The nurse demonstrates knowledge of the National Patient Safety Goals by performing patient care that includes: (Select all that apply.)
a. identifying the patient prior to medication administration by asking the patient to state his or her name.
b. reporting any sentinel event to the facili-ty's quality assurance team.
c. assessing the patient's heart rate prior to administration of digoxin.
d. performing hand hygiene prior to per-forming a patient assessment.
e. documenting the appropriate time of me-dication administration.
C, D, E
Assessing the patient's heart rate prior to administration of digoxin demonstrates knowledge of medication actions and prevention of adverse effects; hand hygiene is required before any patient care, including assessment; and documentation of the time of medication administration is ne-cessary to prevent medication errors. To meet National Patient Safety Goals, the nurse must use at least two methods of patient identification prior to medication administration. Reporting a sen-tinel event is required but demonstrates that National Patient Safety Goals were not met.
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