Medical Error Prevention (Online Course)
MediaLab
Medical Error Prevention is a comprehensive course that includes potential causes of medical errors in the clinical laboratory, important legislation and definitions, and steps laboratorians can take to reduce the impact of medical errors in their workplace. This course is an ideal part of an effective medical error reduction program and is appropriate for both experienced and novice laboratorians. This course is appropriate for all recertification and license renewal requirements, including the license renewal requirements of the Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Science Personnel. See how a MediaLab subscription meets your Florida license renewal CE needs.
Help meet laboratory continuing education requirements
An individual subscription includes access to Medical Error Prevention and 47 other online courses. Earn CE to help meet laboratory continuing education requirements for AMT, ASCP, NCA, and more. Over 85 ASCLS P.A.C.E.® credits are available.
Laboratory subscriptions include unlimited access to Medical Error Prevention and other online safety, compliance, and CE courses for 5 - 1000+ users, plus MediaLab's powerful, easy-to-use learning management system for tracking and documenting laboratory safety and compliance training.
Continuing Education Credits
Objectives
- Define the terms medical errors, adverse events, and near misses
- Contrast preventable and unpreventable adverse events
- Identify factors that contribute to medical errors involving laboratory professionals
- Explain mechanisms for reducing medical errors
- State strategies that reduce medical errors and increase patient safety
- Name organizations that support medical error prevention and patient safety
- List actions the public can take to reduce the likelihood of medical errors
Course Outline
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- Introduction
- Medical Errors
- Medical Errors and Near Misses
- Preventable and Unpreventable Adverse Events
- Adverse Events
- Preventable and Unpreventable Adverse Events
- Bleeding After a Venipuncture Can Be an Adverse Event
- Factors That Contribute to Medical Errors
- Factors that Contribute to Medical Errors
- Sources of Laboratory-Related Errors
- These statements describe sources of laboratory-related errors.
- Error Reduction
- Sentinel Events
- Sentinel Event Categories
- JCAHO and Sentinel Events
- RCA and Sentinel Events
- Sentinel Event Reporting
- Sentinel Events Review
- RCA Limitations
- RCA Considerations
- RCA Value
- JCAHO Sentinel Event ALERTS
Since 1998, JCAHO has issued 25 Sentinel Event ALERTS to the healthcare community. These publications include more than...
- Medical Culture and Systems
- Reporting Reluctance
- Culture of Secrecy
- Systems Problems
- Systems Design
- Systems Failure
- Avoiding Systems Failure
- Error Reporting
- Direct Error Detection
Even perfect systems designs cannot avert human limitations. Medical errors occur and they have to be detected before they c...
- Follow-Up Error Detection
- Observation and Review
- Analyzing Medical Events
- Root Cause Analysis
- RCA Purposes
- RCA Description
- RCA Steps
Steps in Root Cause Analysis
- RCA Information
- RCA Reports
- What are the steps of Root Cause Analysis?
- Error Reduction and Patient Safety
- Relevant Human Factors
- Challenges to Existing Programs
Current error-prevention programs face many challenges:
- Error Prevention
- Organizational Support for Error Prevention
- Vigilance
- Awareness
- Study
- Discussion
- These statements describe ways laboratory professionals can prevent medical errors.
- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
- FMEA Steps
- Advantages of FMEA
- FMEA and RCA
- New JCAHO Standards
- JCAHO Patient Safety Goals
JCAHO adopted national patient safety goals for laboratories and many other healthcare organizations.
2006 Laboratory...
- Choose the organization(s) that strive to improve patient safety.
- Improving Patient Safety
Many other organizations strive to improve patient safety. These dedicated groups promote current information about their ...
- American Society for Clinical Pathology
The American Society for Clinical Pathology, ASCP, promotes medical error prevention through its projects, ...
- American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, ASCLS, joins the leadership effort to prev...
- Public Actions That Reduce Errors
- Public Responsibility for Safety
- Speak Up Campaign
JCAHO also encourages people to do things themselves to prevent errors.
It joined other groups in 2002 to launch the consum...
- Which of these actions can people do themselves to prevent medical errors?
- Conclusion
- Human Nature and Error Prevention
- Resources and References
- Resources for Medical Error Prevention
Additional Information
This course provides information and interactions that facilitate learning about ways laboratory professionals can prevent medical errors. It meets continuing education requirements established by the Florida Legislature and the Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel to complete a two-hour course in medical errors prior to licensure and licensure renewal.
- Florida Statutes: Chapter 456.013(7). The boards, or the department when there is no board, shall require the completion of a 2-hour course relating to prevention of medical errors as part of the licensure and renewal process. The 2-hour course shall count towards the total number of continuing education hours required for the profession. The course shall be approved by the board or department, as appropriate, and shall include a study of root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety.
- Florida Administrative Code Rules: Chapter 64B3-11.001 (1)…each licensee shall take a Board approved 2-hour course relating to the prevention of medical errors, which shall include root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety.
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