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Description: Avoiding Medication Errors with Insulin Therapy is a knowledge-based program for pharmacists and nurses. The activity will explore the history of errors associated with insulin therapy and review the frequency with which they occur. Participants will learn how medication errors are generally multifactorial in nature and how medication systems contribute to these errors. Specific examples of actual medication errors will be provided to show when and how errors may occur. This acti...

Outlines seven types of medical errors and the Florida laws related to them. Describes factors that increase the risk of committing a medical error and populations that are especially vulnerable to such errors. Presents five commonly used approaches that have been effective in reducing medical errors.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: Summarize the types of medical errors. List factors that increase the risk of medical errors. Define populations of special vulnerability. Identify responsibilities for reporting medical errors. Explain processes for improving patient outcomes. Discuss public education measures related to patient safety.

After completing this couse participants should be able to: 1. Identify causes of medication errors. 2. Describe safety systems that may help prevent common medication errors. 3. Recognize strategies to correct error-prone aspects of prescribing. 4. Provide examples of drug packaging problems. 5. Explain ways patients can help protect themselves from medication errors.

Patients enter healthcare systems with an expectation of receiving care that will help and not harm them. Yet, present studies show evidence of large numbers of patients receiving injury, often unintentional but preventable, during the administration of healthcare. Many of these deaths were from errors that could have been prevented. Previous correctional emphasis has been on placing blame on the person who committed the error, with the intention that the person could learn from his/her mis...

The course must include a study of rootcause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety.

Medication errors are the most common type of medical errors in healthcare. Adverse drug events account for 30% of all hospital-acquired conditions. An IOM report estimated that a hospital patient is subject to one medication error per day with considerable variation in rates across facilities. The US Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) have set a goal to reduce ADEs by 50% by 2013.This program will cover areas of interest to healthcare practitioners to reduce medication errors. Healt...

The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 1999 publication To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, illuminated the unfortunate reality of medical errors in the healthcare industry. The report reviewed the prevalence of medical errors in the United States and highlighted measures that should be taken to prevent them. Specifically, the authors of the report noted that at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans were dying in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors. They fu...

Increasingly, medical errors involving anticoagulants are the focus of medical malpractice litigation. Some of these errors involve omission of an anticoagulant. Others are focused on incorrect medication, dosage error, inadequate monitoring, patient education, or inadequate communication between or among physicians. This activity addresses each of these issues and offers risk management solutions to help physicians reduce their risk of medication errors involving an anticoagulant.

Medication errors in hospital settings have been associated with high rates of adverse drug reactions and even death. Technological advances, such as barcode scanners, can help prevent medication errors, having been shown to reduce the medication error rate in an ICU setting by 56%. This educational program will review the root problem of medication errors and the potential impact of barcode scanning in improving patient outcomes. **Upon completion of this activity, nurses and pharmacists w...

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to: * define a large-scale testing error. * identify 9 constituencies that may be impacted by large-scale testing errors.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to: 1) discuss the impact of patient safety and medical errors issues; 2) communicate clearly to other members of the patient care team; 3) determine how to improve the quality of their current record-keeping practices; and 4) devise processes and systems to enhance patient safety.

This program is designed to investigate possible causes of prescription medication errors from a legal standpoint by providing the most current data available and presenting strategies to improve safety in health care.

This course is designed for all members of the dental team to inform and educate about risk management and prevention of medical errors in clinical practice. All dental professionals must be proactive in every controllable area to minimize risk of liability to the practice and more importantly, ensure the absolute safety of the dental patient. Many state dental boards require a course that educates the dental team about safety goals and patient protection. We have designed this course to meet ...

This program will cover hot topics in risk management and patient safety. It will discuss The Joint Commission standard on disruptive behavior, the requirement for a code of conduct and what it means to have a culture of safety. It will discuss the CMS hospitals regulations on restraints, history and physicals, verbal orders, informed consent and new changes to the post anesthesia evaluation. MRI patient safety guidelines, use of trigger tools to detect errors and opportunities for improvement...

* Recognize how root causes and other factors contribute to errors and medical adverse events. * Understand the difference between active and latent causes of medical adverse events. * Lead and participate in activities that improve patient safety in your health care environment. * Support the development of a just culture for recognizing and managing errors and adverse events. * Recognize how errors in medication delivery occur. * Manage the prompt and open disclosure of a medical er...

