CPPS Patient Safety Certification

CPPS Patient Safety Certification Advance health 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 oftenbeleaguered 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 ________________________. A screen 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? Quality System Regulations 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? Four key aspects of the current context for health care delivery 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 outmoded systems of work Poor designs set the workforce up to fail, regardless of how hard they try Censure and discipline 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 _____________________________________________________. participant observer approach co-workers are unaware that a study is taking place while another employee collects data T or F Many physicians believe the statistical reports False