Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety - Psychologist Course (Jun 01, 2022 - May 31, 2023)

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

Course opens: 06/01/2022
Course expires: 05/31/2023

Overview:
This course satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements on the prevention of medical errors for Florida psychologists. The purpose of this course is to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes by providing an overview of the safety concerns facing healthcare systems today, including statistics and background on the magnitude of the problem and error reduction, prevention, and root cause analysis. This course includes discussion within the mental health practice that carries the potential for “medical” errors including improper diagnosis; failure to comply with abuse reporting laws; inadequate assessment of the potential for violence; failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder

Learning 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 in 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 the 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.