Mental Health Practice Error Vignettes

Description:  

This offering meets the requirements in medical errors for Florida licensed mental health professionals. A required curriculum for Florida Psychology, School Psychology, Social Work, Marriage and Family, Mental Health and Nursing.  This 2 CE offering invites learners to read and consider four mental health practice error vignettes published by DHHS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.   Each vignette is followed by processing questions which the learner should independently consider before reading the commentaries provided.  This should help learners determine how well they perform the risk assessment and analysis function implemented as part of root cause analysis.   This offering meets Florida requirements for medical errors education for psychologists and F.S. 491 licensed mental health professionals

Please note:  These vignettes and commentaries are contributed by DHHS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Web M&Ms which can be found at: http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/caseArchive.aspx#5.  Program Services devised the processing questions, the pre and post test and offering evaluation.

Objectives

1.  Participants will be able to identify the type of error in each vignette.

2.  Participants will be able to identify the root cause of each scenario described.

3.  Participants will be able to identify safety improvements for each vignette.

CE Credits:  2

CE Broker Course #:  OL 10-328528  HS 10-328539

Methods:  Pre and Post tests, Study Guide, Evaluation, Q&A by email

Purpose:  This is a medical errors course applicable to mental health practice and nursing.  This course is approved as a medical errors course by the Florida Board for Psychologists, Florida Board for LMFT, LCSW, and LMHC and Florida Board of Nursing: Recommended for psychiatric nurses.  Other Nurses are recommended to take the Healthcare Medical Errors course in our course catalog.