FIPP NEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Performance shaping factors (PSFs) are factors that may degrade human performance
and can be either "personal PSFs" or "system PSFs." Which of the following are
considered System PSFs?
Select all that apply
a and b
Clinical decision support software provides pharmacists with information about
drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, duplicate medications, and so on.
Which of the following is true regarding these clinical decision alerts for pharmacists?
(Select the single best answer)
Too many will fatigue a pharmacist, desensitizing them to potentially useful information
as they are forced past the system soft and hard "stops."
An error has been found in your pharmacy: a patient was on brand name Synthroid,
levothyroxine, and the physician had written "Dispense as Written", which by law the
brand name medication- Synthroid- must be dispensed. Your pharmacy filled it and
inadvertently transmitted the prescription to where the brand name medication was
changed to a cheaper generic levothyroxine. Of the following options which one is most
appropriate for you, the pharmacist, to proceed with after recognizing the error?
b and c
The first 2 steps in solving a problem are.
identify and define the problem
Dr. Nau reviewed a commonly used model to describe how an error may breech through
, several layers of defense. This model is called the ____ cheese model.
swiss
If you had the following information, what type of chart might best present the
information to assist in choosing targets for improvement?
Frequency of errors by medication:
Cisplatin 5
Fluconazole 7
Heparin 45
Insulin 41
Vancomycin 11
All others 10
pareto chart
Proactive risk assessment in health care can be done by taking a system and identifying
the potential failure points and then the probability of each failure point and the severity
of consequences for each type of failure .
This proactive method of Risk assessment is known as:
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Sentinel events force The Joint Commission to require all hospitals to conduct Failure
Mode and Effects Analysis.
False
The root causes of medication errors are most commonly identified as "systems" or
"people/human" factors. Which of the following are accurate?
a and b
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Performance shaping factors (PSFs) are factors that may degrade human performance
and can be either "personal PSFs" or "system PSFs." Which of the following are
considered System PSFs?
Select all that apply
a and b
Clinical decision support software provides pharmacists with information about
drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, duplicate medications, and so on.
Which of the following is true regarding these clinical decision alerts for pharmacists?
(Select the single best answer)
Too many will fatigue a pharmacist, desensitizing them to potentially useful information
as they are forced past the system soft and hard "stops."
An error has been found in your pharmacy: a patient was on brand name Synthroid,
levothyroxine, and the physician had written "Dispense as Written", which by law the
brand name medication- Synthroid- must be dispensed. Your pharmacy filled it and
inadvertently transmitted the prescription to where the brand name medication was
changed to a cheaper generic levothyroxine. Of the following options which one is most
appropriate for you, the pharmacist, to proceed with after recognizing the error?
b and c
The first 2 steps in solving a problem are.
identify and define the problem
Dr. Nau reviewed a commonly used model to describe how an error may breech through
, several layers of defense. This model is called the ____ cheese model.
swiss
If you had the following information, what type of chart might best present the
information to assist in choosing targets for improvement?
Frequency of errors by medication:
Cisplatin 5
Fluconazole 7
Heparin 45
Insulin 41
Vancomycin 11
All others 10
pareto chart
Proactive risk assessment in health care can be done by taking a system and identifying
the potential failure points and then the probability of each failure point and the severity
of consequences for each type of failure .
This proactive method of Risk assessment is known as:
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Sentinel events force The Joint Commission to require all hospitals to conduct Failure
Mode and Effects Analysis.
False
The root causes of medication errors are most commonly identified as "systems" or
"people/human" factors. Which of the following are accurate?
a and b
