Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), with certification oversight by the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) · Current outline linked by IHI on 2026-10-20: copyright 2024; filename identifies publication in September 2024. The outline does not state a separate effective date. The linked Candidate Handbook is dated November 2024 and revised November 15, 2024. The workbook label matches the official CPPS credential.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• CPPS Examination
• Certification Governance and Oversight
• CPPS Examination Content Outline
• Certified Professional in Patient Safety Candidate Handbook — November 2024
• Making Just Culture a Reality: One Organization's Approach
• Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
• Reporting Patient Safety Events
• Model for Improvement: Forming the Team
• Applying Human Factors and Usability Engineering to Medical Devices — August 3, 2026
• Human Factors and Medical Devices
• Learn from Defects Tool
• The Five Whats of Diagnostic Reflective Practice (KAICS)
• Medication Reconciliation
• Tool: Handoff
• SAFER: Test Results Reporting and Follow-Up
• Clinical Safety: Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers
• Use the Teach-Back Method: Tool 5
• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, Third Edition
• CANDOR Disclosure Checklist
• TeamSTEPPS Pocket Guide — Revised May 2023
• Model for Improvement: Establishing Measures
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Tool
• Model for Improvement
• 2 Tools to Understand Variation in Your Improvement Journey
• Tool: SBAR
• Tool: Check-Back (or Repeat-Back)
• Reviewing the Team's Performance: Debrief
• Standard Precautions for All Patient Care
• Preventing Unsafe Injection Practices
• Hospitals eTool: Workplace Violence
• SAFER: Contingency Planning
• RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm
• Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit: Action Hierarchy
• Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit