6 Patient Safety and Error Prevention Online Quiz Questions

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Choose the most likely product based on the patient's medication history.

Stop and refer the unclear order to the pharmacist.

Change the directions to match the product usually dispensed.

Proceed if the prescription appears similar to a previous one.

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Prepare medication in a designated clean area separated from sinks and other contamination sources.

Use the same syringe and needle for entries into different patients' containers if the needle appears clean.

Disinfect a vial access diaphragm before entering it.

Use a new sterile needle and syringe for each entry.

Save leftover contents of a single-dose vial for another patient if the vial is kept refrigerated.

Select the medication whose name begins with the expected letters.

Choose the product from its usual shelf location without checking the label.

Read the complete drug name and use required comparison and verification checks.

Infer the intended drug from the patient's most common diagnosis.

Use standardized concentrations and processes.

Restrict access where appropriate.

Assume every error involving these drugs is more frequent than errors involving other drugs.

Use clear labeling and separation of products.

Use clinical decision support.

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Root cause analysis

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)

Dispensing audit

Barcode override review

Wait for the next routine audit to determine whether the patient was affected.

Correct the record quietly and avoid reporting unless harm is confirmed.

Notify the pharmacist or supervisor immediately.

Contact the patient independently and decide whether follow-up is necessary.

Conclude that an error occurred because harm followed medication use.

Recognize that harm associated with medication use does not by itself establish that an error occurred.

Classify the event as a near miss because the patient experienced harm.

Treat the event as a dispensing error unless the prescription was unclear.

Save the leftover medication for another patient if the vial was accessed aseptically.

Pool the leftovers with medication from another single-dose vial for later use.

Use the vial for one patient only and do not save or reuse the leftover medication.

Keep the vial for the same patient and reuse it at a later visit.

Keep and access it in a designated clean medication area away from immediate treatment spaces.

Keep it in the treatment space so it is readily available for each patient.

Move it between patient-care spaces as needed, provided the vial is labeled.

Store it beside the sink so the access diaphragm can be cleaned conveniently.

Select the product whose first few letters match, then verify the label.

Choose the product from its usual shelf location if the name looks familiar.

Read the complete drug name and compare relevant product details; refer uncertainty to the pharmacist.

Rely on Tall Man lettering alone to distinguish the products.