10NHS patient safety

An Adverse Event in health care is an incident in which a patient is harmed.

• True

• False

A "near miss" is defined as the probability of harm to a patient.

• True

• False

Who is responsible for patient safety?

• Doctors

• Nurses

• Patients

• Everyone

In healthcare what is patient safety referring to?

• The nursing care plan and physician orders

• Prevention of actual or potential harm

• Detailed reports of staff performance

• Regulations regarding staffing of hospitals

___________ is the absence of preventable harm to a casualty and reduction of risk

of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum.

• PATIENT SAFETY

• MEDICAL ERROR

• medication adverse effect

• near miss

Hospitals can improve their staff performance through -------------------------------- and-----------------------.

• environment, performance

• Environment, medication

• medication, performance

Managing waste and reducing noise is an example of -------------------------------.

• Environmental safety

• performance improvement

-------------------------- is the most common cause of medical error in the health care field.

• Misdiagnosis

• Medication error

• Potential infection

• Corrupted medical equipment

Having severe allergic reaction from medication is considered as an ---------------------------.

• Misdiagnosis

• Adverse event

• Potential infection

• Corrupted medical equipment