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Prevention of Medical Errors

Course: #1717Level: Introductory 2 Hours 722 Reviews
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Content provides essential aspects of patient safety and medical errors in respiratory care. The core focus is on the respiratory therapy aspects of patient safety and the discussion of respiratory medical errors, including sources, locations, and significance. Respiratory medication, documentation, equipment errors, ways to avoid errors, enhancing care coordination, and improving respiratory communication and outcomes are reviewed.

This 2-hour course satisfies Florida Board of Respiratory Care course requirements under 64B32-6.006, F.A.C.

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Course Type: Video, Audio

CEUs/Hours Offered: AARC - CRCE/2.0; CE Broker/2.0 Medical Errors, CE Broker #20-994286; IACET/0.2

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Learning Outcomes

  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to describe common sources of respiratory medical errors.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to discuss locations where respiratory medical errors are most likely to occur.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to explain the meaning and significance of a respiratory medical error.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to describe the occurrence of respiratory medication errors, including the significance of missed treatments.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to discuss the importance of accurate and timely respiratory documentation.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to describe respiratory safety issues related to equipment use.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to list ways to improve communication in patient safety and reduce respiratory medical errors.

Course created on February 7, 2023

Agenda

0-5 Minutes Introduction
5-20 Minutes Sources of respiratory medical errors
20-35 Minutes Locations where respiratory medical errors occur
35-50 Minutes Understanding the significance of a respiratory medical error
50-65 Minutes Respiratory medication errors and missed treatments
65-75 Minutes Respiratory documentation
75-90 Minutes Respiratory safety issues related to equipment use
90-115 Minutes Improving communication in patient safety Reducing respiratory medical errors
115-120 Minutes Summary, Q&A

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Presenter Disclosure: Financial: Claire Aloan is retired Program Director at SUNY Upstate Medical University, College of Health Professions, Department of Respiratory Therapy Education, and a Patient Trainer for HillRom, a Baxter company. She received an honorarium for presenting this course. Non-financial: Claire has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.

Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by Continued Respiratory Therapy.

Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.

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American Association for Respiratory Care

American Association for Respiratory Care

This non-traditional program has been approved for a maximum of 2 contact hour(s) Continuing Respiratory Care Education (CRCE) credit by the American Association for Respiratory Care, 9425 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 100 Irving TX 75063. Course # 189167000


CE Broker

CE Broker

Continued Respiratory Therapy is an approved provider for CE Broker, provider #50-30700. This course is offered for 2.0 hours. If you are a licensed respiratory therapist in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina or Texas, CE Broker may be of interest to you. For Florida respiratory therapists, this course is registered in the Medical Errors category.


International Association for Continuing Education and Training

International Association for Continuing Education and Training

Continued, LLC, is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Continued complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, Continued is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. Continued, LLC, is authorized by IACET to offer 0.2 CEUs for this program.



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