A group of nurses are discussing the issue of medical errors in health care. The nurses understand the IOM's has developed a four-pronged approach to reduce medical errors. Which is one of those prongs?
A) Progressive disciplinary consequences for employees who made errors
B) Decreasing the responsibility of oversight organizations, group purchasers, and professional groups and transferring it to health care organizations themselves
C) Identifying and learning from medical errors through both mandatory and voluntary reporting systems
D) Closing hospitals and health care practices that had more than twice the average number of medical errors
C
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6.5 : 100 =
A. 0.65 B. 0.065 C. 0.0065 D. 0.00065
The nurse is explaining the purpose of Healthy People objectives to a group of community members. What was a goal of the original Healthy People 2000 plan?
A) Health promotion B) Disease identification C) Acute disease treatment D) Rehabilitation to predisease state
The nurse is prioritizing care of a pediatric patient diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Which nursing diagnosis would the nurse consider the highest priority?
a. Risk for altered nutrition: less than body related to decreased appetite b. Altered breathing pattern related to thickened mucus secretions c. Knowledge deficit related to disease process d. Impaired skin integrity related to decreased mobility
A patient is given 6.5 milliliters (mL) of liquid medication 3 times a day for 4 days. She received ________ of the medication during the 4 days.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).