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Prevention of Medical Errors (4) hours - Define medical errors and discuss ways to prevent them, demonstrate effective use of medical terminology, documentation & record keeping, HIPAA. This course in root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety gives a historical perspective of medical errors in other professions.

Topics of Learning will include: 

• Federal agencies protecting patients rights and legislature on patient safety.
  
• Medical errors, sentinel events, adverse incidents, reporting, events and outcomes.
• Factors that increase risk error, patient safety, communicating with health care team.
• Documentation, record keeping, confidentiality; contraindications.
• Populations of special vulnerability, hospital stays, self care.
• Facility safety and sanitation, first aid, emergency plan of action.
• Medical terminology, prefixes, root words, suffixes, medications, drug classifications.
• HIPAA, medical information, consent, business associates, covered entities, health records.

CE Broker Course Tracking Number: 20-419731

REQUIRED: Upon registration, please provide a STATE and Professional License Number so we can report your course completions to the appropriate board.

NCBTMB Provider #207
Texas Provider # CE1824
Florida Provider # 50-15123
Louisiana Provider LAP273