FREE Basic CPHRM Question and Answers

Question 1

Before it leaves the pharmacy, a prescription must be revised due to the doctor's illegible handwriting. Which statement is accurate?

Accepted Answer

The prescription should not count toward the pharmacy's yield

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The doctor should be reprimanded

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The error should be reported to the FDA

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The pharmacy should incorporate bar coding

Question 2

Why does the Healthcare Quality Improvement Act grant legal immunity and anonymity to peer review procedures in the healthcare industry?

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To encourage participation by physician

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To discourage complaints by patients

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To maintain a sterile work environment

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To prevent malpractice suits

Question 3

Anesthesiologists are given less time than normal to inspect the infusion device that will administer drugs to a patient after surgery since the facility is busy. The on-site medical staff must work furiously to save the patient's life when the machine breaks down. What sort of example is that?

Accepted Answer

Latent error

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System error

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Active error

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Equipment error

Question 4

Blood transfusions at a hospital have been shown to be 99.7% error-free. Which function can be used to calculate the approximate number of blood transfusions necessary before an error is made?

Accepted Answer

Negative binomial distribution

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Poisson distribution

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Multinomial distribution

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Binomial distribution

Question 5

Infusion pumps are used in hospitals to administer intravenous drugs. These pumps do, however, occasionally fail, therefore a nurse is tasked with checking on them from time to time. Is this an effective tactic?

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No, because it depends on the vigilance of one employee

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No, because it will distract the nurse from her other duties

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Yes, because it gives the nurse a clear directive

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Yes, because it makes one person directly responsible

Question 6

The same labels are used by a hospital for all of its prescriptions, however because the labels are the identical, they do not fit on the smallest containers, therefore staff members must cut and paste the labels in a specific way to fill the prescriptions. What kind of example is this?

Accepted Answer

Extra processing

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Queuing

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Overproduction

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Work-in-progress

Question 7

Why is it simple to gather data on medication-related errors?

Accepted Answer

Prescription-drug use is common and well documented

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Death caused by such errors are rarely discovered

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Such errors have small but noticeable effects on health care costs

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There are very few of these relative to other types of errors