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ForwardMedical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety - Psychologist Course
This course satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements on prevention of medical errors for Florida psychologists. 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. This course includes discussion within the mental health practice that carry the potential for “medical” errors including improper diagnosis; failure to comply with abuse reporting laws; inadequate assessment of potential for violence; failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder.
Current Florida Board of Psychology relicensure requirements available here.
Target Audience
Psychologists (Instructional Level: Intermediate) licensed in the State of Florida.
Baptist Health 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.
Learning Objectives
- List the current statistics on the incidence of medical errors and describe their impact on patient safety.
- Summarize the role and key recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) task forces on improving healthcare quality in the United States.
- Identify common error-prone situations, processes, and contributing factors in healthcare settings.
- Demonstrate strategies to foster a culture of safety within a healthcare team or organization.
- Apply at least two evidence-based processes for reducing and preventing medical errors to improve patient outcomes.
- Explain the steps and benefits of conducting a root cause analysis (RCA) following a medical error.
- Describe the procedures for reporting medical errors according to Baptist Health policies.
- Recognize the unique safety needs of special populations (e.g., pediatric, geriatric, or cognitively impaired patients).
- Identify at least three potential sources of medical error in mental health practice, including diagnostic errors, failure to report abuse, and misidentification of medical conditions as psychiatric disorders.
Faculty
Barry M. Crown, Ph.D., J.D.
Psychologist
Baptist, Doctors, Homestead and South Miami Hospitals
Louis T. Gidel, M.D., Ph.D., FCCP
Chief Medical Informatics Officer and
Chief Quality Medical Director of Telehealth
Baptist Health South Florida
Rafael A. Rivas-Vazquez, Psy.D.
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Baptist Hospital
Baptist Health Quality Network
Baptist Health South Florida
Yvette A. King-Archer, MSN, R.N., CPPS
Manager, Patient Safety & Regulatory Affairs
Quality & Accreditation Operations Risk Management
Baptist Health South Florida
Elizabeth Greene Taquechel, M.S., R.N., CPPS, CPHQ
Corporate Director, Risk Management
Baptist Health South Florida
Rafael A. Rivas-Vazquez, Psy.D., faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Barry M. Crown, Ph.D., J.D., conference director for this educational activity, Louis T. Gidel, M.D., Ph.D., speaker, Yvette A. King-Archer, BSN, R.N., CPPS and Elizabeth Greene Taquechel, M.S., R.N., CPPS, CPHQ, content contributors and all other non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*
*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 2.00 Psychology CE
- 2.00 General certificate of attendance
- 2.00 Florida Board of Psychology
Price
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