Medical Error Management - Online

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Medical Error Management
Hundreds of thousands of patients are harmed or die each year due to unsafe practices in healthcare organizations. Unexpectedly, such unsafe healthcare practices have shifted up medical error to be the third leading cause of death in the USA (251,454 patients die in hospitals each year) as per a published literature review in the BMJ in May 2016. Globally it is believed that medical errors kill more people than HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, combined as stated by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, USA.
This Medical Error Management Workshop is tailored to build a strategy that identifies, prevents and mitigates medical errors and works with ; Participants will learn how to cultivate patient safety culture in the healthcare organization, works toward excellence and finally know the current legislation in Bahrain on medical error including the NHRA Policy for Reporting Sentinel Event and the Supreme Council of Health  Decision Number 95 for the year 2019 regarding investigation and notification of Medical Errors and Sentinel events.
OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
Attendees of the Medical Errors Management Workshop will learn how to:

1. Know the epidemiology of medical error and the researches behind it
2. Identify definitions, types, causes, and common venues of medical errors
3. Learn how to create Non-Punitive Culture to enhance reporting of Medical Error
4. Learn how to develop a policy on Reporting Medical Error
5. Learn the framework of the Incident Reporting Form
6. Learn how to use data to identify the TRENDING medical errors and how to how to address them
7. Use Root Cause Analysis Tools to identify root causes of medical error
8. Learn strategy to prevent, mitigate and treat medical error by applying the 18 Patient Safety Targets of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
9. Identify the common types of Medication Error and how to prevent them
10. Identify the different types of Surgical Error and learn how to prevent them
11. Identify different types of Communication Error and learn how to prevent them
12. Learn how to manage First Victim, patient and family, and principles of disclosure technique
13. Learn principles of Second Victim management

 

 
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This activity is designated for ALL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS and Medical and Nursing Students.
By attending this workshop both organization and participant will gain the following values:
Gaining Value for Organization

• Avoid preventable claim
• Positive Reputation
• Client Trust
• Client satisfaction
• Improve business safety practices

Gaining Value for participants

• Avoid Preventable Errors
• Be a Risk Management, Safety, and/or quality champion
• Do no harm
• Practice with self-confidence

  Updated on 29 December, 2021