Safety Issues

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OBJECTIVES

  1. Discuss the importance of understanding the potential impact of safety issues for pediatric nurses and the children they serve.
  2. List three proposed safe handling and movement policies or procedures for hospitals and other places where health care services are delivered.
  3. Describe the findings from a task force on falls in pediatric settings.
  4. Compare the effectiveness of three methods of booster seat education in promoting booster seat use.
  5. Identify opportunities for pediatric nurses to keep current on safety issues.

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  4. Test must be summbitted by August 31, 2011. If you pass the test (70% or better), a certificate for 1.3 contact hours will be awarded by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing. For recertification purposes, the date that contact hours are awarded will reflect the date of processing.

Answer Form

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*1. Identify opportunities for pediatric nurses to keep current on safety issues.
a. Evidence-based practice exists to apply principles of safe patient handling and movement to prevent nursing musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace nurses.
b. After decades of using “body mechanics” for patient lifting and transfers, the concept has not prevented musculoskeletal injures in the health care setting.
c. ANA has provided a position statement accepting safe patient handling and movement programs.
d. NIOSH has encouraged the practice of safe patient Handling and movement.
e. All of the above.

*2. The NIOSH equation for safe lifting demonstrates that lifting equipment should be used when a patient’s weight or patient’s limb is greater than
a. 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms).
b. 20 pounds (9.1 kilograms).
c. 35 pounds (15.9 kilograms).
d. 40 pounds (18.2 kilograms).
e. 42 pounds (19.1 kilograms).

*3. Safe patient handling and movement is indicated in the pediatric setting because:
a.children often weigh more than 35 pounds.
b. the weight of teenagers may be that of adults.
c. a limb of a teenager may weigh more than 35 pounds.
d. nurses working in the pediatric setting are at risk for musculoskeletal injuries.
e. all of the above.

*4. One example of a stipulation in a statepassed law regarding safe patient handling and movement law may be that:
a. the hospital is required to evaluate the program through the facilities process improvement protocol.
b. Health care workers providing direct patient care should comprise at least 50% of the committee.
c. 50% of members shall have experience, expertise, or responsibility relevant to the safe patient handling program.
d. a and b.
e. a, b, and c.

*5. Key assessment criteria for lifting a patient include:
a. patient’s level of consciousness, weight-bearing capacity, upper extremity strength, level of cooperation and comprehension, height and weight, conditions, and specific physician order.
b. patient’s level of assistance, weight-bearing capacity, upper extremity strength, level of cooperation and comprehension, height and weight, patient conditions, and specific physician order.
c. patient’s level of assistance, weight-bearing capacity, lower extremity strength, level of cooperation and comprehension, patient height and weight, conditions, and specific physician order.

*6. Implementation and evaluation of a falls reduction program is required by the:
a. ANCC Magnet Recognition Program.
b. The Joint Commission.
c. National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.
d. Nursing Quality Forum.
e. OSHA.

*7. Which of the following fall risk assessment tools has/have been validated with pediatric patients?
a. CHAMPS
b. GRAF PIF
c. Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale™
d. CHAMPS and GRAF PIF
e. GRAF PIF and Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale ™

*8. Based on identified pediatric risk factors for fall, which of the following children would be at the greatest risk?
a. A child on bedrest who does not have parents at the bedside.
b. A child in the intensive care unit.
c. A child receiving an aminoglycoside.
d. A child receiving physical therapy for gait training.
e. A child just admitted to the hospital who has never before been in a hospital.

*9. Findings from the reported survey
a. provided insight into best practices for the prevention of pediatric falls.
b. validated the “I’m Safe” falls risk assessment tool.
c. identified the need for consensus in definitions and metrics.
d. resulted in calculation of a fall rate for pediatric patients.
e. yielded an incidence rate for fall-related injury in pediatric patients.

*10. Which of the following is a true statement?
a. Falls account for the majority of pediatric hospital accidents.
b. Most pediatric falls occur when the infant/child are unattended.
c. Pediatric falls often result in major injury.
d. Adult falls assessment tools are applicable to the pediatric population.
e. Falls in infant/children are rare and not expected.

*11. What is the leading cause of death among children ages 4 to 14 years of age?
a. Falls
b. Poisoning
c. Motor vehicle crashes
d. Cancer
e. Drowning

*12. What is the recommend restraint device in motor vehicles for children ages 4 to 8 years?
a. Car seat
b. Lap and shoulder seat belt alone
c. Booster seat with a lap and shoulder belt
d. Lap seat belt alone

*13. In Philbrook et al.'s study, which education method was most effective in increasing booster seat use in kindergarten-age children?
a. Written information sent home with the child
b. Classroom education
c. Parent education classes
d. Parent education along with an incentive booster seat

*14. Of the three education methods used, which group had a decrease in booster seat use after the intervention?
a. Classroom education
b. Parent education
c. Written information sent home with the child
d. None

*15. In addition to education about the need for a booster seat, what factor can effect if a child uses a booster seat?
a. State laws
b. Access to the seat
c. Child resistance
d. All of the above

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6. How much time was used to complete reading assignment and posttest:
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