Patient Safety in Healthcare Review Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles and practices of patient safety within healthcare settings. Students will examine the causes and consequences of medical errors, and learn about strategies for error prevention, risk management, and quality improvement. Topics include the role of communication, teamwork, systems-based thinking, safety culture, reporting mechanisms, and evidence-based interventions aimed at minimizing harm to patients. Through case studies and practical applications, students will develop skills to identify safety concerns, analyze incidents, and implement effective solutions that foster a safer healthcare environment.
Recommended Textbook Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing Core Competencies 1st Edition by Kim Amer
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Chapter 1: Risk and Threats to Safe Quality Care in Hospital Settings
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Q1) The nurse manager is identifying methods to improve the quality of care for a patient care area. Which actions would help the nurse manager achieve this outcome?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Awareness of safety issues
B) Study the processes of care
C) Focus on patient-centered care
D) Create a learning environment
E) Improve communication between patient and provider Correct
Answer: A,B,C,E
Q2) The hospital administrator is reviewing the log of sentinel events prior to the next Joint Commission site survey. What is the purpose of tracking sentinel events in the organization?
A) Identifies staff members who are prone to making errors
B) Places red flags on problem situations
C) Identifies trends in potential errors
D) Tracks the outcomes of errors Correct
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Quality and Safety Models
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Q1) The nurse identifies an issue with the labeling of a medication for a patient. What can the nurse do to prevent this situation from creating a medication error?
A) Write over the medication label.
B) Notify the nurse manager about the issue.
C) Contact the pharmacy and discuss ways to eliminate the issue.
D) Document the identification of the issue in the medical record. Correct
Answer: C
Q2) After reading a journal article about a patient care approach, the nurse implemented the actions, which resulted in safe quality care. Which of Smith's levels of change did this nurse implement?
A) Effective
B) Efficient
C) Different
D) Copying Correct
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Transition to Practice: an Essential Element of
Quality and Safety
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Q1) A nurse tells the staff development trainer to not assign any new staff to preceptor for at least a year. What could be done to change this nurse's decision?
A) Orient the preceptor to the role.
B) Use simulation to help with decision making.
C) Review the concepts of Six Sigma.
D) Reduce the transition program to 2 months. Correct
Answer: A
Q2) A nursing leader is having difficulty convincing hospital administrators to implement a transition to practice program for nurses. Which information about evidence-based practice would add to the leader's difficulty?
A) Evidence-based practice integrates clinical expertise with patient values.
B) Evaluation studies are available to use as evidence for the program.
C) Expert opinions are available to use as evidence for the program.
D) There are few randomized studies available to support the program. Correct
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Power, Empowerment, and Change in Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) The nurse manager is identifying strategies to balance the power between the physicians and nursing staff on a patient care area. What information would help the nurse manager select appropriate strategies to implement? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Provide research on how an empowered nursing workforce impacts morbidity and mortality.
B) Create a plan to implement changes in the power balance on the care area.
C) Meet with the medical director to discuss the issue.
D) Identify opportunities for change on the unit.
E) Read articles that support praxis. Correct
Q2) A healthcare organization is planning to apply for Magnet recognition. How will this status affect the nursing staff?
A) Provide control over the practice environment
B) Increase budgeting for the nursing department
C) Equalize the nurse-physician relationship
D) Identify issues of staff turnover Correct
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Chapter 5: Quality and Safety Education Strategies
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Q1) The staff nurse is using the SBAR process to report a patient care situation. What would be included as background for the process?
A) When the situation occurred
B) Synopsis of treatment to date
C) Changes from prior assessments
D) Safety concerns Correct
Q2) A committee of school of nursing instructors is meeting to discuss quality and safety strategies to include in the curriculum. Which strategies will the instructors most likely include? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Provide study plans that link didactic information with clinical practice.
B) Limit the use of skills checklists to be used only for critical skills.
C) Emphasize the importance of customer service in each course.
D) Add quality and safety interventions in each course of study.
E) Teach delegation skills. Correct
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Chapter 6: Evaluating a Program: Metrics and Stakeholders
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Q1) The director of nursing is selecting tools to measure outcomes of patient care. What will the director keep in mind when making the tool selection? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) People available to score the instrument
B) Instrument not used as punishment
C) Ease of completing the instrument
D) Validity of the instrument
E) The right instrument Correct
Q2) The nurse manager is concerned that the staff is not exposed to many skills that have been instructed by the staff development department. Which can be done to ensure the staff is able to perform the skill should the situation arise in patient care?
