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Quality improvement - correct answers What is a way to advance the practice of healthcare with objective, measurable,
information; this information is collected and analyzed in systematic and quantifiable formats in order to improve health
care and health care services?
Quality assurance - correct answers What consists of ongoing efforts of organizations outside of the health care setting
to consistently evaluate, the client outcomes and ensure that criteria and standards are being upheld for client safety
and health?
One, day - correct answers On average, patients are subjected to at least ____________________ medication error each
___________________ with high costs to patients, families, health care professionals, hospitals, and insurance
companies.
Model for improvement (MFI) - correct answers The _____________________ asks three questions: (1) What are we
trying to accomplish? (Establishing the vision for the proposed improvement); (2) How will we know that a change is an
improvement? (Outlining the steps to achieve the desired outcome); (3) What changes can we make that will result in
improvement? (Generating idea's for testing proposals)
Plan - correct answers The ____________________ part of the PDSA method involves choosing the question or problem;
decide what data to collect and who will collect it.
Do - correct answers The _____________________ part of the PDSA method involves make the change/action and
collect the data.
Study - correct answers The ___________________ part of the PDSA method involves reviewing and analyzing the data
collected.
Act - correct answers The _____________________ part of the PDS method involves deciding upon the next steps to
take and then implement in those stops?
evidence based practice - correct answers What is using research in clinical practice involving the client to give quality
care and use of best practice?
,Shared Goverenence - correct answers In a ____________________model, all staff nurses are actively engaged in quality
improvement by: 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.
Six sigma - correct answers What is a business problem-solving model developed to reduce variations in practice and
reduce errors?
Define, measure, analyze, improve, control - correct answers What are the five steps of the six sigma process?
Clinical indicators - correct answers What are the foundations for monitoring and evaluation; they are measurable?
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) - correct answers What is a program based upon surveying
nurses to identify hospital nursing concerns and ways to promote change and quality improvement?
Regulatory and accreditation agencies - correct answers What drive quality improvement efforts in health care facilities?
Just culture - correct answers In this culture, nurses hold each other accountable not a blame culture?
The Joint Commission - correct answers Established in 1951, ____________________ evolved as an impartial national
organization that accredits hospitals and other healthcare facilities based on their safety performance, policy,
procedures, practice, and outcomes.
Medical errors - correct answers The eight leading cause of death in the US is _____________________.
PDSA - correct answers The ____________________ method for quality improvement is not a one and done process.
The Joint Commission - correct answers ____________________facility evaluation performance scores include the
monthly submission of the hospital's safety and quality performance outcomes to an independent vendor that quantifies
and identifies safety trends, both positive and negative, four times a year; these quarterly performance measures can be
tracked as well as the action plans specific for that outcome.
, National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) and Standards of Compliance - correct answers What was initiated in 2002 by TJC
that identifies established relevant safety practices health care institutions should accomplish?
Standards of Compliance - correct answers Since most health care organizations embrace and routinely practice these
goals, they are cataloged into the register of adopted ____________________ that must be met on a consistent basis.
250 - correct answers There are over ____________________ standards of compliance.
Adverse events and sentinel events - correct answers Newly created and approved National Safety Goals are endorsed
every year based on the ____________________ that have trended nationally in health care facilities.
Country - correct answers The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals are based on data from sentinel events
from all over the ____________________.
RN's - correct answers In many instances ____________________ are the last line of defense in avoiding patient harm.
risk management - correct answers ____________________ 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.
Near miss - correct answers Nurse's role also includes reporting not only real errors, but also ____________________
errors that are caught before they reach a patient.
Sentinel - correct answers ____________________ events are reportable events.
Incident reports - correct answers What are the documentation of errors and factors leading up to and including when
an error occurs in the healthcare system?
Never events - correct answers What are medical errors that are identifiable, preventable, and have potential for serious
risk to clients; the occurrence of a never event reveals a problem in the safety and credibility of a health care facility?
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