Quality and Safety Practices Flashcards
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A facility receives a shipment of medication with tampered packaging. Which is the consultant pharmacist's FIRST responsibility?
Answer: Quarantine the product and report to the FDA MedWatch program and the facility's quality officer
Tampered products must be quarantined immediately, and reports should be made to FDA MedWatch and internal quality leadership to prevent patient harm.
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is used in pharmacy quality improvement. Which step involves analyzing collected data to determine whether a change was effective?
Answer: Study
The 'Study' phase involves reviewing data collected during the 'Do' phase to determine whether the change produced the desired outcome.
Under USP , which type of personnel protective equipment is required when compounding hazardous drugs that are not final-dosage forms?
Answer: Double gloves, gown, eye protection, and respiratory protection as indicated by the SDS
USP requires double chemotherapy-tested gloves, a protective gown, and additional PPE (eye/respiratory protection) when compounding hazardous drugs that are not final dosage forms.
Which of the following represents appropriate implementation of tall-man lettering to distinguish LASA drugs?
Answer: hydrOXYzine / hydrALAzine
ISMP tall-man lettering uses mixed case with uppercase letters highlighting the differing portions of LASA drug names, such as hydrOXYzine and hydrALAzine.
A long-term care facility's medication error rate has been consistently above benchmark for 3 months. Which quality management approach is MOST appropriate to address a chronic, systemic problem?
Answer: Rapid cycle PDSA testing of a single process change
Rapid PDSA cycles allow targeted, iterative process improvements that can be monitored in real time to address persistent systemic quality problems.
Which of the following best describes an 'adverse drug event' (ADE) as distinct from an 'adverse drug reaction' (ADR)?
Answer: An ADE is any injury resulting from drug-related intervention, including both errors and reactions; an ADR excludes medication errors
An ADE encompasses any injury from drug-related intervention (including errors and unavoidable reactions), whereas an ADR refers specifically to a harmful and unintended response to a drug at normal doses.
A consultant pharmacist notices that a nursing home has no process for reconciling medications after a resident returns from a hospitalization. What is the MOST likely patient safety risk?
Answer: Omission or duplication of chronic medications leading to adverse outcomes
Without a structured medication reconciliation process at care transitions, omissions or duplications of chronic medications are common and can cause serious harm.