Funda midterm (lectures) Flashcards
Patient Quality and Safety
A fundamental concern of nurses, which extends from the bedside to the home to the community, is preventing injuries and assisting the injured
Safety
Factors Affecting Safety are
-Age and Development
- Lifestyle
- Mobility and Health Status
- Sensory and Perpetual alterations
- Emotional State
- Cognitive awareness
- ability to communicate
- safety awareness
- environmental factors
What are the Joint Commission’s 2019 National Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals and Nursing Care Centers
- Improve the accuracy of patient identification
- Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers
- Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems
- reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections
- Reduce the risk of patient and resident harm resulting from falls
- prevent healthcare-associated pressure ulcers
- the hospital identifies safety risks inherent in its patient population
- universal protocol for preventing wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong person surgery
Give an Adult Safety Measures in the given situation:
In reinforcing motor vehicle safety , if alcohol is consumed use the method
Designated drivers
Give an Adult Safety Measures in the given situation:
Avoiding excessive sun radiation by limiting _____, using ______, wearing _______.
exposure, sun-blocking agents, protective clothing
Is a single temporary event that consists of uncontrolled electrical neuronal discharge of the brain that interrupts normal brain function
Seizure
Are devices used to reduce or prevent physical activity of a client or a part of the body when the client is unable to remove the device
Restraints
Identify the Restraint type:
Use of an intervention or device that hinders the client from moving or restricts the individual from contact with his or her body
Physical
Identify the Restraint type:
Using a medication to control behavior or to restrict the client’s freedom of movement and is not a standard treatment for the client’s medical or psychologic condition
Chemical
Identify the Restraint type:
Involuntary confinement of a client alone in a room or area from which the client is physically prevented from leaving
Seclusion
Infection Prevention and Control
Collective vegetation in a given area
Resident Flora
Microbial species that can be cultured from body surfaces under certain circumstances
Transient Flora
What are the four major mo’s causing infections in humans
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites
Growth of MO’s in body tissue where they are not usually found
Infection
Detectable alteration in normal tissue function
Disease
No clinical evidence of disease
Asymptomatic/Subclinical
Ability to produce disease
Pathogenicity
Can be transmitted to an individual
Communicable Disease
Cause disease only in susceptible individuals
Opportunistic pathogen
Freedom from disease-causing microorganisms
Asepsis
Identify the type of Asepsis:
Practices intended to confine a specific MO to a specific area
Medical
Identify the type of Asepsis:
practices that keep an area or object free from all MOs
Surgical