Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety — Psychologist Course

This course satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements on prevention of medical errors for Florida doctors. The purpose of this course is to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes by providing an overview of the safety concerns facing health care systems today, including statistics and background on the magnitude of the problem and error reduction, prevention and root cause analysis.

Target Audience

Physicians, Psychologists (Instructional Level: Intermediate), Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Licensed Practical Nurses and Registered Nurses licensed in the State of Florida.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion, participants should be able to: 

  • Describe the incidence of medical errors and the effect on patient safety. 
  • Identify the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions during the previous biennium. 
  • Identify processes to reduce and prevent errors. 
  • Recognize error-prone situations/processes. 
  • Identify factors that impact the occurrence of errors. 
  • Define the process and benefit of multicausal analysis (root causes). 
  • Delineate Baptist Health policies and procedures for reporting medical errors. 
  • Identify safety needs of special populations. 
  • Discuss how we can partner with patients/families to prevent medical errors. 
  • Explain what each of us can do to protect patients and ourselves from accidental injury. 
  • Explain the role of the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) task forces on improving the quality of healthcare in America. 
  • Describe 3 strategies to reduce medication errors.
Additional information
Bibliography: 

DeAngelis, T. (2016, September) Preventing medical errors: Psychologists are revamping health-care systems to keep patients safe from life-threatening mistakes. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org.

Frese, M., & Keith, N. (2015). Action errors, error management, and learning in organizations. Annual review of psychology, 66, 661-687.

James, J. T. (2013). A new, evidence-based estimate of patient harms associated with hospital care. Journal of patient safety, 9(3), 122-128.

Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 Psychology CE
  • 2.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
Course opens: 
10/01/2017
Course expires: 
02/28/2019

Paul A. Gluck, M.D.
Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Baptist and South Miami Hospitals
Chair of the Board, National Patient Safety Foundation
Past Chair, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Barry M. Crown, Ph.D., J.D.
Psychologist
Baptist, Doctors, Homestead and South Miami Hospitals

Yvonne Zawodny, R.N., LHRM, CPHRM
Corporate Assistant Vice President, Risk Management

Paul A. Gluck, M.D., Barry M. Crown, Ph.D., FACPN, and Yvonne D'Angelo Zawodny, R.N., have indicated that neither they nor their spouses/partners have relevant financial relationships with commercial interest companies, and they will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in their presentations or discussions. 

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer 

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Baptist Health South  Florida is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baptist Health South Florida maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

Available Credit

  • 2.00 Psychology CE
  • 2.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
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To enroll in the 2019-2020 Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety — Psychologist online course please click here.

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