Question

1. The hospital has just hired a nurse informaticist. What purpose will this nurse serve?

1. 1. Coordinate care for patients ready for discharge
   2. Communicate home-care referrals
   3. Develop processes to help professional nurses use informatic strategies for the delivery of patient care.
   4. Ensure all of the computers work on the patient-care units.
2. Which of the following events could lead to a nurse becoming a second victim?
   1. Administering the wrong medication that results in the death of a patient
   2. Witnessing a patient admitted to a psychiatric unit
   3. Motor vehicle accidents
   4. Disclosing a patient's name in the elevator
3. The following are examples of the 2019 Joint Commission (JC) National Patient Safety Goals (NSPG’s); (Select all that apply)
   1. Patient Identification
   2. Universal Protocol
   3. Improve the safety of using medications
   4. Mandating nurse informatics specialist on every floor of the health care center
   5. Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems

Answer 1

1st answer: c) Develop processes to help professional nurses use informatic strategies for the delivery of patient care. (Nurses serve as educators, researchers, software engineers, and chief nursing officers. Nurse informaticists work to develop communication and information technologies in health care.)

2nd answer: a) Administering the wrong medication that results in the death of a patient. (The consequent feelings of guilt, remorse, and loss of personal and professional self-respect these nurses experience after such a mistake can lead to the nurse becoming the 2nd victim)

3rd answer: All the options apply except option D (Improve the safety of using medications, Patient Identification, Universal Protocol, and reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems are all a part of the 2019 Joint Commission's NSPG's.)