Preventing Medical Errors

This course has three parts: causes of medical errors, methods to classify and prevent them with practical action steps, and a case study focused on prevention of recurrence.

🕒 2  CE HOURS                   

COURSE LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE 

Date of course creation/update: 4/15/2025

CE Broker Tracking NO: #20-1220622

Education Pathways, LLC provider #2485, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approvalperiod: 02/05/2026–02/05/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical continuing education credits.

This online reading-based asynchronous distance learning course :

 is divided into three parts:

  • Part One: Factors that Contribute to Medical Errors Explores human, system, patient, environmental, and technological factors that contribute to mistakes in healthcare.

  • Part Two: Classification, Analysis, and Prevention of Medical Errors Reviews classifications, types, and descriptors of medical errors, with strategies to reduce them. Includes action steps for healthcare and mental health settings, highlighting the role of psychologists.

  • Part Three: Case Study Examines a specific medical error to provide a framework for analyzing causes and implementing prevention strategies.

Learning Objectives:

 

  1. Recognize human, system, patient, environmental, and technological factors that contribute to medical errors.

  2. Identify classifications and descriptors of medical errors.

  3. Apply strategies to prevent errors in healthcare and mental health settings.

  4. Analyze case studies to understand causes and prevention of reoccurrence.

 

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