Distance Education -> Prevention of Medical Errors for the Massage Therapist -> Chapter: 02

Where Medical Errors Occur

Every aspect of the health care system is prone to the occurrence of medical errors. When one thinks of errors being made in the health care system, one tends to automatically assume the errors are made in a hospital. We all have read of the nightmare scenario of wrong body areas receiving surgery, or wrong medications given. But the healthcare system comprises more than just hospitals.4 Healthcare systems include: 

• Hospitals
• Clinics
• Outpatient Surgery Centers
• Doctors’ Offices
• Nursing Homes
• Pharmacies
• the Patients’ Homes.

PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTERS 1 AND 2.

Please complete the following questions:

Medical errors can happen?

• a. only in the hospital.
• b. only from a doctors prescription.
• c. only in nursing homes.
• d. at any point in the process of healthcare for the patient.

Healthcare systems include:

• a. Hospitals
• b. Pharmacies
• c. The Patients’ Homes
• d. All of the above

Please select the proper choice to define the “error of planning.”

• a. The original intended action is not correct.
• b. The original intended action is correct.
• c. The correct action does not proceed as intended.
• d. The correct action does proceed as intended.