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WhattoUnderstand

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Which of the following exemplifies a safety climate within a nursing unit?
 
  a. Asking nursing staff to work a double shift
  b. Encouraging nurses to take the blame when a medication error occurs
  c. Asking staff to report medication errors only
  d. Asking staff to report near misses of ad-verse events

Question 2

A performance appraisal tool that is able to measure the same person at multiple intervals in a stable and consistent manner has achieved:
 
  a. equivalence.
  b. construct validity.
  c. inter-rater reliability.
  d. test-retest reliability.



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Answer to Question 1

D
Safety climate refers to keeping both patients and nurses safe. Part of a safety culture encourages nurses to report adverse events as well as near misses of adverse events. Factors that influence avoidance of errors include staffing levels, excess fatigue, education, and experience.

Answer to Question 2

D
Testing the reliability of a tool involves examining the amount of random error. The characteris-tics of the tool must be dependable, consistent, accurate, and comparable (Burns & Grove, 2001). Stability of the performance criteria demonstrates consistency with repeated measures of the same tool. Nurse managers who are comfortable with a performance appraisal tool should be able to measure the same person at multiple intervals in a stable and consistent manner. This is referred to as test-retest reliability.



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