MEDICAL ERRORS

Course overview

This two hour course identifies preventable errors of documentation and how to document correctly in order to provide a safer health care environment for the patient. Medical errors can be defined in four ways, and very detailed within the course: adverse events, close calls (near misses), intentional unsafe acts and sentinel events. Participants will be able to: identify avoidable medical documentation errors, provide constructive changes to prevent such errors, make accurate corrections in the right way, and provide a safer health care environment for the patient by documenting proactively.