Medical Error| April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024

This course meets Florida’s requirement of a two-hour program designed to enhance professionals’ understanding of medical errors and specifically focused on the prevention of medical errors. The Florida Board of Medicine stipulates that healthcare professionals must fulfill a one-hour Prevention of Medical Errors course, which covers commonly misdiagnosed conditions, also included. Successful completion fulfills the state’s licensure renewal requirements and promotes safer healthcare practices.

Hosted In-person / Virtually:

     Attend in the NCHFL Auditorium or via Teams.

Faculty:

     Martin King MSN, RN, CPEN, CMNL

     Amit Patel MD

Program Directors:     

     Questions can be directed to Kelly Eberbach at Kelly.Eberbach@Nemours.Org. 

Target Audience

This course is recommended for RNs, MDs, EMT-Ps, and other members of the healthcare team and has been approved for Florida mandatory license renewal continuing education. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe medical error, sentinel events, and root cause analysis process.
  • State reportable adverse incidents that must be escalated to regulatory bodies.
  • Evaluate common medical errors including the top most common diagnosis related errors..
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 MOC ABS – Surgery
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    The Nemours Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The Nemours Foundation designates this activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 2.00 Continuing Education
    This activity is designated for 2.00 continuing education credits.
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Emergency Medical Services
  • 2.00 Nursing Contact Hour – Florida Board of Nursing

    Provider approved by the Florida Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number # 50-1428.

    This activity is designated for 2.00 contact hours.

Course opens: 
12/26/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
04/03/2024 - 5:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
04/03/2024 - 6:00pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
Part of: 
Florida Licensure Mandatory Continuing Education
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Medical Errors: A Florida Mandatory CE Interprofessional Course

I. Introduction

  1. Overview of Medical Errors
    • Definitions and significance
    • Historical context: “To Err is Human” (1999) report
    • Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) framework

II. Types of Errors

  1. Diagnostic Errors
    • Dimensions of the diagnostic process
    • Five most mis-diagnosed conditions: conditions related to oncology, gastroenterology, cardiology, infectious disease, and neurology.
    • Case studies and prevention strategies
  2. Treatment Errors
    • Common treatment-related mistakes: wrong site/wrong procedure surgery continues to be the most common basis for quality of care violations
    • Legibility issues
    • Vaccine administration safety
  3. Preventive Errors
    • Importance of prevention
    • Avoiding preventive errors
    • Case studies illustrating preventive measures
  4. Other Errors
    • Communication failures
    • Equipment malfunctions

III. Root Cause Analysis, Error Reduction, Prevention

  1. Understanding Root Causes
    • Analyzing errors
    • Strategies for error reduction
  2. Patient Safety Measures
    • Implementing the “10 Rules for Healthcare Redesign”
    • Suggested areas of change

IV. Impact and Costs

  1. Global Perspective
    • World Health Organization’s perspective
    • Realistic figures on medical errors
  2. Cost of Medical Errors
    • Associated financial burden
    • Where errors occur

V. Reporting and Compliance

  1. Florida’s Reporting Requirements
    • Reporting medical errors

VI. Conclusion

  1. Takeaways
    • Importance of error prevention
    • Collaborative efforts for safer healthcare

 

Please refer to Rule 64B8-13, F.A.C. for additional continuing education information

Planner(s)

Martin King

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Amit Patel, MD, FAAP, FACEP

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker(s)

Martin King

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Amit Patel, MD, FAAP, FACEP

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Nemours Children’s Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nemours Children’s Health is accredited by the Florida Board of Nursing to provide nursing continuing education. Provider #50-1428 approved activity for 2.0 contact hours.

Nemours Children’s Health is accredited by the Florida Board of Emergency Medicine to provide paramedic continuing education. Provider #50-1428 approved activity for 2.0 contact hours.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 MOC ABS – Surgery
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    The Nemours Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The Nemours Foundation designates this activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 2.00 Continuing Education
    This activity is designated for 2.00 continuing education credits.
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Emergency Medical Services
  • 2.00 Nursing Contact Hour – Florida Board of Nursing

    Provider approved by the Florida Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number # 50-1428.

    This activity is designated for 2.00 contact hours.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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