PS 101: INTRODUCTION TO PATIENT SAFETY ACTUAL EXAM LATEST UPDATE NEW SOLUTION
How many new drugs does the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
approve every year?
A. Less than 10
B. 10 to 20
C. More than 20 - More than 20
Janet is especially busy because one of her colleagues called out sick, and she
needs to collect blood samples for four patients. She collects one sample, and
before she gets a chance to label it, another patient in an emergency situation
needs her help. She leaves the unlabeled specimen on the nurses' station for a
moment. When Janet returns, there is a second unlabeled vial of blood at the
nurses' station. She realizes another nurse was obtaining blood samples and was
also called away. Neither nurse knows which vial belongs to which patient. What
about this scenario seems to make an adverse event likely to occur? (Choose all
that apply.)
A. Janet is not trying hard enough at her job.
B. Janet is juggling multiple tasks at once.
C. Janet was interrupted in the middle of a task with inherent room for error.
D. There are not enough staff members to keep up with the demands of care. - B.
Janet is juggling multiple tasks at once.
C. Janet was interrupted in the middle of a task with inherent room for error.
D. There are not enough staff members to keep up with the demands of care.
A patient is scheduled for surgery on her left leg. Initially, an intern prepares the
patient by marking the correct surgical site on the dressing on the leg. The intern's
teammate removes the dressing, but addresses the problem by marking the
surgical site on the patient's skin. However, he uses a water-soluble marker. The
ink becomes smeared and illegible. The attending surgeon is new and not familiar
with the hospital's marking procedures. Meanwhile, the nurses helping with the
surgery are busy preparing the patient and the operating room. Generally, the
operating room schedule is tight, and everyone is in a hurry to move the surgery
forward. What type of adverse event in particular is more likely to occur because
of the system failures in this scenario?