Chapter 25: Safety Yoost & Crawford: Fundamentals of Nursing: Active Learning for Collaborative Practice, 2nd Edition

1. The nursing instructor asks the student nurse to identify what Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation funded project that focuses on nurses’ increased attention to patient safety?
a. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Agency)
b. MSDS (material safety data sheets)
c. QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)
d. ADA (Americans with Disability Act)
 
2. The nurse knows changes in which body system affect overall mobility increasing the
propensity of falling?
a. Neurologic
b. Hepatic
c. Cardiopulmonary
d. Musculoskeletal
 
3. The nurse is visiting a patient with cardiac disease who has been experiencing increased
episodes of shortness of breath when exercise is attempted. The nurse is concerned that the
patient’s decrease in activity may lead to which outcome?
a. Orthostatic hypotension
b. Increase risk of heart disease
c. Loss of short-term memory
d. Worsening shortness of breath

4. The nurse recognizes conversations about safe sexual practices, including the consequences of
unprotected sex such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, are important to begin
in what patient population?
a. Adults
b. School-aged children
c. Adolescents
d. Older adults
 
5. The nurse manager is developing a training guide and identifies which organization that is the
best for resources to help develop guidelines to prevent exposure to hazardous situations and
decrease the risk of injury in the workplace?
a. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
b. CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
c. QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)
d. NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)