Patient Safety and Quality
Environmental safety - (correct Answer) - A patients environment includes physical
and psychosocial factors that influence or affect the life and survival of that
patient. A safe environment protects the staff as well.
Basic needs - (correct Answer) - Physiological needs, including the need for
sufficient oxygen, nutrition and optimum temperature, influence a person's safety.
Oxygen - (correct Answer) - supplemental oxygen is sometimes required to meet a
person's oxygenation needs. Is combustible.
--- A common environmental hazard in the home is an improperly functioning heating
system. A furnace, stove, or fireplace that is not vented introduces CO.
Nutrition - (correct Answer) - Meeting nutritional needs adequately and safely
requires environmental controls and knowledge.
Temperature - (correct Answer) - A person's comfort zone is usually between 18.3
degrees celcuis and 23.9
Physical hazards - (correct Answer) - Physical hazards in the environment threatens
a persons safety and often result in physical or psychological injury or death.
Motor vehicle accidents (Physical hazard) - (correct Answer) - Leading cause of
death. Higher among 19-19 year olds.
Poison - (correct Answer) - is any substance that impairs health or destroys life
when ingested, inhaled or absorbed by the body.
Falls - (correct Answer) - Among adults 65 years and older, spalls are the leading
cause of both Fatal and nonfatal injuries.
Fires - (correct Answer) - careless smoking is leading cause
Disasters - (correct Answer) - natural disasters; major cause of injury
Environmental Safety - (correct Answer) -
Pathogens - (correct Answer) - pathogens are parasites pose a threat to patient
safety; hand hygiene
Immunizations - (correct Answer) - prevents the transmission of disease from person
to person
pollution - (correct Answer) - air, land, water, noise
Risks at developmental stages - (correct Answer) - a patients developmental stager
creates threats to safety as a result of lifestyle, cognitive and mobility status,
sensory impairments and safety awareness
Infant, toddler and preschooler - (correct Answer) - injuries
School age child - (correct Answer) - head injuries (bicycle)
Adolescent - (correct Answer) - drowning and motor vehicle accidents ( due to
smoking, drinking, alcohol and using drugs).
Adult - (correct Answer) - lifestyle habits (excessive alcohol etc)
Older adult - (correct Answer) - the physiological changes associate with aging
effects of multiple medications, psychological and cognitive factors, and the
effects of acute or chronic disease increase risk for : falls
Individual risk factors - (correct Answer) - other risks factors posing threats to
safety include lifestyle, impaired mobility, sensory or communication impairment,
and lack of safety awareness.
Environmental safety - (correct Answer) - A patients environment includes physical
and psychosocial factors that influence or affect the life and survival of that
patient. A safe environment protects the staff as well.
Basic needs - (correct Answer) - Physiological needs, including the need for
sufficient oxygen, nutrition and optimum temperature, influence a person's safety.
Oxygen - (correct Answer) - supplemental oxygen is sometimes required to meet a
person's oxygenation needs. Is combustible.
--- A common environmental hazard in the home is an improperly functioning heating
system. A furnace, stove, or fireplace that is not vented introduces CO.
Nutrition - (correct Answer) - Meeting nutritional needs adequately and safely
requires environmental controls and knowledge.
Temperature - (correct Answer) - A person's comfort zone is usually between 18.3
degrees celcuis and 23.9
Physical hazards - (correct Answer) - Physical hazards in the environment threatens
a persons safety and often result in physical or psychological injury or death.
Motor vehicle accidents (Physical hazard) - (correct Answer) - Leading cause of
death. Higher among 19-19 year olds.
Poison - (correct Answer) - is any substance that impairs health or destroys life
when ingested, inhaled or absorbed by the body.
Falls - (correct Answer) - Among adults 65 years and older, spalls are the leading
cause of both Fatal and nonfatal injuries.
Fires - (correct Answer) - careless smoking is leading cause
Disasters - (correct Answer) - natural disasters; major cause of injury
Environmental Safety - (correct Answer) -
Pathogens - (correct Answer) - pathogens are parasites pose a threat to patient
safety; hand hygiene
Immunizations - (correct Answer) - prevents the transmission of disease from person
to person
pollution - (correct Answer) - air, land, water, noise
Risks at developmental stages - (correct Answer) - a patients developmental stager
creates threats to safety as a result of lifestyle, cognitive and mobility status,
sensory impairments and safety awareness
Infant, toddler and preschooler - (correct Answer) - injuries
School age child - (correct Answer) - head injuries (bicycle)
Adolescent - (correct Answer) - drowning and motor vehicle accidents ( due to
smoking, drinking, alcohol and using drugs).
Adult - (correct Answer) - lifestyle habits (excessive alcohol etc)
Older adult - (correct Answer) - the physiological changes associate with aging
effects of multiple medications, psychological and cognitive factors, and the
effects of acute or chronic disease increase risk for : falls
Individual risk factors - (correct Answer) - other risks factors posing threats to
safety include lifestyle, impaired mobility, sensory or communication impairment,
and lack of safety awareness.
