1) Which of the following statements are true? select two options a) Vicarious liability means your employer will take responsibility for anything you do b) You will qualify knowing everything you will need to know about medicines c) All incidents should be reported so that learning can take place d) If you move to a new clinical area you should see if there is any new medication or equipment you will need to use 2) Your patient has a new IV medication prescribed, which is to be given by intermittent infusion. Which of the following statement is true: a) You know the medicine so are happy to get this going as quickly as possible b) your colleague tells you a bit about the medicine, so you feel ready to administer it now c) There is a free peripheral cannula, so you use that to administer the medicine d) You’re not sure why it has been prescribed but the patient seems to know so you go ahead and administer it e) You take a moment to gather the information you need to assess the situation and make sure you only administer the medicine in a safe manner for this patient 3) Your patient has had their medication chart updated and several new medications prescribed. These are due now. You check the medication chart and note nothing recorded in the allergy section. What do you do next? a) Go ahead and administer the medicines b) Look up the medicines to become familiar before administration c) Ask the prescriber to review the allergy section and to record details of the patient’s allergy status d) Ask a colleague to check the medicines with you 4) If a colleague gave you an ampoule to check, and said ‘Could you check this cefuroxime with me?’, and you looked at the ampoule and ‘saw’ cefuroxime, but the ampoule actually contained (and was labelled) ‘ceftriaxone’. This would be an example of: a) Blind spot bias b) Ascertainment bias c) Confirmation bias d) Colleague bias 5) Your clinical area is supplied with two different IV drugs in very similar packaging and ampoules. This is a potential: a) Systemic source of error b) Source of blind spot bias c) Trigger for memory-based error d) Cause of a prescribing error 6) Most medication errors are caused by a single individual making a mistake at one time. a) True b) False 7) Your colleague is rushing you to go for your lunch break. They are due to have their break after you, so they don’t want to be delayed. Your patient has an IV antibiotic prescribed for this time, which you feel is a priority over going for your lunch. An appropriate way to manage this situation would be: a) Go to break anyway, but be quick so the patient receives the medicine as soon as possible b) Explain that you are concerned about delaying the administration of the medicine for the patient, as you know how important the timeliness of administration is, suggest you swap break or they administer the medicine while you are away c) Go to break anyway, give the medicine on your return and adjust the time on the medicine chart d) Ask the patient if they mind having the medicine a bit later

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