Medical Errors for Florida Laboratory Professionals
Laboratory professionals must complete continuing education learning activities to deliver quality care and maintain a current knowledge base. This course outlines steps that may be taken to improve patient care by decreasing the chance of medical errors. Continuing education on medical errors for the laboratory professional is required information for licensure in Florida.
This course provides clinical laboratory professionals with steps to take to improve patient care by reducing the likelihood of medical errors.
Laboratory professionals must complete continuing education learning activities to deliver quality care and maintain a current knowledge base. This course outlines steps that may be taken to improve patient care by decreasing the chance of medical errors. Continuing education on medical errors for the laboratory professional is required information for licensure in Florida.
This course provides clinical laboratory professionals with steps to take to improve patient care by reducing the likelihood of medical errors.
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
Relias LLC is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program.
Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel
Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel (CEBroker Provider #: 50-290)
Clinical Laboratory Personnel will receive 1.00 contact hours for participating in this course.
Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners- Clinical Laboratory Personnel
Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners - Clinical Laboratory Personnel (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Tennessee Medical Laboratory Board
Tennessee Medical Laboratory Board (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Review possible sources of error within the total testing process and the types of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical errors that occur in a medical laboratory.
Recall the laboratory professional’s role in furthering the efforts to reduce medical errors and how The Joint Commission’s patient safety goals can be used in the laboratory setting.
Define the goals of root cause analysis and its value in the laboratory setting.
Outline:
Section 1: Your Role and Error History
Your Work Matters
Error Identification
Knowledge Check
Key Takeaways
Section 2: Errors: Types and Sources
Testing Process
Pre-Analytical Errors
Analytical Errors
Post-Analytical Errors
Knowledge Check
Key Takeaways
Section 3: Recommended Approaches to Error Prevention
The IOM
Recommendations from The Joint Commission
Certification
Incident Reporting in Laboratory Diagnostics
Sentinel Event
Other Patient Safety Occurrences
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Employee and Patient Safety
Key Takeaways
Section 4: Clinical Vignette
Chris’ Hospital Laboratory
Section 5: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resource
References
Subject Matter Expert: Leonard Levin, MS, MBA, RM(NRCM), M(ASCP)Andrea Powell, RN, BSN is a SME writer for Relias with a focus on acute care. She has over 11 years of clinical nursing experience, spanning across multiple nursing specialties. Her primary focus has been in critical care, with an affinity to surgical nursing. She also has experience in intraoperative nursing and post-anesthesia care. Andrea has served as a clinical team leader, preceptor and charge nurse to colleagues throughout her nursing career. She has a passion for the education of healthcare professionals and an aspiration for excellence in the healthcare delivery system.
Mr. Levin obtained his BS degree in Biochemistry from Albright College, MS degree in Microbiology & Immunology from Temple University, and MBA in Finance from LaSalle University. He worked in nine hospital clinical laboratories for 38 years, including seven years as a microbiology supervisor and 28 years as a laboratory administrative director. Additionally, he worked as an assistant editor for a biology reference publication and editor-in-chief of an AIDS newsletter. He is currently a freelance scientific writer and laboratory management consultant.
The target audience for this course is: Clinical Laboratory Personnel; in the following settings: Acute Care Facility.
Asynchronous/Online Distance Learning; please see certificate details for specifics on delivery format.
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To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
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