Preventing Medical Errors: Education for Florida State Clinicians

Course overview

This course will help the learner to understand medical errors and their impact on health care. Definitions will be provided, along with information about how to recognize a medical error, how to know what is reportable, and how to best respond for the benefit of the clinician and the patient. Processes, case studies, and methods for root cause analysis will be discussed. The course addresses methods to identify and minimize vulnerabilities. Safeguard systems and National Patient Safety Goals will be reviewed to provide the learner with practical implementation methods to minimize medical errors and improve patient safety.