6 Quality Improvement in Medication Safety Online Quiz Questions

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Compare raw report totals and conclude that the period with more reports was less safe.

Combine reports with other data and compare rates using a meaningful denominator.

Exclude near misses so that only errors causing harm affect the comparison.

Rank staff by their report counts to identify where improvement is needed.

Give high-alert medicines particular attention because errors can have especially serious consequences.

Assume errors involving high-alert medicines occur more often than errors involving other medicines.

Focus only on high-alert medicines and exclude other medication-safety events.

Treat every event involving a high-alert medicine as proof that the same error is frequent.

Medication-delivery delays after introducing a verification step

Wrong-strength errors per 1,000 administrations

The percentage of sampled administrations with the intended barcode scan completed

Workarounds that arise after introducing a verification step

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Map the process steps and identify ways each step could fail.

Consider possible consequences and the chance that a failure would be detected.

Treat the analysis ratings as a substitute for judgment and local evidence.

Prioritize vulnerabilities for action.

Roll the change out everywhere immediately and assess it after implementation.

Use staff education as the only intervention, regardless of the cause.

Test the change on a small scale, study the results, and adapt before wider implementation.

Wait for a large number of harmful events before testing a change.

Send a reminder asking staff to be more careful when selecting medicines.

Test separating the products and improving bin differentiation.

Stop recording intercepted near misses until the new process is in place.

Use report totals alone to determine whether the storage setup is safe.

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Conclude that medication safety has worsened because the report count increased.

Consider whether reporting practices changed, and compare the reports with other data and rates using meaningful denominators.

Disregard the reports because voluntary reporting cannot provide useful safety information.

Rank staff by the number of reports associated with their shifts.

Wrong-strength errors per 1,000 administrations

Medication-delivery delays after the verification step is introduced

Percentage of sampled administrations with the intended barcode scan completed

Patient harm associated with medication errors

Remind staff to pay closer attention when selecting medicines from the cabinet.

Test storing the products apart and improving bin differentiation.

Wait for a harmful error before changing the cabinet arrangement.

Count near misses by staff member and retrain only those with the highest counts.

Identify the person whose final action immediately preceded the error and treat that as the full explanation.

Count how many staff members have made similar errors and rank them by frequency.

Reconstruct the event and examine how conditions such as labels, storage, workload, and safeguards shaped what happened.

Use staff re-education as the complete response before investigating other contributing conditions.