Domain 3 · 23.8% of the PTCE
Patient Safety and Quality Assurance
About 19 of your 80 scored questions come from here. 133 questions in the full bank; a rotating free sample below.
Knowledge areas tested
- High-alert/risk medications and look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications
- Error prevention strategies (order to correct patient, Tall Man lettering, separating inventory, leading and trailing zeros, bar code usage, limiting error-prone abbreviations)
- Issues that require pharmacist intervention (DUR, ADE, OTC recommendation, therapeutic substitution, misuse, adherence, post-immunization care, allergies, drug interactions) calc
- Event reporting procedures (medication errors, adverse effects, product integrity, MedWatch, VAERS, near miss, RCA, CQI)
- Types of prescription errors (incorrect dose, quantity, patient, drug, route of administration) calc
- Infection prevention procedures and cleaning standards (handwashing, PPE, cleaning counting trays, countertops, equipment)
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