Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research Reports Two

This completely NEW offering meets the requirements in medical errors for Florida Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors. Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research Reports Two: The purpose of collecting information on practice errors is to identify areas in mental health practice where additional information and protocols can improve patient safety. This report is the result of this type of effort. The course looks at important areas where AHRQ determined the need to improve practitioner's current knowledge and protocols. Contained in this study are four technical reports with findings that synthesize and evaluate the research in these areas and cull out the continuing questions that need to be studied. The reports cover the following topics: diagnosis of AD/HD in children, pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence, managing chronic insomnia, and preventing violence risk behaviors among adolescents. Adverse Events/Potential Harms, Patient Safety and Best Practices/Efficacy are discussed in these reports. Florida Licensees: The F.S. 456 stipulates that a medical errors course shall include a study of root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety. These reports represent the culmination of AHRQ goals to improve safety and quality, effectiveness which reduces errors, efficiency, and organizational excellence. These reports improve safety by discussing best practices, encourage the use of evidence to inform health care decisions, disseminate research for practitioners to improve efficiency and organizational excellence. Finally these reports are the result of root cause analysis was generalized into critical topics.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify evaluation methods for discriminating AD/HD from the normal population of children.

2. Participants will be able to discuss efficacy information on pharmaceutical agents that have been historically or are presently used in the treatment of alcoholism.

3. Participants will be able to describe the management of chronic insomnia.

4. Participants will be able to identify risk and resiliency factors associated with youth violence.

Total CE Credits: 2

CE Broker #s: HS 10-913307 OL 10-913309

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Training Agenda,

Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research Reports Two

Hour One:

Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of AD/HD in children: Pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence

Hour Two:

Practice Guidelines: Chronic Insomnia, Adolescent violence and high risk health behaviors

Methods: Pre-test, Study guide, Posttest and Evaluation. Q&A by Email