Preventing Medical Errors and Promoting Patient Safety (Florida Board of Nursing)
Preventing Medical Errors and Promoting Patient Safety (Florida Board of Nursing) is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.
Course opens: 02/01/2021
Course expires: 04/30/2025
Overview:
This course meets the continuing education requirement for preventing medical errors for nursing. This education introduces the safety concerns facing health care systems today, including data and background on the magnitude of the problem, error reduction and prevention, and root cause analysis.
A score of 80% or higher is required for course completion.
Learning Objectives:
• Determine the magnitude of medical errors and the effect on patient safety.
• Recognize error prone situations/processes and the factors that impact them.
• Identify processes that help reduce and prevent common medical errors.
• Summarize the benefit of multi-causal analysis (root causes).