Course Description: The Medical Errors course has been by the following boards:
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling.
Florida Council of Licensed Midwifery
Florida Council of Dietetics and Nutrition
Florida Electrolysis Council
Florida Board of Psychologists
Florida Office of School Psychology
Attention Florida Psychologists: Ce-classes.com has been approved by The Florida Board of Psychology to provide this Medical Errors course. Our status for the medical errors course is "Approved". We have received retroactive approval back to September 2006. Thank you for your patience.
The Medical Errors (prevention) course is based on a paper written about the prevention of medical errors for mental health professionals. It is also based in part, on a paper by Rooney (2004) about root cause analysis. Taken together, these papers provide the student with an overview of medical errors, their causes, effects, and approaches to prevent medical errors from the perspective of mental health professionals, psychologists, dieticians and other licensed professions.
Learning Objectives: This course will provide mental health practitioners, psychologists, dieticians and other licensed professions with the ability to:
Identify major causes of medical errors conducted by health professionals
Describe the effects of medical errors on patient safety and care from a mental health perspective
Describe methods to keep both clients and providers safe
Describe the process of root cause analysis and its role in the prevention of medical errors
Ce-Classes is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #852 BAP-Exp 3/2009
Ce-classes.com is approved as a provider for continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards 400 South Ridge Parkway, Suite B, Culpeper, VA 22701. www.aswb.org. ASWB Approval Period: 1/5/08 – 1/5/11 Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers will receive 2 credits for continuing education clock hours in participating in this course. (* Please see course descriptions for ceu information, one ceu = one continuing education clock hour)
Ce-Classes.com is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
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Ce-Classes.com is an approved provider by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC); Provider # 6320 Exp. 4/30/2012. As such we are approved providers of continuing education for Mental Health Counselors, Therapists, Professionals, etc, in most states in the U.S. Please see our get state requirements button on our home page or visit your state's licensing board for more information.
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Exam Questions for Medical Errors
1. An act of commission can best be described as . . .
the result of incompetence
action based and the result of some behavior
something that you fail to do
part of every professional practice 2. Lethal clients are clients who are . . .
homicidal
suicidal
delusional
both A and B 3. The Tarasoff case resulted in a principle of practice referred to as . . .
duty to warn
duty to protect
duty to inform
both A and B 4. The most straightforward way to prevent medical errors is to . . .
follow practice guidelines that are well established
follow all ethical codes of conduct
document all interactions with clients
document all interventions carefully 5. Expressed and informed consent is consent that is given with the following condition/s
voluntarily given
sufficient explanation and disclosure
by a competent person
all of the above 6. Limits to confidentiality include . . .
duty to warn and duty to protect
multidisciplinary teams
group counseling
all of the above 7. The legal definition of sexual misconduct includes . . .
any behavior, verbal or physical, which is intended to be sexually arousing
physical acts of intercourse but not dating
only physical acts which are sexual in nature
discussing sexual behaviors during therapy 8. Which of the following was NOT a recommendation to reduce medical errors
act within your scope
review practice literature
seek supervision
contracting 9. The main purpose of root cause analysis is to . . .
identify how something happened
identify why something happened
prevent reoccurrence
all of the above 10. The definition of root causes includes all of the following EXCEPT . . .
are the original source of the problem
can be reasonably identified
management has control to fix
specific underlying causes 11. The major steps of root cause analysis are (in the correct order) . .
data analysis, root cause identification, recommendation generation, recommendation implementation
data collection, data analysis, root cause identification, recommendation generation
data collection, causal factor charting, root cause identification, recommendation generation
causal factor charting, root cause identification, data collection, recommendation generation 12. Which of the following was identified as a root cause in the example given about a house fire . . .
leaves frying chicken unattended
electric burner element fails
fire extinguisher does not operate
all of the above
Medical Errors
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