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Fundamentals Patient Safety and Wound Care Practice Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
What best defines the risk control term "˜substitution'?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Substitution involves replacing hazardous materials or processes with safer alternatives.
Question 2 of 5
Which of the following is not an ethical argument underpinning person centred care?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Deontology does not imply that the patient should always get what they want, but rather focuses on duty and rules.
Question 3 of 5
In a 56-year-old patient who has recurrent hospital admissions for congestive heart failure due to medication and fluid non-compliance, which is the least effective way to reduce the risk of recurrence of fluid overload?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Lecturing is a passive approach that does not engage the patient or address underlying barriers to compliance, unlike active strategies like home visits, education with teach-back, or nurse follow-ups, which are more effective in improving adherence.
Question 4 of 5
Which of the following foods should be avoided by clients who are prone to
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Chocolate increases lower esophageal sphincter (LES) pressure and can exacerbate clinical symptoms of GERD. All of the other foods do not affect LES pressure.
Question 5 of 5
Two hours after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, a 45-year-old woman with obesity is receiving IV PCA with morphine. Her SpO2 is 90% on room air. Which of the following etiologies is the MOST likely cause of her hypoxemia?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Morphine via PCA can cause respiratory depression and hypoventilation, especially in obese patients, leading to hypoxemia (SpO2 90%).