Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety - Psychologist Course

Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety - Psychologist Course is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.

Course opens: 02/01/2020
Course expires: 01/31/2021

Accreditation:
• 2.00 Psychology CE
• 2.00 General certificate of attendance
• 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
• 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
• 2.00 Florida Board of Psychology

Program Description:
This course satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements on prevention of medical errors for Florida doctors. The purpose of this course is to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes by providing an overview of the safety concerns facing health care systems today, including statistics and background on the magnitude of the problem and error reduction, prevention and root cause analysis.

Educational Objectives:
At the conclusion, participants should be able to: 
• Describe the incidence of medical errors and the effect on patient safety.
• Explain the role of the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) task forces on Improving the Quality of Healthcare in America. 
• Recognize error-prone situations, processes and factors, and create a culture of safety in order to reduce errors. 
• Identify processes to approach error reduction and prevention in order to improve patient outcomes. 
• Define the process and benefit of root cause analysis.
• Delineate Baptist Health policies and procedures for reporting medical errors.
• Identify safety needs of special populations.
• Discuss areas within the mental health practice that carry the potential for “medical” errors including improper diagnosis; failure to comply with abuse reporting laws; inadequate assessment of potential for violence; failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder.