After completing this course you’ll be able to:
1. | Describe the scope of the medical errors problems and cite statistics showing public concern about the quality of health care. |
2. | Define and identify various types of medical errors. |
3. | List five steps a patient can take for safer health care. |
4. | Describe what a patient can do to avoid medical errors. |
5. | Identify 4 ways to minimize errors. |
6. | Make a list of “high-alert" medications. |
7. | List and review target procedures commonly associated with medication errors. |
8. | Identify 10 common sources of error. |
9. | Describe successful practices for improving medication safety. |
10. | Describe how errors occur in health-care delivery steps. |
11. | Describe various measures that can be taken to improve patient safety. |
12. | Implement recommendations for identifying and learning from errors in pediatrics. |
13. | Describe the application of root cause analysis in medicine and outline its significant methodological limitations. |
14. | Explain the effects of sleep debt. |
15. | Explain the deleterious effect of night shifts and shift rotation on performance. |
16. | Recite studies that have documented the impact of fatigue on medical personnel performance. |
17. | Describe the impact of direction and speed of rotation of shift work on worker fatigue. |