Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP)
276 Q&A/ Already Graded A+
Association for the health care environment - Answer: AHE
NCQA - Answer: National Committee for Quality Assurance; an accreditation body that has
become the primary group that accredits health plans.
Association of occupational health professionals in healthcare (AOHP) - Answer: Advocate for
occupational health professionals. Meet with OSHA
ECRI - Answer: Has templates for HVAs.
American Society of Healthcare Engineering - Answer: ASHE
Tenosynovitis - Answer: inflammation of the tendon and synovial membrane
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,DeQuervain's Disease - Answer: tenosynovitis of abductor pollicus longus and extensor pollicus
brevus
Joint Commission core value - Answer: Quality of care and safety of patients
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 - Answer: to report events, near
misses, unsafe conditions and to decrease medical errors. defined requirements for reporting
events that threaten patient safety
Patient Safety - Answer: the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse events
resulting from the processes of health care delivery.
Patient safety event - Answer: event, incident, or condition that could have resulted or did
result in harm to a patient
adverse event - Answer: A patient safety event that resulted in harm to a patient
sentinel event - Answer: a patient safety event not primarily rekated to the patients illness or
underlying condition that leads to death, permanent harm or severe temporary harm.
Reactive risk reduction - Answer: Attempts to prevent recurrence of problems that have already
caused patient harm.
Proactive risk reduction - Answer: Solves problems before patients are harmed
Sentinel event alert - Answer: A notification that defines processes and identifies measures that
can be used to prevent errors and improve outcomes
Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC) - Answer: Finds errors in plans while it is being created.
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,American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - Answer: inspects and accedidates critical access
hospitals
Trigger Finger - Answer: A condition whereby the finger flexors contract but are unable to
reextend because of a nodule within the tendon sheath or due to the sheath being too
constricted to allow for free motion.
Tennis elbow - Answer: painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow
resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Answer: compression of the median nerve as it passes between the
ligament and the bones and tendons of the wrist
Raynaud's syndrome - Answer: a peripheral arterial occlusive disease in which intermittent
attacks are triggered by cold or stress
Ethylene oxide - Answer: gas used to sterilize surgical instruments and other supplies
1910,1047
AL = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 1 ppm
STEL = 5 ppm
Formaldehyde - Answer: 1910.1048
Action level = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 0.75 ppm
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, Glutaraldehyde (Cidex) - Answer: Liquid disinfectant and sterilizing agent but can require long
submersion times to be effective. a cheaper and effective alternative is a 1:10 bleach solution.
Chemical disinfectants cannot be used on patients skin.
Cytotoxic agents - Answer: Drugs used to kill cancer cells that are actively growing or dividing.
Pentamidine isethionate - Answer: interferes with nuclear metabolism by inhibition of DNA,
RNA, phospholipids and protein synthesis
Hierachy of controls - Answer: Elimination
Substitution
Engineering controls
Administrative controls
PPE
Hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) - Answer: An assessment to help an organization identify
potential hazards, threats, and adverse events and their impact on the care, treatment, and
services that must be sustained during an emergency
Drills - Answer: Tabletop
Walk through
Functional drill
Full emergency drill
Incident Command System (ICS) - Answer: a subset of the National Incident Management
System (NIMS) designed specifically for management of multiple-casualty incidents.
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276 Q&A/ Already Graded A+
Association for the health care environment - Answer: AHE
NCQA - Answer: National Committee for Quality Assurance; an accreditation body that has
become the primary group that accredits health plans.
Association of occupational health professionals in healthcare (AOHP) - Answer: Advocate for
occupational health professionals. Meet with OSHA
ECRI - Answer: Has templates for HVAs.
American Society of Healthcare Engineering - Answer: ASHE
Tenosynovitis - Answer: inflammation of the tendon and synovial membrane
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,DeQuervain's Disease - Answer: tenosynovitis of abductor pollicus longus and extensor pollicus
brevus
Joint Commission core value - Answer: Quality of care and safety of patients
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 - Answer: to report events, near
misses, unsafe conditions and to decrease medical errors. defined requirements for reporting
events that threaten patient safety
Patient Safety - Answer: the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse events
resulting from the processes of health care delivery.
Patient safety event - Answer: event, incident, or condition that could have resulted or did
result in harm to a patient
adverse event - Answer: A patient safety event that resulted in harm to a patient
sentinel event - Answer: a patient safety event not primarily rekated to the patients illness or
underlying condition that leads to death, permanent harm or severe temporary harm.
Reactive risk reduction - Answer: Attempts to prevent recurrence of problems that have already
caused patient harm.
Proactive risk reduction - Answer: Solves problems before patients are harmed
Sentinel event alert - Answer: A notification that defines processes and identifies measures that
can be used to prevent errors and improve outcomes
Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC) - Answer: Finds errors in plans while it is being created.
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,American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - Answer: inspects and accedidates critical access
hospitals
Trigger Finger - Answer: A condition whereby the finger flexors contract but are unable to
reextend because of a nodule within the tendon sheath or due to the sheath being too
constricted to allow for free motion.
Tennis elbow - Answer: painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow
resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Answer: compression of the median nerve as it passes between the
ligament and the bones and tendons of the wrist
Raynaud's syndrome - Answer: a peripheral arterial occlusive disease in which intermittent
attacks are triggered by cold or stress
Ethylene oxide - Answer: gas used to sterilize surgical instruments and other supplies
1910,1047
AL = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 1 ppm
STEL = 5 ppm
Formaldehyde - Answer: 1910.1048
Action level = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 0.75 ppm
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, Glutaraldehyde (Cidex) - Answer: Liquid disinfectant and sterilizing agent but can require long
submersion times to be effective. a cheaper and effective alternative is a 1:10 bleach solution.
Chemical disinfectants cannot be used on patients skin.
Cytotoxic agents - Answer: Drugs used to kill cancer cells that are actively growing or dividing.
Pentamidine isethionate - Answer: interferes with nuclear metabolism by inhibition of DNA,
RNA, phospholipids and protein synthesis
Hierachy of controls - Answer: Elimination
Substitution
Engineering controls
Administrative controls
PPE
Hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) - Answer: An assessment to help an organization identify
potential hazards, threats, and adverse events and their impact on the care, treatment, and
services that must be sustained during an emergency
Drills - Answer: Tabletop
Walk through
Functional drill
Full emergency drill
Incident Command System (ICS) - Answer: a subset of the National Incident Management
System (NIMS) designed specifically for management of multiple-casualty incidents.
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