Contact Hour(s):
2 Contact hours
Author:
Amanda Marten, MSN, FNP-C
This peer-reviewed course is applicable for the following professions:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Athletic Trainer (AT/AL), Certified Medication Assistant (CMA), Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTR), Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN), Home Health Aid (HHA), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), Medication Aide, Midwife (MW), Nursing Student, Occupational Therapist (OT), Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTA), Physical Therapist (PT), Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), Registered Nurse (RN), Respiratory Therapist (RT)
Accreditations:
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), Board of Certification for Athletic Trainers (BOC)
State Approvals:
Alabama, Provider #ABNP1485; California BRN Provider #CEP # 13509; Kentucky Board of Nursing Provider #7-0085; Florida Board of Nursing Provider 50-353; New York State Education Department’s State Board for Physical Therapy
Course Description:
This course discusses the different types of medical errors and the potentially harmful and non-harmful events that can result from a medical error. This course also reviews the risk factors for medical errors, reporting mechanisms, and analyses of medical errors and their potential impacts on healthcare providers. Lastly, it summarizes many prevention strategies at the individual and organizational levels for specific types of medical errors.
Outcomes
≥92% of participants will know the types of medical errors, risk factors for medical errors, and strategies for prevention.
Objectives
After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:
- Identify the different types of medical errors.
- Describe the different types of adverse events.
- Identify at least three risk factors for medical errors.
- Summarize at least two organizational-level medical error prevention strategies.
- Evaluate at least two medical error prevention strategies at the individual level.
- Summarize at least three strategies to prevent medication errors.
Disclosures:
CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.