Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP) New
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Joint Commision core value - Answer - Quality of care and safety of patients
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 - Answer - to report events,
near misses, unsafe conditions and to decrease medical errors. defined requirements
for reporting events that threaten patient safety
Patient Safety - Answer - the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse
events resulting from the processes of health care delivery.
Patient safety event - Answer - event, incident, or condition that could have resulted or
did result in harm to a patient
adverse event - Answer - A patient safety event that resulted in harm to a patient
sentinel event - Answer - a patient safety event not primarily rekated to the patients
illness or underlying condition that leads to death, permanent harm or severe temporary
harm.
Reactive risk reduction - Answer - Attempts to prevent recurrence of problems that have
already caused patient harm.
Proactive risk reduction - Answer - Solves problems before patients are harmed
Sentinel event alert - Answer - A notification that defines processes and identifies
measures that can be used to prevent errors and improve outcomes
Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC) - Answer - Finds errors in plans while it is
being created.
American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - Answer - inspects and accedidates critical
access hospitals
Accreditation canada - Answer - Camadian non profit organization that provides health
organizations with peer reviews
,CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) - Answer - Focuses on
rehabilitation, employment, child and family and aging services.
CAP (College of American Pathologists) - Answer - offers laboratory inspection and
proficiency testing
NAM (National Academy of Medicine) - Answer - Provides guidelines for respirator use
in healthcare. Formerly called Institute of Medicine
AHCA / NCAL - Answer - American Health Care Association
National centers for assisted living
American Hospital Association (AHA) - Answer - advocacy group for health care
organizations, particularly hospitals
American Society of Healthcare Risk Management - Answer - ASHRM
Association for the health care environment - Answer - AHE
NCQA - Answer - National Committee for Quality Assurance; an accreditation body that
has become the primary group that accredits health plans.
Association of occupational health professionals in healthcare (AOHP) - Answer -
Advocate for occupational health professionals. Meet with OSHA
ECRI - Answer - Has templates for HVAs.
American Society of Healthcare Engineering - Answer - ASHE
Tenosynovitis - Answer - inflammation of the tendon and synovial membrane
DeQuervain's Disease - Answer - tenosynovitis of abductor pollicus longus and extensor
pollicus brevus
Trigger Finger - Answer - A condition whereby the finger flexors contract but are unable
to reextend because of a nodule within the tendon sheath or due to the sheath being too
constricted to allow for free motion.
Tennis elbow - Answer - painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the
elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)
, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Answer - compression of the median nerve as it passes
between the ligament and the bones and tendons of the wrist
Raynaud's syndrome - Answer - a peripheral arterial occlusive disease in which
intermittent attacks are triggered by cold or stress
Ethylene oxide - Answer - gas used to sterilize surgical instruments and other supplies
1910,1047
AL = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 1 ppm
STEL = 5 ppm
Formaldehyde - Answer - 1910.1048
Action level = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 0.75 ppm
Glutaraldehyde (Cidex) - Answer - Liquid disinfectant and sterilizing agent but can
require long submersion times to be effective. a cheaper and effective alternative is a
1:10 bleach solution. Chemical disinfectants cannot be used on patients skin.
Cytotoxic agents - Answer - Drugs used to kill cancer cells that are actively growing or
dividing.
Pentamidine isethionate - Answer - interferes with nuclear metabolism by inhibition of
DNA, RNA, phospholipids and protein synthesis
Hierachy of controls - Answer - Elimination
Substitution
Engineering controls
Administrative controls
PPE
Hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) - Answer - An assessment to help an organization
identify potential hazards, threats, and adverse events and their impact on the care,
treatment, and services that must be sustained during an emergency
Drills - Answer - Tabletop
Walk through
Functional drill
Update 2025/2026) ||Questions and Verified Answers
100% Correct| Grade A||Latest
Joint Commision core value - Answer - Quality of care and safety of patients
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 - Answer - to report events,
near misses, unsafe conditions and to decrease medical errors. defined requirements
for reporting events that threaten patient safety
Patient Safety - Answer - the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse
events resulting from the processes of health care delivery.
Patient safety event - Answer - event, incident, or condition that could have resulted or
did result in harm to a patient
adverse event - Answer - A patient safety event that resulted in harm to a patient
sentinel event - Answer - a patient safety event not primarily rekated to the patients
illness or underlying condition that leads to death, permanent harm or severe temporary
harm.
Reactive risk reduction - Answer - Attempts to prevent recurrence of problems that have
already caused patient harm.
Proactive risk reduction - Answer - Solves problems before patients are harmed
Sentinel event alert - Answer - A notification that defines processes and identifies
measures that can be used to prevent errors and improve outcomes
Process Decision Program Charts (PDPC) - Answer - Finds errors in plans while it is
being created.
American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - Answer - inspects and accedidates critical
access hospitals
Accreditation canada - Answer - Camadian non profit organization that provides health
organizations with peer reviews
,CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) - Answer - Focuses on
rehabilitation, employment, child and family and aging services.
CAP (College of American Pathologists) - Answer - offers laboratory inspection and
proficiency testing
NAM (National Academy of Medicine) - Answer - Provides guidelines for respirator use
in healthcare. Formerly called Institute of Medicine
AHCA / NCAL - Answer - American Health Care Association
National centers for assisted living
American Hospital Association (AHA) - Answer - advocacy group for health care
organizations, particularly hospitals
American Society of Healthcare Risk Management - Answer - ASHRM
Association for the health care environment - Answer - AHE
NCQA - Answer - National Committee for Quality Assurance; an accreditation body that
has become the primary group that accredits health plans.
Association of occupational health professionals in healthcare (AOHP) - Answer -
Advocate for occupational health professionals. Meet with OSHA
ECRI - Answer - Has templates for HVAs.
American Society of Healthcare Engineering - Answer - ASHE
Tenosynovitis - Answer - inflammation of the tendon and synovial membrane
DeQuervain's Disease - Answer - tenosynovitis of abductor pollicus longus and extensor
pollicus brevus
Trigger Finger - Answer - A condition whereby the finger flexors contract but are unable
to reextend because of a nodule within the tendon sheath or due to the sheath being too
constricted to allow for free motion.
Tennis elbow - Answer - painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the
elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)
, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Answer - compression of the median nerve as it passes
between the ligament and the bones and tendons of the wrist
Raynaud's syndrome - Answer - a peripheral arterial occlusive disease in which
intermittent attacks are triggered by cold or stress
Ethylene oxide - Answer - gas used to sterilize surgical instruments and other supplies
1910,1047
AL = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 1 ppm
STEL = 5 ppm
Formaldehyde - Answer - 1910.1048
Action level = 0.5 ppm
PEL = 0.75 ppm
Glutaraldehyde (Cidex) - Answer - Liquid disinfectant and sterilizing agent but can
require long submersion times to be effective. a cheaper and effective alternative is a
1:10 bleach solution. Chemical disinfectants cannot be used on patients skin.
Cytotoxic agents - Answer - Drugs used to kill cancer cells that are actively growing or
dividing.
Pentamidine isethionate - Answer - interferes with nuclear metabolism by inhibition of
DNA, RNA, phospholipids and protein synthesis
Hierachy of controls - Answer - Elimination
Substitution
Engineering controls
Administrative controls
PPE
Hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) - Answer - An assessment to help an organization
identify potential hazards, threats, and adverse events and their impact on the care,
treatment, and services that must be sustained during an emergency
Drills - Answer - Tabletop
Walk through
Functional drill
