IBFCSM CHEP study plan

Map the CHEP exam blueprint to your own job tasks and write a one-page crosswalk linking each Healthcare Safety subtopic to a real incident or policy you have handled

Define the safety-management vocabulary you must use precisely (hazard, risk, exposure, sentinel event, near miss, root cause) and write a one-sentence definition for each without consulting notes

List the seven categories of healthcare-acquired conditions and identify at least two control measures for each

Build a personal glossary spreadsheet with 40 terms tagged to domains 1 and 3

Explain the hierarchy of controls and apply it to three healthcare hazards (sharps injury, patient handling, chemical disinfectant exposure), ranking controls from most to least effective

Describe the elements of an infection prevention program and how surveillance data drive intervention decisions

Outline how a safety culture is measured (leadership rounding, event reporting rates, just-culture response) and contrast it with a blame culture

Draft 15 original practice questions on domain 1 and verify each answer against a cited source

Build a hazard inventory for a hypothetical hospital department covering biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards

Perform a qualitative risk assessment (likelihood x severity matrix) on at least eight identified hazards and justify each score

Select controls for each high-risk item and state the residual risk after controls

Write a corrective-action plan with owner, due date, and verification method for the top three risks

Describe the four phases of emergency management (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) and give a healthcare-specific example of each

Explain the purpose and required contents of an emergency operations plan and how it links to the Incident Command System

Define the roles of incident commander, operations, planning, logistics, and finance sections in a hospital command structure

Compare surge capacity concepts (staffed beds, isolation capacity, supply buffers) and identify triggers for activating surge

Design a tabletop exercise scenario for a mass-casualty influx and write the objectives, injects, and evaluation criteria

Differentiate an emergency operations plan from a continuity-of-operations plan and identify which business functions must be restored first

Explain how healthcare coalitions and public health authorities coordinate during a regional event

Identify the communication failures most commonly seen in healthcare disaster after-action reports and propose one mitigation for each

Walk through the disaster lifecycle and place healthcare actions correctly at each stage, from predisaster vulnerability analysis to long-term community recovery

Describe how a hospital conducts a hazard vulnerability analysis and how results drive planning priorities

Outline recovery-phase challenges specific to healthcare: workforce exhaustion, supply-chain restoration, infrastructure repair, and regulatory waivers

Critique a published after-action report structure and draft your own improvement-plan template

Trace the lifecycle of a medical device from procurement through recall management, naming the safety checkpoints at each stage

Explain how post-market surveillance, adverse event reporting, and recall classification work for medical products

Identify product-safety failure modes in healthcare settings (look-alike packaging, labeling errors, sterilization breakdown, counterfeit supplies) and match each to a control

Draft a recall-response procedure a hospital could adopt, including patient identification and communication steps

Complete a 100-question timed mixed-domain practice set and score at least 80 percent overall

Review every missed item and write the underlying concept, not just the correct answer, in a correction log

Re-derive the three weakest concepts from memory using blank-paper recall

Build a final-week review sheet limited to facts you have missed twice or more