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Course Description:

Reducing Harm in Healthcare: Medical Errors Prevention is designed to educate the professional in understanding and identifying types of medical errors, how they occur and preventing common errors in the clinical setting.

This course meets the medical errors requirement for Florida and has been approved by the Florida Board of Athletic Training, Florida Physical Therapy Association, Florida Board of Occupational Therapy, ASHA and Florida Board of Massage Therapy.

Contact Hours: 2
Text Course Format: Text
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: Intermediate

Accreditation Information:

StateDisciplineApproval StatusProvider CodeExpiration Date

Course Outline:

Chapter 1

  • Defining Medical Errors
  • Sentinel Event
  • Root Cause Analysis Process
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
  • Costs of Medical Errors
  • Prevention of Medical Errors
  • Patient Safety Concerns

Chapter 2

  • Misdiagnosis of Symptoms
  • Errors in Medication
  • Adverse Drug Event
  • Misreading of Test Results
  • Misdiagnosis For Treatment
  • Surgical Errors
  • Systems Errors
  • Failure to Prevent Injury
  • Examples

Chapter 3

  • Preventable Adverse Medical Events
  • Ethical Principles for Medical Professionals
  • Disclosure of a Medical Error
  • Examples

Chapter 4

  • Medical Errors Prevention
  • Pharmacological Components and Patient Management
  • Contraindications & Indications for Physical and Occupational Therapy Management
  • Medical Documentation and Communication
  • Solutions for Patient Safety Improvement
  • Example

Course Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional through a self- paced study on the reduction and prevention of medical errors, the role of root-cause analysis in determining the origin of errors and patient safety initiatives.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Define a medical error
  2. Recognize the growth of medical errors in clinical settings
  3. Define sentinel event, root cause analysis, and failure mode and effects analysis
  4. Recognize the costs of medical errors to the health care system
  5. Identify the importance of accurate test readings
  6. Define the difference of “to do good” and “to do no harm”
  7. Identify the importance of full medical error disclosure
  8. Define medical error risk and its prevention
  9. Recognize an ethical way “to do no harm”
  10. Recognize medical error disclosure
  11. List ways to reduce medical errors
  12. Identify accurate methods of documentation
  13. Differentiate between a contraindication and an indication
  14. Recognize solutions for patient safety
  15. Identify new technologies to promote the reduction of medical errors
  16. Define potential impact of Adverse Drug Events

 

Disclosures:

Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, Certified Athletic Trainer, Massage Therapist, Licensed Massage Therapist, Dietitian/Nutritionist, Nursing Professionals

Instructional Level: Intermediate

CDR CPE Level 1/ 740 Web-based

Learning Need Codes: 1000, 7110, 7160

Performance Indicators: 1.1.4, 1.2.6 , 7.1.2 , 7.1.4

Course Type: Text

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Sharon Finch O’Maley is employed by Royal Tech Writers & Translators and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

Financial – Shirley Aycock is employed by CHRISTUS Health and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

 

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact Anne Osborn by email Anne@HomeCEU or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Authors:

Sharon Finch O'Maley

Sharon Finch O'Maley received her Bachelor of Arts in Education from the Peoples’ Bible College in 1976 and her Certification for Supervisors of ACE classrooms from the ACE Certification Institute in 1984. She also studied Spanish at the Peace Corp Language Institute in Santo Domingo.

Sharon served as a Technical Writer and Translator for Royal Tech Writers & Translators and has researched and written continuing education manuals for the medical, insurance, real estate, financial, funeral industries. She is also a medical researcher, having completed research duties on topics including deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, respiratory issues and endometriosis.

Shirley A. Aycock, DNP, RN

Shirley Aycock, DNP, RN, is a Registered Nurse who has spent the majority of her nursing career serving in a variety of leadership roles. Over the past several years her leadership focus has shifted from managing acute care adult medical-surgical units to oversight of educational endeavors within the acute care hospital environment. She serves as Lead Nurse Planner, responsible for the planning, development, and evaluation of education activities for continuing nurse education and oversight of the Provider Unit status.

She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from University of Texas at Arlington, a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from University of Texas at Tyler, and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Rush University in Chicago, Illinois. 

Shirley serves as adjunct faculty for East Texas Baptist University, LeTourneau University and Howard Payne University Schools of Nursing.  

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