Healthcare Safety and Quality Quiz

List two external factors that can affect patient safety:

Who is responsible for keeping facilities clean?

Why is properly identifying patients so important?

What are the steps for identifying a patient?

Who should identify patients?

Why should treatment be explained to patients?

When should procedures be explained to patients?

What is the FDA?

What is the CMS?

What is a sentinel event? Any unanticipated event in a healthcare setting resulting in death or serious physical or psychological injury to a patient, not related to the natural course of the patient’s illness.