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Patient Safety and Quality (W1) Questions And Verified Answers |
Graded A
| 100% Correct!!!

1. What is safety? freedom from psychological and physical injury
-basic human need

2. What is the report by Institute of Medicine that brought patient safety to the forefront of
im- portance healthcare in the US.
of "To Err is
-landmark study, has set the stage for the behaviors, actions occurring in
Human:
HC today
Building a
-identified statistics of all the medical errors
Safer Health
System"? medical errors
3.
are the 3rd
lead- ing
cause of
44,000-98,000
death in the
US

4. How many
peo- ple die
each year
from pre-
ventable
medical errors falls
(according to
IOM report in
1999)?

5. The number 1
cause of death
of people over
80 are...

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, Patient Safety and Quality (W1) Questions And Verified Answers |
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6. What is a sentinel An unexpected patient safety event that leads to death or serious
physical or
event? psychological injury.
-will occur in an institution, not cared for safely in a place you would expect them
to be safe
-ex: full term baby healthy at birth, unexpectedly dies 24-48 hours after
delivery.




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Goals for Critical Access Hospitals in 2017


7. T or F: health-
care workers
ex- perience
more nonfatal
occu- pational
illness- es than
construc- tion
workers

8. Nurses lift ap-
prox.
per shift

9. What are the
National
Patient Safety
Goals?




10. What is the
Joint
Commission?

11. Name the 7
National
Patient Safety
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Person at LTC facility today! This is why we use two patient identifiers, sometimes even 3.
disappears, just got up and
left. Psychiatric patient a national organization, an accrediting body for institutions like hospitals
commits suicide -set the rules of how they should operate to meet the accreditation
standards
true
1.) Identify patients correctly
2.) Improve statt communication
3.) Use Medicines safely
4.) Use alarms safely
5.) prevent infection



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Required practices to improve
patient safety that are put out
every year by the Joint
Commission
-first ones were in 2003, goals
that identify with a variety of
HC professionals to
accomplish
-in 2003, basically only for
hospitals, now goals for many
ditterent institutions
-ex: administer the right
procedures to the right
patients-- was a goal in
2003 and it is still on the list
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