Patient Safety in the Healthcare Workplace
Explores errors and near-miss events in health care delivery and how understanding them can improve staff and patient safety. Course Expires: 06/23/29.
Course Details
Contact Hours: 6.75 NCPD Hours
Learning Outcome(s):
After participating in this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify two specific frameworks that represent the complexity of healthcare work and the generation and progression of adverse and near-miss events.
- Describe human characteristics that contribute to adverse and near-miss events.
- Ensure safe practices in complex healthcare work situations.
- Explain two data collection methods for understanding the factors that contribute to healthcare work complexity.
Author(s):
Patricia Ebright, PhD, RN, FAAN
Cheryl Pollard, PhD, RN
Sharon M. Weinstein, MSN, RN, CRNI-F, FACW, FAAN, CSP
Karen Tomajan, MS, RN, NEA-BC
Course Curriculum
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Patient Safety in the Healthcare Workplace
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