CPPS Patient Safety Certification
Advance health
One important route to restoring trust is through a commitment to transparency by all
health care systems. Organizations and clinicians that act as though they have nothing
to hide become more trustworthy. The health care system should seek to earn renewed
trust not by hiding its defects, but by revealing them, along with making a relentless
commitment to improve. The transition to openness is a difficult one for our often-
beleaguered health care organizations, but it is a journey worth making. In the longer
run, access to information can inspire trust among patients and caregivers that the
system is working effectively to ________________________.
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Although trigger tools are neither perfectly sensitive nor specific, they have reasonably
good interrater reliability and often identify cases of medical errors that incident
reporting or administrative data-based systems miss. Since many triggers do not
represent errors or even true harm, they are best used as which of the following?
Quality System Regulations
One of the goals of the FDA is to protect the health of the public by assuring that the
practice of reprocessing and reusing single-use devices (SUDs) is safe and effective
and based on good science. The FDA has designed an approach that applies existing
regulations for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to third parties and hospitals
to minimize risks associated with reprocessed SUDs. The public expects and the law
requires all medical devices to be safe, effective, and manufactured in accordance with
which of the following?
Four key aspects of the current context for health care delivery
1. the growing complexity of science and technology,
2. the increase in chronic conditions,
3. a poorly organized delivery system,
4. constraints on exploiting the revolution in information technology
outmoded systems of work
Poor designs set the workforce up to fail, regardless of how hard they try
Censure and discipline
The high standards of practice that are taught to nurses, pharmacists, and physicians
have often been reinforced in hospital practice by an unforgiving system of
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