Behavioral Health Practice Errors

This offering meets the requirements in medical errors for all Florida licensed mental health professionals. 

Description 

Florida Board approved to meet required curriculum for Florida licensed Psychologists, Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors.  This 2-hour medical errors class provides information on root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention and patient safety in behavioral healthcare practice.  The offering 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. Participants will be able to list the most common practice errors/situations in behavioral healthcare.

2. Participants will be able to discuss the causes for these practice errors.

3. Participants will be able to identify safeguards for avoiding medication errors with patients on psychotropic medications.  

4. Participants will be able to implement patient education and safety planning.

5. Participants will be able to describe reporting and documentation responsibilities in the event of practice errors.

Total CE Credits: 2

CE Broker #: 10-33896, 10-27680

Agenda:

Hour One: Overview of purpose, Root-cause analysis: Common errors and causes/situations.

Hour Two: Using Patient Outcome Information to Improve Patient Care Safeguards, Patient Education, and Safety Planning Reporting and Documentation.

Methods: Study Guide, Pre and Post Tests, Course Evaluation, Q and A by email:customerservice@programservices.org.