Saudi Prometric Nursing Patient Safety and Ethics 2

Question 1

What is the nurse's responsibility in fall prevention for hospitalized patients?

Accepted Answer

Assess fall risk on admission (using validated tool), implement precautions (bed alarm, non-slip footwear, call light within reach), and reassess regularly

Answer

Fall prevention: assess risk on admission using Morse Fall Scale or similar, implement individualized precautions (call light accessible, bed low and locked, non-slip footwear, adequate lighting, toileting schedule), educate patient, and reassess with condition changes or after a fall.

Question 2

What is a 'never event' in patient safety terminology?

Accepted Answer

A serious preventable adverse event that should never occur in a healthcare setting, such as wrong-site surgery

Answer

Never events are serious, largely preventable errors including wrong-site/wrong-patient/wrong-procedure surgery, retained foreign objects, patient falls resulting in death, and transfusion of wrong blood type. Saudi CBAHI and MOH track and mandate reporting of these events.

Question 3

What is the nurse's role in infection prevention and control?

Accepted Answer

Implement standard and transmission-based precautions, perform hand hygiene, use PPE appropriately, maintain aseptic technique, and educate patients

Answer

Nurses implement: standard precautions (all patients), transmission-based precautions (contact, droplet, airborne), proper hand hygiene (5 moments), appropriate PPE selection, aseptic technique for invasive procedures, environmental cleaning, and patient/family education.

Question 4

What is the proper procedure for reporting a near-miss incident in Saudi hospitals?

Accepted Answer

Report through the hospital's incident reporting system, document what happened and what prevented harm, to help identify systemic risks

Answer

Near-miss reporting is essential for patient safety improvement. Report through the hospital's electronic incident reporting system, describe the event and contributing factors, and explain what prevented patient harm. Saudi CBAHI encourages non-punitive near-miss reporting culture.

Question 5

What are the nurse's legal responsibilities regarding documentation in Saudi healthcare?

Accepted Answer

Document accurately, timely, completely, using approved abbreviations, never alter records, and sign each entry

Answer

Nursing documentation must be: accurate (factual), timely (as close to real-time as possible), complete (all assessments, interventions, outcomes), legible, using only approved abbreviations, never altered/deleted (late entries are acceptable with proper notation), and signed/authenticated.

Saudi Prometric Nursing Practice Test

Saudi Prometric Nursing Practice Test

Saudi Prometric Nursing Patient Safety and Ethics 2