Quality Improvement And Patient Safety
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Question 1
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Multiple Choice
A nurse is preparing to administer a medication by using the vastus lateralis site and is unfamiliar with the process. A step-by-step reference that shows how to complete the process is called a:
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deployment flowchart.
top-down flowchart.
Pareto chart.
control plot.
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Question 2
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Multiple Choice
A nonprofit organization that distributes to governmental agencies, the public, business, and health care professionals knowledge related to health care for the purpose of improving health is the:
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Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
Institute of Medicine.
National Committee for Quality Assurance.
The Joint Commission.
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Question 3
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Multiple Choice
A nurse is removing a saturated dressing from an abdominal incision and must cut the tape to remove the dressing. The nurse accidentally cuts the sutures holding the incision, and evisceration occurs. In quality improvement, this incident is best identified as a:
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root cause.
sentinel event.
variation in performance.
causal factor.
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Question 4
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Multiple Choice
A nurse is assisting with the delivery of twins. The first infant is placed on the scale to be weighed. The physician requests an instrument stat. The nurse turns to hand the instrument to the physician, and the infant falls off the scale. When evaluating the incident, the nurse and her manager list contributory factors such as the need for two nurses when multiple births are known, and the location of the scale so far from the delivery field. These nurses are performing a(n):
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standardization of care.
root cause analysis.
process variation.
analysis of a deployment flowchart.
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Question 5
Free
Multiple Choice
Each month data on admission assessments that are based on the following standard are entered: "All patients will be assessed by an RN within 2 hours of admission." The target goal for this standard is 97% compliance. Data are displayed on a graph that shows number and time of admission assessments and compliance variation limits. This pictorial representation is:
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Pareto chart.
control chart.
deployment chart.
top-down flowchart.
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Question 6
Multiple Choice
Regardless of the term used to describe high-quality health care, the focus of quality is:
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what the consumer needs and wants.
economical care.
having the greatest technologic advancement.
services equally distributed among populations.
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Question 7
Multiple Choice
A team of experienced nurses work together to develop algorithms that are converted into checklists to ensure standardization of commonly performed procedures. The focus of this team is primarily on which Institute of Medicine (IOM) competency?
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Safety
Timely
Equitable
Patient-centered care
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Question 8
Multiple Choice
An organization's emergency preparedness task force meets to discuss how it should react in case of a terrorist attack and develops a disaster evacuation plan that details how each department will assist individuals in reaching safety. This type of diagram is referred to as a:
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Pareto chart.
control chart.
top-down flowchart.
deployment chart.
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Question 9
Multiple Choice
Patients with heart failure have extended lengths of stay and are often readmitted shortly after they have been discharged. To improve quality of care, a type of "road map" that included all elements of care for this disease and that standardized treatment by guiding daily care was implemented. This road map is referred to as a(n):
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benchmark.
critical pathway.
algorithm.
case management.
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Question 10
Multiple Choice
The staff on a nursing unit notes that patient satisfaction varies from month to month. They plot the degree of patient satisfaction each month for 1 year to determine when the periods of greatest dissatisfaction are occurring. The staff uses which type of graph?
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Time plot
Pareto chart
Flowchart
Cause-and-effect diagram
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Question 11
Multiple Choice
A group of nurses is presenting the importance of high-quality care during a system-wide meeting of medical-surgical nurses. They point out a finding of the Quality Chasm that:
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being insured has little effect on a person's longevity and the quality of care received.
lobbyists for the drug companies are able to gain permission for the use of new drugs within 1 year of their discovery.
although a greater number of lawsuits stem from medication errors, more people actually die from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency disease syndrome (AIDS).
medication-related errors place a tremendous financial burden on the U.S. health care system.
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Question 12
Multiple Choice
According to the Quality Chasm report:
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health care providers should be proactive rather than reactive to patient needs.
common needs rather than individual preferences should be the priority.
medical information should be confined to the primary care provider.
specialized providers or case managers should control health care decisions.
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Question 13
Multiple Choice
During the night, a patient fell in the bathroom and sustained a hip injury. The patient was very upset because of being unable to attend a granddaughter's wedding in 2 days. The team looked at the process and determined that the patient had been medicated with a narcotic, had urinary urgency so had not taken the time to put on shoes, failed to turn on the light because the door to the hall let in some light, and stumbled over a towel that had been placed to collect water leaks caused by construction that was in progress to replace damaged sinks. Which factor was a special cause variation?
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Failure to take time to put on shoes due to urgency
Unsteady gait due to narcotic administration
Poor lighting that led to decreased vision
Improper construction that caused the leak and towel placement
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Question 14
Multiple Choice
The number of IV site infections has more than doubled on a nursing unit. The staff determine common causes include the site is cleaned using inconsistent methods, dressing frequently becomes wet when patient showers, IV tubing is not changed every 48 hours per protocol, and inadequate hand washing of RN prior to insertion. A bar graph demonstrates the frequency in descending order, with 80% of infections being attributed to inadequate hand washing. The quality tool used is a:
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cause-and-effect diagram.
run chart.
Pareto chart.
flowchart.
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Question 15
Multiple Choice
The surgical team arrives in the operating room and one member states, "Everyone stop. Let's identify the patient and operative site. Now does anyone have any questions or concerns?" This process is known as:
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time-out.
a critical pathway.
special cause variation.
lean methodology.
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Question 16
Multiple Choice
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) proposed a process for quality improvement with steps known as "PDCA." When explaining the steps to a group of nurses interested in improving the process of medication reconciliation for heart failure patients with high rates of recidivism, the instructor states:
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P stands for process. Following a top-down flowchart provides the steps for reviewing patient medications taken at home compared to those prescribed during hospitalization.
D stand for deviation, which is an alteration in the expected drugs ordered.
C is for check if the process for change worked. Was there an improvement in accurate reconciliation? And what was learned? A stands for algorithm, which includes all steps of the process.
A stands for algorithm, which includes all steps of the process.
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Question 17
Essay
A hospital is concerned that the number of medication errors has increased significantly in the past year. A project revealed four causes of medication errors. The above chart was used to help staff and administration know where to focus efforts to reduce errors. Which process improvement tool is used in this situation?
a.
Run chart
b.
Pareto chart
c.
Flowcharts
d.
Cause-and-effect diagrams
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Question 18
Multiple Choice
A nurse is asked to "float" to a telemetry floor and is to place a patient on telemetry monitor. The nurse is unfamiliar with placement of EKG leads and would consult which type of chart to learn the correct placement?
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Question 19
Multiple Choice
Which of the following occurrences would be classified as a sentinel event?
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A postpartum patient who elects to breastfeed only twice daily develops mastitis.
A newly diagnosed diabetic patient self-injects insulin in the abdominal area rather than the upper thigh as instructed by the patient educator.
A nurse assisting with the delivery of twins places the "Twin 1" name tag on the second-born twin, causing the first-born twin to undergo surgery that was scheduled for the other twin.
A nurse administers 3 units of regular insulin rather than 3 units of NPH insulin subcutaneously, resulting in a drop in the patient's serum glucose from 160 to 100 mg.
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Question 20
Multiple Choice
A patient is ordered a low-protein, low-calorie diet but the patient's family brings fish, lentils, and unleavened bread for a meal to observe a cultural practice. The nurse works with the dietitian to adjust the next few meals to accommodate for this variance. This situation would represent:
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a sentinel event.
an adverse event.
patient-centered care.
the communication technique of "call-out."
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