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1
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Measurable items that reflect that quality of care provided and demonstrate the degree to which desired outcomes are accomplished`

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Clinical Indicators

2
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An unintended typically adverse patient acquired condition that occurs from receiving care in a hospital

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Hospital Acquired infection

3
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The differences in how work steps might be accomplished and/or the variables that may affect each step of the process

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Process Variation

4
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A series of linked step necessary to accomplish work

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Process

5
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Framework for action to systematically make change that lead to measurable improvements in healthcare services for patients, staff, and organizations

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Quality Improvement

6
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Method of problem-solving that attempts to identify how and why an event occurs

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Root Cause Analysis

7
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A patient safety event that reaches a patient and results in death permanent harm or severe temporary harm requires intervention to sustain LIFE

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Sentinel Event

8
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Approach to process improvement that involves developing and adhering to best-known methods and repeating key tasks, in the same way, is found to create exceptional and efficient services

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Standardization

9
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A non-profit organization with a mission of advancing and disseminating scientific knowledge to improve human health

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Academy of Medicine

10
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A national agency that conducts surveys of inpatient and ambulatory healthcare facilities and verifies their compliance with established quality standards

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The Joint Commission (TJC)

11
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What is QSENs

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Knowledge, Skills and attitudes

12
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what is QSEN knowledge

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Examine human factors and other basic safety design principles as well as commonly used unsafe practices

13
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QSEN skills

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Demonstrate effective use of technology and standardization practices that support safety and quality

14
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QSEN vaules

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Value the contributions of standardization/reliability to safety

15
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On average, patients are subjected to at least ___________each day with high costs to patients, families, health care professionals, hospitals, and insurance companies

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one medication error

16
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what is the model for improvement?

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  • plan
  • implement
  • evaulate
  • improve
17
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what is the PDSA method

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plan
do
study
act

18
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what is evidence-based practice?

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is using research in clinical practice involving the client to give quality care and use best practice.

  1. patient’s values
  2. expert option
  3. evidence-based research
19
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In a __________model, all staff nurses are actively engaged in quality improvement
Identifying areas needing improvement
Active in auditing and measuring indicators on your unit daily/weekly/monthly etc.
Collaborating with interdisciplinary healthcare team in process improvements
Serving on hospital QI research projects
Transparency: read emails with information sent to you!

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Shared Governance

20
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Foundation for quality monitoring and evaluation
Measurable
Used as an assessment of clinical care to identify areas in which quality improvement issues may be present
Help to identify the goals of quality improvement
Ex. We are at 40%, and need to get to 100% (insert an indicator here, such as hand hygiene)

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clinical indicator

21
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what is the Nurse Sensitive Clinical Indicators

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Compare institution at local, regional and national level

Link outcomes to nurse staffing

22
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example of regualtory agencies

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The joint commission states accreditor, voluntary groups

23
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______________ Evolved as an impartial national organization that accredits hospitals and other health care facilities based on their safety performance, policy, procedures, practice, and outcomes.
used by over 22,000 health care institutions and programs

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The joint commission (TJC)

24
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Since most health care organizations embrace and routinely practice these goals, they are cataloged into a register of adopted “_________” that must be met on a consistent basis.

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Standards of Compliance

25
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In contrast to standards of compliance, newly created and approved National Safety Goals are endorsed every year based on the ___________and _________ that have trended nationally in health care facilities. (Review 2021)

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adverse events and sentinel events

26
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examples of sentienal events are

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Accuracy of patient identification
Communicating critical results
Reducing Alarm fatigue
Medication Safety 
Suicide risk
Infections
Surgical events: timeouts and checklists
27
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the model for errors is called the

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swiss chesse model

28
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_______________is the process of reducing the risk of errors by understanding the causes and beginning to change the culture with communication and collaboration of individual staff and management.

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Risk management

29
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Nurse’s role also includes reporting not only real errors, but also “_________” errors that are caught before they reach a patient

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near miss

30
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what safety events should be reported?

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Client safety event that occurred with or without injury but had potential to harm
Sentinel event/ never event: serious harm
Near Misses
Equipment/Supply issues that slowed or interfered with patient care

31
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Hwo do you report saftey issues?

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Incident Reports
Alert Manager who may alert risk manager if needed
Sentinel events: MUST be reported to The Joint Commission
Whistle-blow if not reported by administration

32
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___________ are the documentation of errors and the factors leading up to and including when an error occurs in the health care system.

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Incident reports

33
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what is Just Culture?

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The concept promotes a process where mistakes or errors do not result in automatic punishment, but rather a process to uncover the source of the error.

34
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Never events

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are medical errors that are identifiable, preventable, and have potential for seiours risk to clients. The occurrence of a never event reveals a problem in safety and credibility of a health care facility

35
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The Joint Commission defines a _________ as an incident of unsafe practice that resulted in extreme harm, short-term harm, permanent disability, or death of a client.

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sentinel event

36
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A _________, also called an RCA, follows the Joint Commission’s directive to investigate an incident to determine what happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

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root cause analysis

37
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what are standarized preactices to help prevent error?

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checklist for:

  • surgical timeouts
  • urinary catheter insertion

sterile cockpit: do not interrupt when clinicians eterning orders or nurse is calculating a preparing medications
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Quiet xones, flags on computers, duct tape around med stations

38
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There are clinical ________ to help outline the optimal sequencing and timing of clinical interventions for diagnosis or procedure

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Pathways