CPPS case studies
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The Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) is a credential for people whose work touches healthcare safety - nurses and physicians with safety roles, risk managers, quality and performance-improvement staff, pharmacists, infection preventionists, and the educators and analysts who support them. It signals that you can reason about safety using a shared professional vocabulary rather than one department's habits, which matters when improvement work crosses units, services, and organizations. The CPPS case studies are 5 cases and about 3,997 words.
1Night-Shift Speak-Up Signal After a Merger
Mercy Regional is a 420-bed community hospital three years after a merger with a larger system. Its 2024 safety culture survey had a 38% response rate, down from 61% in 2022.
793 words, about 4 min2Capital Allocation Between Safety Leadership and Dispensing Technology
North Valley Hospital, a 250-bed independent hospital, has 1.2 million in one-time capital and a 300,000 annual operating increase for safety. Two proposals compete.
764 words, about 4 min3Insulin-Heparin Mix-Up in a Rural ED Without Night Pharmacy
Riverside is a 180-bed rural hospital with a 14-bed ED. Insulin and heparin vials are stored side by side in the same unlocked medication bin because the pharmacy is closed 9 p.m.
807 words, about 4 min4Green Dashboard Versus Trigger-Tool Harm Detection
Lakeside Hospital, 300 beds, reports 400 incident reports per month, or 8 per 1,000 patient days. Its board dashboard shows falls with injury at 1.8 per 1,000 patient days, hospital-acquired pressure injuries at 0.9, and both are green against external benchmarks.
804 words, about 4 min5Retained Sponge After Emergency Laparotomy: RCA, Action Hierarchy, and Disclosure
on a Saturday, a 62-year-old woman underwent an emergency laparotomy at a 400-bed teaching hospital. The sponge count was documented as correct, but both counts were performed by the same circulating nurse because the second circulator had been pulled to another case.
829 words, about 4 min