers: ****Pointing with a finger is the general way to gesture among Filipinos****wrong
A smile is an expression that means the same thing in all cultures
Giving a thumbs up is universally means "all clear"
Touching another persons head is considered offensive in some cultures.
Which of the following is an ethical dilemma?
Correct Answers: A medical device company buying a trip to New York City for a physician, as a
thank you for using their device during a recent surgery
What is the intention of the Universal Protocol?
Correct Answers: Prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery
According to the National Patient Goals, which type of therapy poses a risk to patients due to its
complex dosing
Correct Answers: Anticoagulation therapy
What does a comprehensive systematic analysis following a sentinel event help identify?
Correct Answers: The contributory factors associated with the event