Exam 20: Managing Quality and Risk

The nurse gives an inaccurate dose of medication to a patient.After assessment of the patient,the nurse completes an incident report.The nurse notifies the nursing supervisor of the medication error and calls the physician to report the occurrence.The nurse who administered the inaccurate medication understands that:

Examples of sentinel events include (select all that apply):

The nurse educator of the pediatric unit determines that vital signs are frequently not being documented when children return from surgery.According to quality improvement (QI),to correct the problem,the educator,in consultation with the patient care manager,would initially do which of the following?

Hospital ABCD is a Magnet™ hospital.This designation has been applied to Hospital ABCD because it:

Through the QI process,the need to transform and change the admissions process across administrative and patient care units is identified.In this particular situation,what method of data organization will be most effective?