ACEMAPP Achieving Safety Goals questions and
answers
1. The National Patient Safety Goals Use proven guidelines to prevent
for pre- venting mistakes in surgery infections that are difficult to treat
include all of the following except:
2. When a care provider becomes alarm fatigue
desensi- tized to alarm signals it is
also known as:
2003
3. When did the first National Patient
Safety goals go into effect?
all of the above
4. Which of the following indicates a
type of child abuse?
improve patient safety
5. The purpose of the National Patient
Safety Goals® is:
Make sure the patient knows which
6. While in urgent care, Nurse Charlene medi-
re-
ceived lab values for her patient. The Potas- cines to take when they are at
home and tell
sium values were dangerously high and them to update their primary
care doctor of
new medicines were prescribed by the doc- any changes
tor on call. According to the National
Pa- tient Safety Goals, Nurse Charlene
should:
7. The goal of "Use medicines safely" true
is also known as "medication
reconciliation."
8. General signs of child abuse include: all of the above
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, ACEMAPP Achieving Safety Goals questions and
answers
9. (True or false) Using abbreviations save false
time and effort, while also
eliminating con- fusion.
10. (True or false) It's perfectly false
acceptable to use just one way to
identify a patient.
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answers
1. The National Patient Safety Goals Use proven guidelines to prevent
for pre- venting mistakes in surgery infections that are difficult to treat
include all of the following except:
2. When a care provider becomes alarm fatigue
desensi- tized to alarm signals it is
also known as:
2003
3. When did the first National Patient
Safety goals go into effect?
all of the above
4. Which of the following indicates a
type of child abuse?
improve patient safety
5. The purpose of the National Patient
Safety Goals® is:
Make sure the patient knows which
6. While in urgent care, Nurse Charlene medi-
re-
ceived lab values for her patient. The Potas- cines to take when they are at
home and tell
sium values were dangerously high and them to update their primary
care doctor of
new medicines were prescribed by the doc- any changes
tor on call. According to the National
Pa- tient Safety Goals, Nurse Charlene
should:
7. The goal of "Use medicines safely" true
is also known as "medication
reconciliation."
8. General signs of child abuse include: all of the above
1/
7
, ACEMAPP Achieving Safety Goals questions and
answers
9. (True or false) Using abbreviations save false
time and effort, while also
eliminating con- fusion.
10. (True or false) It's perfectly false
acceptable to use just one way to
identify a patient.
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