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Healthcare Practice Errors: A medical errors course for professional nurses

A medical errors course for nurses. This 2-hour medical errors class provides information on root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention and patient safety in healthcare practice.

Developed by: Karen Albig Smith, LMFT, LCAS, MAC, CAP, SAP, SAE, Marlys A Maury Freeman, RN, CAP, MSW and Anne Turner, RN, BSN

Revised 2024

Please note:  Because this course is specific to professional nurses other professions need to exercise their professional judgment as to whether this course will be approved by your licensing board.  There are five other medical errors courses on this website for mental health professionals.  Please use our content search feature in the course catalog to find those courses.  This course is not eligible for N.B.C.C. approved credit.

Description:  A required curriculum for Florida licensed nurses, this 2CE medical errors class provides information on root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention and patient safety in healthcare practice. The class will include factors that contribute to the occurrence of behavioral healthcare practice errors, how to recognize at-risk situations, protocol to improve patient outcome, reporting responsibilities, and patient safety. Patient rights and other public education concerns will be addressed.

Objectives:
1.  Learners will be able to describe how root cause analysis helps reduce clinical missteps.
2.  Learners will be able to implement patient safety measures to improve patient outcomes.
Learning Assessment:
1.  Participants will be able to list the common medical errors.
2.  Participants will be able to discuss the causes of medical errors.
3.  Participants will be able to identify safeguards for improving patient outcomes.
4.  Participants will be able to describe reporting and documentation responsibilities of error events.
5.  Participants will be able to implement patient education and safety planning.

CE Credits:  2

Agenda:
Hour One: Introduction, Causes and types of medical error, Reporting and documentation, Highlights of the authority of Department of Health: FS 456.013.
Hour Two: Root cause analysis and corrective action planning, Improving patient care, Patient education, and Safety planning.

CE Broker#:    20-329612

Methods: Pre-test, study guide, posttest and evaluation, internet sources via URLs, Q&A by email.

Content Area:  Medical errors, Risk management

Purpose:  To contribute to the reduction and/or elimination of health practice errors through continuing education to nurses.

Target Audience:  Nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals.

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Online Course

CE Broker#:
20-329612
CE Credits:
2
Price:
$10.00

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