Patient-Centered Care, Quality & Safety

The IOM's report "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" defined:

Paying on the basis of the quality and outcomes associated with those services is known as:

Which statement is considered a simple rule to guide improvement initiatives in health care?

A nurse looks up current research literature on how best to start an IV. Which QSEN competency is involved?

All are considered Never Events EXCEPT:

This QSEN competency minimizes risk of harm to patients through individual performance:

Method of problem solving to identify how and why a sentinel event occurred.

A patient safety event that results in death or harm to the patient.

A patient develops a pressure ulcer while in the hospital. This is considered a(n):

Provides data to support QI in health care organizations & understands the link between staffing and patient outcomes.

Improving the accuracy of patient identification is a:

A nurse forgets the 6 rights of medication administration. Which QSEN competency is involved?

The main purpose of a RCA is to identify and reprimand the individual that made the mistake so it does not happen again.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices provides a confidential medication error reporting system.

An unintended adverse occurrence that happens in a health care setting.

This IOM STEEEP aim prevents waste:

The nurse uses the EHR to obtain blood work results for morning report. Which QSEN competency is involved?

According to QSEN, nurses must exhibit what in regards to the six competencies? Select all that apply.

Select the nurse competencies identified by QSEN. Select all that apply.

Serious adverse occurrences during an inpatient stay that should not occur or are reasonably preventable through EBP.

The nurse does not allow the patient visitors b/c it disrupts workflow. Which QSEN competency is lacking?

Cornerstones of Quality Management include: Select all that apply:

This organization wrote "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System"

STEEEP stands for:

A strategy to improve interprofessional teamwork.

Identify National Patient Safety Goals. Select all that apply.

What was the major theme identified in the report "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System"?

Accreditation from this agency is considered a "gold seal of approval."

This IOM STEEEP aim prevents injuries to the patient from the care that is intended to help them.

Ensures that nursing education incorporates the six competencies of nursing practice.

Which organization can serve as a resource in self assessment of safe medication delivery?

The Quality Chasm report described an aim to provide care that does not vary in quality b/c of personal characteristics

Respecting patient's wants, needs, and preferences in health care