Correct & 100% Verified Answers |Already Graded A+
1. Key Points: The Patient Safety Imper- There are ditterent definitions for patient
safety that
ative and Concepts address the prevention of errors and the reduction
of harm.
Adopt systems thinking to think beyond the person
and beyond blame.
Systems of safety, safety culture, reliability, and
con-tinuous learning put the patient at the
center of safe healthcare delivery.
By understanding errors and feeling protected by a
nonpunitive culture, more healthcare
professionals will report errors, near misses,
and close calls.
2. Systems Thinking: safety
manage-ment system, 6 core MEHEHEP
elements
Management leadership Employee
participation
Hazard identification and assessment
Hazard prevention and control
Education and training
Program evaluation and improvement
3. Underuse failure to provide a service that would have
produced a favorable outcome for the patient
1/
21
,NAHQ - CPHQ New Test Guide for Section 4: Patient Safety with all
Correct & 100% Verified Answers |Already Graded A+
Underuse occurs when patients do not receive
bene-ficial health services. For instance, only
30.5% (or 16.1
2/
21
, NAHQ - CPHQ New Test Guide for Section 4: Patient Safety with all
Correct & 100% Verified Answers |Already Graded A+
million people) with any mental illness perceived
an unmet need for mental health services
4. Overuse Occurs when patients undergo treatment or
proce-dures from which they do not benefit (e.g.,
X-rays per-formed on patients with back pain
are unnecessary).
5. Misuse Occurs when patients undergo treatment or
proce-dures from which they do not benefit (e.g.,
X-rays per-formed on patients with back pain
are unnecessary).
6. According to the Institute for Health- standardization, simplification, reduction
of autono-
care Improvement (IHI), reliability is my, and highlighting deviations from practice
key in making systems and
process-es safer. Their four
foundational principles for
making systems and
processes more reliable
include:
7. Human Factors "the study of all the factors that make it easier
to do the work in the right way."
8. Work processes in Human Factors Simplify to take steps out of a process.
Standardize to remove variation and promote
pre-dictability and consistency.
Use forcing functions and constraints that makes
it impossible to do a task incorrectly and
creates a hard stop that cannot be passed
3/
21