Safety Management and Leadership Flashcards
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A safety professional discovers that incident reports are chronically undersubmitted on night shifts. The BEST intervention is to:
Answer: Conduct focus groups to identify barriers specific to night-shift reporting
Focus groups reveal systemic barriers (workload, fear of blame, process complexity) that must be addressed to sustainably improve reporting culture.
Under The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals, which practice is required to reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections?
Answer: Compliance with current CDC hand hygiene guidelines
NPSG 07.01.01 requires healthcare organizations to comply with CDC and/or WHO hand hygiene guidelines to prevent healthcare-associated infections.
When performing a quantitative risk assessment, the risk score is calculated as:
Answer: Frequency multiplied by severity
Risk = Probability (likelihood of occurrence) × Severity (consequence), producing a numerical score used to prioritize hazards.
A healthcare organization is adopting a High Reliability Organization (HRO) framework. Which HRO principle involves staff speaking up immediately when something seems wrong, even without certainty?
Answer: Deference to expertise
Deference to expertise means that in HROs, authority migrates to the person with the most knowledge of the situation, encouraging frontline staff to raise concerns.
Which document serves as the primary written plan describing how a healthcare facility will protect workers from recognized hazards?
Answer: Injury and illness prevention program
An Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) is the overarching written safety plan that describes the organization's hazard identification, training, and corrective action processes.
Which metric BEST indicates the effectiveness of a corrective action implemented after a workplace injury?
Answer: Recurrence rate of the same type of incident post-intervention
Measuring whether the same incident type recurs after a corrective action directly evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention.
A healthcare safety professional is asked to lead a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). The primary purpose of an FMEA is to:
Answer: Proactively identify potential failure points in a process before harm occurs
FMEA is a prospective risk assessment tool that identifies potential failure modes and their effects before an adverse event occurs.