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mia · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Sentinel event alerts are published by The Joint Commission to do which of the following?

a. Learn from sentinel events that have occurred in other facilities and incorporate their recommendations for prevention into your own facility's policies.
b. Notify hospitals that if a sentinel event occurs during an alert, the hospital will be subject to withdrawal of Medicare and Medicaid certification and reimburse-ment.
c. Prevent a near-miss from occurring.
d. Assist hospitals to find national standardized performance measures to benchmark themselves against other similar hospitals.

Question 2

The nursing shortage cycles over the past few decades have been primarily driven by factors including which of the following (select all that apply)?

a. Aging of current nurses and inability of hospitals to meet nursing salary demands
b. Younger nurses in the workforce and their preference for nontraditional nursing jobs
c. Significant changes in the health care de-livery system as the nation moves into health care reform
d. Aging of the American population and struggles to expand capacity to meet de-mand for care
e. Lower numbers of students entering nurs-ing as a career and a shift in need for both bachelor's- and mas-ter's/doctorate-prepared nurses

hanadaa · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Sentinel event alerts are published by The Joint Commission to review the lessons learned from those facilities that had experienced these sentinel events. The hope is that other hospitals will incorporate the recommendations into their policy to avoid making similar errors. All other responses are incorrect.

Answer to Question 2

C, D, E
The nursing shortage cycles over the past few decades have been primarily driven by six factors: aging of current nurses in the workforce and their preparation for retirement, lower numbers of students entering nursing as a career and a shift in need for both bachelor's- and mas-ter's/doctorate-prepared nurses, aging of nursing faculty and inability of schools of nursing to meet education demands, aging of the American population and struggles to expand capacity to meet demand for care, and significant changes in the health care delivery system as the nation moves into health care reform.