In His Book, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, Dr

question 143

Multiple Choice

In his book, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, Dr. Peter Pronovost emphasizes the use of what tool to reduce catheter infections?

• A) a Pareto chart
• B) a flowchart
• C) a cause-and-effect diagram
• D) a checklist
• E) a statistical process control chart

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Definitions:

Encoding

The set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage systems.

Retrieval

The act of retrieving and making conscious previously stored memory information.

Encoding

The process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory.

Neural Messages

Electrical and chemical signals that are transmitted by neurons to send information throughout the nervous system.