A) Schedule monthly review sessions.
B) Assign two staff nurses to complete each technical skill.
C) Assign staff to review the procedure manual each shift.
D) Design an annual competency evaluation with the staff development department.
Correct
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Chapter 7: Interprofessional Team Building
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Q1) The nurse manager is determining reasons why the goal of safe quality patient care is not being achieved. Which factors would the manager identify as deterrents to safe quality care? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Authoritative attitude of physicians toward nurses
B) Poor integration about common concepts of care
C) Minimization of the nurses' role in patient care
D) Adherence to procedures is substandard
E) Poor communication Correct
Q2) The nurse manager is creating a process to improve the culture of safety on a patient care area. Which actions would the nurse manager include in this process? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Method to report problems
B) Adopt a zero-tolerance attitude
C) Structure anonymous problem reporting
D) Exempting physicians from participating
E) Education on proper communication etiquette Correct
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Chapter 8: Transforming Care at the Bedside Tcab
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Q1) A healthcare organization is planning to implement Transforming Care at the Bedside. When discussing this care approach, what would hospital administrators identify as the focus? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Prevent staff turnover
B) Eliminate inefficiencies
C) Control the cost of patient care
D) Decrease nonclinical demands on nurses
E) Improve communication with physicians Correct
Q2) The nursing staff is working through the rapid cycle change process about a problem with supplies that occurs when changing patients' dressings. Which activity exemplifies the implementation of a solution?
A) Generic dressing change supplies placed on a mobile cart
B) Central Distribution contacted regarding supply cart stocking times
C) Staff explains the importance of having supplies when they are needed
D) Staff agrees the use of a mobile cart improved the dressing change process Correct
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Chapter 9: Informatics and Nursing: Using Technology to Improve Quality
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Q1) The nurse manager is preparing to implement a computerized medication administration system on a care area. For which safety issue should the manager prepare during the implementation of this system?
A) Patient falls
B) Power outages
C) Medication errors
D) Insufficient nursing staff Correct
Q2) A healthcare organization wants to invest in a computer application that tracks quality indicators for population health. Which indicators would the application need to measure? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Medications
B) Environment
C) Social factors
D) Laboratory values
E) Health knowledge Correct
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Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Care
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Q1) The nurse is caring for a patient with a visual disorder. What action would support the patient's care environment?
A) Turn off the lights in the room.
B) Keep a night light on in the room.
C) Close the patient's room door.
D) Place eye glasses in the bedside stand. Correct
Q2) A patient tells the nurse that "people" have been using the arm, with an arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis, for blood pressure readings and blood draws all day. What actions could the nurse take to improve the quality and safety of this patient's physical care? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Post a sign in the patient's room to not use the arm.
B) Wrap the arm in an elastic bandage and place it on a pillow.
C) Mark on the patient's white board not use the arm with the fistula.
D) Document in the medical record that the arm was used for blood pressure measurements.
E) Ask the patient's physician to assess the integrity of the fistula since the arm was used for other care. Correct
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Chapter 11: Quality Health Care, Policy and Law
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Q1) After providing morning medications the nurse realizes that a medication error was made. What should the nurse do?
A) Evaluate the patient for effects of the medication error.
B) Document that medications were switched between patients.
C) Encourage the patient to ingest more water throughout the day.
D) Tell the truth and report the medication error according to policy. Correct
Q2) An organization is adopting processes of a high reliability organization. Which processes will help the nursing staff prevent errors? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Being aware of risks
B) Responding to errors
C) Seeing the big picture
D) Blaming the right party
E) Seeking out information Correct
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Chapter 12: Future-Focused Quality Nursing
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Q1) The nurse is a member of a group of health care professionals who meet to collaborate on projects to improve the health of a specific community. What is an advantage of being a member of this collaborative team?
A) Method to optimize the nurse's potential
B) Ensures communication occurs between the disciplines
C) Secures nursing as a viable vocation for community members
D) Guarantees community members will have thorough assessments Correct
Q2) The nurse is identifying professional goals to support changes in the healthcare industry. Which trends would the nurse use to help establish these goals? Standard Text: Select all that apply.
A) Identify opportunities for lifelong learning.
B) Recognize innovations that need nursing expertise.
C) Read the latest progress on access to health care for all.
D) Participate in activities with people from different cultures.
E) Sustain employment during periods of volatility in the industry. Correct
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