Medical Errors for Laboratory Professionals (Florida Mandatory)
Hours: 1.00
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. Medical errors for laboratory professionals content is required information for licensure in Florida.
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. Medical errors for laboratory professionals content is required information for licensure in Florida.
Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel
Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel (CEBroker Provider #: 50-290)
Clinical Laboratory Personnel will receive 2.0000 contact hours for participating in this course.
Tennessee Medical Laboratory Board
Tennessee Medical Laboratory Board (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners- Clinical Laboratory Personnel
Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners - Clinical Laboratory Personnel (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
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.
Identify possible sources of error within the total testing process.
Discuss the types of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical errors that occur in a medical laboratory.
Describe the laboratory professional’s role in furthering the efforts to reduce medical errors.
List the organizations involved in establishing patient safety goals and how they can be used in the laboratory setting.
Summarize the goals of root cause analysis and its value in the laboratory setting.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Your Role and Error History
Section 3: Errors: Types and Sources
Testing Process
Pre-Analytical Errors
Analytical Errors
Post-Analytical Errors
Section 4: Recommended Approaches to Error Prevention
The IOM
Section 5: Clinical Vignette
Chris’s Hospital Laboratory
Section 6: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributor
References
Catherine Swift, MT(ASCP) is the clinical laboratory science editor for Relias Learning. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hastings College and a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from North Colorado Medical Center. She has experience working in hospital laboratories, clinic laboratories, and research experience in microbiology as well as clinical research trials involving patients and various drug therapies for osteoporosis, endometriosis and bone density at Creighton University School of Medicine. Disclosure: Catherine J. Swift, MT(ASCP) has no Relevant Financial or Non-Financial Relationship with ineligible companies to disclose.
The target audience for this course is: Entry level Clinical Laboratory Personnel; in the following settings: Acute Care Facility.
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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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