This program will cover hot topics focusing on nursing in 2011. It will include problematic standards with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC). The discussion will include the CMS hospital regulations on restraints, history and physicals, verbal orders, informed consent and the post anesthesia evaluation. MRI patient safety guidelines, use of trigger tools to detect errors and opportunities for improvement will also be included. Medication errors are...

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of patient safety. You’ll learn the different types of errors, why errors occur, and how they can be prevented. You’ll understand effective and ineffective strategies for responding to errors when they do occur – especially with the goal of reducing, and ultimately eliminating, the chance that they’ll occur again. You’ll learn about the different kinds of error-reporting systems, and the effectiveness of each. Finally, yo...

The purpose of this self learning packet is to educate nursing staff regarding patient safety issues and to satisfy the continuing education requirements of Orlando Health employees. This packet meets the continuing education requirement for patient safety / prevention of medical errors for Florida nursing, respiratory, and clinical laboratory personnel licensure.

Diagnostic Error has been described as the New Frontier in Patient Safety. Claims data supports this contention. A large study by the Rand Corporation has demonstrated that patient adverse events and medical malpractice claims go hand in hand … and that reducing one can be expected to reduce the other. This is important information for stakeholders wishing to reduce adverse events and improve patient safety. It provides a basis for building bridges between stakeholders. This interactive...

Top 10 Family Practice/Internal Medicine Coding Errors to Avoid for 2010

No one embarks on a health care career intending to harm patients. But much too often, patients die or suffer injuries from the care they receive. In this course, you’ll learn why becoming a student of patient safety is critical for everyone involved in health care today. First, you’ll learn about the human and financial toll of medical error around the world. Next, you’ll learn the basics of the psychology of error and try your hand at identifying unsafe acts in real health care cases. ...

The goal of this continuing education program is to inform nurses how to create a culture of safety in the perioperative setting. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to - - Describe the attributes of a “just culture” as it relates to reducing medical errors. - Review common operating room (OR) processes that are prone to error. - Identify the six steps to creating a culture of safety in the OR.

As long as human beings provide health care, mistakes and errors will occur. However, health care providers can reduce the likelihood of such mistakes and errors, and limit their impact, by fostering a “culture of safety.” This is an environment that encourages people to speak up about safety concerns, makes it safe to talk about mistakes and errors, and encourages learning from these events. How providers can create and foster a culture of safety is the focus of this course. After comp...

After completing The Best Defense Is A Good Documentation Offense you will be able to: 1. Explain the importance of documentation as a health care provider. 2. Identify the basic information that is required when documenting in the medical record. 3. Describe those particular issues that require documentation in the medical record. 4. Discuss the emerging documentation concerns regarding the faxing and computerization of records. 5. Determine documentation Do’s and Don’ts. 6. Compa...

CMS made significant changes to Tag 508 which were effective June 20, 2011 and include medication errors, adverse events, and drug incompatibilities. Since then there are new policies and procedures required by hospitals. This section now requires notification of the physicians and discusses when this must occur. Also discussed will be recent changes on anesthesia and analgesia and who can do moderate and deep sedation.This program will also address problematic standards that include verbal o...

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, stated that medication-related errors were a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting “for one out of every 131 outpatient deaths, and one out of 854 inpatient deaths.” Building on this work and previous IOM reports, the IOM put forth a report in 2006 entitled Preventing Medication Errors that noted that medication errors are among the most common medical mistakes, harming at l...

This course is an introduction to the field of "human factors": how to incorporate knowledge of human behavior, especially human frailty, in the design of safe systems. You’ll explore case studies to analyze the human factors issues involved in health care situations. And you’ll learn how to use human factors principles to design safer systems of care – including the most effective strategies to prevent errors and mitigate their effects. Finally, you’ll learn how technology can reduce ...

Medication errors are the number one cause of medical errors in hospitals. The Joint Commission medication management standards were drafted with this in mind. This program will cover the 2010 chapter of the Joint Commission's medication management chapter (21 elements of performance), including four new changes effective July 1, 2009. These changes continue into 2010. The TJC focus is now on medication safety and reduction of errors. Medication management was a new chapter that the Joint Comm...