Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 2
This is an active error. Errors can be classified as: latent-outside of the purview of the clinician, can involve organizational policies, procedures, allocation of resources, sometimes referred to as the blunt end; active-involves direct contact with the patient, usually encompasses direct care provided by clinicians or bedside staff, also known as the sharp end; organizational system-indirect failures involving management, organizational culture, protocols/processes, transfer of knowledge, and external factors; technical-indirect failure of facilities or external resources.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 2
This statement focuses on what one service (nursing) is doing wrong. This goes against the idea that an integrated system focuses on the client's health needs, not on the particular care given by one group. This laboratory supervisor can have influence on nursing services by collaborating with that service, not by criticizing and directing what nursing will do. This is true no matter what the issue is and what causes the problem. Collaboration often occurs between and among disciplines in a hospital.
A client is having an endoscopy performed by a physician who views the upper gastrointestinal intern
A physician is performing a colonoscopy on a client and viewing the internal structures of the colon
Tube colors, additives, inversions, and laboratory uses.
Use face cradle covers to prevent the client’s skin from touching the face cradle upholstery.
Testing the client’s ability to feel vibrations, the toe
Position the client