AWHONN POEP FINAL EXAM| Answered 100% Correctly| Latest 2024/2025
Swiss cheese is often used as the paradigm for explaining medical error. In this
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model, the holes in the cheese represent
latent weakness
Implantation of the embryo outside the uterus is called
ectopic pregnancy
Full term newborns that are asymptomatic & born to a woman who was pretreated
for GBS with penicillin may be observed in the normal newborn nursery. A limited
diagnostic evaluation & antibiotic therapy is indicated in which of the following
circumstances?
rupture of membranes occurred 18 hours prior to birth
You are assigned to a patient who is at 38 weeks and 6 days gestation. She is being
admitted for an elective induction of labor because her husband is going on an
extended business trip in 2 days and he wants to be present for the delivery. The
hospital has no policy regarding elective induction, but you know that the
AWHONN "Go the Full 40" campaign doesn't support early elective induction.
You approach the physician with your concerns. He responds that he's been doing
this for 30 years and has never had a bad outcome from an elective induction at
this gestation.
normalization of deviance
A shared understanding of what is going on & what is likely to happen next is
known as
situational awareness
A patient safety event, unrelated to the natural course of the underlying illness, that
reaches a patient and results in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm
with intervention required to sustain life is an example of
sentinel event
Which tool is used when an adverse event has occurred to identify variations in
performance that led to the outcome?
root cause analysis
Yearly objectives developed by The Joint Commission that focus on problems in
healthcare safety are known as
National patient safety goals
Authoritative statements of the duties that all registered nurses, regardless of role,
population, or specialty are expected to perform competently are defined
standards of care
Position statements are recommendations for
a pathway of action regarding a particular issue
In health care, an unplanned event that did NOT result in injury, illness, or damage
but had the potential to do so is referred to as a
near miss
All of the following are elements of good documentation EXCEPT
inclusion of nursing opinion as to causes of error.
Which of the following is NOT a component of the risk reduction strategy known
as closed loop communication?
is only used in emergency patient care situations
You are a nurse on the mother/baby unit caring for a woman who is 12 hours
postpartum from an operative vaginal delivery with midline episiotomy. The
woman has severe rectal pain and reports inability to urinate. You suspect a
vaginal hematoma and call her physician to request an evaluation. The physician
does not respond. Under these circumstances it is appropriate to
institute the chain of communication.
Team training is an effective risk management strategy because it
outlines effective communication tools and techniques.
Which two medications frequently used in the perinatal setting are identified as
high-risk medications by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)?
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