C468 INFORMATICS TEST BANK COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS ALREADY
GRADED A+
●● blame free environment
Answer: where individuals are able to report errors or near misses
without fear of reprimand or punishment
●● Just culture
Answer: Encourages error reporting and seeks to understand workflow
and process issues that lead to errors; it emphasizes zero tolerance for
reckless behavior
●● adverse response team
Answer: work to reenact or simulate adverse events to better understand
the organizational or procedural processes that failed
●● alarm fatigue
Answer: compromise patient safety by slow response or no response to
physiologic alarms
●● Technology to reduce medication errors
, Answer: Integrating technology into the medication administration cycle
can help reduce errors by performing electronic checks against a
database of safe medication administration parameters and providing
alerts.
●● Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system
Answer: when the pharmacists verifies and dispenses a medication and
when a nurse prepares to administer the medication.
●● Hard Alarm on a smart pump
Answer: the pump must then be reprogrammed so that the dose and rate
for administration of the high hazard intravenous (IV) drug falls within
the facility's safe administration parameters
●● Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology
Answer: reduce the potential of a counterfeit medication being
inadvertently introduced into the supply
●● The role of an Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS) as it relates to
patient safety
Answer: Includes ensuring that technology systems are configured
properly and maintained by regularly checking and monitoring the
systems. Making sure that their human potential, the users, are capable
of using the systems accurately to avoid errors. Participates in the
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to ensure the adoption of the
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS ALREADY
GRADED A+
●● blame free environment
Answer: where individuals are able to report errors or near misses
without fear of reprimand or punishment
●● Just culture
Answer: Encourages error reporting and seeks to understand workflow
and process issues that lead to errors; it emphasizes zero tolerance for
reckless behavior
●● adverse response team
Answer: work to reenact or simulate adverse events to better understand
the organizational or procedural processes that failed
●● alarm fatigue
Answer: compromise patient safety by slow response or no response to
physiologic alarms
●● Technology to reduce medication errors
, Answer: Integrating technology into the medication administration cycle
can help reduce errors by performing electronic checks against a
database of safe medication administration parameters and providing
alerts.
●● Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system
Answer: when the pharmacists verifies and dispenses a medication and
when a nurse prepares to administer the medication.
●● Hard Alarm on a smart pump
Answer: the pump must then be reprogrammed so that the dose and rate
for administration of the high hazard intravenous (IV) drug falls within
the facility's safe administration parameters
●● Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology
Answer: reduce the potential of a counterfeit medication being
inadvertently introduced into the supply
●● The role of an Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS) as it relates to
patient safety
Answer: Includes ensuring that technology systems are configured
properly and maintained by regularly checking and monitoring the
systems. Making sure that their human potential, the users, are capable
of using the systems accurately to avoid errors. Participates in the
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to ensure the adoption of the
