Med Errors - Final

Common medication errors include which of the following? Select all the apply

Which of the following is a barrier that can lead to ineffective communication dynamics?

Which of the following represents a correct use of decimals?

Which of the following is NOT a High-Realiability Organization (HRO)?

If a worker realizes there is a possibility for harm, but proceeds to do that action anyways, would be an example of which behavior?

As you age, the therapeutic window for most medications increases?

Which of the following is NOT a factor of successful error disclosure?

As you age, in general, the therapeutic window of medications ___________.

What is a strategy to decrease errors with Look Alike/Sound Alike drugs?

Which of the following should NOT be reported to FDA MedWatch?

People over the age of 65 consume 30% of all prescriptions in the US and 40% of all OTC medications

Failure Mode Analysis (FMA) includes all the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following can prevent medication errors in regards to cancer chemotherapy?

Which of the following is a challenge to prescribing medications in older adults?

Which of the following can reduce intimidation in the workplae?

Which of the following graphs shows change over time?

What does PDSA stand for?

Plan, Do, Study, Act

The score calculated to determine fall risk in the elderly is the:

Why is there an increased risk for ADRs with chemotherapy compounded products?

Which one of these medications is NOT the leading cause of emergency department visits for adverse drug events in older adults?

Drugs with narrow therapeutic window are the main causes of adverse drug events in young adults

Which of the following is not an example of safety subculture?

What statement is true about the Ishikawa fishbone diagram?

FMEA is a retrospective and a one-time quality improvement process that is carried out in healthcare organizations by a multidisciplinary team

Which of the following is false about bundle strategy?

Which of the following ambulatory aid gives the highest score on the Morse Scale?

Human factors engineering is the study of how people interact and work successfully with other people and things in their world, and how to increase success or improve human performance by "designing in" physical or environmental cues of processes.

What should the response in justice culture be to at-risk behavior?

Human error is defined as the worker realizes possibility of harm, but does it anyway

Pre-1990's, punitive culture fear drove errors underground

What is described as a prospective, risk assessment method based on simultaneously analyzing ways things can go wrongm their consequences, and associated risk factors?

What are the primary questions one hopes to answer with a Root Causes Analysis (RCA)? Select all the apply

Which of the following is retrospective not prospective?

According to "Emergency Hospitalizations for Adverse Drug Events in Older Americans," which 4 medications/classes represent 2/3 of admissions? Select all the apply

What risk factors for falls are assessed by Morse Falls Scale? Select all that apply

Developed in the 1980s as replacement for medication carts. May help prevent administration errors by limiting RN access to only those medications for which a patients has an approved order.

Which of the following incorporate drug libraries and dose checking software to enhance safety of IV administed mediations?

Phenomena in where healthcare workers become desensitied to safety alerts and either ignore of fail to act appropriately on such warnings

Any injury occuring during the patient's drug therapy and resulting either from appropraite care, or from unsuitable or suboptimal care.

A systematic instrument for identifying Adverse Events in a chart through the use of "prompts" or clues, such as abnormal lab values, dc orders and the administration of "antidotes."

Any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropraite medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.

Aspect of a design that prevents a target action from being performed or allows its performance only if another specific action is performed first.

View that most errors reflect predictable human failings in the context of poorly designed rather than focusing corrective effects on reprimanding individuals or pursuing remedial education.

List two external programs to whom you can voluntarily report medication errors

ISMP Medication Error Reporting Program AND FDA MedWatch Reporting Program

Non-regulatory state agency in Massachusetts with a legislative mandate to support healthcare organizations in improving patient safety and educating the public.