CPPS IHI Practice Exam Complete Questions

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CPPS IHI Practice Exam Complete Questions & Answers (Solved) 100% Correct

Question 1: In preparation for new antimicrobial stewardship

regulatory requirements, a hospital is creating an antimicrobial stewardship committee. What should be the first step in supporting this new patient safety initiative?

• Reach out to subject matter experts to gain insight on

different compliance issues.

• Work with information technology (IT) to build antibiotic

indication and time-out screens.

• Partner with key stakeholders to perform a gap analysis of

current state to ideal state.

• Review the past year's data to identify the most commonly

grown pathogens.

Correct answer: C. Partner with key stakeholders to perform a

gap analysis of current state to ideal state.

Question 2: After implementing a new product recall system, a

hospital was alerted to a high-risk medication recall. This medication is in stock in the emergency department and

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oncology unit. To ensure the effectiveness of the new system, a

patient safety professional should:

• require individual departments to verify that a search for the

recalled medication was performed.

• ensure an on-site visit verifies that the recalled medication

was sequestered.

• reconcile the number of doses administered to the number of

doses purchased.

• notify the affected units via fax to remove recalled meds and

to post recall notices in the units.

Correct answer: B. ensure an on-site visit verifies that the

recalled medication was sequestered.

Question 3: An organization is implementing a standardized

surgical safety checklist and encounters resistance from the perioperative staff. To improve staff engagement, a patient

safety professional should:

• prepare a business case for the implementation of the

checklist.

• present evidence that checklist use reduces practice

variability.

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• assure staff that anesthesia is responsible for the checklist.
• delegate checklist enforcement to nursing.

Correct answer: B. present evidence that checklist use reduces

practice variability.

Question 4: An organization has achieved 92% compliance with

a process measure. The patient safety professional believes that the processes in place are not reliable or that the results are attributable to luck. Which of the following best describes this characteristic?

• appreciative inquiry
• commitment to resilience
• deference to expertise
• preoccupation with failure

Correct answer: D. preoccupation with failure

Question 5: A just culture framework provides a means to

address behaviors that undermine a culture of safety because

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• single outbursts are differentiated from consciously chosen

acts.

• preservation of highly valued team members is a primary

goal.

• the evaluative process does not consider personal

performance-shaping factors.

• the organizational response to investigated events is

independent of patient outcome.

Correct answer: D. the organizational response to investigated

events is independent of patient outcome.

Question 6: In process improvement, reducing variation

improves

• predictability of outcomes.
• patient care processes.
• frequency of poor results.
• reluctance to simplify.

Correct answer: A. predictability of outcomes.