FIPP: Assignment 3 Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
passive vs active clinical decision support rules - ✔✔Passive: drop down and check boxes to guide
therapy. Appear on all orders for that medication
Active: two different pieces of data are evaluated and trigger an alert
how does informatics help with patient safety? - ✔✔Informatics helps keep track of medications
currently taken by the patient as well as any complications they've endured. Informatics also makes it
easier for providers to manage all their patient records easier and make sure that information that is
vital to the patient case is known.
Advantages of using electronic health records and name some systems - ✔✔Electronic health records
allow better access to the providers taking care of the patient and allow the patients to have easy access
to their medical records. Some systems used for maintaining EHR are Epic, Allscripts, Cerner, McKesson,
and Meditech Expanse.
How do CPOE, clinical decision support and bar code technology affect EHR workflow? - ✔✔CPOE guides
physicians to appropriate orders and dosage while giving on the fly interaction, allergy and dose
checking which allows easy tracking and auditing of the activity of providers. Clinical decision support
provides the ability to gather data about CDS to evaluate the appropriateness of drugs as well as
leverage diagnosis codes and problem list to determine the most appropriate procedure (MRI vs CT).
CPOE and clinical decision support speeds up EHR workflow by providing all the necessary information
on the fly instead of having to search for it.
Discuss how dispensing machines can prevent a wrong medication from being given to a patient. -
✔✔Dispensing machines have the ability to form medication profiles, which can ensure only certain
medications are available for certain patients, which can help prevent the wrong medication from being
given to a patient. They also control access to medications, so users only have access to medications
they are allowed to remove.
define a medication error - ✔✔any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate
medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional,
patient, or consumer
, examples of medication errors - ✔✔-Prescribing errors (inappropriate dose, non-formulary agent,
medication errors related to transfer
-Administration errors (inappropriate timing of dose, transcription errors, missed doses, extra doses
given, doses administered after discontinuation)
-Pharmacy errors (inappropriate dose recommendations, incomplete dispensing instructions
-Discharge errors
What is the name of the organization that serves as a resource to pharmacists in an attempt to prevent
medication errors? - ✔✔Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
what is a safety algorithm? - ✔✔a way to determine whether the event is not a safety event, near miss
safety event, precursor safety event or a serious safety event.
not a safety event - ✔✔there is no deviation from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
near miss safety event - ✔✔there are deviations from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
but the deviation did not reach the patient
precursor safety event - ✔✔there are deviations from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
and the deviation reached the patient; the deviation did not cause moderate/severe harm or death
serious safety event - ✔✔there are deviations from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
and the deviation reached the patient; the deviation did cause moderate/severe harm or death
4 examples of common abbreviations that cause medication errors - ✔✔- using QD, QID, and QOD
- MS04, MS, and MGS04
- U and IU
- trailing zeros
advocacy - ✔✔Advocacy is using your resources to influence decisions and outcomes, specifically in the
profession of pharmacy.
passive vs active clinical decision support rules - ✔✔Passive: drop down and check boxes to guide
therapy. Appear on all orders for that medication
Active: two different pieces of data are evaluated and trigger an alert
how does informatics help with patient safety? - ✔✔Informatics helps keep track of medications
currently taken by the patient as well as any complications they've endured. Informatics also makes it
easier for providers to manage all their patient records easier and make sure that information that is
vital to the patient case is known.
Advantages of using electronic health records and name some systems - ✔✔Electronic health records
allow better access to the providers taking care of the patient and allow the patients to have easy access
to their medical records. Some systems used for maintaining EHR are Epic, Allscripts, Cerner, McKesson,
and Meditech Expanse.
How do CPOE, clinical decision support and bar code technology affect EHR workflow? - ✔✔CPOE guides
physicians to appropriate orders and dosage while giving on the fly interaction, allergy and dose
checking which allows easy tracking and auditing of the activity of providers. Clinical decision support
provides the ability to gather data about CDS to evaluate the appropriateness of drugs as well as
leverage diagnosis codes and problem list to determine the most appropriate procedure (MRI vs CT).
CPOE and clinical decision support speeds up EHR workflow by providing all the necessary information
on the fly instead of having to search for it.
Discuss how dispensing machines can prevent a wrong medication from being given to a patient. -
✔✔Dispensing machines have the ability to form medication profiles, which can ensure only certain
medications are available for certain patients, which can help prevent the wrong medication from being
given to a patient. They also control access to medications, so users only have access to medications
they are allowed to remove.
define a medication error - ✔✔any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate
medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional,
patient, or consumer
, examples of medication errors - ✔✔-Prescribing errors (inappropriate dose, non-formulary agent,
medication errors related to transfer
-Administration errors (inappropriate timing of dose, transcription errors, missed doses, extra doses
given, doses administered after discontinuation)
-Pharmacy errors (inappropriate dose recommendations, incomplete dispensing instructions
-Discharge errors
What is the name of the organization that serves as a resource to pharmacists in an attempt to prevent
medication errors? - ✔✔Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
what is a safety algorithm? - ✔✔a way to determine whether the event is not a safety event, near miss
safety event, precursor safety event or a serious safety event.
not a safety event - ✔✔there is no deviation from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
near miss safety event - ✔✔there are deviations from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
but the deviation did not reach the patient
precursor safety event - ✔✔there are deviations from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
and the deviation reached the patient; the deviation did not cause moderate/severe harm or death
serious safety event - ✔✔there are deviations from generally accepted performance standards (GAPS)
and the deviation reached the patient; the deviation did cause moderate/severe harm or death
4 examples of common abbreviations that cause medication errors - ✔✔- using QD, QID, and QOD
- MS04, MS, and MGS04
- U and IU
- trailing zeros
advocacy - ✔✔Advocacy is using your resources to influence decisions and outcomes, specifically in the
profession of pharmacy.
