A Nurse Applying for a Job in a Hospital Notes

question 24

Multiple Choice

A nurse applying for a job in a hospital notes that administration promotes accurate and timely reporting of errors and near misses.The facility has a multidisciplinary team to analyze this information as it becomes available and design solutions to identified problems.This nurse could infer that:

• A) nurses in this facility have a high degree of ownership in patient safety.
• B) nursing staff has been penalized in the past for reporting safety protocol violations.
• C) the hospital has had some significant issues with patient safety in the past.
• D) this facility's culture would be considered "immature" related to safety.

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