CPPS Patient Safety Certification | UPDATED Questions
with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: advance health
A: 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 ________________________.
Q2: a screen
A: 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?
Q3: Quality System Regulations
A: 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?
Q4: Four key aspects of the current context for health care
delivery
A: 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
Q5: outmoded systems of work
A: Poor designs set the workforce up to fail, regardless of how hard they try
Q6: Censure and discipline
A: 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
_____________________________________________________.
, Q7: participant observer approach
A: co-workers are unaware that a study is taking place while another employee collects
data
Q8: T or F Many physicians believe the statistical reports
A: false
Q9: Sizable capital investments and multiyear commitments to
building systems
A: The challenges of applying information technology to health care should not be
underestimated. Health care is undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, complex
sector of the economy. The number of different types of transactions (i.e., patient needs,
interactions, and services) is very large. Which of the following will be required?
Q10: the delivery setting
A: Modifying training, regulatory, and legal environments is not a quick strategy for
changing practice. These environments are closely interrelated with ________________.
Q11: Observers
A: used to double-check the accuracy of medication cart filling, filling new orders, and
filling prescriptions.
Q12: incident report
A: legally recognized report of a medication error
Q13: 1) Captures small fraction of adverse events
2) Retrospective review is only based on provider self-reports
3) No standardization or uniformity of adverse events reports
A: disadvantages of the Voluntary Incident Reporting Systems
Q14: the basics
staying healthy
getting better
living with illness
changing needs
A: The Foundation for Accountability model organizes comparative information about
quality performance into five categories based on how consumers think about their care
Q15: A stronger and more organized evidence base should
facilitate the development of ________
A: valid and reliable quality measures for priority conditions that can be used for both
internal quality improvement and external accountability
with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: advance health
A: 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 ________________________.
Q2: a screen
A: 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?
Q3: Quality System Regulations
A: 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?
Q4: Four key aspects of the current context for health care
delivery
A: 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
Q5: outmoded systems of work
A: Poor designs set the workforce up to fail, regardless of how hard they try
Q6: Censure and discipline
A: 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
_____________________________________________________.
, Q7: participant observer approach
A: co-workers are unaware that a study is taking place while another employee collects
data
Q8: T or F Many physicians believe the statistical reports
A: false
Q9: Sizable capital investments and multiyear commitments to
building systems
A: The challenges of applying information technology to health care should not be
underestimated. Health care is undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, complex
sector of the economy. The number of different types of transactions (i.e., patient needs,
interactions, and services) is very large. Which of the following will be required?
Q10: the delivery setting
A: Modifying training, regulatory, and legal environments is not a quick strategy for
changing practice. These environments are closely interrelated with ________________.
Q11: Observers
A: used to double-check the accuracy of medication cart filling, filling new orders, and
filling prescriptions.
Q12: incident report
A: legally recognized report of a medication error
Q13: 1) Captures small fraction of adverse events
2) Retrospective review is only based on provider self-reports
3) No standardization or uniformity of adverse events reports
A: disadvantages of the Voluntary Incident Reporting Systems
Q14: the basics
staying healthy
getting better
living with illness
changing needs
A: The Foundation for Accountability model organizes comparative information about
quality performance into five categories based on how consumers think about their care
Q15: A stronger and more organized evidence base should
facilitate the development of ________
A: valid and reliable quality measures for priority conditions that can be used for both
internal quality improvement and external accountability
