24 Questions
What is the primary focus of maternity nursing?
The care of childbearing women, neonates, and their families through all stages of pregnancy, birth, and the first 6 weeks after birth.
What is the significance of women's health nursing?
It focuses on the special physical, psychologic, and social needs of women throughout their life spans.
How can nurses improve healthcare delivery through technology?
Through managed care, integrated delivery systems, and redefined roles, and by leveraging e-health to engage patients in their care and provide accessible health information.
What is a significant problem facing the U.S. healthcare system?
Medical errors, which are the third leading cause of death in the United States.
What is a key aspect of improving healthcare quality?
Ensuring patient education and engagement in their care to reduce medical errors and improve health outcomes.
What is the role of nurses in improving healthcare delivery?
Nurses can alter nursing practice and improve care delivery through managed care, integrated delivery systems, and redefined roles.
How can health informatics improve healthcare delivery?
By providing accessible health information to patients and healthcare providers, facilitating patient engagement and informed decision-making.
What is a key goal of the Healthy People 2030 objectives?
To improve health and well-being for women, infants, and families, and to reduce health inequities.
What was the title of the report released by the Institute of Medicine in 2000 that analyzed causes of errors and developed strategies to prevent them?
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
According to Rodziewicz, Houseman, & Hipskind (2022), what can healthcare providers do to decrease interruptions and distractions that contribute to medical errors?
Decrease interruptions and distractions
What is the primary goal of encouraging clients to be knowledgeable consumers of healthcare?
To prevent medical errors
What is the significance of the 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors fact sheet prepared by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2020?
It provides comprehensive information for preventing medical errors
What is the role of nurses in containing healthcare costs, according to the text?
Providing solutions to healthcare problems at a relatively low cost
Why is it important for nurses to be involved in the politics of cost containment?
Because they are knowledgeable experts who can provide solutions to healthcare problems at a relatively low cost
What is the relevance of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to nurse practitioners?
Nurse practitioners are included among the healthcare providers in the ACA
What is the significance of the report by Brent (2021) on a nurse being convicted for wrongful death due to a medication error?
It highlights the importance of preventing medical errors
What is the Healthy People 2030 goal for maternal deaths per 100,000 live births?
15.7
What is a major challenge in measuring maternal health?
The lack of a surveillance method to measure the incidence of maternal morbidity.
Why is it essential to have an interprofessional healthcare team when caring for high-risk pregnancies?
Because these clients often require the expertise of both critical care obstetrics and intensive care medicine or nursing.
What is a crucial strategy for reducing maternal mortality rates worldwide?
Improving access to skilled attendants at birth.
What is a common health issue affecting women of childbearing age in the United States?
Obesity (BMI of 30 or higher).
What role do nurses play in caring for high-risk pregnancies?
They provide critical care obstetrics and intensive care medicine or nursing.
How can patient education help reduce maternal mortality rates?
By providing education on reproductive health services and family planning.
What is the significance of health informatics in reducing maternal mortality rates?
It enables the development of surveillance methods to measure maternal morbidity.
This quiz covers the causes of medical errors and strategies to prevent them, including reducing interruptions and distractions, as discussed in the IOM report and subsequent research.
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