CPHRM study plan

Map the claims lifecycle from incident identification through closure, labeling each hand-off point where risk management intervenes

Distinguish the four elements of negligence and apply them to three written hospital scenarios

Outline the statutory and regulatory framework governing health care risk management, including accreditation and licensure bodies

Build a personal glossary of 40 legal and claims terms with plain-language definitions

Differentiate occurrence, claims-made, and tail coverage triggers, and explain which responds in given fact patterns

Sequence the steps of an internal root cause investigation and identify privilege and discoverability issues

Summarize the practitioner credentialing and peer review legal protections and where they break down

Draft a defensible documentation standard for a sample adverse event

Classify patient safety events using a harm-severity taxonomy and justify each classification

Design a reporting pathway that satisfies both internal escalation and external mandatory reporting

Explain how human factors and just-culture principles shape event investigation interviews

Compare at least four patient safety tools (e.g., FMEA, RCA, safety huddles, trigger tools) by when each is appropriate

Trace how governance structure, medical staff bylaws, and committee charters distribute risk accountability

Identify operational risks embedded in staffing models, environment of care, and supply chain decisions

Integrate safety event data into an operational performance narrative for leadership

Evaluate how a culture-of-safety survey result would drive an operational action plan

Calculate expected loss, retention levels, and the cost of risk for a worked example

Compare self-insurance, captive, and commercial transfer options against stated organizational objectives

Interpret a loss run and identify trend, severity, and frequency signals

Explain how risk financing choices interact with claims handling and legal exposure

Convert a clinical safety event into a litigation-readiness file with an evidence inventory

Practice disclosure conversations by scripting the opening, empathy statement, and fact summary

Appraise when a safety event should trigger early claims notification and who decides

Reconcile patient safety improvement aims with claims defense strategy in a conflict scenario

Apply regulatory change to a risk register and reprioritize entries

Draft contract and consent language requirements that reduce transferred liability

Recompute the funding recommendation from Week 5 given a revised loss trend

Complete 60 practice items across Domains 4 and 5 and log every miss by failure reason

Complete a timed 150-item mock exam under test conditions

Analyze every missed item to root cause (knowledge gap, misread stem, or judgment error)

Re-teach the two weakest domains from your own notes without reopening source material

Consolidate a final one-page recall sheet of formulas, thresholds, and decision rules