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Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP)WELL ANSWERED TO PASS
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Certified Healthcare Safety Professional(CHSP)WELL ANSWERED TO PASS
Joint Commission core value - correct answer ✔✔Quality of care and safety of patients
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 - correct answer ✔✔to report events, near
misses, unsafe conditions and to decrease medical errors. defined requirements for reporting events
that threaten patient safety
Patient Safety - correct answer ✔✔the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse events
resulting from the processes of health care delivery.
Patient safety event - correct answer ✔✔event, incident, or condition that could have resulted or did
result in harm to a patient
adverse event - correct answer ✔✔A patient safety event that resulted in harm to a patient
sentinel event - correct answer ✔✔a patient safety event not primarily rekated to the patients illness or
underlying condition that leads to death, permanent harm or severe temporary harm.
Reactive risk reduction - correct answer ✔✔Attempts to prevent recurrence of problems that have
already caused patient harm.
Proactive risk reduction - correct answer ✔✔Solves problems before patients are harmed
Sentinel event alert - correct answer ✔✔A notification that defines processes and identifies measures
that can be used to prevent errors and improve outcomes
Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC) - correct answer ✔✔Finds errors in plans while it is being
created.
,American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - correct answer ✔✔inspects and accedidates critical access
hospitals
Accreditation canada - correct answer ✔✔Camadian non profit organization that provides health
organizations with peer reviews
CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on
rehabilitation, employment, child and family and aging services.
CAP (College of American Pathologists) - correct answer ✔✔offers laboratory inspection and proficiency
testing
NAM (National Academy of Medicine) - correct answer ✔✔Provides guidelines for respirator use in
healthcare. Formerly called Institute of Medicine
AHCA / NCAL - correct answer ✔✔American Health Care Association
National centers for assisted living
American Hospital Association (AHA) - correct answer ✔✔advocacy group for health care organizations,
particularly hospitals
American Society of Healthcare Risk Management - correct answer ✔✔ASHRM
Association for the health care environment - correct answer ✔✔AHE
NCQA - correct answer ✔✔National Committee for Quality Assurance; an accreditation body that has
become the primary group that accredits health plans.
Association of occupational health professionals in healthcare (AOHP) - correct answer ✔✔Advocate for
occupational health professionals. Meet with OSHA
, ECRI - correct answer ✔✔Has templates for HVAs.
American Society of Healthcare Engineering - correct answer ✔✔ASHE
Tenosynovitis - correct answer ✔✔inflammation of the tendon and synovial membrane
DeQuervain's Disease - correct answer ✔✔tenosynovitis of abductor pollicus longus and extensor
pollicus brevus
Trigger Finger - correct answer ✔✔A condition whereby the finger flexors contract but are unable to
reextend because of a nodule within the tendon sheath or due to the sheath being too constricted to
allow for free motion.
Tennis elbow - correct answer ✔✔painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow
resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - correct answer ✔✔compression of the median nerve as it passes between the
ligament and the bones and tendons of the wrist
Raynaud's syndrome - correct answer ✔✔a peripheral arterial occlusive disease in which intermittent
attacks are triggered by cold or stress
Ethylene oxide - correct answer ✔✔gas used to sterilize surgical instruments and other supplies
1910,1047
AL = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 1 ppm
STEL = 5 ppm
Formaldehyde - correct answer ✔✔1910.1048
Action level = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 0.75 ppm
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