CPHRM Patient Safety 3

Question 1

Which of the following is an example of a high-reliability organization (HRO) principle applied to healthcare?

Accepted Answer

Preoccupation with failure and sensitivity to operations

Answer

HROs maintain chronic unease about potential failures and stay attuned to operational conditions that could lead to harm.

Question 2

When conducting a root cause analysis (RCA) after a patient fall, which question is MOST appropriate to ask?

Accepted Answer

What system or process conditions allowed this to happen?

Answer

RCA focuses on system-level contributing factors rather than individual blame to prevent recurrence of the event.

Question 3

A surgical team skips the pre-operative timeout due to time pressure. The GREATEST patient safety risk this creates is:

Accepted Answer

Wrong-site surgery or incorrect procedure

Answer

The surgical timeout is the final verification step designed specifically to prevent wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient surgeries.

Question 4

Which safety strategy involves double-checking a high-alert medication dose independently before administration?

Accepted Answer

Independent double-check

Answer

Independent double-checks require two clinicians to separately verify a calculation or drug without conferring, reducing the chance of shared cognitive error.

Question 5

A healthcare organization implements electronic medication reconciliation at every care transition. This intervention PRIMARILY addresses which patient safety risk?

Accepted Answer

Medication discrepancies and omission errors at handoff

Answer

Medication reconciliation ensures an accurate and complete medication list is maintained across transitions of care, preventing errors of omission or duplication.

CPHRM Exam Practice Test

CPHRM Exam Practice Test

CPHRM Patient Safety 3