The Risk Management Department Is Using a Root-Cause Analysis to Improve

question 30

Multiple Choice

The risk management department is using a root-cause analysis to improve a nursing unit's medication administration accuracy. What questions will be used to develop this tool? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply.

• A) "What kind of errors are occurring?"
• B) "What is the current medication administration accuracy rate?"
• C) "How do the unit nurses rank in the number of errors committed?"
• D) "What do the nurses think can be done to prevent errors from continuing?"
• E) "What is the impact of changes made to improve accuracy?"

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Definitions:

Hydrogen Sulfide Molecule

A chemical compound with the formula H2S, characterized by a foul odor of rotten eggs; it is a poisonous, corrosive, and flammable gas.

Electronegativity Difference

The measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons towards itself, used to predict the nature of chemical bonds.

Polar Covalent

A type of chemical bond where two atoms share a pair of electrons but they do so unequally, leading to a partial positive charge on one atom and a partial negative charge on the other.

Nonpolar Molecules

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