This completely NEW for 2008-9!!! offering meets the requirements in medical errors and ethics and boundary issues for Florida Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors. Psychologists should use our Florida Psychology CE Requirements Combo-Pack.

The required curriculum for Social Work, Marriage and Family, Mental Health license renewal. Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research Reports One: 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 five important areas where AHRQ determined the need for an examination of the current knowledge or protocols. Adverse Events/Potential Harms, Patient Safety and Best Practices/Efficacy are discussed in these reports. Ethics and Boundary Issues Two Multiple Relationships The study will discuss the challenges and opportunities within the context of non-sexual multiple relationships. We have chosen to concentrate on the area of non-sexual multiple relationships and rather than discuss various specific multiple relationships we will explore the dynamic quality of boundaries as they relate to professional practice. We believe the learner will leave this study with an enhanced understanding of the line between crossing a boundary and violating a boundary.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify two benefits of depression screening.

2. Participants will be able to discuss the role of the personal digital assistant in improving inpatient psychiatric care.

3. Participants will be able to discuss the importance of perinatal depression screening.

4. Participants will be able to describe the efficacy and potential harms of second-generation anti-depressant medications in the treatment of adults with depression.

5. Participants will be able to describe the off-label uses, and potential harms of atypical anti-psychotics.

6. Participants will be able to describe the shift in thinking regarding multiple relationships in clinical practice.

7. Participants will be able to differentiate between a boundary crossing and a boundary violation.

8. Participants will be able to discuss the differences in ethics codes regarding multiple relationships across five counseling professions.

9. Participants will be able to describe two classifications of multiple relationships.

10. Participants will be prepared to manage multiple relationships through evaluating assumptions, reviewing for cognitive errors and utilizing recommended steps.

Total CE Credits: 5.0 CE Credits

Training Agenda,

Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research Reports One

Hour One:

Patient Safety: Depression screening, PDA’s, perinatal depression screening

Hour Two:

Practice Guidelines: Second generation anti-depressants, Off-label uses of atypical anti-psychotics

Florida Ethics and Boundary Issues Two: Multiple Relationships

Hour One: Professional Association Codes and Positions

Hour Two: Types of Multiple Relationships

Hour Three: Management of Multiple Relationships

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