This (2) hour course will educate healthcare professionals about: medical errors, why they occur, how to evaluate the reasons they occur, how to prevent them in the future. This course also examines quality initiatives and their impact on medical error reduction.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to:

✔️ Identify the incidence of medical errors.

✔️ Discuss the barriers to medical error reduction.

✔️ Define root cause analysis (RCA).

✔️ Identify types of errors.

✔️ Define sentinel event.

✔️ Describe the purpose of national and international quality initiatives.

✔️ Describe several quality initiatives aimed at reducing medical errors.