Patient Safety Principles Flashcards
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Which patient safety initiative by WHO requires a surgical team pause immediately before skin incision to confirm patient, procedure, and site?
Answer: Time-out
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist 'time-out' occurs immediately before incision and confirms patient identity, site, procedure, and team readiness.
A hospital's incident reporting rate drops by 40% after disciplinary action is taken against a nurse who reported a medication error. This outcome illustrates the risk of:
Answer: Punitive reporting culture
A punitive reporting culture deters staff from reporting errors, reducing the data needed to identify and fix systemic problems.
Which model categorizes care as having structure, process, and outcome components to evaluate quality and safety?
Answer: Donabedian Model
Avedis Donabedian's model evaluates healthcare quality through three dimensions: structure (resources), process (care delivery), and outcomes (results).
Which strategy is MOST effective at preventing look-alike/sound-alike medication errors at the point of dispensing?
Answer: Tall man lettering on drug labels
Tall man lettering (e.g., vinBLAStine vs. vinCRIStine) highlights distinguishing letters to differentiate look-alike/sound-alike drug names.
A healthcare organization wants to monitor patient safety proactively. Which measure is considered a 'leading' indicator?
Answer: Staff safety culture survey scores
Safety culture survey scores are leading indicators because they measure conditions that predict future safety performance before harm occurs.
During a root cause analysis, the team asks 'Why?' repeatedly until a systemic root cause is identified. This technique is known as:
Answer: 5 Whys
The 5 Whys technique iteratively asks 'Why did this happen?' to drill past symptoms to underlying systemic causes.
Which element of high-reliability organization (HRO) theory involves staff at all levels feeling empowered to stop a process when they detect a safety concern?
Answer: Deference to expertise
Deference to expertise means that in HROs, decision-making authority shifts to the person with the most relevant knowledge, regardless of hierarchy.