Reducing Medical Errors Answers

A nurse asks a doctor about medication for a patient in a hospital. The doctor accidentally tells the nurse to give the patient the wrong medication, and the nurse follows the doctor’s orders. Which type of medical error has occurred?

An intern in a hospital reads an image from an X-ray and gives the patient a diagnosis. The image is hard to read, and the intern’s supervisor figures out that the diagnosis was wrong. Which type of medical error has occurred?

✔ NegligenceLack of attentionLack of careNot working

This can lead to a ✔ misdiagnosisdistorted imagemedication errorsurgical error

✔ Direct observationsSupervisionWatchingShadowing