Unit 9

Basic human need, freedom from psychological and physical injury

air, food, water, clutter, falls, crime, carcinogens, biological and chemical hazards, pathogens and parasites, food poisoning, pollution

• Lifestyle (smoking, etoh, helmets, seatbelts)
• Development stage
• Safety awareness (poison control)
• Allergic reaction (bee stings)

• Actual and potential threats to safety
• How client's illness affects safety
• Risk that the client has
• Impact of environmental influence on patient safety

• Infant, toddler, preschooler (accidents, poison)
• School age (crossing streets, strangers, sports)
• Teens (etoh, drugs, mva)
• Adults (related to life style habits)
• Older adults (falls, thermal accidents, mva)

Falls, client caused accidents, procedure related accidents (errors, improper applications or performance of skill), equipment related accidents (malfuntions, electrical)

Identify patient correctly, improve staff communication, use medicines safely, prevent infections, identify patient safety risks, prevent mistakes in surgery

Fall assessment tool, braden scale

Impaired mobility, impaired vision, impaired hearing, impaired touch, impaired smell, risk for injury

• Physical restraint is a device to immobilize client and or extremity
• Pharmacological is using medication to calm
• Responsible to know how to use restraints
• Requires informed consent from family in nursing home along with MD order

• assessment of activity of behavior
• conclusion about patients status
• nursing action
• fact that is was explained to client and family
• type of restraint and location
• frequent assessments of client while in restraints to include the periodic release of restrain

• Class A-paper and rubbish
• Class B-grease and anesthetic gas
• Class C-electrical

• Call poison control center stat before home remedies
• Do not use syrup of ipecac anymore