Safety Issues + Preventing Patient Complications Review

Question 1

Adverse (unfavorable) event that is measurable, identifiable, and can cause serious injury or death.
ARE PREVENTABLE =

Answer 1

Never-Event

Question 2

Implemented a culture of safety in 2001 that focused on 6 strategic themes =

Answer 2

Kaiser Permantete

Question 3

What are the 3 main components of a culture of safety?

Answer 3

Just Culture
Reporting Culture
Learning Culture

Question 4

An event that could’ve caused death or injury, but may not have been preventable =

Answer 4

Sentinel Event

Question 5

Something that could’ve put the client in harm’s way but didn’t =

Answer 5

Near-Miss Event

Question 6

What’s STEADI stand for?

Answer 6

Stopping
Elderly
Accidents,
Deaths,
And Injuries

Question 7

What’s the minimum amount of protection required for droplet precautions?

Answer 7

Mask

Eye Protection (Goggles/ Face Shield)

Question 8

What’s the minimum amount of protection required for airborne precautions?

Answer 8

N95 Mask

Question 9

What’s the minimum amount of protection required for contact precautions?

Answer 9

Gloves

Gown

Question 10

Where do you put someone who needs airborne precautions?

Answer 10

An AIIR Room

Question 11

What does the AIIR in AIIR room stand for?

Answer 11

Airborne Infection Isolation Room

Question 12

Who is most at risk for food poisoning?

Answer 12

Pregnant Women
Older Adults
Immunocompromised Patients

Question 13

What were the 6 strategic themes that Kaiser Permantente implemented in his culture of safety in 2001?

Answer 13

Safe culture
Safe care
Safe staff
Safe support system
Safe place
Safe patients

Question 14

What are the most common HAI’s?

Answer 14

CAUTIs, CLABSIs, SSIs, VAPs

Question 15

What is primary prevention?

Answer 15

Anything you go out of your way to do not get a disease

Question 16

What is active prevention?

Answer 16

Changing your behavior or minimizing exposure to diseases in order to prevent yourself from getting sick.
(EX: Getting physically fit in order to prevent from getting ill)

Question 17

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 17

Getting tested or screened for a disease before it can cause any problems

Question 18

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 18

Control a health issue that has already occurred. Trying not to spread and prevent further illness.
EX: Putting on a mask to prevent others from getting Covid after you start experiencing symptoms.
EX: Taking meds to make a disease more bearable.

Question 19

What does quaternary care mean?

Answer 19

Prevention focusing on protecting the client from excessive medical interventions that can do more harm than good.

Question 20

What is warfarin?

Answer 20

Medicine that thins blood to prevent blood clots

Question 21

Why is 0.9% sodium chloride used when collecting a wound culture?

Answer 21

To prevent normal skin micro-organisms from contaminating the culture

Question 22

Supermarket food choices, yoga classes, smoking clinic, and weight watcher’s class are all examples of what kind of prevention?

Answer 22

Active Prevention

Question 23

Smoke-free buildings, fluoridated water, mandatory seatbelt usage, septic systems, safety goggles in a high risk environment, and hearing protection in hi-noise industries are all examples of what kind of prevention?

Answer 23

Passive Prevention

Question 24

What are 3 kinds of risk factors?

Answer 24

Environmental, modifiable, non-modifiable

Question 25

Active preventions are regulated by-

Answer 25

Individual Lifestyle Choices

Question 26

Passive preventions are regulated by-

Answer 26

Law

Question 27

What’s a modifiable risk factor?

Answer 27

Something you can change (tobacco use, diet, weight, etc.)

Question 28

What’s a non-modifiable risk factor?

Answer 28

Things you can’t change (genetics, age, etc.)