Healthcare Practice Errors: a medical errors course for professional nurses

Description:

A required curriculum for Florida licensed nurses, this 2-hour 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. Participants will be able to list the common medical errors.

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

CE Broker#: OL  20-329612  10-1245757   HS   20-329613  10-1245758

Agenda: 

Hour One: Introduction, Causes and Types of Medical Error, Reporting and Documentation, Highlights of 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.

Methods: Study guide, pretest, evaluation, posttest, Q&A by Email.

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