At Hospital Ajax, there has been a 20% increase in instruments and sponges being left in patients during surgery and surgeries on the wrong limbs. These are known as:
a. Sentinel events.
b. Medically sensitive events.
c. Nurse-sensitive events.
d. Never events.
D
The NQF and CMS define never events as errors in medical care that are clearly identifiable, preventable, and serious in their consequences for patients and that indicate a real problem in the safety and credibility of a healthcare facility. Examples of never events include surgery on the wrong body part, foreign body left in a patient after surgery, mismatched blood transfusion, ma-jor medication error, severe pressure ulcer acquired in the hospital, and preventable postoperative deaths.
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1. Father acknowledges an addiction to alcohol. 2. The mother is a stay-at-home mother, and the father works two jobs to make ends meet. 3. The family has deep religious beliefs. 4. The father makes all of the decisions for the family, and the mother is compliant with the father's decisions. 5. Direct, open communication among family members is observed.
While a patient is receiving intravenous doxorubicin hydrochloride, the nurse observes that there is swelling and pain at the IV site. The nurse should:
A) Stop the administration of the drug immediately. B) Notify the patient's physician. C) Continue to administer but decrease the rate of infusion. D) Apply a warm compress to the site.
In Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the level for survival is also known as the level of __________ __________
ANS:
When making observations, it helps to
A) review the patient systematically and use all of your senses. B) expose the patient's body so that you can check the skin. C) measure all patients by the same standard. D) observe only those things that the patient complains of.