30526 Medical Errors: Part 2 Prevention and Reduction Strategies

Course overview

Nurses are the healthcare professionals most involved in patient care, requiring thorough knowledge about how medical errors occur and lead to adverse events in order to prevent patient harm and negative outcomes. This course discusses the differences between individual- and system-centered approaches to error prevention, how tools like root cause analysis and failure mode and effects analysis improve safety, evidence-based strategies for preventing errors in surgery, medication use, and infection control, how to prevent patient falls, and how organizational culture, leadership, and teamwork reduce error risk.