IHI PS 102 Objective Assessment
Exam 1 Questions with Definitive
Correct Solutions||Updated
2025/2026 Syllabus||A+
Graded|100% Guaranteed Pass!!!
Roger, a pharmacist in a hospital, is working in the discharge pharmacy
filling medications for patients who are going home. He sees a
prescription for ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic, and asks his pharmacy
technician, Mike, to fill it quickly, as the patient is waiting and anxious
to leave. Mike hurries to the shelves and reaches for the ciprofloxacin;
however, he accidently grabs levofloxacin, an antibiotic in the same
class that covers most, but not all, of the same types of infections.
This is an example of what type of error?
(A) Mistake
(B) Slip
(C) Lapse
(D) Violation - ANSWER ✓ (B) Slip
Implementing a "systems approach" to addressing medical error
includes which of the following?
(A) Focusing largely on the conditions under which individual
providers and care teams work
(B) Designing workflow and defenses to avert errors
(C) Minimizing the conditions that lend themselves to violations
(D) All of the above - ANSWER ✓ (D) All of the above
At University Hospital, the rate of Clostridium Difficile colitis has
doubled during the past year. After reviewing the data, the hospital's
senior leaders conclude that staff are intentionally disregarding the hand
hygiene policy because the hand sanitizer dries out their hands. The
, leadership plans to run a test in which they provide a new type of hand
sanitizer which contains lotion.
What type of unsafe act is this intervention best designed to address?
(A) Mistake
(B) Slip
(C) Lapse
(D) Violation - ANSWER ✓ violation
What intervention helped prove that catheter-associated bloodstream
infections (CLABSIs) were preventable consequences of care?
(A) A new guideline that required all staff to wash their hands with
alcohol and soap before inserting a catheter
(B) A checklist of evidence-based practices applied consistently and
collectively every time a catheter is used
(C) A new device that no longer required catheters to inject medications
and draw blood
(D) A new standard that encouraged providers to take patients off
ventilators sooner - ANSWER ✓ (B) A checklist of evidence-based
practices applied consistently and collectively every time a catheter is
used
What is one reason that patient safety has shifted to work on reducing
harm in addition to preventing errors?
(A) Human error has become less common in health care.
(B) Harm is more preventable than providers once thought.
(C) Identifying errors rarely leads to improvement.
(D) Patients are only concerned about errors that cause harm. -
ANSWER ✓ (B) Harm is more preventable than providers once thought.
Which of the following is included in the IHI Global Trigger Tool
definition of harm?
(A) Psychological harm such as a miscommunication about a diagnosis
(B) Financial harm from expensive medical bills
Exam 1 Questions with Definitive
Correct Solutions||Updated
2025/2026 Syllabus||A+
Graded|100% Guaranteed Pass!!!
Roger, a pharmacist in a hospital, is working in the discharge pharmacy
filling medications for patients who are going home. He sees a
prescription for ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic, and asks his pharmacy
technician, Mike, to fill it quickly, as the patient is waiting and anxious
to leave. Mike hurries to the shelves and reaches for the ciprofloxacin;
however, he accidently grabs levofloxacin, an antibiotic in the same
class that covers most, but not all, of the same types of infections.
This is an example of what type of error?
(A) Mistake
(B) Slip
(C) Lapse
(D) Violation - ANSWER ✓ (B) Slip
Implementing a "systems approach" to addressing medical error
includes which of the following?
(A) Focusing largely on the conditions under which individual
providers and care teams work
(B) Designing workflow and defenses to avert errors
(C) Minimizing the conditions that lend themselves to violations
(D) All of the above - ANSWER ✓ (D) All of the above
At University Hospital, the rate of Clostridium Difficile colitis has
doubled during the past year. After reviewing the data, the hospital's
senior leaders conclude that staff are intentionally disregarding the hand
hygiene policy because the hand sanitizer dries out their hands. The
, leadership plans to run a test in which they provide a new type of hand
sanitizer which contains lotion.
What type of unsafe act is this intervention best designed to address?
(A) Mistake
(B) Slip
(C) Lapse
(D) Violation - ANSWER ✓ violation
What intervention helped prove that catheter-associated bloodstream
infections (CLABSIs) were preventable consequences of care?
(A) A new guideline that required all staff to wash their hands with
alcohol and soap before inserting a catheter
(B) A checklist of evidence-based practices applied consistently and
collectively every time a catheter is used
(C) A new device that no longer required catheters to inject medications
and draw blood
(D) A new standard that encouraged providers to take patients off
ventilators sooner - ANSWER ✓ (B) A checklist of evidence-based
practices applied consistently and collectively every time a catheter is
used
What is one reason that patient safety has shifted to work on reducing
harm in addition to preventing errors?
(A) Human error has become less common in health care.
(B) Harm is more preventable than providers once thought.
(C) Identifying errors rarely leads to improvement.
(D) Patients are only concerned about errors that cause harm. -
ANSWER ✓ (B) Harm is more preventable than providers once thought.
Which of the following is included in the IHI Global Trigger Tool
definition of harm?
(A) Psychological harm such as a miscommunication about a diagnosis
(B) Financial harm from expensive medical bills
