NCTRC Practice exam

What are the four elements of the SBAR situational briefing model? - Answer- Situation, background, assessment, recommendation Which of the following is not one of the patient rights enumerated in the Patient Self Determination Act? - Answer- Patients have the right to select their medication. What is one advantage of a voluntary error reporting system over a mandatory error reporting system? - Answer- Voluntary systems elicit more reports from frontline practitioners. What in particular is the process chain in a laboratory subject to? - Answer- Variability. A root cause analysis of inpatient suicides would be most likely to discover problems with - Answer- The physical environment. What are the types of quality problems identified by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Care Quality? - Answer- Misuse, Abuse, and Overuse. Which of the following conditions must be met for a patient to no longer be deserving of service under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act? - Answer- The patient must have provided the contact information of a person who can care for him upon discharge. Who are most likely not to report errors? - Answer- Primary care physicians. When Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) is implemented, that is almost always a decline in - Answer- Medication Errors. Whenever possible, order should be by - Answer- Dose When a hospital notes that most errors are occurring at the sharp end what does that mean? - Answer- They occur during interaction between caregiver and patient (frontline...doctors, nurses, etc.) People make fewer errors when - Answer- When staff work as a team. Information from the Health Care Integrity and Protection Data Bank can be requested by - Answer- Professional societies with formal peer review. What factors are included in a calculation of risk priority number? - Answer- Severity of possible