Certified Professional in Patient Safety

After implement a new product recall system, the hospital was alerts to high risk medication recall. This medication is in stock in emergency department and oncology unit. To measure(ensure) the effectiveness of the new system the patient safety professional should: Select one: A. Perform on site visit recall medication to verify recall medication. B. Assess each Individual department to verify that the recall medication was performed and reported back to the patient safety professional...

You are educating clinical managers in your healthcare facility on how to identify appropriate events for conducting a Root Cause Analysis. Which event provides the best opportunity for an RCA? a. A post-op patient removes his own IV causing a skin tear from the tape b. A patient with no known allergies experiences an anaphylactic reaction to an antibiotic requiring transfer to ICU. c. The biopsy samples from a colonoscopy are never received by pathology after the procedure d. There ha...

preventable adverse events those that occurred due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention Ameliorable adverse event events that, while not preventable, could have been less harmful if care had been different adverse events due to negligence those that occurred due to care that falls below the standards expected of clinicians in the community near miss an unsafe situation that is indistinguishable from a preventable adverse event except for the o...

iatrogenesis Greek for originating from a physician preventable adverse events those that occurred due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention Ameliorable adverse event events that, while not preventable, could have been less harmful if care had been different adverse events due to negligence those that occurred due to care that falls below the standards expected of clinicians in the community near miss an unsafe situation that is indisti...