Saftey Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is the overall goal of the national patient safety initiatives?
To improve patient safety and quality of care
What are the national patient safety initiatives?
- initiatives encourage collaboration of healthcare facilities, government agencies, physicians, nurses, and clients
- overall goal is to improve patient safety and quality of care
- obtained through education, use of available resources, risk management, and reducing medication errors
How are the national patient safety initiatives obtained?
Through education, use of available resources, risk management, And reducing medication errors
What does QSEN stand for?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
What does KSA stand for?
Knowledge, Skills, Attitude
In order to provide uniformity in core competencies that should be demonstrated by graduating nurses they came up with what program?
QSEN - Quality and safety education for nurses
The goal of the QSEN is to more effectively prepare future nurses with the practical experience and the Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude (KSA’s) necessary to provide:
Better quality and safety in healthcare settings
The QSEN program is comprised of ______ phases.
3 phases
During phase ______ of QSEN program, a team of experts evaluated quality and safety factors to determine what core competencies every graduating nurse should have as well as the KSA’s required for these competencies.
Phase I
How many core competencies are in phase 1 of the QSEN program? And what are they?
Six.
- Patient centered care
- Quality improvement
- Evidence-based practice
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Safety
- Informatics
Each of these competencies has associated knowledge, skills, and attitudes that nursing graduates are expected to have learned.
Clients are partners in their care, and thus their perspectives, beliefs, and culture need to be taken into account during their care…. This defines which core competency?
Patient centered care
Adverse events must be monitored and reported so they can be tools for learning in similar situations in the future and catalyst for improvements in quality and safety. This defines which core competency?
Quality improvement
Medicine is evolving and changing every day, and thus current medical findings must be monitored for the possibility of improved care. This defines which core competency?
Evidence-based practice
Because treatment sometimes involves multiple departments and 24 hour care, teamwork across departments and shifts is necessary for optimal care. This explains which core competency?
Teamwork and collaboration
Activities such as knowledge sharing an error reporting must be taken seriously to help improve which core competency?
Safety
As information technology becomes further integrated into medicine, nurses input is an essential part of the design process. This help explains which core competency?
Informatics
During phase ______ of QSEN program, The six competencies were implemented into 15 pilot nursing school programs.
Phase II
In addition, the QSEN website was created. It contains resources and strategies for teaching QSEN and served as a place to share information for the pilot schools.
Phase ______ of the QSEN program, involve significant national education efforts by both UNC-CH And the American Association of colleges of nursing (AACN).
Phase III
These two organizations began to address the need for faculty capable of teaching the six core competencies and associated KSA’s as well as continued innovation in QSEN teaching. They also began introducing QSEN competencies into textbooks, licensing and accreditation programs, and certification standards.
Who started the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) and for what reason?
The joint commission started the program in 2002 to help organizations improve on patient safety issues.
Who developed and revised NPSG program?
Developed and revised by the Patient Safety Advisory Group (A panel of mixed professionals with healthcare organizations)
Examples of NPSG:
What are some solutions for the goal of correctly identifying patients?
Identify patients using two or more means.
Ensure blood transfusion patients get the correct blood.
Examples of NPSG:
What are some solutions for the goal of improving staff communication?
Transmit test results in a timely manner to the appropriate staff member
Examples of NPSG:
What are some solutions for the goal of using medicine safely?
Label all medicines.
Use extra caution with blood thinners.
Take care when recording and communicating patient medicine information.
Examples of NPSG:
What are some solutions for the goal of preventing infections?
Employ existing CDC and WHO hand hygiene guidelines.
Employ existing protocols on difficult to treat infections.
Employ existing protocols on blood infections from central lines.
Employ existing protocols on post surgical infections.
Employ existing protocols on urinary track infections from catheterization.
