CPPS Patient Safety Certification
Already Passed
One important route to restoring trust is through a commitment to transparency by all health care
systems. Organizations and clinicians that act as though they have not
...
CPPS Patient Safety Certification
Already Passed
One important route to restoring trust is through a commitment to transparency by all health care
systems. Organizations and clinicians that act as though they have nothing to hide become more
trustworthy. The health care system should seek to earn renewed trust not by hiding its defects,
but by revealing them, along with making a relentless commitment to improve. The transition to
openness is a difficult one for our often-beleaguered health care organizations, but it is a journey
worth making. In the longer run, access to information can inspire trust among patients and
caregivers that the system is working effectively to ________________________. ✔✔advance
health
Although trigger tools are neither perfectly sensitive nor specific, they have reasonably good
interrater reliability and often identify cases of medical errors that incident reporting or
administrative data-based systems miss. Since many triggers do not represent errors or even true
harm, they are best used as which of the following? ✔✔a screen
One of the goals of the FDA is to protect the health of the public by assuring that the practice of
reprocessing and reusing single-use devices (SUDs) is safe and effective and based on good
science. The FDA has designed an approach that applies existing regulations for original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to third parties and hospitals to minimize risks associated with
reprocessed SUDs. The public expects and the law requires all medical devices to be safe,
effective, and manufactured in accordance with which of the following? ✔✔Quality System
Regulations
1. the growing complexity of science and technology,
2. the increase in chronic conditions,
3. a poorly organized delivery system,
4. constraints on exploiting the revolution in information technology ✔✔Four key aspects of the
current context for health care delivery
Poor designs set the workforce up to fail, regardless of how hard they try ✔✔outmoded systems
of work
The high standards of practice that are taught to nurses, pharmacists, and physicians have often
been reinforced in hospital practice by an unforgiving system of
_____________________________________________________. ✔✔Censure and discipline
co-workers are unaware that a study is taking place while another employee collects data
✔✔participant observer approach
false ✔✔T or F Many physicians believe the statistical reports
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