Medical Errors: Promoting A Culture Of Patient Safety - Psychology Course

Course overview

This course satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements on prevention of medical errors for Florida psychologists. The purpose of this course is to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes by providing an overview of the safety concerns facing health care systems today, including statistics and background on the magnitude of the problem and error reduction, prevention and root cause analysis. This course includes discussion within the mental health practice that carry the potential for medical errors including improper diagnosis; failure to comply with abuse reporting laws; inadequate assessment of potential for violence; failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder.