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Preventing Medical Errors: Best Practices for Mental Health Professionals

Are you a psychologist looking for our medical errors course? Then you need this course:

Author: Heidi Dalzell, Psy.D.
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Course Created: 2020

Practice Level: Intermediate

No book to buy Duration: 2 hours
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Course Summary

This course will examine the impact of medical errors on patients in mental health settings. It will reference best practices and ethical guidelines that can help to reduce and prevent medical errors. The course reviews the behavioral health goals set by The Joint Commission and ties in ethics codes for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and counselors. The course examines root cause analysis and applies it to medical errors (and prevention of those errors) in mental health settings related to competence, cultural competence, informed consent, HIPPA, confidentiality, mandatory abuse reporting, duty to protect, responding to suicide risk, failure to detect medical conditions, medication errors, and assessment errors. Case vignettes throughout the learning material highlight key learning points.

Course Format

This course contains downloadable online lessons (PDF) and a practice test. When you're ready, purchase the course by clicking the "Add To Cart" button. This will let you take the test, complete the course evaluation and receive your certificate for CE credits.

Florida School Psychologists: You can self-submit this course to CeBroker for Medical Errors credit.

Login to your CE Broker account, go to My Records then Report and choose the option titled "Complementary Medical Errors course approved by the Board of Psychology".

We automatically submit all other courses to CeBroker for you as a board approved provider.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals for behavioral health, approaches to prevent medical errors, and the consequences of medical errors.
  • Explain Root Cause Analysis processes to evaluate medical errors.
  • Describe the ethical guidelines related to competence (including multicultural competence), informed consent, confidentiality and mandated reporting.
  • Describe suicide assessment and assessment of medical conditions that present as psychological problems.

Course Syllabus

Introduction
Definition of Medical Errors
                  Sentinel Events
Root Cause Analysis
                  Competence
                  Cultural Competence
                  Informed Consent
                  Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act
                  Confidentiality
                  Mandatory Abuse Reporting
                  Duty to Protect
                  Responding to Suicide Risk
                  Failure to Detect Medical Conditions
                  Medication Errors
                  Assessment Errors
Psychological Effects of Medical Errors
Conclusion

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This organization, CE4Less, provider #1115, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association Of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education ACE) program. Ce4Less maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 8/8/2018-8/8/2021. Social workers should contact their regulatory board To determine course approval. Social workers participating In this course will receive continuing education clock hours.

We are committed to providing our learners with unbiased information. Ce4Less never accepts commercial support and our authors have no significant financial or other conflicts of interest pertaining to the material

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