The ability to clearly exhibit the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and professional judgment needed to practice safely and ethically in a designated role such as professional nurse is ___________.
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While taking a shower, a patient pushes the emergency light. When the nurse arrives, the patient complains of feeling dizzy and unsteady.
The nurse turns to reach for the patient's walker and the patient falls, hitting the right side of the face resulting in loss of vision in the right eye. This scenario represents a _______ event.
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What are some of the driving forces for change to improve the quality and safety competencies for nursing in the United States? (Select all that apply.)
a. The U.S. health care system is one of the world's least technically advanced systems.
b. Health care has led other industries in establishing quality and safety standards.
c. System failures occur regularly.
d. The U.S. public has confidence in its system to reduce morbidity and mortality rates.
e. Outcomes are unpredictable and costly.
A nurse hung an intravenous antibiotic to infuse but failed to check patency of the IV resulting in infiltration causing pain and redness but no tissue damage. This situation would be a(n):
a. adverse event.
b. workaround.
c. breach in patient-centered care.
d. sentinel event.
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