At a health care organization, patients are turned every 2 hours ...

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At a health care organization, patients are turned every 2 hours to help prevent pressure ulcers. Because of this nursing intervention, patients exhibit far fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.
 
  Which term should the nurse use to describe this finding? a. Sentinel event
  b. Qualitative research
  c. Manuscript narrative
  d. Nursing-sensitive outcome

Question 2

The health care provider orders a patient to have a fecal occult blood test. To obtain an accurate result, the nurse instructs the patient to do which of the following?
 
  a. Submit one sample for analysis.
  b. Take extra amounts of vitamin C supplements.
  c. Stop taking aspirin 14 days prior to the beginning of the test.
  d. Refrain from ingesting red meats for 3 days before testing.

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Answer to Question 1

D
A nursing-sensitive outcome focuses on how patients and their health care problems are affected by nursing interventions (ONS, 2012). Nursing-sensitive outcomes look at the effects of interventions within the scope of nursing practice. Sometimes a problem is presented to a committee in the form of a sentinel event, an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury of a patient. Qualitative research is analysis of interviews, observations, and/or surveys to measure people's perceptions, feelings, or views of phenomena about which little is known. Manuscript narrative is the middle section or narrative of a manuscript that differs according to the type of evidence-based article it is.

Answer to Question 2

D
The patient needs to repeat the test at least three times on three separate bowel movements while the patient refrains from ingesting foods and medications that cause a false-positive or false-negative result. Foods to avoid include red meat, vitamin C, and citrus fruit and juices for 3 days. Medication such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, or other nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs should be avoided for 7 days.