Prevention of Medical Errors Echelon Post-Test Questions and Answers New (2024/2025) Solved 100% Correct
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Prevention of Medical Errors Echelon
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Prevention Of Medical Errors Echelon
Systems that rely on error-free performances
Will always succeed
Are doomed to fail
Are highly recommended
Should always be the goal - ️️doomed to fail
Verbal orders should not be taken for
Heparin
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Chemotherapy - ️️CHEMO
To support the goal for patients to b...
Prevention of Medical Errors Echelon
Post-Test
Systems that rely on error-free performances
Will always succeed
Are doomed to fail
Are highly recommended
Should always be the goal - ✔️✔️doomed to fail
Verbal orders should not be taken for
Heparin
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Chemotherapy - ✔️✔️CHEMO
To support the goal for patients to be actively involved in their own care, The Joint
Commission requested caregivers in Critical Access Hospitals to
Encourage patients and their families to report safety concerns
Ask patients to give them a list of all their medications
Educate the staff on oxygen hazards
Have patients mark their bodies to indicate the correct surgical site - ✔️✔️Encourage
patients and their families to report safety concerns
Reports of Incidents must be given to the facility's Risk Manager
At the end of every month
Within 3 calendar days
Quarterly
At the end of every day - ✔️✔️Within 3 days
Which of the following is NOT accurate regarding FMEA?
The goal is to redesign the process to minimize failure risk and enhance patient safety
Multiple control measures may be placed in a process to control one hazard
Criticality equals failure frequency multiplied by failure severity, multiplied by failure
detectability
A control measure is generally used only one time in a specific process - ✔️✔️A control
measure is generally used only one time in a specific process
Children are the population group most prone to overdose.
True
False - ✔️✔️t
, Dispelling the attitude that the surgeon should never be questioned can help prevent
wrong site surgeries.
True
False - ✔️✔️t
Which of the following would NOT be a goal for patient/client and family education?
Teaching them to report any herbs and vitamins they are taking
Teaching them the importance of following treatment instructions
Teaching them to report all prescription drugs they are taking
Teaching them to listen carefully to their doctor and not continually question -
✔️✔️Teaching them to listen carefully to their doctor and not continually question
Which of the following would be considered an "official" barrier to reporting?
A "published" reporting protocol
Administrative recognition for reporting near misses
Fear of punishment or negative employee review
Fear of lawsuits from an angry patient - ✔️✔️Fear of punishment or negative employee
review
When giving medications always check the patient, the drug, the dose, the route, and
the
Doctor
Temperature
Last eating episode
Time - ✔️✔️Time
Potentially serious mix-ups between these two drugs have been linked to look-alike
packaging and the use of MET as a mnemonic. (Brand names are given)
Flagyl and Glucophage
Ambisome and Abelcet
Humulin and Humalog
Ativan and Xanax - ✔️✔️INCORRECT: Humulin and Humalog
Which incident has the highest annual death rate?
Aids
Motor vehicle accidents
Medical errors
Breast cancer - ✔️✔️medical error
in general, which of the following events would NOT be voluntarily reported to
accreditation body?
Unintentionally retained foreign body with no permanent loss of function
Any procedure on the wrong side of the body
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